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01O	1	1	10	In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
01O	1	2	20	And the earth was waste, and void; and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God brooded over the face of the waters.
01O	1	3	30	And God said, "Let there be light:" and there was light.
01O	1	4	40	And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
01O	1	5	50	And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was dusk and there was dawn, time one.
01O	1	6	60	And God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
01O	1	7	70	And God brought forth the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse: and it was so.
01O	1	8	80	And God called the expanse Heavens. And there was dusk and there was dawn, a second time.
01O	1	9	90	And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear:" and it was so.
01O	1	10	100	And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas: and God saw that it was good.
01O	1	11	110	And God said, "Let the earth sprout tender sprouts, the plants bearing seed, and the trees bearing fruit after its kind, with its seed within, on the land:" and it was so.
01O	1	12	120	And the land brought forth tender sprouts, and plants bearing seed after its kind, and the trees bearing fruit, whose seed was within, after its kind: and God saw that it was good.
01O	1	13	130	And there was dusk and there was dawn, a third time.
01O	1	14	140	And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
01O	1	15	150	And let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth:" and it was so.
01O	1	16	160	And God brought forth two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: and also the stars.
01O	1	17	170	And God appointed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth,
01O	1	18	180	And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
01O	1	19	190	And there was dusk and there was dawn, a fourth time.
01O	1	20	200	And God said, "Let the waters breed abundantly masses of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens."
01O	1	21	210	And God created great living creatures, and every living creature that moves which the waters brought forth multiplied after its kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good.
01O	1	22	220	And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
01O	1	23	230	And there was dusk and there was dawn, a fifth time.
01O	1	24	240	And God said, "Let the earth bring forth the living creature after their kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beasts of the earth after its kind:" and it was so.
01O	1	25	250	And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that moves on the earth after its kind: and God saw that it was good.
01O	1	26	260	And God said, "Let us bring forth man in Our image, after Our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that moves on the earth."
01O	1	27	270	So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created.
01O	1	28	280	And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
01O	1	29	290	And God said, "Behold, I have provided every plant bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree bearing seed; to you it will be for food.
01O	1	30	300	And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to every thing that moves upon the earth, that has life, I have given every green plant for food:" and it was so.
01O	1	31	310	And God saw every thing that He had accomplished, and, behold, it was very good. And there was dusk and there was dawn, a sixth time. 
01O	2	1	320	And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all that occupy them.
01O	2	2	330	And on the seventh time God ended His work which He had accomplished; and He rested on the seventh time from all His work which he had provided.
01O	2	3	340	And God blessed the seventh time, and sanctified it: because on it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.
01O	2	4	350	These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were accomplished, in the time that the LORD God was making the earth and the heavens,
01O	2	5	360	And every plant of the field was not yet on the land, and every herb of the field before it sprouted: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was not a man to till the ground.
01O	2	6	370	But there went up a vapor from the land, and watered all the face of the ground.
01O	2	7	380	And the LORD God fashioned man of the clay of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
01O	2	8	390	And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had fashioned.
01O	2	9	400	And out of the ground the LORD God made to sprout every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
01O	2	10	410	And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there was spread out and existed four headwaters.
01O	2	11	420	The name of the first is Pison: that is it which flows through all the land of Havilah, where there is gold;
01O	2	12	430	And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
01O	2	13	440	And the name of the second river is Gihon: which flows through all the land of Cush.
01O	2	14	450	And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: which goes toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
01O	2	15	460	And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to work in it and to preserve it.
01O	2	16	470	And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:
01O	2	17	480	But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you will not eat: for from the time that you eat of it you will be doomed to die."
01O	2	18	490	And the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will provide a mate for him."
01O	2	19	500	And out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the air; and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
01O	2	20	510	And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but no mate was found for the man.
01O	2	21	520	And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept: and He took one part from his side, and repaired the flesh beneath;
01O	2	22	530	And the side part which the LORD God had taken from the man, He fashioned into a woman, and brought her to the man.
01O	2	23	540	And the man said, This at last is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
01O	2	24	550	Therefore will a man leave his father and his mother, and will join together with his wife: and they will be one flesh.
01O	2	25	560	And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
01O	3	1	570	Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had fashioned. And he said to the woman, "Did God rightly say, You will not eat from every tree of the garden?"
01O	3	2	580	And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
01O	3	3	590	Except the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God did say, You will not eat it, or will ye touch it, otherwise you will die."
01O	3	4	600	And the serpent said to the woman, "You will not very suddenly die,
01O	3	5	610	For God knows that in the time you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
01O	3	6	620	And when the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and was beautiful to look at, and a tree to be coveted to increase knowledge, she took of the fruit and ate, and gave also to her husband with her; and he ate.
01O	3	7	630	And the eyes of both were opened, and they realized that they were naked; and they joined fig leaves together, and made themselves coverings.
01O	3	8	640	And they heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the garden in the breeze of the day: and the man and his wife hid themselves from the face of the LORD God in the middle of the trees of the garden.
01O	3	9	650	And the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"
01O	3	10	660	And he said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was fearful, because I was naked; and I hid."
01O	3	11	670	And He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree that I commanded that you will not eat?"
01O	3	12	680	And the man said, "The woman who you provided to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate."
01O	3	13	690	And the LORD God said to the woman, "What have you done?" And the woman said, "The serpent charmed me, and I ate."
01O	3	14	700	And the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; on your belly you will go, and rubbish will you eat all the days of thy life:
01O	3	15	710	And I will bring hatred between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; it will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
01O	3	16	720	To the woman He said, "I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in sorrow you will bring forth children; and your longing will be to your husband, and he will rule over you."
01O	3	17	730	And to the man He said, "Because you have heard the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, which I commanded you, saying, You will not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in sorrow you will eat of it all the time of your life;
01O	3	18	740	Thorns and thistles will it sprout for you; and you will eat the plants of the field;
01O	3	19	750	In the sweat of your face will you eat food, until you return to the ground; for out of it were you taken: for dust you are, and to dust will you return."
01O	3	20	760	And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
01O	3	21	770	To Adam and to his wife did the LORD God provide garments of skins, and clothed them.
01O	3	22	780	And the LORD God said, "Behold, the man is now as one of Us, knowing good and evil: and now, before he stretch out his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever:"
01O	3	23	790	Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he was taken.
01O	3	24	800	So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubims, and a blazing sword which turned every way, to preserve the way of the tree of life.
01O	4	1	810	And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man from the LORD."
01O	4	2	820	And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the soil.
01O	4	3	830	And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the soil for an offering to the LORD.
01O	4	4	840	And Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and among the best. And the LORD looked to Abel and to his offering:
01O	4	5	850	But toward Cain and to his offering He did not look with favor. And Cain was very angry, and his face turned down.
01O	4	6	860	And the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? and why did your face turn down?
01O	4	7	870	If you do well, will you not be accepted? and if you do not do well, sin lurks at the door. And to you will be its longing, but you should overcome it."
01O	4	8	880	And Cain spoke with his brother Abel: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and killed him.
01O	4	9	890	And the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" And he said, "I do not know: Am I my brother's keeper?"
01O	4	10	900	And He said, "What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood cries to Me from the soil.
01O	4	11	910	And now you are cursed more than the land, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand;
01O	4	12	920	When you till the soil, it will not again yield to you its best; a fugitive and a vagabond will you be in the land."
01O	4	13	930	And Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is greater than I can withstand.
01O	4	14	940	Behold, you have driven me out this time from the face of the land; and from your face will I be hidden; and I will be a fugitive and a vagabond in the land; and it will come to pass, that whoever finds me will kill me."
01O	4	15	950	And the LORD said to him, "Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be on him sevenfold." And the LORD put a sign on Cain, so that anyone finding him would not beat him.
01O	4	16	960	And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwell in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
01O	4	17	970	And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch: and he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.
01O	4	18	980	And to Enoch was born Irad: and Irad fathered Mehujael: and Mehujael fathered Methusael: and Methusael fathered Lamech.
01O	4	19	990	And Lamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
01O	4	20	1000	And Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of those living in tents, and with cattle.
01O	4	21	1010	And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of they that play the harp and pipe.
01O	4	22	1020	And Zillah, also bore Tubalcain, a forger of all tools of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
01O	4	23	1030	And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, "Hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to what I say: for I have slain a man due to my wound, and a young man for my bruise.
01O	4	24	1040	If Cain will be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech for seventy-seven times."
01O	4	25	1050	And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name Seth, for she said, "God has appointed for me another offspring instead of Abel whom Cain killed."
01O	4	26	1060	And also to Seth there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
01O	5	1	1070	This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the time that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God;
01O	5	2	1080	He created them Male and female; and blessed them, and in the time when they were created named them Man, 
01O	5	3	1090	And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and fathered a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and named him Seth:
01O	5	4	1100	And the time of Adam after he had fathered Seth was eight hundred years: and he fathered sons and daughters:
01O	5	5	1110	And all the time that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he was deceased.
01O	5	6	1120	And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and fathered Enos:
01O	5	7	1130	And Seth lived after he fathered Enos eight hundred and seven years, and fathered  sons and daughters:
01O	5	8	1140	And all the time of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he was deceased.
01O	5	9	1150	And Enos lived ninety years, and fathered Cainan:
01O	5	10	1160	And Enos lived after he fathered Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and fathered sons and daughters:
01O	5	11	1170	And all the time of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he was deceased.
01O	5	12	1180	And Cainan lived seventy years and fathered Mahalaleel:
01O	5	13	1190	And Cainan lived after he fathered Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and fathered sons and daughters:
01O	5	14	1200	And all the time of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he was deceased.
01O	5	15	1210	And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and fathered Jared:
01O	5	16	1220	And Mahalaleel lived after he fathered Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and fathered sons and daughters:
01O	5	17	1230	And all the time of Mahalaleel were eight hundred and ninety five years: and he was deceased.
01O	5	18	1240	And Jared lived a hundred and sixty two years, and he fathered Enoch:
01O	5	19	1250	And Jared lived after he fathered Enoch eight hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters:
01O	5	20	1260	And all the time of Jared were nine hundred and sixty two years: and he was deceased.
01O	5	21	1270	And Enoch lived sixty five years, and fathered Methuselah:
01O	5	22	1280	And Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah three hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters:
01O	5	23	1290	And all the time of Enoch were three hundred and sixty five years:
01O	5	24	1300	And Enoch walked with God: and he was gone; for God took him.
01O	5	25	1310	And Methuselah lived a hundred and eighty seven years, and fathered Lamech.
01O	5	26	1320	And Methuselah lived after he fathered Lamech seven hundred and eighty two years, and fathered sons and daughters:
01O	5	27	1330	And all the time of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty nine years: and he was deceased.
01O	5	28	1340	And Lamech lived a hundred and eighty two years, and fathered a son:
01O	5	29	1350	And he called his name Noah, saying, This one will comfort us from the work and toil of our hands because of the ground which the LORD has cursed.
01O	5	30	1360	And Lamech lived after he fathered Noah five hundred and ninety five years, and fathered sons and daughters:
01O	5	31	1370	And all the time of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy seven years: and he was deceased.
01O	5	32	1380	And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
01O	6	1	1390	When mankind began to increase on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,
01O	6	2	1400	The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were good; and they took for wives those which they selected.
01O	6	3	1410	And the LORD said, My Spirit will not always plead with mankind, for they are lustful: their time will be a hundred and twenty years.
01O	6	4	1420	There were fallen men on the land at that time, and also after that, when the sons of God came to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, they became mighty men which were of old, men of authority.
01O	6	5	1430	And God saw that the wickedness of mankind was abundant on the land, and that any purpose of the imagination of their mind was continually evil.
01O	6	6	1440	And sighed the LORD that He had brought forth mankind on the land, and it grieved Him in His heart.
01O	6	7	1450	And the LORD said, "I will wipe away man who I have created from the face of the land; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the birds of the heavens; for I sigh that I have brought them forth."
01O	6	8	1460	But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
01O	6	9	1470	These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man and undefiled in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
01O	6	10	1480	And Noah fathered three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
01O	6	11	1490	The land also was corrupt in the sight of God, and the land was filled with violence.
01O	6	12	1500	And God gazed upon the land, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all mankind had corrupted their manner on the land.
01O	6	13	1510	And God said to Noah, "The end of all mankind has come before Me; for the land is filled with violence among them; and, behold,  I will cause them to perish from the land.
01O	6	14	1520	Build an ark of pitch trees; make nests in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.
01O	6	15	1530	Build it by this plan: The length of the ark will be three hundred cubits, the width fifty cubits, and the height thirty cubits.
01O	6	16	1540	Provide a window to the ark and enclose it to within a cubit of the top; and the door to the ark set in the side; build it with lower, second, and third levels.
01O	6	17	1550	And, behold, I, even I, will bring a flood of waters upon the land, to wipe out all mankind, in which is the breath of life, among those under heaven. All that is on the land will perish.
01O	6	18	1560	But with you will I establish My covenant; and you will come into the ark, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
01O	6	19	1570	And among all living things of all flesh, two of every kind will you bring into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they will be male and female.
01O	6	20	1580	Among birds after their kind, and among cattle after their kind, among every creeping thing of the land after their kind, two of every kind will come to you, to keep them alive.
01O	6	21	1590	And keep for yourself every kind of food that is eaten, and you will gather it in; and it will be for food for you and for them."
01O	6	22	1600	This Noah fulfilled; he accomplished everything that God commanded.
01O	7	1	1610	And the LORD said to Noah, "Enter you and all your family into the ark; for you I have seen in this generation as righteous before Me.
01O	7	2	1620	Among every clean beast you will receive by sevens, the male and his female: and among beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
01O	7	3	1630	Among birds of the heaven by sevens, the male and the female; to preserve them on the face of all the land.
01O	7	4	1640	For in seven days, I will cause it to rain upon the land forty days and forty nights; and all living things that I have brought forth I will wipe from off the face of the land."
01O	7	5	1650	And Noah accomplished all that the LORD commanded.
01O	7	6	1660	And Noah was a son of six hundred years when the flood of waters was on the land.
01O	7	7	1670	And Noah entered, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
01O	7	8	1680	Among clean beasts, and among beasts that are not clean, and among birds, and among all that creeps on the land,
01O	7	9	1690	entered in two by two to Noah in the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
01O	7	10	1700	And after seven days the waters of the flood were on the land.
01O	7	11	1710	In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, at that time were all the wells of the great deep cleaved, and the windows of heaven were opened.
01O	7	12	1720	And the rain was upon the land forty days and forty nights.
01O	7	13	1730	On that very time entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
01O	7	14	1740	They, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the land after its kind, and every bird after his kind, all sort of little birds.
01O	7	15	1750	And they went to Noah in the ark, two and two of all flesh, which had the breath of life.
01O	7	16	1760	And those going in, entered in male and female among all flesh, as God had commanded: and the LORD shut them in.
01O	7	17	1770	And the flood was forty days upon the land; and the waters increased, and raised up the ark, and it was lift up above the land.
01O	7	18	1780	And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly on the land; and the ark floated on the face of the waters.
01O	7	19	1790	And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under all the heaven, were covered.
01O	7	20	1800	Fifteen cubits upward the waters prevailed; and the hills were covered.
01O	7	21	1810	And all flesh died that moved upon the land, birds, cattle, and beasts, and of all creeping thing that creeps upon the land, and all men:
01O	7	22	1820	All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, among all that was on the dry land died.
01O	7	23	1830	And every living substance was wiped away which was on the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the birds of the heaven; and they were wiped off from the land: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
01O	7	24	1840	And the waters prevailed on the land a hundred and fifty days.
01O	8	1	1850	And God was mindful of Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to blow over the land, and the waters subsided;
01O	8	2	1860	The wells of the deep and the windows of heaven were shut up, and the rain from heaven was stopped;
01O	8	3	1870	And the waters were retreating from off the land: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were down.
01O	8	4	1880	And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the hills of Ararat.
01O	8	5	1890	And the waters retreated until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the hills seen.
01O	8	6	1900	After forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark which he had built:
01O	8	7	1910	And he sent out a raven, which went back and forth until the waters were dried up from off the land.
01O	8	8	1920	Also he sent out a dove from him, to see if the waters were gone from off the face of the ground;
01O	8	9	1930	But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, for the waters were on the face of all the land: then he put out his hand, and took her, and pulled her into him in the ark.
01O	8	10	1940	And he waited another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ark;
01O	8	11	1950	And the dove came in to him at dusk; and, behold, in its mouth was an olive leaf torn off: so Noah knew that the waters had retreated from the land.
01O	8	12	1960	And he waited yet another seven days; and sent out the dove; and it did not returned to him again.
01O	8	13	1970	In the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried on the land: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
01O	8	14	1980	And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, the land was dried out.
01O	8	15	1990	And God commanded Noah, saying,
01O	8	16	2000	"Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons, and the sons' wives with you.
01O	8	17	2010	Bring every living thing that is with you, of all flesh, birds, cattle, and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the land; that they may breed abundantly on the land, and be fruitful, and increase on the land."
01O	8	18	2020	And Noah went out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:
01O	8	19	2030	Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, and that which creeps on the land, after their kinds, went out of the ark.
01O	8	20	2040	And Noah built an altar to the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
01O	8	21	2050	And the LORD smelled a sweet fragrance; and the LORD said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground for man's sake; for the imagination of man's mind is evil from his youth; neither will I again punish every living thing, as I have done.
01O	8	22	2060	While the earth remains, planting and harvesting, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not fail."
01O	9	1	2070	And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the land.
01O	9	2	2080	And the fear and dread of you will be on every beast of the earth, and on every bird of the air, on all that moves on the land, and on all the fish of the sea; to your hand are they given.
01O	9	3	2090	Every moving thing that lives will be food for you; I have given you all things, even as the green plants.
01O	9	4	2100	But you will not eat flesh with the life within, which is the blood.
01O	9	5	2110	And surely I will punish any creature that takes a human life. Should an animal kills someone, that animal must die. And should a person take the life of another, that person must be put to death. 
01O	9	6	2120	Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed: for man was made in the image of God.
01O	9	7	2130	And you, be fruitful and multiply; multiply and spread over the land."
01O	9	8	2140	And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
01O	9	9	2150	"Behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you;
01O	9	10	2160	And with every living creature that is with you, among the bird, among the cattle, and among every beast of the land with you; all that came out of the ark, to every beast of the land.
01O	9	11	2170	And I will establish My covenant with you, never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth."
01O	9	12	2180	And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for everlasting generations:
01O	9	13	2190	I set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the land.
01O	9	14	2200	And it will be that when I bring the clouds over the land, that the rainbow will be seen in the clouds:
01O	9	15	2210	And I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters will never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
01O	9	16	2220	And the rainbow will be in the clouds; and I will see it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the land."
01O	9	17	2230	And God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant, which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the land."
01O	9	18	2240	And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
01O	9	19	2250	They are the three sons of Noah: and from among them was all the land covered.
01O	9	20	2260	And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard:
01O	9	21	2270	And he drank wine, and was drunk; and he was uncovered inside the tent.
01O	9	22	2280	And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
01O	9	23	2290	And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and did not see their father's nakedness.
01O	9	24	2300	And Noah woke up from his intoxication, and knew what his younger son had done.
01O	9	25	2310	And he said, "Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants will he be to his brothers."
01O	9	26	2320	And he said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; and Canaan will be his servant.
01O	9	27	2330	God will increase Japheth, and he will lodge in the dwellings of Shem; and Canaan will be his servant."
01O	9	28	2340	And Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.
01O	9	29	2350	And all the time of Noah was nine hundred and fifty years: and he was deceased.
01O	10	1	2360	Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and to them sons were born after the flood.
01O	10	2	2370	The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
01O	10	3	2380	And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
01O	10	4	2390	And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
01O	10	5	2400	By these were the coastland nations divided in their lands; every one after his language, after their families, in their nations.
01O	10	6	2410	And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
01O	10	7	2420	And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
01O	10	8	2430	And Cush fathered Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the land.
01O	10	9	2440	He was a mighty hunter to the face of the LORD: thus it is said, "Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter to the face of the LORD."
01O	10	10	2450	And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
01O	10	11	2460	From that land he went forth to Assyria, and built Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
01O	10	12	2470	And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: which is a great city.
01O	10	13	2480	And Mizraim fathered Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
01O	10	14	2490	And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, from whom came the Philistim, and Caphtorim.
01O	10	15	2500	And Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
01O	10	16	2510	And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
01O	10	17	2520	And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
01O	10	18	2530	And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward the families of the Canaanites were dispersed.
01O	10	19	2540	And the border of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza; in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, as far as Lasha.
01O	10	20	2550	These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, and in their nations.
01O	10	21	2560	To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, were children born.
01O	10	22	2570	The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
01O	10	23	2580	And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
01O	10	24	2590	And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
01O	10	25	2600	And to Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his time the people were divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. 
01O	10	26	2610	And Joktan fathered Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
01O	10	27	2620	And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
01O	10	28	2630	And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
01O	10	29	2640	And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.
01O	10	30	2650	And their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go to Sephar, an eastern mountain.
01O	10	31	2660	These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.
01O	10	32	2670	These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and from these were the nations scattered abroad on the land after the flood.
01O	11	1	2680	And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
01O	11	2	2690	As they migrated from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they settled there.
01O	11	3	2700	And they said one to another, "Let us make brick, and bake them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and pitch for mortar.
01O	11	4	2710	And they said, "Come, let us build a city and a tower, with its top in the heaven; and we will make a name for ourselves, so that we will not be scattered over the face of the whole land."
01O	11	5	2720	And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.
01O	11	6	2730	And the LORD said, "Behold, the people are united and they all have one language; and this is the beginning of what they can do: and now nothing they imagine will be too difficult for them to do.
01O	11	7	2740	Come, let Us go down, and confuse their language, so that they cannot understand one another's speech."
01O	11	8	2750	So the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the land: and they quit building the city.
01O	11	9	2760	Therefore its name was called Babel; because the LORD confounded the language of all the land: and from there the LORD scatter them over the face of all the land.
01O	11	10	2770	These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and fathered Arphaxad two years after the flood:
01O	11	11	2780	And Shem lived after he fathered Arphaxad five hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters.
01O	11	12	2790	And Arphaxad lived thirty five years, and fathered Salah:
01O	11	13	2800	And Arphaxad lived after he fathered Salah four hundred and three years, and fathered sons and daughters.
01O	11	14	2810	And Salah lived thirty years and fathered Eber.
01O	11	15	2820	And Salah lived after he fathered Eber four hundred and three years, and fathered sons and daughters.
01O	11	16	2830	And Eber lived thirty four years, and fathered Peleg:
01O	11	17	2840	And Eber lived after he fathered Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and fathered sons and daughters.
01O	11	18	2850	And Peleg lived thirty years, and fathered Reu:
01O	11	19	2860	And Peleg lived after he fathered Reu two hundred and nine years, and fathered sons and daughters.
01O	11	20	2870	And Reu lived thirty two years, and fathered Serug:
01O	11	21	2880	And Reu lived after he father Serug two hundred and seven years, and fathered sons and daughters.
01O	11	22	2890	And Serug lived thirty years, and fathered Nahor:
01O	11	23	2900	And Serug lived after he fathered Nahor two hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters.
01O	11	24	2910	And Nahor lived twenty nine years, and fathered Terah:
01O	11	25	2920	And Nahor lived after he fathered Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and fathered sons and daughters.
01O	11	26	2930	And Terah lived seventy years, and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
01O	11	27	2940	Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.
01O	11	28	2950	And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Kasdites.
01O	11	29	2960	And Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
01O	11	30	2970	But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
01O	11	31	2980	And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went with them from Ur of the Kasdites, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and settled there.
01O	11	32	2990	And the time of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
01O	12	1	3000	Now the LORD had said unto Abram, "Get out of this country, and from your kindred, and from you father's house, to a land that I will show you:
01O	12	2	3010	And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shalt be a blessing:
01O	12	3	3020	And I will bless them that bless you, and curse them that curse you: and in you will all families of the land be blessed."
01O	12	4	3030	So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot with him: and Abram was seventy five years old when he departed Haran.
01O	12	5	3040	And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their belongings that they had gathered, and the people that were with them in Haran; and they left to go to the land of Canaan; and to the land of Canaan they came.
01O	12	6	3050	And Abram passed through the land into Shechem, to the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land.
01O	12	7	3060	And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, "To your seed will I give this land:" and there he built an altar to the LORD who had appeared to him.
01O	12	8	3070	And he went from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he built an altar to the LORD, and called on the name of the LORD.
01O	12	9	3080	And Abram journeyed, still going toward the south.
01O	12	10	3090	And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there; for the famine was terrible in the land.
01O	12	11	3100	And it came to pass, when he was coming to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "Behold, I know that you are a fair woman to look at:
01O	12	12	3110	Therefore it will come to pass, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will let you live.
01O	12	13	3120	Say, I pray you, you are my sister: then it will be for me for your sake; and my life will be saved because of you."
01O	12	14	3130	And it came to pass, that, when Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
01O	12	15	3140	The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
01O	12	16	3150	And he treated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and male asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and female asses, and camels.
01O	12	17	3160	Then the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with severe plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
01O	12	18	3170	And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?
01O	12	19	3180	Why did you say, She is my sister? I might have taken her as my wife: now therefore behold you wife, take her, and leave."
01O	12	20	3190	And Pharaoh commanded his men about him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he possessed.
01O	13	1	3200	So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he possessed, and Lot with him, into the south. 
01O	13	2	3210	Now Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. 
01O	13	3	3220	And he journeyed on from the south as far as Bethel to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, 
01O	13	4	3230	to the place where he had first made an altar. And there Abram called upon the name of the LORD. 
01O	13	5	3240	And Lot, who also had flocks and herds and tents went with Abram, 
01O	13	6	3250	so that the land could not support both of them dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together, 
01O	13	7	3260	and there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land. 
01O	13	8	3270	Then Abram said to Lot, "Let there not be strife between us, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are brethren. 
01O	13	9	3280	Is not the whole land before you? Let us separate. If you take the left, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right, then I will go to the left." 
01O	13	10	3290	And Lot looked up and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the LORD had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) 
01O	13	11	3300	So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley, and Lot journeyed east. Thus they separated. 
01O	13	12	3310	Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom. 
01O	13	13	3320	Now the men of Sodom were wicked sinners against the LORD, greatly so. 
01O	13	14	3330	The LORD said to Abram after Lot had separated from him, "Look up and see from where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward, 
01O	13	15	3340	for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever. 
01O	13	16	3350	I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted. 
01O	13	17	3360	Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you." 
01O	13	18	3370	So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the LORD. 
01O	14	1	3380	In the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, 
01O	14	2	3390	the kings made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar). 
01O	14	3	3400	And they all joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea). 
01O	14	4	3410	Twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled. 
01O	14	5	3420	In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim, 
01O	14	6	3430	and the Horites in their hill country of Seir as far as El-paran on the border of the wilderness. 
01O	14	7	3440	Then they turned back and came to En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh) and defeated all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who were dwelling in Hazazon-tamar. 
01O	14	8	3450	Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela went out, and they joined battle in the Valley of Siddim 
01O	14	9	3460	with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, four kings against five. 
01O	14	10	3470	Now the Valley of Siddim was full of slime pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled to the hill country. 
01O	14	11	3480	So the enemy took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way. 
01O	14	12	3490	They also took Lot, the son of Abram's brother, who was dwelling in Sodom, and his possessions. 
01O	14	13	3500	Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. They were allies of Abram. 
01O	14	14	3510	When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan. 
01O	14	15	3520	And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus. 
01O	14	16	3530	Then he brought back all the possessions, and also brought back his kinsman Lot with his possessions, and the women and the people. 
01O	14	17	3540	After his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley). 
01O	14	18	3550	And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High. 
01O	14	19	3560	And he blessed him and said, "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; 
01O	14	20	3570	and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!" And Abram gave him a tenth of everything. 
01O	14	21	3580	And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself." 
01O	14	22	3590	But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted my hand to the LORD God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth, 
01O	14	23	3600	that I would not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, or you would say, I have made Abram rich. 
01O	14	24	3610	I will take nothing but what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me. Let Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre take their share." 
01O	15	1	3620	After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward will increase greatly." 
01O	15	2	3630	But Abram said, "O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?" 
01O	15	3	3640	And Abram said, "Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir." 
01O	15	4	3650	And behold, the word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir; your very own son will be your heir." 
01O	15	5	3660	And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So will be your offspring." 
01O	15	6	3670	And he believed the LORD, and He counted it to him as righteousness. 
01O	15	7	3680	And he said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you from Ur of the Kasdites to give you this land to possess." 
01O	15	8	3690	But he said, "O Lord GOD, how am I to know that I will possess it?" 
01O	15	9	3700	He said to him, "Bring Me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon." 
01O	15	10	3710	And he brought him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half. 
01O	15	11	3720	And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away. 
01O	15	12	3730	As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell on him. 
01O	15	13	3740	Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. 
01O	15	14	3750	But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. 
01O	15	15	3760	As for yourself, you will go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age. 
01O	15	16	3770	And they will come back here after the fourth century, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet finished." 
01O	15	17	3780	When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. 
01O	15	18	3790	On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, 
01O	15	19	3800	the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 
01O	15	20	3810	the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 
01O	15	21	3820	the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites." 
01O	16	1	3830	Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar. 
01O	16	2	3840	And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; that I will obtain children by her." And Abram heeded to the voice of Sarai. 
01O	16	3	3850	After Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram, her husband, as a wife. 
01O	16	4	3860	And he went in to Hagar, and she gave birth. And when she knew that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress. 
01O	16	5	3870	And Sarai said to Abram, "May the injustice toward me be against you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she knew that she had given birth, she looked at me with contempt. The LORD will judge between you and me!" 
01O	16	6	3880	But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your servant is in your control; do with her as you please." Then Sarai was harsh with her, and she fled. 
01O	16	7	3890	The angel of the LORD found her by a well in the wilderness, the well on the way to Shur. 
01O	16	8	3900	And he said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you fled and where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai." 
01O	16	9	3910	The angel of the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her." 
01O	16	10	3920	The angel of the LORD also said to her, "I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be counted because of their abundance." 
01O	16	11	3930	And the angel of the LORD said to her, "Behold, you are pregnant and will bear a son. You will call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has understood your misery. 
01O	16	12	3940	He will be a wild beast of a man, his strength against everyone and everyone's strength against him, and he will dwell in the face of all his brethren." 
01O	16	13	3950	So she called on the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "You are a God of seeing," and she said, "Truly here I have seen Him who looks after me." 
01O	16	14	3960	Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered. 
01O	16	15	3970	And when Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. 
01O	16	16	3980	Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram. 
01O	17	1	3990	When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before Me, and be undefiled, 
01O	17	2	4000	that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly." 
01O	17	3	4010	Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him, 
01O	17	4	4020	"Behold, My covenant is with you, and you will be the father of many nations. 
01O	17	5	4030	No longer will your name be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you the father of many nations. 
01O	17	6	4040	I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings will come from you. 
01O	17	7	4050	And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you. 
01O	17	8	4060	And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your pilgrimage, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God." 
01O	17	9	4070	And God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep My covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations. 
01O	17	10	4080	This is My covenant, which you will keep, between Me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you will be circumcised. 
01O	17	11	4090	You will be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you. 
01O	17	12	4100	He who is eight days old among you will be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or purchased with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring, 
01O	17	13	4110	both he who is born in your house and he who is purchased with your money, will surely be circumcised. So will My covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant. 
01O	17	14	4120	Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant." 
01O	17	15	4130	And God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you will not call her name Sarai, but Sarah will be her name. 
01O	17	16	4140	I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will become nations; kings of peoples will come from her." 
01O	17	17	4150	Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, "Will a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?" 
01O	17	18	4160	And Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live in your favor!" 
01O	17	19	4170	God said, "No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you will call his name Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him. 
01O	17	20	4180	As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation. 
01O	17	21	4190	But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year." 
01O	17	22	4200	When He had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham. 
01O	17	23	4210	Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or purchased with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him. 
01O	17	24	4220	Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 
01O	17	25	4230	And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 
01O	17	26	4240	On that same day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised. 
01O	17	27	4250	And all the men of his house, those born in the house and those purchased with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him. 
01O	18	1	4260	And the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day. 
01O	18	2	4270	He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the ground 
01O	18	3	4280	and said, "O Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not by pass your servant. 
01O	18	4	4290	Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree, 
01O	18	5	4300	while I bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on; since you have honored your servant." So they said, "Do as you have said." 
01O	18	6	4310	And Abraham went quickly into the tent to Sarah and said, "Quick! Three measures of fine meal! Prepare it, and make cakes." 
01O	18	7	4320	And Abraham ran to the herd and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to a young man, who prepared it quickly. 
01O	18	8	4330	Then he took butter and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and gave it to them. And he stood by them under the tree while they ate. 
01O	18	9	4340	They said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" And he said, "She is in the tent." 
01O	18	10	4350	The LORD said, "I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him. 
01O	18	11	4360	Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The manner of women was no longer with Sarah. 
01O	18	12	4370	So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, "After I being so aged, and my lord is aged, will I have pleasure?" 
01O	18	13	4380	The LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Will I indeed bear a child, now that I am aged?' 
01O	18	14	4390	Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son." 
01O	18	15	4400	But Sarah denied it, saying, "I did not laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh." 
01O	18	16	4410	Then the men left from there, and they looked down toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to send them on their way. 
01O	18	17	4420	The LORD said, "Whall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, 
01O	18	18	4430	seeing that Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him? 
01O	18	19	4440	For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may give to Abraham what He has promised him." 
01O	18	20	4450	Then the LORD said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is burdensome, 
01O	18	21	4460	I will go down to see whether they have done according to the outcry that has come to Me. And if not, I will know." 
01O	18	22	4470	So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the LORD. 
01O	18	23	4480	Then Abraham drew near and said, "Will you indeed remove the righteous with the wicked? 
01O	18	24	4490	Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? 
01O	18	25	4500	Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?" 
01O	18	26	4510	And the LORD said, "If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake." 
01O	18	27	4520	Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes. 
01O	18	28	4530	Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?" And he said, "I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there." 
01O	18	29	4540	Again he spoke to him and said, "Suppose forty are found there." He answered, "For the sake of forty I will not do it." 
01O	18	30	4550	Then he said, "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there." He answered, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there." 
01O	18	31	4560	He said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there." He answered, "For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it." 
01O	18	32	4570	Then he said, "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there." He answered, "For the sake of ten I will not destroy it." 
01O	18	33	4580	And the LORD went His way, when He had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place. 
01O	19	1	4590	The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the ground 
01O	19	2	4600	and said, "My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way." They said, "No; we will spend the night in the town square." 
01O	19	3	4610	But he urged them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his home. And he prepared a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 
01O	19	4	4620	But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people within the city, surrounded the house. 
01O	19	5	4630	And they called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them." 
01O	19	6	4640	Lot went out to the men at the entrance, and shut the door after him, 
01O	19	7	4650	and said, "I beg you, my brothers, do not do this mischief. 
01O	19	8	4660	Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you will. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof." 
01O	19	9	4670	But they said, "Stand back!" And they said, "This fellow is a stranger, and he becomes the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them." Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break down the door. 
01O	19	10	4680	But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them and shut the door. 
01O	19	11	4690	And they struck  the men blind who were at the entrance of the house, both small and great, so that they struggled to find the door. 
01O	19	12	4700	Then the men said to Lot, "Have you anyone else here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone you have in the city, get them out of the place. 
01O	19	13	4710	For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to ruin it." 
01O	19	14	4720	So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, "Rise up! Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking. 
01O	19	15	4730	As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Rise up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you perish in the punishment of this city." 
01O	19	16	4740	But he was reluctant. So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the LORD being merciful to him, and they took him out and set him outside the city. 
01O	19	17	4750	And as they took them out, one said, "Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you perish." 
01O	19	18	4760	And Lot said to them, "Please, no so, my lords. 
01O	19	19	4770	Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, or some evil may overtake me and I will die. 
01O	19	20	4780	Behold, a city is near enough to flee to, and it is a small one. Let me escape there, it only a small place, and my life will be saved!" 
01O	19	21	4790	He said to him, "Behold, I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. 
01O	19	22	4800	Escape there quickly, for I can do nothing until you arrive there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. 
01O	19	23	4810	The sun had risen on the land when Lot came to Zoar. 
01O	19	24	4820	Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven. 
01O	19	25	4830	And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. 
01O	19	26	4840	But Lot's wife, trailing him looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. 
01O	19	27	4850	And Abraham rose early at the dawn and went to the place where he had stood before the LORD. 
01O	19	28	4860	And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace. 
01O	19	29	4870	So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the destruction when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived. 
01O	19	30	4880	Now Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters. 
01O	19	31	4890	And the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man on the land to come in to us as is the way of the world. 
01O	19	32	4900	Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve the seed of our father." 
01O	19	33	4910	So they got their father to drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down or when she left. 
01O	19	34	4920	The next day, the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also. Then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve the seed of our father." 
01O	19	35	4930	So they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger went and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she left. 
01O	19	36	4940	Thus both of the daughters of Lot conceived by their father. 
01O	19	37	4950	The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day. 
01O	19	38	4960	The younger also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi. He is the father of the sons of the Ammon to this day. 
01O	20	1	4970	From there Abraham journeyed to the southern territory and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he stayed in Gerar. 
01O	20	2	4980	And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah. 
01O	20	3	4990	But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, "Behold, you are going to die because of the woman who you have taken, for she is a man's wife." 
01O	20	4	5000	Now Abimelech had not approached her. So he said, "Lord, will you kill an innocent people? 
01O	20	5	5010	Did he not say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of heart and cleanness of hands I did this." 
01O	20	6	5020	Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against Me. Therefore I did not let you touch her. 
01O	20	7	5030	Now then, return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you will live. But if you do not return her, know that you qill surely die, you and all that are yours." 
01O	20	8	5040	So Abimelech rose early in the morning and called all his servants and told them all these things. And the men were frightened. 
01O	20	9	5050	Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that should not be done." 
01O	20	10	5060	And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What sppeared to you, that you would do this?" 
01O	20	11	5070	Abraham said, "I did it because I believed, There was no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife. 
01O	20	12	5080	Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife. 
01O	20	13	5090	And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, 'This is the best thing you can do for me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.'" 
01O	20	14	5100	Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and returned Sarah his wife to him. 
01O	20	15	5110	And Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you; dwell where it pleases you." 
01O	20	16	5120	To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is a sign of your innocence in the eyes of all who are with you, and before everyone you are justified." 
01O	20	17	5130	Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children. 
01O	20	18	5140	For the LORD had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife. 
01O	21	1	5150	The LORD visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had promised. 
01O	21	2	5160	And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time which God had told him. 
01O	21	3	5170	Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, who Sarah bore, Isaac. 
01O	21	4	5180	And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded. 
01O	21	5	5190	Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to. 
01O	21	6	5200	And Sarah said, "God has given me pleasure; everyone who hears will be merry for me." 
01O	21	7	5210	And she said, "Who would say to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age." 
01O	21	8	5220	And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. 
01O	21	9	5230	But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. 
01O	21	10	5240	So she said to Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman will not be a heir with my son Isaac." 
01O	21	11	5250	And the thing was very troubling to Abraham on account of his son. 
01O	21	12	5260	But God said to Abraham, "Be not troubled because of the boy and the slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac will your seed be named. 
01O	21	13	5270	And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your seed." 
01O	21	14	5280	So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. 
01O	21	15	5290	When the water in the skin was gone, she put the child under one of the bushes. 
01O	21	16	5300	Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot, for she said, "Let me not look on the death of the child." And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept. 
01O	21	17	5310	And God heard the crying of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the crying of the boy there where he is. 
01O	21	18	5320	Rise up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation." 
01O	21	19	5330	Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink. 
01O	21	20	5340	And God was with the boy, and he grew up. He lived in the wilderness and became an expert with the bow. 
01O	21	21	5350	He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt. 
01O	21	22	5360	At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do. 
01O	21	23	5370	Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned." 
01O	21	24	5380	And Abraham said, "I will swear." 
01O	21	25	5390	When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech's servants had seized, 
01O	21	26	5400	Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today." 
01O	21	27	5410	So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant. 
01O	21	28	5420	Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart. 
01O	21	29	5430	And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?" 
01O	21	30	5440	He said, "These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this may be a witness for me that I dug this well." 
01O	21	31	5450	Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath. 
01O	21	32	5460	So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines. 
01O	21	33	5470	Abraham planted a tamarisk grove in Beersheba and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God. 
01O	21	34	5480	And Abraham sojourned for along time in the land of the Philistines. 
01O	22	1	5490	After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" And He said, "Here I am." 
01O	22	2	5500	He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you." 
01O	22	3	5510	So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place where God told him. 
01O	22	4	5520	On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place far off. 
01O	22	5	5530	Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you." 
01O	22	6	5540	And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and put it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they both went together. 
01O	22	7	5550	And Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" 
01O	22	8	5560	Abraham said, "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they both went both together. 
01O	22	9	5570	When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and put him on the altar, on top of the wood. 
01O	22	10	5580	Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. 
01O	22	11	5590	But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am." 
01O	22	12	5600	He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me." 
01O	22	13	5610	And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram, caught by his horns in a thicket. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. 
01O	22	14	5620	So Abraham called the name of that place, "The LORD will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the LORD it will be provided." 
01O	22	15	5630	And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven 
01O	22	16	5640	and said, "I have sworn by Myself, declares the LORD, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 
01O	22	17	5650	I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your seed as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your seed will possess the gate of his enemies, 
01O	22	18	5660	and in your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice." 
01O	22	19	5670	So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived at Beersheba. 
01O	22	20	5680	Now after these things it was told to Abraham, "Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor: 
01O	22	21	5690	Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram, 
01O	22	22	5700	Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel." 
01O	22	23	5710	Bethuel fathered Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother. 
01O	22	24	5720	Moreover, his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah. 
01O	23	1	5730	Sarah lived 127 years; these were the years of the life of Sarah. 
01O	23	2	5740	And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. 
01O	23	3	5750	And Abraham rose up from before his dead and said to the Hittites, 
01O	23	4	5760	"I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight." 
01O	23	5	5770	The Hittites answered Abraham, 
01O	23	6	5780	"Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead." 
01O	23	7	5790	Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land. 
01O	23	8	5800	And he said to them, "If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and ask for me Ephron the son of Zohar, 
01O	23	9	5810	that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as place for burying." 
01O	23	10	5820	Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, of all who went in at the gate of his city, 
01O	23	11	5830	"No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead." 
01O	23	12	5840	Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land. 
01O	23	13	5850	And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, "But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there." 
01O	23	14	5860	Ephron answered Abraham, 
01O	23	15	5870	"My lord, listen to me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead." 
01O	23	16	5880	Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants. 
01O	23	17	5890	So the field of Ephron in Machpelah, which was to the east of Mamre, the field with the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, throughout its whole area, was given over 
01O	23	18	5900	to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites, before all who went in at the gate of his city. 
01O	23	19	5910	After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre, which is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan. 
01O	23	20	5920	The field and the cave that is in it were given over to Abraham as property for a burying place by the Hittites. 
01O	24	1	5930	Now Abraham was old, well advanced in age. And the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things. 
01O	24	2	5940	And Abraham said to his servant, the eldest of his household who had charge of all that he had, "Put your hand under my thigh, 
01O	24	3	5950	that I may have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not find a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell, 
01O	24	4	5960	but will go to my land and to my native country, and find a wife for my son Isaac." 
01O	24	5	5970	The servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?" 
01O	24	6	5980	Abraham said to him, "See to it that you do not take my son back there. 
01O	24	7	5990	The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, 'To your seed I will give this land,' he will send His Angel before you, and you will find a wife for my son from there. 
01O	24	8	6000	But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; you must not take my son back there." 
01O	24	9	6010	So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him according to these words. 
01O	24	10	6020	Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed, taking all sorts of choice gifts from his master; and he arose and went to Aram Naharaim to the city of Nahor. 
01O	24	11	6030	And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of dusk, the time when women go out to draw water. 
01O	24	12	6040	And he said, "O LORD, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show steadfast love to my master Abraham. 
01O	24	13	6050	Behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. 
01O	24	14	6060	Let the young woman to whom I will say, 'Please let down your jar that I may drink,' and who will say, 'Drink, and I will water your camels'; let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master." 
01O	24	15	6070	Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water jar on her shoulder. 
01O	24	16	6080	The young woman was very pleasant in appearance, a maiden who no man had known. She went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up. 
01O	24	17	6090	Then the servant came to meet her and said, "Please give me a little water to drink from your jar." 
01O	24	18	6100	She said, "Drink, my lord." And she quickly let down her jar on her hand and gave him a drink. 
01O	24	19	6110	When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, "I will draw water for your camels also, until they have finished drinking." 
01O	24	20	6120	So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and again rushed to the well to draw water, and she drew for all his camels. 
01O	24	21	6130	The man gazed at her in silence to learn whether the LORD had prospered his journey or not. 
01O	24	22	6140	When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel, and two bracelets for her arms, ten weights of gold, 
01O	24	23	6150	and said, "Please tell me whose daughter you are. Is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?" 
01O	24	24	6160	She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor." 
01O	24	25	6170	She added, "We have plenty of both straw and fodder, and room to spend the night." 
01O	24	26	6180	The man bowed his head and worshiped the LORD 
01O	24	27	6190	and said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the LORD has led me in the way to the house of my master's kinsmen." 
01O	24	28	6200	Then the young woman ran and told her mother's household about these things. 
01O	24	29	6210	Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban. Laban ran out toward the man, to the spring. 
01O	24	30	6220	As soon as he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister's arms, and heard the words of Rebekah his sister, "Thus the man spoke to me," he went to the man. And behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring. 
01O	24	31	6230	He said, "Come in, O blessed of the LORD. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house and a place for the camels." 
01O	24	32	6240	So the man came to the house and unharnessed the camels, and gave straw and fodder to the camels, and there was water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him. 
01O	24	33	6250	Then food was set before him to eat. But he said, "I will not eat until I have said what I have to say." He said, "Speak on." 
01O	24	34	6260	So he said, "I am Abraham's servant. 
01O	24	35	6270	The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, camels and donkeys. 
01O	24	36	6280	And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old, and to him he has given all that he has. 
01O	24	37	6290	My master made me swear, saying, 'You will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell, 
01O	24	38	6300	but you will go to my father's house and to my tribe and take a wife for my son.' 
01O	24	39	6310	I said to my master, 'Perhaps the woman will not follow me.' 
01O	24	40	6320	But he said to me, 'The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and prosper your way. You will take a wife for my son from my tribe and from my father's house. 
01O	24	41	6330	Then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my tribe. And if they will not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.' 
01O	24	42	6340	"I came today to the spring and said, 'O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if now you are prospering the way that I go, 
01O	24	43	6350	behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let the virgin who comes out to draw water, to whom I will say, "Please give me a little water from your jar to drink," 
01O	24	44	6360	and who will say to me, "Drink, and I will draw for your camels also," let her be the woman whom the LORD has appointed for my master's son.' 
01O	24	45	6370	"Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her water jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. I said to her, 'Please let me drink.' 
01O	24	46	6380	She quickly let down her jar from her shoulder and said, 'Drink, and I will give your camels drink also.' So I drank, and she gave the camels drink also. 
01O	24	47	6390	Then I asked her, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her arms. 
01O	24	48	6400	Then I bowed my head and worshiped the LORD and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to take the daughter of my master's kinsman for his son. 
01O	24	49	6410	Now then, if you are going to show steadfast love and faithfulness to my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand or to the left." 
01O	24	50	6420	Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, "The thing has come from the LORD; we cannot speak to you bad or good. 
01O	24	51	6430	Behold, Rebekah is before you; take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master's son, as the LORD has spoken." 
01O	24	52	6440	When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the earth before the LORD. 
01O	24	53	6450	And the servant brought out jewelry of silver and of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave to her brother and to her mother costly ornaments. 
01O	24	54	6460	And he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night there. When they arose in the morning, he said, "Send me away to my master." 
01O	24	55	6470	Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young woman remain with us a while, at least ten days; after that she may go." 
01O	24	56	6480	But he said to them, "Do not delay me, since the LORD has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master." 
01O	24	57	6490	They said, "Let us call the young woman and ask her." 
01O	24	58	6500	And they called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" She said, "I will go." 
01O	24	59	6510	So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham's servant and his men. 
01O	24	60	6520	And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, "Our sister, may you become thousands of ten thousands, and may your seed possess the gate of those who hate him!" 
01O	24	61	6530	Then Rebekah and her young women arose and rode on the camels and followed the man. Thus the servant took Rebekah and went his way. 
01O	24	62	6540	Now Isaac had returned from The Well of the Living One, My Beholder, and was dwelling in the south country. 
01O	24	63	6550	And Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening. And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, there were camels coming. 
01O	24	64	6560	And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel 
01O	24	65	6570	and said to the servant, "Who is that man, walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." So she took her veil and covered herself. 
01O	24	66	6580	And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. 
01O	24	67	6590	Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was consoled after his mother. 
01O	25	1	6600	Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah. 
01O	25	2	6610	She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. 
01O	25	3	6620	Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. 
01O	25	4	6630	The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. These were all the children of Keturah. 
01O	25	5	6640	And Abraham gave all he had to Isaac. 
01O	25	6	6650	But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the land of the east. 
01O	25	7	6660	These are the days of the years of Abraham's life, 175 years. 
01O	25	8	6670	Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was taken up to his people. 
01O	25	9	6680	Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre, 
01O	25	10	6690	the field that Abraham purchased from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there, with Sarah his wife. 
01O	25	11	6700	After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled at The Well of the Living One, My Beholder. 
01O	25	12	6710	These are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's servant, bore to Abraham. 
01O	25	13	6720	These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, 
01O	25	14	6730	Mishma, Dumah, Massa, 
01O	25	15	6740	Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. 
01O	25	16	6750	These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, twelve chiefs according to their nations. 
01O	25	17	6760	These are the years of the life of Ishmael: 137 years. He expired and died, and was taken up to his people. 
01O	25	18	6770	They settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria. He settled in the face of all of his brothers. 
01O	25	19	6780	These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham fathered Isaac, 
01O	25	20	6790	and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife. 
01O	25	21	6800	And Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 
01O	25	22	6810	The sons struggled together within her, and she said, "If it is thus, why is this happening to me?" So she went to inquire of the LORD. 
01O	25	23	6820	And the LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from inside you will be separated; the one will be stronger than the other, the older will serve the younger." 
01O	25	24	6830	When her days to give birth were completed, behold, there were twins in her womb. 
01O	25	25	6840	The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau. 
01O	25	26	6850	Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding Esau's heel, so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them. 
01O	25	27	6860	When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a gentle man, dwelling in tents. 
01O	25	28	6870	Isaac loved Esau because fed of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob. 
01O	25	29	6880	Once when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted. 
01O	25	30	6890	And Esau said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am faint!" Therefore his name was called Edom. 
01O	25	31	6900	Jacob said, "Sell me your birthright now." 
01O	25	32	6910	Esau said, "I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?" 
01O	25	33	6920	Jacob said, "Swear to me now." So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob. 
01O	25	34	6930	Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau had no regard for his birthright. 
01O	26	1	6940	Now there was a famine in the land besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines. 
01O	26	2	6950	And the LORD appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I will tell you. 
01O	26	3	6960	Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your seed I will give all of these lands, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham. 
01O	26	4	6970	I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your seed all the nations of the earth will be blessed, 
01O	26	5	6980	because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws." 
01O	26	6	6990	So Isaac settled in Gerar. 
01O	26	7	7000	When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he feared to say, "My wife," thinking, "otherwise the men of the place would kill me because of Rebekah," because she was fair in appearance. 
01O	26	8	7010	When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac sporting with Rebekah his wife. 
01O	26	9	7020	So Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought, 'Otherwise I die because of her.'" 
01O	26	10	7030	Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us." 
01O	26	11	7040	So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, "Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death." 
01O	26	12	7050	And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The LORD blessed him, 
01O	26	13	7060	and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy. 
01O	26	14	7070	He had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him. 
01O	26	15	7080	Now the Philistines had closed up and filled with earth all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father. 
01O	26	16	7090	And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are stronger than we." 
01O	26	17	7100	So Isaac departed from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there. 
01O	26	18	7110	And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had closed up after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the names that his father had given them. 
01O	26	19	7120	But when Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of spring water, 
01O	26	20	7130	the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him. 
01O	26	21	7140	Then they dug another well, and they contended over that one also, so he called its name Sitnah. 
01O	26	22	7150	And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not contend over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, saying, "For now the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land." 
01O	26	23	7160	From there he went up to Beersheba. 
01O	26	24	7170	And the LORD appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your seed for My servant Abraham's sake." 
01O	26	25	7180	So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the LORD and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well. 
01O	26	26	7190	When Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army, 
01O	26	27	7200	Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, seeing that you despise me and have sent me away from you?" 
01O	26	28	7210	They said, "We see plainly that the LORD has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you, 
01O	26	29	7220	that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the LORD." 
01O	26	30	7230	So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank. 
01O	26	31	7240	In the morning they rose early and exchanged oaths. And Isaac sent them on their way, and they departed from him in peace. 
01O	26	32	7250	That same day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well that they had dug and said to him, "We have found water." 
01O	26	33	7260	He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day. 
01O	26	34	7270	When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite, 
01O	26	35	7280	and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah. 
01O	27	1	7290	When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son"; and he answered, "Here I am." 
01O	27	2	7300	He said, "Behold, I am old; I do not know the time of my death. 
01O	27	3	7310	Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me, 
01O	27	4	7320	and prepare for me delicious food, such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die." 
01O	27	5	7330	Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt game and bring it in, 
01O	27	6	7340	Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, 
01O	27	7	7350	'Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food, that I may eat it and bless you before the LORD before I die.' 
01O	27	8	7360	Now therefore, my son, obey me as I command you. 
01O	27	9	7370	Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves. 
01O	27	10	7380	And you will bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies." 
01O	27	11	7390	But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. 
01O	27	12	7400	Perhaps my father will feel me, and I will seem to be mocking him and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing." 
01O	27	13	7410	His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey me, and go, bring them to me." 
01O	27	14	7420	So he went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared delicious food, such as his father loved. 
01O	27	15	7430	Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son. 
01O	27	16	7440	And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. 
01O	27	17	7450	And she put the delicious food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob. 
01O	27	18	7460	So he went in to his father and said, "My father." And he said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?" 
01O	27	19	7470	Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me." 
01O	27	20	7480	But Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He answered, "Because the LORD your God granted me success." 
01O	27	21	7490	Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not." 
01O	27	22	7500	So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." 
01O	27	23	7510	And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands. So he blessed him. 
01O	27	24	7520	He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He answered, "I am." 
01O	27	25	7530	Then he said, "Bring it near to me, that I may eat of my son's game and bless you." So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank. 
01O	27	26	7540	Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near and kiss me, my son." 
01O	27	27	7550	So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, "See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed! 
01O	27	28	7560	May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the richness of the land and plenty of grain and wine. 
01O	27	29	7570	Let people serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!" 
01O	27	30	7580	As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting. 
01O	27	31	7590	He also prepared delicious food and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, "Let my father arise and eat of his son's game, that you may bless me." 
01O	27	32	7600	His father Isaac said to him, "Who are you?" He answered, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau." 
01O	27	33	7610	Then Isaac trembled with great anxiety and said, "Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him? Yes, and he will be blessed." 
01O	27	34	7620	As soon as Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and angry shriek and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, O my father!" 
01O	27	35	7630	But he said, "Your brother came in treachery and he has taken away your blessing." 
01O	27	36	7640	Esau said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?" 
01O	27	37	7650	Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Behold, I have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?" 
01O	27	38	7660	Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father." And Esau lifted up his voice and mourned. 
01O	27	39	7670	Then Isaac his father answered and said to him: "Behold, from the richness of the land will your dwelling be, and from the dew of heaven on high. 
01O	27	40	7680	By your sword you will live, and you will serve your brother; but when you grow restless you will break his yoke from your neck." 
01O	27	41	7690	Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob." 
01O	27	42	7700	But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau console himself about you by planning to kill you. 
01O	27	43	7710	Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran 
01O	27	44	7720	and stay with him a while, until your brother's fury ceases, 
01O	27	45	7730	until your brother's anger withdraws from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I be deprived of you both in one day?" 
01O	27	46	7740	Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be?" 
01O	28	1	7750	Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and commanded him, "You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women. 
01O	28	2	7760	Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel your mother's father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother. 
01O	28	3	7770	God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a multitude of people. 
01O	28	4	7780	May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of the land of your sojourning that God gave to Abraham!" 
01O	28	5	7790	Thus Isaac sent Jacob away. And he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. 
01O	28	6	7800	Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he commanded him, "You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women," 
01O	28	7	7810	and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram. 
01O	28	8	7820	So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father, 
01O	28	9	7830	Esau went to Ishmael and took as his wife, besides the wives he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth. 
01O	28	10	7840	Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran. 
01O	28	11	7850	And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep. 
01O	28	12	7860	And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the land, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! 
01O	28	13	7870	And behold, the LORD stood above it and said, "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your seed. 
01O	28	14	7880	Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your seed will all the families of the land be blessed. 
01O	28	15	7890	Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised to you." 
01O	28	16	7900	Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it." 
01O	28	17	7910	And he was fearful and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven." 
01O	28	18	7920	So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it. 
01O	28	19	7930	He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was at first Luz. 
01O	28	20	7940	Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, 
01O	28	21	7950	so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then the LORD will be my God, 
01O	28	22	7960	and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God's house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you." 
01O	29	1	7970	Then Jacob went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the east. 
01O	29	2	7980	As he looked, he saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep lying beside it, for out of that well the flocks were watered. The stone on the well's mouth was large, 
01O	29	3	7990	and when all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place over the mouth of the well. 
01O	29	4	8000	Jacob said to them, "My brothers, where do you come from?" They said, "We are from Haran." 
01O	29	5	8010	He said to them, "Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him." 
01O	29	6	8020	He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well; and see, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep!" 
01O	29	7	8030	He said, "Behold, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered together. Water the sheep and go, graze them." 
01O	29	8	8040	But they said, "We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together and the stone is rolled from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep." 
01O	29	9	8050	While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess. 
01O	29	10	8060	Now as soon as Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the well's mouth and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. 
01O	29	11	8070	Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud. 
01O	29	12	8080	And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's kinsman, and that he was Rebekah's son, and she ran and told her father. 
01O	29	13	8090	As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister's son, he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things, 
01O	29	14	8100	and Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh!" And he stayed with him a month. 
01O	29	15	8110	Then Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my kinsman, you should not serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?" 
01O	29	16	8120	Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 
01O	29	17	8130	Leah's eyes were tender, but Rachel was beautiful in form and vision. 
01O	29	18	8140	Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel." 
01O	29	19	8150	Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me." 
01O	29	20	8160	So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him as just a few days because of the love he had for her. 
01O	29	21	8170	Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is fulfilled." 
01O	29	22	8180	So Laban gathered together all the people of the area and made a feast. 
01O	29	23	8190	But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he went in to her. 
01O	29	24	8200	Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant. 
01O	29	25	8210	And in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And Jacob said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?" 
01O	29	26	8220	Laban said, "It is not so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn. 
01O	29	27	8230	Complete the week for this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years." 
01O	29	28	8240	Jacob did so, and completed her week. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. 
01O	29	29	8250	Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant. 
01O	29	30	8260	So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years. 
01O	29	31	8270	When the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. 
01O	29	32	8280	And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, "Because the LORD has looked upon my misery; for now my husband will love me." 
01O	29	33	8290	She conceived again and bore a son, and said, "Because the LORD has heard that I am hated, he has given me this son also." And she called his name Simeon. 
01O	29	34	8300	Again she conceived and bore a son, and said, "Now this time my husband will be united with me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore his name was called Levi. 
01O	29	35	8310	And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, "This time I will praise the LORD." Therefore she called his name Judah. Then she ceased having children. 
01O	30	1	8320	When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I will die!" 
01O	30	2	8330	Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?" 
01O	30	3	8340	Then she said, "Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her." 
01O	30	4	8350	So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her. 
01O	30	5	8360	And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son. 
01O	30	6	8370	Then Rachel said, "God has ministered judgement to me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan. 
01O	30	7	8380	Rachel's servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. 
01O	30	8	8390	Then Rachel said, "With great struggle I have wrestled with my sister and have overcome." So she called his name Naphtali. 
01O	30	9	8400	When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. 
01O	30	10	8410	Then Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son. 
01O	30	11	8420	And Leah said, "Good fortune has come!" so she called his name Gad. 
01O	30	12	8430	Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. 
01O	30	13	8440	And Leah said, "Happy am I! For daughters have called me blessed." So she called his name Asher. 
01O	30	14	8450	In the days of grain harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes." 
01O	30	15	8460	But she said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?" Rachel said, "Then he may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes." 
01O	30	16	8470	When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must come in to me, for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he lay with her that night. 
01O	30	17	8480	And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son. 
01O	30	18	8490	Leah said, "God has given me my reward because I gave my servant to my husband." So she called his name Issachar. 
01O	30	19	8500	And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son. 
01O	30	20	8510	Then Leah said, "God has provided me with a good endowment; now my husband will reside with me, because I have borne him six sons." So she called his name Zebulun. 
01O	30	21	8520	Afterward she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah. 
01O	30	22	8530	Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb. 
01O	30	23	8540	She conceived and bore a son and said, "God has taken away my disgrace." 
01O	30	24	8550	And she called his name Joseph, saying, "May the LORD add to me another son!" 
01O	30	25	8560	As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Release me, that I may go to my own home and country. 
01O	30	26	8570	Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have provided you." 
01O	30	27	8580	But Laban said to him, "If I have found favor in your sight, I have observed that the LORD has blessed me because of you. 
01O	30	28	8590	Name your wages, and I will provide it." 
01O	30	29	8600	Jacob said to him, "You yourself know how I have served you, and how your livestock has become with me. 
01O	30	30	8610	For you had little before I came, and it has increased greatly, and the LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when will I work for my own household also?" 
01O	30	31	8620	He said, "What will I give you?" Jacob said, "You will not give me anything. If you will just do this for me, I will again pasture your flock and keep it: 
01O	30	32	8630	let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and they will be my wages. 
01O	30	33	8640	So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, will be counted stolen." 
01O	30	34	8650	Laban said, "Good! Let it be as you have said." 
01O	30	35	8660	But that day Laban removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every lamb that was black, and put them in the charge of his sons. 
01O	30	36	8670	And he set a distance of three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob pastured the rest of Laban's flock. 
01O	30	37	8680	Then Jacob took fresh sticks of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the sticks. 
01O	30	38	8690	He set the sticks that he had peeled in front of the flocks in the troughs, that is, the watering places, where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink, 
01O	30	39	8700	the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks bore striped, speckled, and spotted. 
01O	30	40	8710	And Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban. He put his own flockes apart and did not put them with Laban's flock. 
01O	30	41	8720	Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob would lay the sticks in the troughs before the eyes of the flock, that they might breed among the sticks, 
01O	30	42	8730	but for the feebler of the flock he would not lay them there. So the feebler would be Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. 
01O	30	43	8740	Thus the man greatly increased and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys. 
01O	31	1	8750	And he heard that the sons of Laban were saying, "Jacob has taken all that was our father's, and from what was our father's he has gained all this wealth." 
01O	31	2	8760	And Jacob saw the face of Laban, that it did not favor him with favor as it had before. 
01O	31	3	8770	Then the LORD said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you." 
01O	31	4	8780	So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field where his flock was 
01O	31	5	8790	and said to them, "I see the face of your father and it does not regard favor me as he did before. But the God of my father has been with me. 
01O	31	6	8800	You know that I have served your father with all my strength, 
01O	31	7	8810	yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not permit him to harm me. 
01O	31	8	8820	If he said, 'The spotted will be your wages,' then all the flock bore spotted; and if he said, 'The striped will be your wages,' then all the flock bore striped. 
01O	31	9	8830	Thus God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me. 
01O	31	10	8840	In the breeding season of the flock I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream that the goats that mated with the flock were striped, spotted, and mottled. 
01O	31	11	8850	Then the Angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am!' 
01O	31	12	8860	And he said, 'Lift up your eyes and see, all the goats that mate with the flock are striped, spotted, and mottled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you. 
01O	31	13	8870	I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to Me. Now rise up, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.'" 
01O	31	14	8880	Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, "Is there any portion or inheritance left to us in our father's house? 
01O	31	15	8890	Are we not counted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has indeed consumed our money. 
01O	31	16	8900	All the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. Now then, whatever God has told you, do." 
01O	31	17	8910	So Jacob rose up and put his sons and his wives on camels. 
01O	31	18	8920	He drove away all his livestock, all his property that he had gained, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac. 
01O	31	19	8930	Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household idols. 
01O	31	20	8940	And Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he intended to flee. 
01O	31	21	8950	He fled with all that he had and rose up and crossed the river, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead. 
01O	31	22	8960	When it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled, 
01O	31	23	8970	he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him for seven days and followed close after him into the hill country of Gilead. 
01O	31	24	8980	But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, "Be careful not to speak anything to Jacob, either good or bad." 
01O	31	25	8990	And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen pitched tents in the hill country of Gilead. 
01O	31	26	9000	And Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have tricked me and stolen away my daughters like captives of the sword? 
01O	31	27	9010	Why did you flee secretly and trick me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre? 
01O	31	28	9020	And you did not permit me to kiss my sons and my daughters farewell? Now you have done foolishly. 
01O	31	29	9030	It is in my power to do you harm. But the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Be careful not to speak anything to Jacob, either good or bad.' 
01O	31	30	9040	And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house, but why did you steal my gods?" 
01O	31	31	9050	Jacob answered and said to Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force. 
01O	31	32	9060	With whoever you find your idols, they will not live. In the presence of our kinsmen point out what I have that is yours, and take it." Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them. 
01O	31	33	9070	So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent and into the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah's tent and entered Rachel's. 
01O	31	34	9080	Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel's saddle and sat on them. Laban searched all about the tent, but did not find them. 
01O	31	35	9090	And she said to her father, "Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me." So he searched but did not find the household idols. 
01O	31	36	9100	Then Jacob became angry and berated Laban. Jacob said to Laban, "What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me? 
01O	31	37	9110	For you have searched through all my goods; what have you found of all your household goods? Settle it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two. 
01O	31	38	9120	These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks. 
01O	31	39	9130	What was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you. I bore the loss of it myself. From my hand you required it, whether carried away by day or by night. 
01O	31	40	9140	There I was: by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes. 
01O	31	41	9150	These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times. 
01O	31	42	9160	If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night." 
01O	31	43	9170	Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day for these my daughters or for their children whom they have borne? 
01O	31	44	9180	Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I. And let it be a witness between you and me." 
01O	31	45	9190	So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a memorial. 
01O	31	46	9200	And Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather stones." And they took stones and made a pile, and they ate there by the pile. 
01O	31	47	9210	Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed. 
01O	31	48	9220	Laban said, "This pile  is a witness between you and me today." Therefore he named it Galeed, 
01O	31	49	9230	and Mizpah, for he said, "The LORD watch between you and me, when we are out of one another's sight. 
01O	31	50	9240	If you oppress my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one is with us, see, God is witness between you and me." 
01O	31	51	9250	Then Laban said to Jacob, "See this pile and the pillar, which I have set between you and me. 
01O	31	52	9260	This pile is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass over this pile to you, and you will not pass over this pile and this pillar to me, to do harm. 
01O	31	53	9270	The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac, 
01O	31	54	9280	and Jacob offered a sacrifice in the hill country and called his kinsmen to eat bread. They ate bread and spent the night in the hill country. 
01O	31	55	9290	Early in the morning Laban arose and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned home. 
01O	32	1	9300	Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 
01O	32	2	9310	And when Jacob saw them he said, "This is God's camp!" So he called the name of that place Mahanaim. 
01O	32	3	9320	And Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom, 
01O	32	4	9330	instructing them, "Thus you will say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, 'I have sojourned with Laban and stayed until now. 
01O	32	5	9340	I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, in order that I may find favor in your sight.'" 
01O	32	6	9350	And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and there are four hundred men with him." 
01O	32	7	9360	Then Jacob was greatly frightened and worried. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps, 
01O	32	8	9370	thinking, "If Esau comes to the one camp and attacks it, then the camp that is left will escape." 
01O	32	9	9380	And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD who told me, 'Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may deal well with you,' 
01O	32	10	9390	I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of kindness and the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. 
01O	32	11	9400	Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, that he may come and attack me, even the mothers with sons. 
01O	32	12	9410	But you said, 'I will deal well with you, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for its abundance.'" 
01O	32	13	9420	So he stayed there that night, and from what he had with him he took a gift for his brother Esau, 
01O	32	14	9430	two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 
01O	32	15	9440	thirty milking camels and their calves, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. 
01O	32	16	9450	These he handed over to his servants, each flock by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass on ahead of me and put a space between each flock." 
01O	32	17	9460	He instructed the first, "When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, 'To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?' 
01O	32	18	9470	then you will say, 'They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau. And moreover, he is behind us.'" 
01O	32	19	9480	He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the flocks, "You will say the same thing to Esau when you find him, 
01O	32	20	9490	and you will say, 'Moreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.'" For he thought, "I may appease him with the gift that goes ahead of me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me." 
01O	32	21	9500	So the gift passed on ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp. 
01O	32	22	9510	The same night he rose up and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 
01O	32	23	9520	He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had. 
01O	32	24	9530	And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. 
01O	32	25	9540	When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he struggled with him. 
01O	32	26	9550	Then he said, "Let me go, for the day has broken." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me." 
01O	32	27	9560	And he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob." 
01O	32	28	9570	Then he said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have struggled with God and with men, and have overcome." 
01O	32	29	9580	Then Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he said, "Why is it that you ask My name?" And there He blessed him. 
01O	32	30	9590	So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been spared." 
01O	32	31	9600	The sun rose upon him as he passed Peniel, limping because of his hip. 
01O	32	32	9610	Therefore to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket, because he touched the socket of Jacob's hip on the sinew of the thigh. 
01O	33	1	9620	And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two female servants. 
01O	33	2	9630	And he put the servants with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last. 
01O	33	3	9640	He went on in front of them, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. 
01O	33	4	9650	But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept. 
01O	33	5	9660	And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, "Who are these with you?" Jacob said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant." 
01O	33	6	9670	Then the servants drew near, they and their children, and bowed down. 
01O	33	7	9680	Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down. And last Joseph and Rachel drew near, and they bowed down. 
01O	33	8	9690	Esau said, "What are all this company that I met?" Jacob answered, "To attain favor in the sight of my lord." 
01O	33	9	9700	But Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself." 
01O	33	10	9710	Jacob said, "No, please, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept my gift from my hand. For I have seen your face, which is like seeing the face of God, and you have accepted me. 
01O	33	11	9720	Please accept my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." Thus he urged him, and he accepted it. 
01O	33	12	9730	Then Esau said, "Let us journey on our way, and I will go with you." 
01O	33	13	9740	But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail, and that the nursing flocks and herds are a care to me. If they are driven hard for one day, all the flocks will die. 
01O	33	14	9750	Let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, at the pace of the livestock that are ahead of me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir." 
01O	33	15	9760	So Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said, "What is the need for this? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord." 
01O	33	16	9770	So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir. 
01O	33	17	9780	But Jacob went to Succoth, and built himself a house and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. 
01O	33	18	9790	And Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram, and he camped before the city. 
01O	33	19	9800	And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, he purchased for a hundred pieces of money the field on which he had pitched his tent. 
01O	33	20	9810	There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel. 
01O	34	1	9820	Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 
01O	34	2	9830	And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and defiled her. 
01O	34	3	9840	And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke kindly to her. 
01O	34	4	9850	So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, "Get this girl for my wife." 
01O	34	5	9860	Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah. But his sons were with his flocks in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came in. 
01O	34	6	9870	And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him. 
01O	34	7	9880	The sons of Jacob had come in from the field as soon as they heard of it, and the men were grieved and very angry, because he had done such a wicled thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such things must not be committed. 
01O	34	8	9890	But Hamor spoke with them, saying, "The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him to be his wife. 
01O	34	9	9900	Perform marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. 
01O	34	10	9910	You will dwell with us, and the land will be open to you. Dwell and trade in it, and acquire property in it." 
01O	34	11	9920	Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you tell me I will give. 
01O	34	12	9930	Ask me for as good a bride price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you tell me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife." 
01O	34	13	9940	The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor,  speaking deceitfully because he had defiled their sister Dinah. 
01O	34	14	9950	They said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us. 
01O	34	15	9960	Only on this condition will we agree with you, that you will become as we are by every male among you being circumcised. 
01O	34	16	9970	Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will dwell with you and become as one people. 
01O	34	17	9980	But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter, and we will leave." 
01O	34	18	9990	Their words pleased Hamor and Hamor's son Shechem. 
01O	34	19	10000	And the young man did not delay accomplish the matter, because he delighted in Jacob's daughter. Now he was the most honored of all his father's house. 
01O	34	20	10010	So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying, 
01O	34	21	10020	"These men are at peace with us; let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters as wives, and let us give them our daughters. 
01O	34	22	10030	Only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us to become as  one people when every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised. 
01O	34	23	10040	Will not their flocks, their property and all their beasts be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will dwell with us." 
01O	34	24	10050	And all who went out to the gate of the city listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out to the gate of the city. 
01O	34	25	10060	On the third day, when they were afflicted, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came against the city while it felt secure and killed all the males. 
01O	34	26	10070	They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword and took Dinah out of Shechem's house and left. 
01O	34	27	10080	The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. 
01O	34	28	10090	They took their flocks and their herds, their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field. 
01O	34	29	10100	All their wealth, all their children and their wives, they captured and plundered all that was in the houses. 
01O	34	30	10110	Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me by making me to be loathsome to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. My numbers are small, and if they gather themselves against me and strike me, I will be desolated, I and my family." 
01O	34	31	10120	But they said, "Should he treat our sister like a harlot?" 
01O	35	1	10130	God said to Jacob, "Rise up, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau." 
01O	35	2	10140	So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves and change your garments. 
01O	35	3	10150	Then let us rise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who answers me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone." 
01O	35	4	10160	So they gave to Jacob all the foreign idols that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under the oak tree that was near Shechem. 
01O	35	5	10170	And as they journeyed a fear from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. 
01O	35	6	10180	And Jacob came to Luz, that is, Bethel, which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him, 
01O	35	7	10190	and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled from the face of his brother. 
01O	35	8	10200	And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So he called its name Allon-bacuth. 
01O	35	9	10210	God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him. 
01O	35	10	10220	And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; no longer will your name be called Jacob, but Israel will be your name." So He called his name Israel. 
01O	35	11	10230	And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will come from you, and kings will come from your own body. 
01O	35	12	10240	The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your seed after you." 
01O	35	13	10250	Then God went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him. 
01O	35	14	10260	And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it. 
01O	35	15	10270	So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel. 
01O	35	16	10280	Then they journeyed from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and she had a hard labor. 
01O	35	17	10290	And when her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, "Do not fear, for you have another son." 
01O	35	18	10300	And as her soul was departing, for she was dying, she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin. 
01O	35	19	10310	So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem, 
01O	35	20	10320	and Jacob set up a pillar over her tomb. It is the pillar of Rachel's tomb, which is there to this time. 
01O	35	21	10330	Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder. 
01O	35	22	10340	While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine. And Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. 
01O	35	23	10350	The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. 
01O	35	24	10360	The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. 
01O	35	25	10370	The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali. 
01O	35	26	10380	The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram. 
01O	35	27	10390	And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned. 
01O	35	28	10400	Now the time of Isaac were 180 years. 
01O	35	29	10410	And Isaac breathed his last, and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. 
01O	36	1	10420	These are the generations of Esau, which is, Edom. 
01O	36	2	10430	Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, 
01O	36	3	10440	and Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth. 
01O	36	4	10450	And Adah bore to Esau, Eliphaz; Basemath bore Reuel; 
01O	36	5	10460	and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan. 
01O	36	6	10470	Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, his flocks, all his beasts, and all his property that he had acquired in the land of Canaan. He went into a land away from his brother Jacob. 
01O	36	7	10480	For their possessions were too abundant for them to dwell together. The land of their sojourning could not support them because of their flocks. 
01O	36	8	10490	So Esau settled in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom. 
01O	36	9	10500	These are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir. 
01O	36	10	10510	These are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau. 
01O	36	11	10520	The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. 
01O	36	12	10530	Timna was a concubine of Eliphaz, Esau's son; she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife. 
01O	36	13	10540	These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife. 
01O	36	14	10550	These are the sons of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. 
01O	36	15	10560	These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: the chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz, 
01O	36	16	10570	Korah, Gatam, and Amalek; these are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah. 
01O	36	17	10580	These are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: the chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah; these are the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife. 
01O	36	18	10590	These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: the chiefs Jeush, Jalam, and Korah; these are the chiefs born of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife. 
01O	36	19	10600	These are the sons of Esau, which Edom, and these are their chiefs. 
01O	36	20	10610	These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, 
01O	36	21	10620	Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these are the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom. 
01O	36	22	10630	The sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was Timna. 
01O	36	23	10640	These are the sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. 
01O	36	24	10650	These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; he is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he pastured the donkeys of Zibeon his father. 
01O	36	25	10660	These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah. 
01O	36	26	10670	These are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran. 
01O	36	27	10680	These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. 
01O	36	28	10690	These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran. 
01O	36	29	10700	These are the chiefs of the Horites: the chiefs Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, 
01O	36	30	10710	Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these are the chiefs of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir. 
01O	36	31	10720	These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the Israelites. 
01O	36	32	10730	Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom, the name of his city being Dinhabah. 
01O	36	33	10740	Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place. 
01O	36	34	10750	Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place. 
01O	36	35	10760	Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place, the name of his city being Avith. 
01O	36	36	10770	Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place. 
01O	36	37	10780	Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates reigned in his place. 
01O	36	38	10790	Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place. 
01O	36	39	10800	Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place, the name of his city being Pau; his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezahab. 
01O	36	40	10810	These are the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their families and their dwelling places, by their names: the chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, 
01O	36	41	10820	Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, 
01O	36	42	10830	Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, 
01O	36	43	10840	Magdiel, and Iram; these are the chiefs of Edom according to their dwelling places in the land of their possession. He is Esau the father of Edom, 
01O	37	1	10850	Jacob lived in the land of his father's sojourning, in the land of Canaan. 
01O	37	2	10860	These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a troubling report of them to their father. 
01O	37	3	10870	Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of long lengths. 
01O	37	4	10880	But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they despised him and could not speak well to him. 
01O	37	5	10890	Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they despised him even more. 
01O	37	6	10900	He said to them, "Hear this dream that I have dreamed: 
01O	37	7	10910	Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf." 
01O	37	8	10920	His brothers said to him, "Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you to indeed have dominion over us?" So they despised him even more for his dreams and for his words. 
01O	37	9	10930	Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, "Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me." 
01O	37	10	10940	But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father scolded him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?" 
01O	37	11	10950	And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind. 
01O	37	12	10960	Now his brothers went to pasture their father's flock near Shechem. 
01O	37	13	10970	And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them." And he said to him, "Here I am." 
01O	37	14	10980	So he said to him, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me word." So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. 
01O	37	15	10990	And a man found him wandering in the fields. And the man asked him, "What are you seeking?" 
01O	37	16	11000	"I am seeking my brothers," he said. "Tell me, please, where they are pasturing the flock." 
01O	37	17	11010	And the man said, "They have gone away, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan. 
01O	37	18	11020	They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them they plotted against him to kill him. 
01O	37	19	11030	They said to one another, "Here comes this dreamer. 
01O	37	20	11040	Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say that a fierce animal has eaten him, and we will see what will become of his dreams." 
01O	37	21	11050	But when Reuben heard it, he preserved him out of their hands, saying, "Let us not take his life." 
01O	37	22	11060	And Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood; throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him" So that he might rescue him out of their hand to return him to his father. 
01O	37	23	11070	So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the robe of long lengths that he wore. 
01O	37	24	11080	And they took him and threw him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it. 
01O	37	25	11090	Then they sat down to eat. And looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt. 
01O	37	26	11100	Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his bloodshed? 
01O	37	27	11110	Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers listened to him. 
01O	37	28	11120	Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt. 
01O	37	29	11130	When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes 
01O	37	30	11140	and returned to his brothers and said, "The boy is gone, and I, where will I go?" 
01O	37	31	11150	Then they took Joseph's robe and slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood. 
01O	37	32	11160	And they sent the robe of long lengths and brought it to their father and said, "This we have found; please identify whether it is your son's robe or not." 
01O	37	33	11170	And he identified it and said, "It is my son's robe. A fierce animal has eaten him. Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces." 
01O	37	34	11180	Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days. 
01O	37	35	11190	All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, "No, I will go down into the grave to my son, lamenting." Thus his father wept for him. 
01O	37	36	11200	Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard. 
01O	38	1	11210	It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and turned aside to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. 
01O	38	2	11220	There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her and went in to her, 
01O	38	3	11230	and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er. 
01O	38	4	11240	She conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name Onan. 
01O	38	5	11250	Yet again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. Judah was in Chezib when she bore him. 
01O	38	6	11260	And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. 
01O	38	7	11270	But Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD put him to death. 
01O	38	8	11280	Then Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up seed for your brother." 
01O	38	9	11290	But Onan knew that the seed would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother's wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give seed to his brother. 
01O	38	10	11300	And what he did was evil in the sight of the LORD, and he put him to death also. 
01O	38	11	11310	Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, till Shelah my son grows up" For he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and dwell in her father's house. 
01O	38	12	11320	In the course of time the wife of Judah, Shua's daughter, died. When Judah was comforted, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. 
01O	38	13	11330	And when Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep," 
01O	38	14	11340	she took off her widow's clothes and covered herself with a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage. 
01O	38	15	11350	When Judah saw her, he thought she was a harlot, for she had covered her face. 
01O	38	16	11360	He turned to her at the roadside and said, "Come, let me come in to you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?" 
01O	38	17	11370	He answered, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." And she said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?" 
01O	38	18	11380	He said, "What pledge will I give you?" She replied, "Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand." So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him. 
01O	38	19	11390	Then she rose and went away, and taking off her veil she put on the clothes of her widowhood. 
01O	38	20	11400	When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite to take back the pledge from the woman's hand, he did not find her. 
01O	38	21	11410	And he asked the men of the place, "Where is the harlot who was at Enaim at the roadside?" And they said, "No harlot has been here." 
01O	38	22	11420	So he returned to Judah and said, "I have not found her. Also, the men of the place said, 'No harlot has been here.'" 
01O	38	23	11430	And Judah replied, "Let her keep the things as her own, or we will be laughed at. You see, I sent this young goat, and you did not find her." 
01O	38	24	11440	About three months later Judah was told, "Tamar your daughter-in-law has been immoral. Moreover, she is pregnant by immorality." And Judah said, "Bring her out, and let her be burned." 
01O	38	25	11450	As she was being brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, "By the man to whom these belong, I am pregnant." And she said, "Please identify whose these are, the signet and the cord and the staff." 
01O	38	26	11460	Then Judah identified them and said, "She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not know her again. 
01O	38	27	11470	When the time of her labor came, there were twins in her womb. 
01O	38	28	11480	And when she was in labor, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This one came out first." 
01O	38	29	11490	But as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out. And she said, "What an opening you have made for yourself!" Therefore his name was called Perez. 
01O	38	30	11500	Afterward his brother came out with the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah. 
01O	39	1	11510	Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, had purchased him from the Ishmaelites who had transported him down there. 
01O	39	2	11520	The LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master. 
01O	39	3	11530	His master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD caused all that he did to succeed in his hands. 
01O	39	4	11540	So Joseph found favor in his sight and served him, and he made him overseer of his house and put into his hand all that he had. 
01O	39	5	11550	From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; the blessing of the LORD was on all that he had, in house and field. 
01O	39	6	11560	So he left all that he had in Joseph's hand, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was of good form and handsome. 
01O	39	7	11570	And after a time his master's wife had a desire for Joseph and said, "Lie with me." 
01O	39	8	11580	But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my hand. 
01O	39	9	11590	No one is greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great evil and sin against God?" 
01O	39	10	11600	And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her. 
01O	39	11	11610	But one day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the home, 
01O	39	12	11620	she caught him by his clothes, saying, "Lie with me." But he left his clothes in her hand and fled and got out of the house. 
01O	39	13	11630	And as soon as she saw that he had left his clothes in her hand and had fled out of the house, 
01O	39	14	11640	she called to the men of her household and said to them, "See, he has put among us a Hebrew to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice. 
01O	39	15	11650	And as soon as he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried out, he left his clothes beside me and fled and got out of the house." 
01O	39	16	11660	Then she laid with his clothes by her until his master came home, 
01O	39	17	11670	and she told him the same story, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have put among us, came in to me to mock me. 
01O	39	18	11680	But as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his clothes beside me and fled out of the house." 
01O	39	19	11690	As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, "This is the way your servant treated me," his anger was kindled. 
01O	39	20	11700	And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were kept, and he continued there in prison. 
01O	39	21	11710	But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and caused him to have favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. 
01O	39	22	11720	And the keeper of the prison put Joseph in charge of all those who were bound in the prison. Whatever was done there, he was in charge. 
01O	39	23	11730	The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph's charge, because the LORD was with him. And whatever he did, the LORD made it to prosper. 
01O	40	1	11740	Some time after this, the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker committed an offense against their lord the king of Egypt. 
01O	40	2	11750	And Pharaoh was furious with his two eunuchs, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, 
01O	40	3	11760	and he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined. 
01O	40	4	11770	The captain of the guard appointed Joseph to be over them, and he watched them. They continued for some time in custody. 
01O	40	5	11780	And one night they both dreamed, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, each had his own dream, and each dream with its own interpretation. 
01O	40	6	11790	When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were distressed. 
01O	40	7	11800	So he asked Pharaoh's eunuchs who were with him in custody in his master's house, "Why are your so distressed today?" 
01O	40	8	11810	They said to him, "We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them." And Joseph said to them, "Are not interpretations God's? Please tell them to me." 
01O	40	9	11820	So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph and said to him, "In my dream there was a vine before me, 
01O	40	10	11830	and on the vine there were three branches. As soon as it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters ripened into grapes. 
01O	40	11	11840	Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup and placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand." 
01O	40	12	11850	Then Joseph said to him, "Here is its interpretation: the three branches are three days. 
01O	40	13	11860	In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you will place Pharaoh's cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer. 
01O	40	14	11870	Only remember me when you prosper, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house. 
01O	40	15	11880	For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon." 
01O	40	16	11890	When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, "I also had a dream: there were three cake baskets on my head, 
01O	40	17	11900	and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head." 
01O	40	18	11910	And Joseph answered and said, "Here is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days. 
01O	40	19	11920	In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you, and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat your flesh." 
01O	40	20	11930	On the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, he made a feast for all his servants and lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants. 
01O	40	21	11940	He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand. 
01O	40	22	11950	But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted. 
01O	40	23	11960	And the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him. 
01O	41	1	11970	After two years time, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile, 
01O	41	2	11980	and behold, there came up out of the Nile seven cows attractive and plump, and they fed in the reed grass. 
01O	41	3	11990	And behold, seven other cows, ugly and thin, came up out of the Nile after them, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile. 
01O	41	4	12000	And the ugly and thin cows were eating the seven attractive  plump cows. And Pharaoh awoke. 
01O	41	5	12010	And he fell asleep and dreamed a second time. And behold, seven ears of grain  plump and good  were growing on one stalk. 
01O	41	6	12020	And behold, after them sprouted seven ears  thin and scorched by the east wind. 
01O	41	7	12030	And the thin ears swallowed up the seven plump and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream. 
01O	41	8	12040	So in the morning his spirit was distressed, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was none who could interpret them for Pharaoh. 
01O	41	9	12050	Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, "I remember my offenses today. 
01O	41	10	12060	When Pharaoh was angry with his servants and put me and the chief baker in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, 
01O	41	11	12070	we dreamed on the same night, he and I, each having a dream with its own interpretation. 
01O	41	12	12080	A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. When we told him, he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each man according to his dream. 
01O	41	13	12090	And as he interpreted to us, so it came to pass. I was restored to my office, and the baker was hanged." 
01O	41	14	12100	Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they rushed him out of the pit. And when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh. 
01O	41	15	12110	And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it." 
01O	41	16	12120	Joseph answered Pharaoh, "It is not of me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer." 
01O	41	17	12130	Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, in my dream I was standing on the banks of the Nile. 
01O	41	18	12140	Seven cows, plump and attractive, came up out of the Nile and fed in the reed grass. 
01O	41	19	12150	Seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I had never seen in all the land of Egypt. 
01O	41	20	12160	And the thin and ugly cows were eating the first seven plump cows, 
01O	41	21	12170	but when they had eaten them no one would have known that they had eaten them, for they were still as ugly as at the beginning. Then I woke. 
01O	41	22	12180	I also saw in my dream seven ears growing on one stalk, full and good. 
01O	41	23	12190	Seven ears, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprouted after them, 
01O	41	24	12200	and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me." 
01O	41	25	12210	Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to provide. 
01O	41	26	12220	The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dreams are the same. 
01O	41	27	12230	The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind are also seven years of famine. 
01O	41	28	12240	It is as I told Pharaoh; God has shown to Pharaoh what he is about to provide. 
01O	41	29	12250	There will come seven years of prosperity throughout all the land of Egypt, 
01O	41	30	12260	but after them there will arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land, 
01O	41	31	12270	and the prosperity will be unknown in the land by reason of the famine that will follow, for it will be very severe. 
01O	41	32	12280	And the doubling of Pharaoh's dream means that the thing is set by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. 
01O	41	33	12290	Now therefore let Pharaoh select a discerning and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt. 
01O	41	34	12300	Let Pharaoh proceed to appoint overseers over the land and take one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven plentiful years. 
01O	41	35	12310	And let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming and store up grain under the authority of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. 
01O	41	36	12320	That food will be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine that are to occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish during the famine." 
01O	41	37	12330	This proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his servants. 
01O	41	38	12340	And Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a man, in whom is the Spirit of God?" 
01O	41	39	12350	Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you. 
01O	41	40	12360	You will be over my house, and all my people will do according to your command. Only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you." 
01O	41	41	12370	And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt." 
01O	41	42	12380	Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck. 
01O	41	43	12390	And he put him to ride in his second chariot. And they called out before him, "Bow the knee!" Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt. 
01O	41	44	12400	Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and except your consent no one will lift up hand or foot in all the land of Egypt." 
01O	41	45	12410	And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah. And he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. 
01O	41	46	12420	Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt. 
01O	41	47	12430	During the seven plentiful years the earth produced abundantly, 
01O	41	48	12440	and he gathered up of all the food in these seven years, which occurred in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities. He put in every city the food from the fields around it. 
01O	41	49	12450	And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it was without number. 
01O	41	50	12460	Before the years of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph. Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore them to him. 
01O	41	51	12470	Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my hardship and all about my father's house." 
01O	41	52	12480	The name of the second he called Ephraim, "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my misery." 
01O	41	53	12490	The seven years of plenty that occurred in the land of Egypt came to an end, 
01O	41	54	12500	and the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. 
01O	41	55	12510	When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do." 
01O	41	56	12520	So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt. 
01O	41	57	12530	Moreover, all the lands came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the lands. 
01O	42	1	12540	When Jacob learned that there was grain for sale in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?" 
01O	42	2	12550	And he said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go down and buy grain for us there, that we may live and not die." 
01O	42	3	12560	So ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt. 
01O	42	4	12570	But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers, for he feared that harm might come upon him. 
01O	42	5	12580	Thus the sons of Israel came to buy with the others who came, for famine was in the land of Canaan. 
01O	42	6	12590	Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground. 
01O	42	7	12600	Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them. "Where do you come from?" he said. They said, "From the land of Canaan, to buy food." 
01O	42	8	12610	And Joseph knew his brothers, but they did not recognize him. 
01O	42	9	12620	And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed of them. And he said to them, "You are spies; you have come to see the shame of the land." 
01O	42	10	12630	They said to him, "No, my lord, your servants have come to buy food. 
01O	42	11	12640	We are all sons of one man. We are honest men. Your servants have never been spies." 
01O	42	12	12650	He said to them, "No, it is the shame of the land that you have come to see."
01O	42	13	12660	And they said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is gone." 
01O	42	14	12670	But Joseph said to them, "It is as I said to you. You are spies. 
01O	42	15	12680	By this you will be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you will not go from this place unless your youngest brother comes here. 
01O	42	16	12690	Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, while you remain in bonds, that your words may be tested, if there is truth in you. Or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies." 
01O	42	17	12700	And he put them all together in custody for three days. 
01O	42	18	12710	On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do this and you will live, for I reverence God: 
01O	42	19	12720	if you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain bound where you are in custody, and let the rest go and carry grain for the famine of your households, 
01O	42	20	12730	and bring your youngest brother to me. So your words will be verified, and you will not die." And this they did. 
01O	42	21	12740	Then they said to one another, "In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us." 
01O	42	22	12750	And Reuben answered them, "Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy? But you did not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his bloodshed." 
01O	42	23	12760	They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them. 
01O	42	24	12770	Then he turned away from them and wept. And he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes. 
01O	42	25	12780	And Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, and to replace every man's money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. This was done for them. 
01O	42	26	12790	Then they loaded their donkeys with their grain and departed. 
01O	42	27	12800	And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food at the lodging place, he saw his money in the opening of his sack. 
01O	42	28	12810	He said to his brothers, "My money has been put back; here it is in the opening of my sack!" At this their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?" 
01O	42	29	12820	When they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them, saying, 
01O	42	30	12830	"The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the land. 
01O	42	31	12840	But we said to him, 'We are honest men; we have never been spies. 
01O	42	32	12850	We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One is gone, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.' 
01O	42	33	12860	Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your households, and go your way. 
01O	42	34	12870	Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies but honest men, and I will deliver your brother to you, and you will trade in the land.'" 
01O	42	35	12880	As they emptied their sacks, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. And when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid. 
01O	42	36	12890	And Jacob their father said to them, "You have deprived me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has come against me." 
01O	42	37	12900	Then Reuben said to his father, "Kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you." 
01O	42	38	12910	But he said, "My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If harm should come to him on the way as you travel, you will bring down my gray hairs with grief to the grave." 
01O	43	1	12920	And the famine was severe in the land. 
01O	43	2	12930	And when they had eaten the grain that they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, and buy us some food." 
01O	43	3	12940	But Judah said to him, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.' 
01O	43	4	12950	If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy your food. 
01O	43	5	12960	But if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You will not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'" 
01O	43	6	12970	Israel said, "Why did you do such harm to tell the man that you had another brother?" 
01O	43	7	12980	They replied, "The man questioned us carefully about ourselves and our kindred, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?' What we told him was in answer to these questions. Could we in any way know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down'?" 
01O	43	8	12990	And Judah said to Israel his father, "Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both us and you and also the children. 
01O	43	9	13000	I will be security for him. From my hand you will require him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the condemnation forever. 
01O	43	10	13010	If we had not delayed, we would now have returned twice." 
01O	43	11	13020	Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry a gift down to the man, some balm and some honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds. 
01O	43	12	13030	Take double the money with you. Take back with you the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight. 
01O	43	13	13040	Take also your brother, and rise, go again to the man. 
01O	43	14	13050	May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, and may he send back your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, if I am deprived, I will be destroyed." 
01O	43	15	13060	So the men took the gifts, and they took double the money with them, and Benjamin. They rose and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph. 
01O	43	16	13070	When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, and butcher an animal and make ready, for the men are to dine with me at noon." 
01O	43	17	13080	The man did as Joseph told him and brought the men to Joseph's house. 
01O	43	18	13090	And the men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph's house, and they said, "It is because of the money, which was replaced in our sacks the first time, that we are brought in, so that he may assault us and fall upon us to make us servants and seize our donkeys." 
01O	43	19	13100	So they went up to the steward of Joseph's house and spoke with him at the door of the house, 
01O	43	20	13110	and said, "Oh, my lord, we came down the first time to buy food. 
01O	43	21	13120	And when we came to the lodging place we opened our sacks, and there was each man's money in the opening of his sack, our money in full weight. So we bring it again with us, 
01O	43	22	13130	and we have more money with us to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks." 
01O	43	23	13140	He replied, "Peace to you, do not be afraid. Your God and the God of your father has put treasure in your sacks for you. I received your money." Then he brought Simeon out to them. 
01O	43	24	13150	And when the man had taken the men into Joseph's house and given them water, and had washed their feet, and when he had given their donkeys fodder, 
01O	43	25	13160	they prepared the gift for Joseph's coming at noon, for they heard that they were to eat bread there. 
01O	43	26	13170	When Joseph came home, they came into the house to him the gift that they had with them and bowed down to him, to the ground. 
01O	43	27	13180	And he inquired about their welfare and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?" 
01O	43	28	13190	They said, "Your servant our father is well; he is still alive." And they bowed their heads and lay flat. 
01O	43	29	13200	And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!" 
01O	43	30	13210	Then Joseph hurried out, for his emotions were deep for his brother, and he desired a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there. 
01O	43	31	13220	Then he washed his face and came out. And containing himself he said, "Serve the food." 
01O	43	32	13230	They served him by himself, and they by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians could not eat with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians. 
01O	43	33	13240	And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth. And the men looked at one another in amazement. 
01O	43	34	13250	Portions were taken to them from Joseph's table, but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. And they drank and were merry beside him. 
01O	44	1	13260	Then he commanded the steward of his house, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money in the opening of his sack, 
01O	44	2	13270	and put my cup, the silver cup, in the opening of the sack of the youngest, with his money for the grain." And he did as Joseph told him. 
01O	44	3	13280	As soon as the dawn broke, the men were sent away with their donkeys. 
01O	44	4	13290	They had gone only a short distance from the city. Now Joseph said to his steward, "Rise up, follow after the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good? 
01O	44	5	13300	Is this not that from which my lord drinks, and by this that he often forecasts? You have done evil by this act.'" 
01O	44	6	13310	When he overtook them, he told them these words. 
01O	44	7	13320	They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing! 
01O	44	8	13330	Behold, the money that we found in the openings of our sacks we returned to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lord's house? 
01O	44	9	13340	Whichever of your servants is found with it will die, and we also will be my lord's servants." 
01O	44	10	13350	He said, "Let it be as you say: he who is found with it will be my servant, and the rest of you will be innocent." 
01O	44	11	13360	Then each man quickly lowered his sack to the ground, and each man opened his sack. 
01O	44	12	13370	And he searched, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin's sack. 
01O	44	13	13380	Then they tore their clothes, and every man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city. 
01O	44	14	13390	When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, he was still there. They fell before him to the ground. 
01O	44	15	13400	Joseph said to them, "What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me can indeed forecast?" 
01O	44	16	13410	And Judah said, "What will we say to my lord? What will we speak? Or how can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; behold, we are my lord's servants, both we and he also in whose hand the cup has been found." 
01O	44	17	13420	But he said, "Far be it from me that I should do so! Only the man in whose hand the cup was found will be my servant. But as for you, go out in peace to your father." 
01O	44	18	13430	Then Judah went up to him and said, "Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger flare against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself. 
01O	44	19	13440	My lord asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father, or a brother?' 
01O	44	20	13450	And we said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him.' 
01O	44	21	13460	Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.' 
01O	44	22	13470	We said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.' 
01O	44	23	13480	Then you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.' 
01O	44	24	13490	"When we went back to your servant my father, we told him the sayings of my lord. 
01O	44	25	13500	And when our father said, 'Go again, buy us some food,' 
01O	44	26	13510	we said, 'We cannot go down. If our youngest brother goes with us, then we can go down. For we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.' 
01O	44	27	13520	Then your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons. 
01O	44	28	13530	One is gone, and I said, Surely he has been torn to pieces, and I have never seen him since. 
01O	44	29	13540	If you take this one from me also, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in evil to the grave.' 
01O	44	30	13550	"Now therefore, as soon as I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy's life, 
01O	44	31	13560	as soon as he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to the grave. 
01O	44	32	13570	For your servant became a security for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear condemnation before my father all my life.' 
01O	44	33	13580	Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers. 
01O	44	34	13590	For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the calamity that would come to my father." 
01O	45	1	13600	Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, "Have everyone depart from me." So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. 
01O	45	2	13610	And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard, and the court of Pharaoh heard it. 
01O	45	3	13620	And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?" But his brothers could not answer him, for they trembled at his presence. 
01O	45	4	13630	So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." And they came near. And he said, "I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. 
01O	45	5	13640	And now do not be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve your life. 
01O	45	6	13650	For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. 
01O	45	7	13660	And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on the land, and to preserve for you many survivors. 
01O	45	8	13670	So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a chief to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and a ruler over all the land of Egypt. 
01O	45	9	13680	Hurry and go back my father and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay. 
01O	45	10	13690	You will dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me, you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have. 
01O	45	11	13700	There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.' 
01O	45	12	13710	And now your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth that speaks to you. 
01O	45	13	13720	You must tell my father of all my honor in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. Hurry and bring my father down here." 
01O	45	14	13730	Then he fell on his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck. 
01O	45	15	13740	And he kissed all his brothers and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him. 
01O	45	16	13750	When the report was heard in Pharaoh's house, "Joseph's brothers have come," it pleased Pharaoh and his servants. 
01O	45	17	13760	And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers, 'Do this: load your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan, 
01O	45	18	13770	and take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the of the richness of the land.' 
01O	45	19	13780	And you, Joseph, are commanded to say, 'Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your children and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. 
01O	45	20	13790	Have no concern for your belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.'" 
01O	45	21	13800	The sons of Israel fulfilled it: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey. 
01O	45	22	13810	To each and all of them he gave a change of clothes, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five changes of clothes. 
01O	45	23	13820	To his father he sent as follows: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and provision for his father on the journey. 
01O	45	24	13830	Then he sent his brothers away, and as they departed, he said to them, "Do not argue on the way." 
01O	45	25	13840	So they left out of Egypt and came to the land of Canaan to their father Jacob. 
01O	45	26	13850	And they told him, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." And his heart fainted, for he did not believe them. 
01O	45	27	13860	But when they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent bring him, the spirit of their father Jacob restored. 
01O	45	28	13870	And Israel said, "It is sufficient; Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die." 
01O	46	1	13880	So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. 
01O	46	2	13890	And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here I am." 
01O	46	3	13900	Then He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation. 
01O	46	4	13910	I Myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph's hand will close your eyes." 
01O	46	5	13920	Then Jacob set out from Beersheba. The sons of Israel took Jacob their father, their children, and their wives, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to bring him. 
01O	46	6	13930	They also took their livestock and their goods, which they had gained in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his seed with him, 
01O	46	7	13940	his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters. All his seed he brought with him into Egypt. 
01O	46	8	13950	Now these are the names of the descendants of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, 
01O	46	9	13960	and the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 
01O	46	10	13970	The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. 
01O	46	11	13980	The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 
01O	46	12	13990	The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah, but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 
01O	46	13	14000	The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Yob, and Shimron. 
01O	46	14	14010	The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. 
01O	46	15	14020	These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, together with his daughter Dinah; altogether his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three. 
01O	46	16	14030	The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. 
01O	46	17	14040	The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, with Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. 
01O	46	18	14050	These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob, sixteen persons. 
01O	46	19	14060	The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin. 
01O	46	20	14070	And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of On, bore to him. 
01O	46	21	14080	And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. 
01O	46	22	14090	These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jaco, fourteen persons in all. 
01O	46	23	14100	The son of Dan: Hushim. 
01O	46	24	14110	The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. 
01O	46	25	14120	These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, seven persons in all. 
01O	46	26	14130	All the people belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt, who were his own descendants, not including Jacob's sons' wives, were sixty-six persons in all. 
01O	46	27	14140	And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. All the people of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy. 
01O	46	28	14150	He had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to show the way before him in Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
01O	46	29	14160	Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while. 
01O	46	30	14170	Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive." 
01O	46	31	14180	Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh and will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. 
01O	46	32	14190	And the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of flocks, and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.' 
01O	46	33	14200	When Pharaoh calls you and says, 'What is your occupation?' 
01O	46	34	14210	you will say, 'Your servants have been keepers of flocks from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,' in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians." 
01O	47	1	14220	So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen." 
01O	47	2	14230	And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them to Pharaoh. 
01O	47	3	14240	Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were." 
01O	47	4	14250	They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. And now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen." 
01O	47	5	14260	Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Your father and your brothers have come to you. 
01O	47	6	14270	The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them settle in the land of Goshen, and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my flocks." 
01O	47	7	14280	Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 
01O	47	8	14290	And Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How much time are the years of your life?" 
01O	47	9	14300	And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The time of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and miserable has been the time of my life, and they have not attained to the time of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning." 
01O	47	10	14310	And Jacob blessed Pharaoh and departed from the presence of Pharaoh. 
01O	47	11	14320	Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 
01O	47	12	14330	And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their families. 
01O	47	13	14340	Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted due the famine. 
01O	47	14	14350	And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, in exchange for the grain that they purchased. And Joseph took the money into Pharaoh's house. 
01O	47	15	14360	And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, "Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone." 
01O	47	16	14370	And Joseph answered, "Give your flocks, and I will give you food in exchange for your flocks, if your money is gone." 
01O	47	17	14380	So they brought their flocks to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the donkeys. He supplied them with food in exchange for all their flocks that year. 
01O	47	18	14390	And when that year was ended, they came to him the following year and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord that our money is all gone. The herds of flocks are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land. 
01O	47	19	14400	Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be waste." 
01O	47	20	14410	So Joseph purchased all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine prevailed over them. The land became Pharaoh's. 
01O	47	21	14420	As for the people, he made servants of them from one end of Egypt to the other. 
01O	47	22	14430	Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land. 
01O	47	23	14440	Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have this day purchased you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you will plant the land. 
01O	47	24	14450	And at the harvest you will give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four fifths will be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households, and as food for your children." 
01O	47	25	14460	And they said, "You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh." 
01O	47	26	14470	So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh's. 
01O	47	27	14480	Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied abundantly. 
01O	47	28	14490	And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the time of Jacob, the years of his life, were 147 years. 
01O	47	29	14500	And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt, 
01O	47	30	14510	but let me lie with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in this grave." He answered, "I will do as you commanded." 
01O	47	31	14520	And he said, "Swear to me"; and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed. 
01O	48	1	14530	After this, Joseph was told, "Behold, your father is ill." So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 
01O	48	2	14540	And it was told to Jacob, "Your son Joseph has come to you." Then Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed. 
01O	48	3	14550	And Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me, 
01O	48	4	14560	and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.' 
01O	48	5	14570	And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are. 
01O	48	6	14580	And the children that you fathered after them will be yours. They will be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance. 
01O	48	7	14590	As for me, when I came from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem." 
01O	48	8	14600	When Israel saw Joseph's sons, he said, "Who are these?" 
01O	48	9	14610	Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." And he said, "Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them." 
01O	48	10	14620	Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. So Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them. 
01O	48	11	14630	And Israel said to Joseph, "I never expected to see your face; and behold, God has let me see your seed also." 
01O	48	12	14640	Then Joseph removed them from his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 
01O	48	13	14650	And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near him. 
01O	48	14	14660	And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands, for Manasseh was the firstborn. 
01O	48	15	14670	And he blessed Joseph and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day, 
01O	48	16	14680	the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys; and in them let my name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the land." 
01O	48	17	14690	When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. 
01O	48	18	14700	And Joseph said to his father, "Not this way, my father; since this one is the firstborn, put your right hand on his head." 
01O	48	19	14710	But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations." 
01O	48	20	14720	So he blessed them that day, saying, "By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying, 'God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh.'" Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh. 
01O	48	21	14730	Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers. 
01O	48	22	14740	Moreover, I have given to you rather than to your brothers one portion that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow." 
01O	49	1	14750	Then Jacob called his sons and said, "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what will happen to you in days to come. 
01O	49	2	14760	"Assemble and listen, O sons of Jacob, listen to Israel your father. 
01O	49	3	14770	Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the firstfruits of my strength, excellent in dignity and excellent in power. 
01O	49	4	14780	Unstable as water, you will not excel, because you went up to your father's bed; and you defiled it, he went up to my chamber! 
01O	49	5	14790	Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of cruelty are their swords. 
01O	49	6	14800	Let my soul come not into their assembly; O my glory, be not joined to their company. For in their anger they killed a man, and in their delight they hamstrung oxen. 
01O	49	7	14810	Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel. 
01O	49	8	14820	Judah, your brothers will praise you; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons will bow down before you. 
01O	49	9	14830	Judah is a lion's cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down; he crouched as a lion and as a lioness; who dares rouse him? 
01O	49	10	14840	The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until Shiloah come; and to him the obedience of the peoples. 
01O	49	11	14850	Binding his foal to the vine and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine and his clothing in the blood of grapes. 
01O	49	12	14860	His eyes are dark from wine, and his teeth white from milk. 
01O	49	13	14870	Zebulun will dwell at the shore of the sea; he will become a haven for ships, and his border will be at Sidon. 
01O	49	14	14880	Issachar is a strong donkey, crouching between the sheepfolds. 
01O	49	15	14890	He saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant, so he bowed his shoulder to carry, and became a servant at forced labor. 
01O	49	16	14900	Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. 
01O	49	17	14910	Dan will be a serpent in the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse's heels so that his rider falls backward. 
01O	49	18	14920	I have waited for your salvation, O LORD. 
01O	49	19	14930	Gad, a raiding band will attack him, and he will attack the heel. 
01O	49	20	14940	Out of Asher his food will be plenty, and he will yield royal delicacies. 
01O	49	21	14950	Naphtali is a doe let loose giving one beautiful sayings.  
01O	49	22	14960	Joseph is a fruitful son, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall. 
01O	49	23	14970	The archers have sorely grieved him, And shot at him, and persecuted him, 
01O	49	24	14980	yet his bow remained unmoved; his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel, 
01O	49	25	14990	by the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches below, blessings of the breasts and womb. 
01O	49	26	15000	The blessings of your father will prevail beyond the blessings of my parents, up to the bounties of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers. 
01O	49	27	15010	Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, at the dawn devouring the prey and at dusk dividing the spoil." 
01O	49	28	15020	All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing appropriate for each. 
01O	49	29	15030	Then he commanded them and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 
01O	49	30	15040	in the cave that is in the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place. 
01O	49	31	15050	There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah; 
01O	49	32	15060	the field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites." 
01O	49	33	15070	When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people. 
01O	50	1	15080	Then Joseph fell on his father's face and wept over him and kissed him. 
01O	50	2	15090	And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. 
01O	50	3	15100	Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days. 
01O	50	4	15110	And when the time of mourning for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 
01O	50	5	15120	My father made me swear, saying, 'I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there will you bury me.' Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return." 
01O	50	6	15130	And Pharaoh answered, "Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear." 
01O	50	7	15140	So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 
01O	50	8	15150	as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen. 
01O	50	9	15160	And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company. 
01O	50	10	15170	When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they mourned there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he was mourning for his father seven days. 
01O	50	11	15180	When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim; it is beyond the Jordan. 
01O	50	12	15190	Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them, 
01O	50	13	15200	for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place. 
01O	50	14	15210	After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father. 
01O	50	15	15220	When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the grief that we caused him." 
01O	50	16	15230	So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father gave this command before he died, 
01O	50	17	15240	'Say to Joseph, Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did mischief to you.' And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him. 
01O	50	18	15250	His brothers also came and fell down before him and said, "Behold, we are your servants." 
01O	50	19	15260	But Joseph said to them, "Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? 
01O	50	20	15270	As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. 
01O	50	21	15280	So do not fear; I will provide for you and your children." Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them. 
01O	50	22	15290	So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father's house. Joseph lived 110 years. 
01O	50	23	15300	And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were counted as Joseph's own. 
01O	50	24	15310	And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob." 
01O	50	25	15320	Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you will carry up my bones from here." 
01O	50	26	15330	So Joseph died, being 110 years old. They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. 
02O	1	1	15340	These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with their families: 
02O	1	2	15350	Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 
02O	1	3	15360	Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 
02O	1	4	15370	Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 
02O	1	5	15380	All the descendants of Jacob were seventy people; Joseph was already in Egypt. 
02O	1	6	15390	Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all of that generation. 
02O	1	7	15400	And the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew very strong, so that the area was filled with them. 
02O	1	8	15410	Now there arose a new king over Egypt, that did not know Joseph. 
02O	1	9	15420	And he said to his people, "Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too strong for us. 
02O	1	10	15430	Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if conflict breaks out, they join with our enemies and fight against us and depart from the land." 
02O	1	11	15440	Therefore they set taskmasters over them to humble them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh storehouse cities, Pithom and Raamses. 
02O	1	12	15450	But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. And the Egyptians were in fear of the sons of Israel. 
02O	1	13	15460	So the Egyptians with cruelness made the sons of Israel work as slaves 
02O	1	14	15470	and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they with cruelness made them work as slaves. 
02O	1	15	15480	Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, 
02O	1	16	15490	"When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you will kill him, but if it is a daughter, she will live." 
02O	1	17	15500	But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live. 
02O	1	18	15510	So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, "Why have you done this, and let the male children live?" 
02O	1	19	15520	The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them." 
02O	1	20	15530	So God dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied and grew very strong. 
02O	1	21	15540	And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families. 
02O	1	22	15550	Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every son that is born to the Hebrews you will cast into the Nile, but you will let every daughter live."
02O	2	1	15560	And a man from the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi. 
02O	2	2	15570	The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. 
02O	2	3	15580	When she could no longer hide him , she took for him a basket of bulrushes and covered it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank. 
02O	2	4	15590	And his sister stood at a distance to be aware of what would happen to him. 
02O	2	5	15600	Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, and her young women walked beside the river. And she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she retrieved it. 
02O	2	6	15610	When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She was concerned for him and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children." 
02O	2	7	15620	Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "will I go and call for you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?" 
02O	2	8	15630	And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." So the girl went and called the child's mother. 
02O	2	9	15640	And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him. 
02O	2	10	15650	When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, "Because," she said, "I drew him out of the water." 
02O	2	11	15660	One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people. 
02O	2	12	15670	He looked this way and that, and saw no one, then he slaughtered the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 
02O	2	13	15680	When he went out a second day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together. And he said to the man in the wrong, "Why do you strike your companion?" 
02O	2	14	15690	He answered, "Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was fearful, and thought, "Surely my deed is known." 
02O	2	15	15700	When Pharaoh heard of it, he determined to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well. 
02O	2	16	15710	Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew up water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. 
02O	2	17	15720	And some shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and watered their flock. 
02O	2	18	15730	When they came home to their father Reuel, he said, "How is it that you have come home so early today?" 
02O	2	19	15740	They said, "An Egyptian rescued us out of the hand of some shepherds and even drew up water for us and watered the flock." 
02O	2	20	15750	He said to his daughters, "Then where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread." 
02O	2	21	15760	And Moses consented to live with the man, and he gave to Moses his daughter Zipporah. 
02O	2	22	15770	She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land." 
02O	2	23	15780	After many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. 
02O	2	24	15790	And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 
02O	2	25	15800	God saw the people of Israel, and God understood. 
02O	3	1	15810	Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to  the mountain of God, to Horeb. 
02O	3	2	15820	And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. 
02O	3	3	15830	And Moses said, "I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not consumed." 
02O	3	4	15840	When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here I am." 
02O	3	5	15850	Then he said, "Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground." 
02O	3	6	15860	And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was fearful of looking at God. 
02O	3	7	15870	Then the LORD said, "I have surely seen the misery of My people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their grief, 
02O	3	8	15880	and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and wide land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the location of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 
02O	3	9	15890	And now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians distress them. 
02O	3	10	15900	Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt." 
02O	3	11	15910	But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?" 
02O	3	12	15920	He said, "But I will be with you, and this will be the sign to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will serve God on this mountain." 
02O	3	13	15930	Then Moses said to God, "If I come to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' what will I say to them?" 
02O	3	14	15940	God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And he said, "Say this to the sons of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'" 
02O	3	15	15950	God also said to Moses, "Say this to the sons of Israel, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is My name forever, and by this I am to be remembered throughout all generations. 
02O	3	16	15960	Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have seen you and what has been done to you in Egypt, 
02O	3	17	15970	and I promise that I will bring you up out of the misery of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey."' 
02O	3	18	15980	And they will listen to your voice, and you and the elders of Israel will go to the king of Egypt and say to him, 'The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has come to us; and now, please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.' 
02O	3	19	15990	But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a powerful hand. 
02O	3	20	16000	So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all the wonders that I will do within it; after that he will let you go. 
02O	3	21	16010	And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and when you go, you will not depart empty, 
02O	3	22	16020	but each woman will ask of her neighbor, and any woman who lives in her house, for silver and gold jewelry, and for clothing. You will put them on your sons and on your daughters. So you will plunder the Egyptians."
02O	4	1	16030	Then Moses answered, "But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, 'The LORD did not appear to you.'" 
02O	4	2	16040	The LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A staff." 
02O	4	3	16050	And He said, "Throw it on the ground." So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ran from it. 
02O	4	4	16060	But the LORD said to Moses, "Put out your hand and catch it by the tail", so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand,
02O	4	5	16070	"that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you." 
02O	4	6	16080	The LORD again said to him, "Put your hand inside your cloak." And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow. 
02O	4	7	16090	Then God said, "Put your hand back inside your cloak." So he put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh. 
02O	4	8	16100	"If they will not believe you," God said, "or listen to the first sign, then they may believe the latter sign. 
02O	4	9	16110	If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you will take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground." 
02O	4	10	16120	But Moses said to the LORD, "Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am hesitant at talking and poor at language." 
02O	4	11	16130	Then the LORD said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD? 
02O	4	12	16140	Now therefore go, and I will be with your speech and teach you what you will say." 
02O	4	13	16150	But he said, "Oh, my Lord, I pray You, send someone else." 
02O	4	14	16160	Then the anger of the LORD was displeased with Moses and he said, "Is there not  Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will rejoice in his heart. 
02O	4	15	16170	You will speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do. 
02O	4	16	16180	He will speak for you to the people, and he will be your mouth, and you will be as God to him. 
02O	4	17	16190	And take in your hand this staff, with which you will do the miracles." 
02O	4	18	16200	Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, "Please let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive." And Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace." 
02O	4	19	16210	And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, "Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead." 
02O	4	20	16220	So Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand. 
02O	4	21	16230	And the LORD said to Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. 
02O	4	22	16240	Then you will say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says the LORD, Israel is My firstborn son, 
02O	4	23	16250	and I say to you, "Let my son go that he may serve Me." If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son.'" 
02O	4	24	16260	At a lodging place on the way the LORD met him and sought to put him to death. 
02O	4	25	16270	Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!" 
02O	4	26	16280	So He let him alone. It was then that she said, "A bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision. 
02O	4	27	16290	The LORD said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him. 
02O	4	28	16300	And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD with which He had sent him to speak, and all the miracles He had commanded him to do. 
02O	4	29	16310	Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the sons of Israel. 
02O	4	30	16320	Aaron spoke all the words that the LORD had spoken to Moses and did the miracles before the people. 
02O	4	31	16330	And the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had visited the sons of Israel and that He had seen their misery, they bowed their heads and worshiped. 
02O	5	1	16340	Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.'" 
02O	5	2	16350	But Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and moreover, I will not let Israel go." 
02O	5	3	16360	Then they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may come on us with plague or with the sword." 
02O	5	4	16370	But the king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your burdens." 
02O	5	5	16380	And Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the area are now many, and you want them to rest from their burdens!" 
02O	5	6	16390	The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen, 
02O	5	7	16400	"You will no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past; let them go and gather straw for themselves. 
02O	5	8	16410	But the number of bricks that they made in the past you will require of them, you will by no means reduce it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, 'Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.' 
02O	5	9	16420	Let heavier work be required of the men that they may labor at it and pay no attention to lying words." 
02O	5	10	16430	So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, "Thus says Pharaoh, 'I will not give you straw. 
02O	5	11	16440	Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.'" 
02O	5	12	16450	So the people scattered throughout all the area of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. 
02O	5	13	16460	The taskmasters hurried them, saying, "Complete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw." 
02O	5	14	16470	And the foremen of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, "Why have you not completed all your tasks of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past?" 
02O	5	15	16480	Then the foremen of the sons of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, "Why do you treat your servants like this? 
02O	5	16	16490	No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, 'Make bricks!' And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is that of your own people." 
02O	5	17	16500	But he said, "You are idle, you are idle; that is why you say, 'Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.' 
02O	5	18	16510	Go now and work. No straw will be given you, but you must still produce the same number of bricks." 
02O	5	19	16520	The foremen of the sons of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they said, "You will by no means reduce your number of bricks, your daily duty each day." 
02O	5	20	16530	They met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them, as they came out from Pharaoh; 
02O	5	21	16540	and they said to them, "The LORD look on you and condemn you, because you have made us offensive before Pharaoh and his servants, and have given them reason to kill us." 
02O	5	22	16550	Then Moses turned to the LORD and said, "O Lord, why have You done evil to these people? Why did You ever send me? 
02O	5	23	16560	For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done evil to these people, and You have not rescued Your people at all." 
02O	6	1	16570	But the LORD said to Moses, "Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a forceful hand he will drive them out of his land." 
02O	6	2	16580	God spoke to Moses and said to him, "I am the LORD. 
02O	6	3	16590	I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name the LORD I did not make Myself known to them. 
02O	6	4	16600	I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. 
02O	6	5	16610	Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered My covenant. 
02O	6	6	16620	Say therefore to the sons of Israel, 'I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. 
02O	6	7	16630	I will take you to be My people, and I will be your God, and you will know that I am the LORD your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 
02O	6	8	16640	I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the LORD.'" 
02O	6	9	16650	Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery. 
02O	6	10	16660	So the LORD said to Moses, 
02O	6	11	16670	"Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the sons of Israel go out of his land." 
02O	6	12	16680	But Moses said to the LORD, "Behold, the sons of Israel have not listened to me. How then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?" 
02O	6	13	16690	But the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a command about the sons of Israel and about Pharaoh king of Egypt: to bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt. 
02O	6	14	16700	These are the heads of their fathers' houses: the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; they are the families of Reuben. 
02O	6	15	16710	The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman; they are the families of Simeon. 
02O	6	16	16720	These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, the years of the life of Levi being 137 years. 
02O	6	17	16730	The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, by their families. 
02O	6	18	16740	The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, the years of the life of Kohath being 133 years. 
02O	6	19	16750	The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations. 
02O	6	20	16760	 Amram took as his wife Jochebed his father's sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the years of the life of Amram being 137 years. 
02O	6	21	16770	The sons of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri. 
02O	6	22	16780	The sons of Uzziel: Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri. 
02O	6	23	16790	Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and the sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 
02O	6	24	16800	The sons of Korah: Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph; they are the families of the Korahites. 
02O	6	25	16810	Eleazar, Aaron's son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. They are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites by their families. 
02O	6	26	16820	These are the Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said: "Bring out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt by their families." 
02O	6	27	16830	It was they who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing out the sons of Israel from Egypt, this Moses and this Aaron. 
02O	6	28	16840	On the day when the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, 
02O	6	29	16850	the LORD said to Moses, "I am the LORD; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you." 
02O	6	30	16860	But Moses said to the LORD, "Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips. How will Pharaoh listen to me?" 
02O	7	1	16870	And the LORD said to Moses, "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. 
02O	7	2	16880	You will speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron will tell Pharaoh to let the sons of Israel go out of his land. 
02O	7	3	16890	But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, 
02O	7	4	16900	Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay My hand on Egypt and bring My families, My people the sons of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment. 
02O	7	5	16910	The Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from among them." 
02O	7	6	16920	Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the LORD commanded them. 
02O	7	7	16930	Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh. 
02O	7	8	16940	Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, 
02O	7	9	16950	"When Pharaoh says to you, 'Prove yourselves by working a miracle,' then you will say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.'" 
02O	7	10	16960	So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD commanded. Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent. 
02O	7	11	16970	Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts. 
02O	7	12	16980	For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs. 
02O	7	13	16990	Still Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said. 
02O	7	14	17000	Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go. 
02O	7	15	17010	Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water. Stand on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that turned into a serpent. 
02O	7	16	17020	And you will say to him, 'The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, "Let My people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness. But so far, you have not obeyed." 
02O	7	17	17030	Thus says the LORD, "By this you will know that I am the LORD: behold, with the staff that is in My hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it will turn into blood. 
02O	7	18	17040	The fish in the Nile will die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will be disgusted by drinking water from the Nile."'" 
02O	7	19	17050	And the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may become blood, and there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and stone.'" 
02O	7	20	17060	Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants he lifted up the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile turned into blood. 
02O	7	21	17070	And the fish in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood throughout all the land of Egypt. 
02O	7	22	17080	But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts. So Pharaoh's heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said. 
02O	7	23	17090	Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart. 
02O	7	24	17100	And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile.
02O	7	25	17110	Seven full days passed after the LORD had struck the Nile.
02O	8	1	17120	Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus says the LORD, "Let My people go, that they may serve Me. 
02O	8	2	17130	But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs. 
02O	8	3	17140	The Nile will swarm with frogs that will come up into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls. 
02O	8	4	17150	The frogs will come up on you and on your people and on all your servants."'" 
02O	8	5	17160	And the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt!'" 
02O	8	6	17170	So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt. 
02O	8	7	17180	But the magicians did the same by their secret arts and made frogs come up on the land of Egypt. 
02O	8	8	17190	Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, "Plead with the LORD to remove the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the LORD." 
02O	8	9	17200	Moses said to Pharaoh, "You command me when I will plead for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be cut off from you and your houses and be left only in the Nile." 
02O	8	10	17210	And he said, "Tomorrow." Moses said, "It will be as you say, so that you will know that there is no one like the LORD our God. 
02O	8	11	17220	The frogs will withdraw from you and your houses and your servants and your people. They will be left only in the Nile." 
02O	8	12	17230	So Moses and Aaron went away from Pharaoh, and Moses cried out to the LORD about the frogs, as he had agreed with Pharaoh. 
02O	8	13	17240	And the LORD did according to the word of Moses. The frogs died out in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields. 
02O	8	14	17250	And they gathered them together into piles, and the land stank. 
02O	8	15	17260	But when Pharaoh saw that there was a relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the LORD had said. 
02O	8	16	17270	Then the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, so that it may become gnats in all the land of Egypt.'" 
02O	8	17	17280	And they did so. Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, and there were gnats on man and beast. All the dust of the earth became gnats in all the land of Egypt. 
02O	8	18	17290	The magicians tried by their secret arts to produce gnats, but they could not. And there were gnats on man and beast. 
02O	8	19	17300	Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God." But Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said. 
02O	8	20	17310	Then the LORD said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh, as he goes out to the water, and say to him, 'Thus says the LORD, "Let My people go, that they may serve Me. 
02O	8	21	17320	Or else, if you will not let My people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and your servants and your people, and into your houses. And the houses of the Egyptians will be filled with swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they stand. 
02O	8	22	17330	But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where My people dwell, so that no swarms of flies will be there, that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the land. 
02O	8	23	17340	Thus I will put a division between My people and your people. Tomorrow this sign will happen."'" 
02O	8	24	17350	And the LORD did so. There came great swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses. Throughout all the land of Egypt the land was spoiled by the swarms of flies. 
02O	8	25	17360	Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God within the land." 
02O	8	26	17370	But Moses said, "It would not be right to do so, for the offerings we will sacrifice to the LORD our God are an abomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice offerings abominable to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us? 
02O	8	27	17380	We must go three days' journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as he tells us." 
02O	8	28	17390	So Pharaoh said, "I will let you go to sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only you must not go very far away. Plead for Me." 
02O	8	29	17400	Then Moses said, "Behold, I am going away from you and I will plead with the LORD that the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow. Only let Pharaoh not cheat again by not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD." 
02O	8	30	17410	So Moses went away from Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD. 
02O	8	31	17420	And the LORD did as Moses asked, and removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; not one remained. 
02O	8	32	17430	But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and did not let the people go. 
02O	9	1	17440	Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, 'This says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, "Let My people go, that they may serve Me. 
02O	9	2	17450	For if you refuse to let them go and still keep them, 
02O	9	3	17460	behold, the hand of the LORD will strike with a very severe plague on your livestock that are in the field, the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks. 
02O	9	4	17470	But the LORD will separate between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing that belongs to the people of Israel will die."'" 
02O	9	5	17480	And the LORD set a time, saying, "Tomorrow the LORD will cause it to happen in the land." 
02O	9	6	17490	And the next day the LORD did the damage.  All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one of the livestock of the people of Israel died. 
02O	9	7	17500	And Pharaoh sent out, and behold, not one of the livestock of Israel was dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go. 
02O	9	8	17510	Exo 9:8  And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Take handfuls of soot from the kiln, and let Moses throw them into the air before of Pharaoh. 
02O	9	9	17520	It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and become boils breaking out in sores on man and beast throughout all the land of Egypt." 
02O	9	10	17530	So they took soot from the kiln and stood before Pharaoh. And Moses threw it into the air, and it became boils breaking out as sores on man and beast. 
02O	9	11	17540	And the magicians could not appear before Moses because of the boils, for the boils came on the magicians and on all the Egyptians. 
02O	9	12	17550	But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had spoken to Moses. 
02O	9	13	17560	Then the LORD said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, "Let My people go, that they may serve Me. 
02O	9	14	17570	For this time I will send all My plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like Me in all the land. 
02O	9	15	17580	For by now I could have put out My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth. 
02O	9	16	17590	But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you My power, so that My name may be proclaimed in all the earth. 
02O	9	17	17600	You are still exalting yourself against My people and will not let them go. 
02O	9	18	17610	Behold, about this time tomorrow I will cause very heavy hail to fall, such as never has been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now. 
02O	9	19	17620	Now therefore send, get your livestock and all that you have in the field into safe shelter, for every man and beast that is in the field and is not brought home will die when the hail falls on them."'" 
02O	9	20	17630	And whoever feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh hurried his slaves and his livestock into the houses, 
02O	9	21	17640	but whoever did not respect the word of the LORD left his slaves and his livestock in the field. 
02O	9	22	17650	Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that there will be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man and beast and every plant of the field, in the land of Egypt." 
02O	9	23	17660	Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire came down to the earth. And the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt. 
02O	9	24	17670	There was hail and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 
02O	9	25	17680	The hail struck down everything that was in the field in all the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And the hail struck down every plant of the field and broke every tree of the field. 
02O	9	26	17690	Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel were, was there no hail. 
02O	9	27	17700	Then Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, "This time I have sinned; the LORD is in the right, and I and my people do wrong. 
02O	9	28	17710	Plead with the LORD, for there has been enough of God's thunder and hail. I will let you go, and you will stay no longer." 
02O	9	29	17720	Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD's. 
02O	9	30	17730	But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the LORD God." 
02O	9	31	17740	The flax and the barley were struck down, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud. 
02O	9	32	17750	But the wheat and the rye were not struck down, for they are late in coming up.
02O	9	33	17760	So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and stretched out his hands to the LORD, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth. 
02O	9	34	17770	But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet again and hardened his heart, he and his servants. 
02O	9	35	17780	So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people of Israel go, just as the LORD had spoken through Moses.
02O	10	1	17790	Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these signs of Mine among them, 
02O	10	2	17800	and that you may tell to the hearing of your son and of your grandson how I have dealt harshly with the Egyptians and what signs I have done among them, that you may know that I am the LORD." 
02O	10	3	17810	So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me. 
02O	10	4	17820	For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts to your country, 
02O	10	5	17830	and they will cover the face of the land, so that no one can see the land. And they will eat what is left to you after the hail, and they will eat every tree of yours that grows in the field, 
02O	10	6	17840	and they will fill your houses and the houses of all your servants and of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day they came on earth to this day.'" Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh. 
02O	10	7	17850	Then Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man cause trouble for us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God. Do you not yet understand that Egypt is destroyed?" 
02O	10	8	17860	So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. And he said to them, "Go, serve the LORD your God. But which ones will go?" 
02O	10	9	17870	Moses said, "We will go with our young and our old. We will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD." 
02O	10	10	17880	But he said to them, "The LORD be with you, I will let you and your families go! Be aware that trouble is ahead of you. 
02O	10	11	17890	No! Go, the men with you, and serve the LORD, for that is what you are asking." And they were driven from Pharaoh's presence. 
02O	10	12	17900	Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so that they will come on the land of Egypt and eat every plant in the land, all that the hail has left." 
02O	10	13	17910	So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts. 
02O	10	14	17920	The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled on the whole country of Egypt, such a dense swarm of locusts as had never been before, nor ever will be again. 
02O	10	15	17930	They covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Not a green thing remained, neither tree nor plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt. 
02O	10	16	17940	Then Pharaoh hastily called Moses and Aaron and said, "I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you. 
02O	10	17	17950	Now therefore, forgive my sin, please, this one time, and plead with the LORD your God to take this death from me." 
02O	10	18	17960	So he went out from Pharaoh and pleaded with the LORD. 
02O	10	19	17970	And the LORD turned the wind into a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the country of Egypt. 
02O	10	20	17980	But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the sons of Israel go. 
02O	10	21	17990	Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there will be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness they can feel." 
02O	10	22	18000	So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. 
02O	10	23	18010	They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but all the sons of Israel had light where they lived. 
02O	10	24	18020	Then Pharaoh called Moses and said, "Go, serve the LORD; your little ones also may go with you; only let your flocks and your herds remain behind." 
02O	10	25	18030	But Moses said, "You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God. 
02O	10	26	18040	Our livestock also must go with us; not a hoof will be left behind, for we must take of them to serve the LORD our God, and we do not know with what we must serve the LORD until we arrive there." 
02O	10	27	18050	But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go. 
02O	10	28	18060	Then Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me; take care never to see my face again, for on the day you see my face you will die." 
02O	10	29	18070	Moses said, "As you say! I will not see your face again." 
02O	11	1	18080	The LORD said to Moses, "Yet one more plague I will bring on Pharaoh and on Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you away completely. 
02O	11	2	18090	Speak now in the hearing of the people, that they ask, every man of his neighbor and every woman of her neighbor, for silver and gold jewelry." 
02O	11	3	18100	And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants and in the sight of the people. 
02O	11	4	18110	So Moses said, "Thus says the LORD: About midnight I will go in the midst of Egypt, 
02O	11	5	18120	and every firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the cattle. 
02O	11	6	18130	There will be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again. 
02O	11	7	18140	But not a dog will growl against any of the sons of Israel, either man or beast, that you will know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. 
02O	11	8	18150	And all these your servants will come down to me and bow down to me, saying, 'Get out, you and all the people who follow you.' And after that I will go out." And he went out from Pharaoh with great wrath. 
02O	11	9	18160	Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders will be multiplied in the land of Egypt." 
02O	11	10	18170	Moses and Aaron did all the wonders before Pharaoh, and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the sons of Israel go out of his land. 
02O	12	1	18180	The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 
02O	12	2	18190	"This month will be to you the beginning of months. It will be the first month of the year for you. 
02O	12	3	18200	Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man will take a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb per family. 
02O	12	4	18210	And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor will take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you will count for each lamb. 
02O	12	5	18220	Your lamb will be without blemish, a male a year old. You can take it from the sheep or from the goats, 
02O	12	6	18230	and you will keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will kill their lambs at twilight. 
02O	12	7	18240	Then they will take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 
02O	12	8	18250	They will eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire;  they will eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 
02O	12	9	18260	Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. 
02O	12	10	18270	And you will let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you will burn. 
02O	12	11	18280	In this manner you will eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you will eat it in haste. It is the LORD's Passover. 
02O	12	12	18290	For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD. 
02O	12	13	18300	The blood will be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will happen to you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt. 
02O	12	14	18310	This day will be for you a memorial day, and you will keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you will keep it as a feast. 
02O	12	15	18320	Seven days you will eat unleavened bread. On the first day you will remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person will be cut off from Israel. 
02O	12	16	18330	On the first day you will hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work will be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you. 
02O	12	17	18340	And you will observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your families out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you will observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever. 
02O	12	18	18350	In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you will eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 
02O	12	19	18360	For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land. 
02O	12	20	18370	You will eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you will eat unleavened bread." 
02O	12	21	18380	Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover lamb. 
02O	12	22	18390	Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you will go out of the door of his house until the morning. 
02O	12	23	18400	For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you. 
02O	12	24	18410	You will observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever. 
02O	12	25	18420	And when you come to the land that the LORD will give you, as he has promised, you will keep this service. 
02O	12	26	18430	And when your children say to you, 'What do you mean by this service?' 
02O	12	27	18440	you will say, 'It is the sacrifice of the LORD's Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.'" And the people bowed their heads and worshiped. 
02O	12	28	18450	Then the people of Israel went and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, this they did. 
02O	12	29	18460	At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. 
02O	12	30	18470	And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead. 
02O	12	31	18480	Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, "Up, go out from among my people, both you and the sons of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have spoken. 
02O	12	32	18490	Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!" 
02O	12	33	18500	The Egyptians hastened the people to get them out of the land quickly. For they said, "We will all be destroyed." 
02O	12	34	18510	So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders. 
02O	12	35	18520	The sons of Israel had also did as Moses told them, for they asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing. 
02O	12	36	18530	And the LORD had given the people good status in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians. 
02O	12	37	18540	And the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred families of men on foot, besides women and children. 
02O	12	38	18550	A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very many livestock, both flocks and herds. 
02O	12	39	18560	And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were driven out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves. 
02O	12	40	18570	The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years. 
02O	12	41	18580	At the end of 430 years, on that very day, all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. 
02O	12	42	18590	It was a night of watching by the LORD, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the LORD by all the sons of Israel throughout their generations. 
02O	12	43	18600	And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner will eat of it, 
02O	12	44	18610	but every slave that is bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him. 
02O	12	45	18620	No foreigner or hired servant may eat of it. 
02O	12	46	18630	It will be eaten in one house; you will not take any of the flesh outside the house, and you will not break any of its bones. 
02O	12	47	18640	All the congregation of Israel will keep it. 
02O	12	48	18650	If a stranger will sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he will be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person will eat of it. 
02O	12	49	18660	There will be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you." 
02O	12	50	18670	All the sons of Israel did just as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron. 
02O	12	51	18680	And on that very day the LORD brought the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their families. 
02O	13	1	18690	The LORD said to Moses, 
02O	13	2	18700	"Dedicate to Me all the firstborn. Whichever is the first to open the womb among the sons of Israel, both of man and of beast, is Mine." 
02O	13	3	18710	Then Moses said to the people, "Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, for by a mighty hand the LORD brought you out from this place. No leavened bread will be eaten. 
02O	13	4	18720	Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving. 
02O	13	5	18730	And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you will keep this service in this month. 
02O	13	6	18740	Seven days you will eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there will be a feast to the LORD. 
02O	13	7	18750	Unleavened bread will be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread will be seen with you, and no leaven will be seen with you in all your territory. 
02O	13	8	18760	You will tell your son on that day, 'It is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.' 
02O	13	9	18770	And it will be to you as a sign in your hand and as a memorial within your eyes, that the law of the LORD may be spoken. For with a mighty hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt. 
02O	13	10	18780	You will therefore keep this statute at its appointed time from year to year. 
02O	13	11	18790	When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and your fathers, and will give it to you, 
02O	13	12	18800	you will set apart to the LORD all that first opens the womb. All the firstborn of your animals that are males will be the LORD's. 
02O	13	13	18810	Every firstborn of a donkey you will redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you will break its neck. Every firstborn of man among your sons you will redeem. 
02O	13	14	18820	And when in time to come your son asks you, 'What does this mean?' you will say to him, 'By a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery. 
02O	13	15	18830	For when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of animals. Therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all the males that first open the womb, but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.' 
02O	13	16	18840	It will be as a mark in your hand or markers within your eyes, for by a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt." 
02O	13	17	18850	When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, "Otherwise the people might change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt." 
02O	13	18	18860	But God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea.  And the sons of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.  
02O	13	19	18870	Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear solemnly, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you will carry up my bones with you from here." 
02O	13	20	18880	And they moved on from Succoth and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness. 
02O	13	21	18890	And the LORD went before them by day in a plume of clouds to lead them along the way, and by night in a plume of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night. 
02O	13	22	18900	The plume of clouds by day and the plume of fire by night did not depart from leading the people. 
02O	14	1	18910	Then the LORD said to Moses, 
02O	14	2	18920	"Tell the sons of Israel to turn back and encamp in front of Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon; you will encamp facing it, by the sea. 
02O	14	3	18930	For Pharaoh will say of the sons of Israel, 'They are wandering in the land; the wilderness has enclosed them.' 
02O	14	4	18940	And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them, and I will be glorified over Pharaoh and all his armies, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD." And this they did. 
02O	14	5	18950	When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the mind of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people, and they said, "Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?" 
02O	14	6	18960	So he hitched up his chariot and took his army with him, 
02O	14	7	18970	and took six hundred chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them. 
02O	14	8	18980	And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the sons of Israel while the sons of Israel were going out defiantly. 
02O	14	9	18990	The Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh's horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them encamped at the sea, by Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon. 
02O	14	10	19000	When Pharaoh drew near, the sons of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they were terrified. And the people of Israel cried out to the LORD. 
02O	14	11	19010	They said to Moses, "Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt? 
02O	14	12	19020	Didn't we tell you in Egypt: 'Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians'? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness." 
02O	14	13	19030	And Moses said to the people, "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will perform for you today. For the Egyptians who you see today, you will never see again. 
02O	14	14	19040	The LORD will battle for you, and you need only to be silent." 
02O	14	15	19050	The LORD said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Tell the sons of Israel to go forward. 
02O	14	16	19060	Lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the sons of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground. 
02O	14	17	19070	And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them, and I will be glorified over Pharaoh and all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen. 
02O	14	18	19080	And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD, when I have been glorified over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen." 
02O	14	19	19090	Then the angel of God who was going before the armies of Israel moved and went behind them, and the plume of clouds moved from ahead of them and stood behind them, 
02O	14	20	19100	coming between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the night without one coming near the other all night. 
02O	14	21	19110	Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 
02O	14	22	19120	And the sons of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a boundary to them on their right hand and on their left. 
02O	14	23	19130	The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 
02O	14	24	19140	And in the morning watch the LORD in the plume of fire and of clouds looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic, 
02O	14	25	19150	clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove with difficulty. And the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from before Israel, for the LORD battles for them against the Egyptians." 
02O	14	26	19160	Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen." 
02O	14	27	19170	So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the LORD overthrew the Egyptians into the midst of the sea. 
02O	14	28	19180	The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the army of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained. 
02O	14	29	19190	But the sons of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a boundary to them on their right hand and on their left. 
02O	14	30	19200	And the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. 
02O	14	31	19210	Israel saw the mighty power that the LORD used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the LORD, and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses. 
02O	15	1	19220	Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to the LORD, saying, "I will sing to the LORD, for He has gloriously triumphed ; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. 
02O	15	2	19230	The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise Him, my father's God, and I will exalt Him. 
02O	15	3	19240	The LORD is a man of battle; the LORD is His name. 
02O	15	4	19250	Pharaoh's chariots and his army He cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Sea of Reeds. 
02O	15	5	19260	The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone. 
02O	15	6	19270	Your right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, your right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy. 
02O	15	7	19280	In the greatness of Your majesty You overthrow Your adversaries; You send out your fury; it consumed them like stubble. 
02O	15	8	19290	At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; the floods stood up in a heap; the depths were settled in the heart of the sea. 
02O	15	9	19300	The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire will have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.' 
02O	15	10	19310	You blew with Your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters. 
02O	15	11	19320	Who is like You, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders? 
02O	15	12	19330	You stretched out Your right hand; the earth swallowed them. 
02O	15	13	19340	You have led in Your steadfast love the people whom You have redeemed; You have guided them by Your strength to Your holy dwelling. 
02O	15	14	19350	The peoples have heard; they tremble; sorrow has seized the inhabitants of Philistia. 
02O	15	15	19360	Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed; trembling seizes the leaders of Moab; all the inhabitants of Canaan have become faint. 
02O	15	16	19370	Terror and dread fall upon them; because of the greatness of Your arm, they are still as a stone, till your people, O LORD, pass by, till the people pass by whom You have purchased. 
02O	15	17	19380	You will bring them in and plant them on Your own mountain, the place, O LORD, which You have made for your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established. 
02O	15	18	19390	The LORD will reign forever and ever.
02O	15	19	19400	For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea." 
02O	15	20	19410	Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing. 
02O	15	21	19420	And Miriam sang to them: "Sing to the LORD, for He has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea." 
02O	15	22	19430	Then Moses made Israel set out from the Sea of Reeds, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water. 
02O	15	23	19440	When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah. 
02O	15	24	19450	And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, "What will we drink?" 
02O	15	25	19460	And he cried to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the LORD made for them a statute and a rule, and there He tested them, 
02O	15	26	19470	saying, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and do that which is right in His eyes, and give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, your healer." 
02O	15	27	19480	Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water. 
02O	16	1	19490	They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the sons of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. 
02O	16	2	19500	And the whole congregation of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, 
02O	16	3	19510	and the sons of Israel said to them, "O that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to our fulling, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly from hunger." 
02O	16	4	19520	Then the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people will go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law or not. 
02O	16	5	19530	On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily." 
02O	16	6	19540	So Moses and Aaron said to all the sons of Israel, "At evening you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, 
02O	16	7	19550	and in the morning you will see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your grumbling against the LORD. For what are we, that you grumble against us?" 
02O	16	8	19560	And Moses said, "When the LORD gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the LORD has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him, what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the LORD." 
02O	16	9	19570	Then Moses said to Aaron, "Say to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, 'Come near before the LORD, for He has heard your grumbling.'" 
02O	16	10	19580	And as soon as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud. 
02O	16	11	19590	And the LORD said to Moses, 
02O	16	12	19600	"I have heard the grumbling of the sons of Israel. Say to them, 'At evening you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.'" 
02O	16	13	19610	In the evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning dew lay around the camp. 
02O	16	14	19620	And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, thin covering, fine as frost on the ground. 
02O	16	15	19630	When the sons of Israel saw it, they said to one another, "What is it?" For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, "It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat. 
02O	16	16	19640	This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Gather of it, each one of you, as much as he can eat. You will each take an omer, according to the number of the people that each of you has in his tent.'" 
02O	16	17	19650	And the sons of Israel did so. They gathered, some more, some less. 
02O	16	18	19660	But when they measured it with an omer, whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no want. Each of them gathered as much as he could eat. 
02O	16	19	19670	And Moses said to them, "Let no one leave any of it over until the morning." 
02O	16	20	19680	But they did not listen to Moses. Some left part of it till the morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them. 
02O	16	21	19690	Morning by morning they gathered it, each as much as he could eat; but when the sun grew hot, it melted. 
02O	16	22	19700	On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers each. And when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses, 
02O	16	23	19710	he said to them, "This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD; bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay aside to be kept till the morning.'" 
02O	16	24	19720	So they laid it aside till the morning, as Moses commanded them, and it did not stink, and there were no worms in it. 
02O	16	25	19730	Moses said, "Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the field. 
02O	16	26	19740	Six days you will gather it, but on the seventh day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none." 
02O	16	27	19750	On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they found none. 
02O	16	28	19760	And the LORD said to Moses, "How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws? 
02O	16	29	19770	See! The LORD has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day He gives you bread for two days. Remain each of you in his place; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day." 
02O	16	30	19780	So the people rested on the seventh day. 
02O	16	31	19790	Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. 
02O	16	32	19800	Moses said, "This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.'" 
02O	16	33	19810	And Moses said to Aaron, "Take a jar, and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before the LORD to be kept throughout your generations." 
02O	16	34	19820	As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the testimony to be kept. 
02O	16	35	19830	The sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan. 
02O	16	36	19840	(An omer is the tenth part of an ephah.) 
02O	17	1	19850	All the congregation of the sons of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the LORD, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. 
02O	17	2	19860	Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water to drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?" 
02O	17	3	19870	But the people thirsted for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?" 
02O	17	4	19880	So Moses cried to the LORD, "What will I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me." 
02O	17	5	19890	And the LORD said to Moses, "Pass before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 
02O	17	6	19900	Behold, I will stand with you there on the rock at Horeb, and you will strike the rock, and water will come out of it, and the people will drink." And Moses did so, before the elders of Israel. 
02O	17	7	19910	And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the sons of Israel, and because they tested the LORD by saying, "Is the LORD with us or not?" 
02O	17	8	19920	Then Amalek came and battled with Israel at Rephidim. 
02O	17	9	19930	So Moses said to Joshua, "Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand." 
02O	17	10	19940	So Joshua did as Moses told him, and battled with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 
02O	17	11	19950	Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. 
02O	17	12	19960	But Moses' hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 
02O	17	13	19970	And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword. 
02O	17	14	19980	Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven." 
02O	17	15	19990	And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The LORD Is My Banner, 
02O	17	16	20000	saying, "A hand over the throne of the LORD! The LORD will battle with Amalek from generation to generation." 
02O	18	1	20010	Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people, how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt. 
02O	18	2	20020	Now Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, had taken in Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her home, 
02O	18	3	20030	along with her two sons. The name of the one was Gershom (for he said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land"), 
02O	18	4	20040	and the name of the other, Eliezer (for he said, "The God of my father was my aid, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh"). 
02O	18	5	20050	Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses to the wilderness where he was camped at the mountain of God. 
02O	18	6	20060	And when he sent word to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons with her," 
02O	18	7	20070	Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. And they inquired of each other of their welfare and went into the tent. 
02O	18	8	20080	Then Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardship that had come on them along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them. 
02O	18	9	20090	And Jethro rejoiced for all the kindness that the LORD had done for Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians. 
02O	18	10	20100	Jethro said, "Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh and has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. 
02O	18	11	20110	Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods, because in this matter they dealt with contempt for the people." 
02O	18	12	20120	And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God; and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God. 
02O	18	13	20130	The next day Moses sat to be a judge for the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning till evening. 
02O	18	14	20140	When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, "What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning till evening?" 
02O	18	15	20150	And Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to seek of God; 
02O	18	16	20160	when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I bring to them understanding of the statutes of God and his laws." 
02O	18	17	20170	Moses' father-in-law said to him, "What you are doing is not best. 
02O	18	18	20180	You and the people with you will certainly wear yourselves out, for this is too much for you. You are not able to do it alone. 
02O	18	19	20190	Now listen to what my I say; I will advise you, and God be with you! You will represent the people before God and bring their disputes to God, 
02O	18	20	20200	and you will show them of the statutes and the laws, and show the way in which they must walk and what they should do. 
02O	18	21	20210	Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate dishonest gain, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. 
02O	18	22	20220	And let them judge for the people at all times. All important matters they will bring to you, but any small matters they will decide themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you. 
02O	18	23	20230	If you do this, God will direct you, you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their places in peace." 
02O	18	24	20240	So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had spoken. 
02O	18	25	20250	Moses chose worthy men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. 
02O	18	26	20260	And they judged for the people at all times. Any difficult decision they brought to Moses, but any lesser matter they decided themselves. 
02O	18	27	20270	Then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went away to his own land. 
02O	19	1	20280	In the third month after the sons of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. 
02O	19	2	20290	They set out from Rephidim and came to the wilderness of Sinai, and they camped in the wilderness. There Israel camped before the mountain, 
02O	19	3	20300	and Moses went up to God. The LORD called to him out of the mountain, saying, "This you will say to the house of Jacob, and tell the sons of Israel: 
02O	19	4	20310	You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I carried you as on eagles' wings and took you to Myself. 
02O	19	5	20320	Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; 
02O	19	6	20330	and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you will speak to the sons of Israel." 
02O	19	7	20340	So Moses came and called the elders of the people and said before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him. 
02O	19	8	20350	All the people answered together and said, "All that the LORD has spoken we will do." And Moses reported the words of the people to the LORD. 
02O	19	9	20360	And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever." When Moses told the words of the people to the LORD, 
02O	19	10	20370	the LORD said to Moses, "Go to the people and dedicate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments 
02O	19	11	20380	and be ready for the third day. For on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. 
02O	19	12	20390	And you will set limits for the people all around, saying, 'Take care not to go up to the mountain or touch the edge of it. Whoever touches the mountain will be put to death. 
02O	19	13	20400	No hand will touch him, but he will be stoned or pierced; whether beast or man, he will not live.' When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they will come up to the mountain." 
02O	19	14	20410	So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and dedicated the people; and they washed their garments. 
02O	19	15	20420	And he said to the people, "Be ready for the third day; do not go into a woman." 
02O	19	16	20430	On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled. 
02O	19	17	20440	Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their position at the foot of the mountain. 
02O	19	18	20450	Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire. The smoke went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the all the mountain trembled mightly. 
02O	19	19	20460	And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder. 
02O	19	20	20470	The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. And the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. 
02O	19	21	20480	And the LORD said to Moses, "Go down and warn the people, otherwise they may break through to the LORD to look and many of them perish. 
02O	19	22	20490	Also let the priests who come near to the LORD dedicate themselves, otherwise the LORD may break out against them." 
02O	19	23	20500	And Moses said to the LORD, "The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for you yourself warned us, saying, 'Set limits around the mountain and dedicate it.'" 
02O	19	24	20510	And the LORD said to him, "Go down, and come up bringing Aaron with you. But do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the LORD, otherwise He may break out against them." 
02O	19	25	20520	So Moses went down to the people and told them. 
02O	20	1	20530	And God spoke all these words, saying, 
02O	20	2	20540	"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 
02O	20	3	20550	You will have no other gods before Me. 
02O	20	4	20560	You will not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 
02O	20	5	20570	You will not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate Me, 
02O	20	6	20580	but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep My commandments. 
02O	20	7	20590	You will not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain. 
02O	20	8	20600	Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 
02O	20	9	20610	Six days you will labor, and do all your work, 
02O	20	10	20620	but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you will not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. 
02O	20	11	20630	For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. 
02O	20	12	20640	Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. 
02O	20	13	20650	You will not murder. 
02O	20	14	20660	You will not commit adultery. 
02O	20	15	20670	You will not steal. 
02O	20	16	20680	You will not bear false witness against your neighbor. 
02O	20	17	20690	You will not covet your neighbor's house; you will not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's." 
02O	20	18	20700	Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off 
02O	20	19	20710	and said to Moses, "You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, otherwise we die." 
02O	20	20	20720	Moses said to the people, "Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of Him may be before you, that you may not sin." 
02O	20	21	20730	The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was. 
02O	20	22	20740	And the LORD said to Moses, "Thus you will say to the sons of Israel: 'You have seen for yourselves that I have talked with you from heaven. 
02O	20	23	20750	You will not make gods of silver to be with Me, nor will you make for yourselves gods of gold. 
02O	20	24	20760	An altar of earth you will make for Me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you. 
02O	20	25	20770	If you make Me an altar of stone, you will not build it of cut stones, for if you use your tool on it you profane it. 
02O	20	26	20780	And you will not go up by steps to My altar, that your nakedness not be exposed on it.' 
02O	21	1	20790	Now these are the rules that you will put before them. 
02O	21	2	20800	When you buy a Hebrew slave, he will serve six years, and in the seventh he will go free, without cost. 
02O	21	3	20810	If he comes in single, he will depart single; if he comes in married, then his wife will depart with him. 
02O	21	4	20820	If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will be her master's, and he will depart alone. 
02O	21	5	20830	But if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go free,' 
02O	21	6	20840	then his master will bring him to God, and he will bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master will pierce his ear through with an awl, and he will be his slave forever. 
02O	21	7	20850	When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not depart as the male slaves do. 
02O	21	8	20860	If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he will let her be redeemed. He will have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her. 
02O	21	9	20870	If he designates her for his son, he will deal with her as with a daughter. 
02O	21	10	20880	If he takes another wife to himself, he will not decrease her food, her clothing, or her marital rights. 
02O	21	11	20890	And if he does not do these three things for her, she will go free, without payment of money. 
02O	21	12	20900	Whoever strikes a man so that he dies will be put to death. 
02O	21	13	20910	But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee. 
02O	21	14	20920	But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, you will take him from my altar, to die. 
02O	21	15	20930	Whoever strikes his father or his mother will be put to death. 
02O	21	16	20940	Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, will be put to death. 
02O	21	17	20950	Whoever curses his father or his mother will be put to death. 
02O	21	18	20960	When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but takes to his bed, 
02O	21	19	20970	then if the man rises again and walks outdoors with his staff, he who struck him will be clear; only he will pay for the loss of his time, and will have him thoroughly healed. 
02O	21	20	20980	When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he will be avenged. 
02O	21	21	20990	But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money. 
02O	21	22	21000	When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her will surely be fined, as the woman's husband will impose on him, and he will pay as a judges decides. 
02O	21	23	21010	But if there is mischief, then you will pay life for life, 
02O	21	24	21020	eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 
02O	21	25	21030	burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 
02O	21	26	21040	When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he will let the slave go free because of his eye. 
02O	21	27	21050	If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he will let the slave go free because of his tooth. 
02O	21	28	21060	When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox will be stoned, and its meat will not be eaten, but the owner of the ox will not be liable. 
02O	21	29	21070	But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it penned, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox will be stoned, and its owner also will be put to death. 
02O	21	30	21080	If a fine is imposed on him, then he will give for the redemption of his life whatever is required on him. 
02O	21	31	21090	If it gores a man's son or daughter, he will be judged according to this same rule. 
02O	21	32	21100	If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner will give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox will be stoned. 
02O	21	33	21110	When a man uncovers a pit, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, 
02O	21	34	21120	the owner of the pit will make it good. He will give money to its owner, and the dead one will be his. 
02O	21	35	21130	When one man's ox butts another's, so that it dies, then they will sell the live ox and share its price, and the dead beast also they will share. 
02O	21	36	21140	Or if it is known that the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has not kept it penned, he will repay ox for ox, and the dead beast will be his. 
02O	22	1	21150	If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he will repay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. 
02O	22	2	21160	If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguilt for him, 
02O	22	3	21170	but if the sun has risen on him, there will be bloodguilt for him. He will surely pay. If he has nothing, then he will be sold for his theft. 
02O	22	4	21180	If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he will pay double. 
02O	22	5	21190	If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man's field, he will make restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard. 
02O	22	6	21200	If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire will make full restitution. 
02O	22	7	21210	If a man gives to his neighbor money or goods to keep safe, and it is stolen from the man's house, then, if the thief is found, he will pay double. 
02O	22	8	21220	If the thief is not found, the owner of the house will come before God to show whether or not he has taken his neighbor's property. 
02O	22	9	21230	For every breach of trust, whether it is for an ox, for a donkey, for a sheep, for a cloak, or for any kind of lost thing, of which one says, 'This is it,' the case of both parties will come before God. The one whom God finds guilty will pay double to his neighbor. 
02O	22	10	21240	If a man gives to his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep safe, and it dies or is injured or is driven away, without anyone seeing it, 
02O	22	11	21250	an oath by the LORD will be between them both to see whether or not he has taken his neighbor's property. The owner will accept the oath, and he will not make restitution. 
02O	22	12	21260	But if it is stolen from him, he will make restitution to its owner. 
02O	22	13	21270	If it is torn by beasts, let him present it as evidence. He will not make restitution for what has been preyed upon. 
02O	22	14	21280	If a man borrows anything of his neighbor, and it is injured or dies, the owner not being with it, he will make full restitution. 
02O	22	15	21290	If the owner was with it, he will not make restitution; if it was hired, it came for its hiring fee. 
02O	22	16	21300	If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he will give the bride-price for her and make her his wife. 
02O	22	17	21310	If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he will pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins. 
02O	22	18	21320	You will not permit a sorceress to live. 
02O	22	19	21330	Whoever lies with an animal will be put to death. 
02O	22	20	21340	Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the LORD alone, will be destroyed. 
02O	22	21	21350	You will not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 
02O	22	22	21360	You will not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. 
02O	22	23	21370	If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry, 
02O	22	24	21380	and my anger will grow, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will become widows and your children fatherless. 
02O	22	25	21390	If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you will not be like a moneylender to him, and you will not exact interest from him. 
02O	22	26	21400	If ever you take your neighbor's cloak in pledge, you will return it to him before the sun goes down, 
02O	22	27	21410	for that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else will he sleep? And if he cries to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate. 
02O	22	28	21420	You will not despise God, nor curse a ruler of your people. 
02O	22	29	21430	You will not delay to offer from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. The firstborn of your sons you will dedicate to me. 
02O	22	30	21440	You will do the same with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it will be with its mother; on the eighth day you will give it to me. 
02O	22	31	21450	You will be dedicated to me. Therefore you will not eat any meat that is torn by beasts in the field; you will throw it to the dogs. 
02O	23	1	21460	You will not spread a false report. You will not align with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. 
02O	23	2	21470	You will not fall in with the many to do evil, nor will you bear witness in a dispute, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, 
02O	23	3	21480	nor will you be partial to a poor man in his dispute. 
02O	23	4	21490	If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you will bring it back to him. 
02O	23	5	21500	If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you will refrain from leaving him with it; you will rescue it with him. 
02O	23	6	21510	You will not pervert the justice due to your needy in his dispute. 
02O	23	7	21520	Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked. 
02O	23	8	21530	And you will take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right. 
02O	23	9	21540	You will not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 
02O	23	10	21550	For six years you will plant your field and gather in its yield, 
02O	23	11	21560	but the seventh year you will let it rest and lie fallow, that the needy of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You will do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive grove. 
02O	23	12	21570	Six days you will do your work, but on the seventh day you will rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be rested. 
02O	23	13	21580	Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips. 
02O	23	14	21590	Three times in the year you will keep a feast to Me. 
02O	23	15	21600	You will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you will eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. None will appear before me empty-handed. 
02O	23	16	21610	You will keep the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You will keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor. 
02O	23	17	21620	Three times in the year will all your males appear before the Lord GOD. 
02O	23	18	21630	You will not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning. 
02O	23	19	21640	The best of the firstfruits of your ground you will bring into the house of the LORD your God.  You will not boil a young goat in its mother's milk. 
02O	23	20	21650	Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. 
02O	23	21	21660	Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for My name is in him. 
02O	23	22	21670	But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. 
02O	23	23	21680	When My angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out, 
02O	23	24	21690	you will not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you will utterly overthrow them and break their monuments in pieces. 
02O	23	25	21700	You will serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you. 
02O	23	26	21710	None will miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days. 
02O	23	27	21720	I will send My fear before you and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you will come, and I will make all your enemies retreat from you. 
02O	23	28	21730	And I will send hornets before you, which will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you. 
02O	23	29	21740	I will not drive them out from before you in one year, otherwise the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you. 
02O	23	30	21750	Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land. 
02O	23	31	21760	And I will set your border from the Sea of Reeds to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your power, and you will drive them out before you. 
02O	23	32	21770	You will make no treaty with them and their gods. 
02O	23	33	21780	They will not dwell in your land, otherwise they make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a trap to you." 
02O	24	1	21790	Then he said to Moses, "Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from a distance. 
02O	24	2	21800	Moses only will come near to the LORD, but the others will not come near, and the people will not come up with him." 
02O	24	3	21810	Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words that the LORD has spoken we will do." 
02O	24	4	21820	And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. He rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars, and twelve memorial pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. 
02O	24	5	21830	And he sent young men of the people of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the LORD. 
02O	24	6	21840	And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he threw against the altar. 
02O	24	7	21850	Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, "All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient." 
02O	24	8	21860	And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words." 
02O	24	9	21870	Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, 
02O	24	10	21880	and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness. 
02O	24	11	21890	And He did not lay his hand on the chief men of the sons of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank. 
02O	24	12	21900	The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to Me on the mountain and wait there, that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction." 
02O	24	13	21910	So Moses rose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up to the mountain of God. 
02O	24	14	21920	And he said to the elders, "Wait here for us until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever has a dispute, let him go to them." 
02O	24	15	21930	Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. 
02O	24	16	21940	The glory of the LORD dwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 
02O	24	17	21950	Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain before the sons of Israel. 
02O	24	18	21960	Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights. 
02O	25	1	21970	The LORD said to Moses, 
02O	25	2	21980	"Speak to the sons of Israel, that they take for Me a offering. From every man whose heart moves him you will receive the offering for Me. 
02O	25	3	21990	And this is the offering that you will receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze, 
02O	25	4	22000	blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats' hair, 
02O	25	5	22010	tanned rams' skins, goatskins, acacia wood, 
02O	25	6	22020	oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, 
02O	25	7	22030	onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece. 
02O	25	8	22040	And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst. 
02O	25	9	22050	Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, like this you will make it. 
02O	25	10	22060	They will make an ark of acacia wood. Two cubits and a half will be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. 
02O	25	11	22070	You will overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside will you cover it, and you will make on it a border of gold around it. 
02O	25	12	22080	You will cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. 
02O	25	13	22090	You will make poles of acacia wood and cover them with gold. 
02O	25	14	22100	And you will put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark by them. 
02O	25	15	22110	The poles will remain in the rings of the ark; they will not be taken from it. 
02O	25	16	22120	And you will put into the ark the testimony that I will give you. 
02O	25	17	22130	You will make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two cubits and a half will be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. 
02O	25	18	22140	And you will make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work will you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat. 
02O	25	19	22150	Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat will you make the cherubim on its two ends. 
02O	25	20	22160	The cherubim will spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat will the faces of the cherubim be. 
02O	25	21	22170	And you will put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you will put the testimony that I will give you. 
02O	25	22	22180	There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will give you in commandment for the sons of Israel. 
02O	25	23	22190	You will make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits will be its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. 
02O	25	24	22200	You will cover it with pure gold and make a border of gold around it. 
02O	25	25	22210	And you will make a rim a hand's width around it , and a border of gold around the rim. 
02O	25	26	22220	And you will make for it four rings of gold, and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs. 
02O	25	27	22230	Close to the frame the rings will lie, as holders for the poles to carry the table. 
02O	25	28	22240	You will make the poles of acacia wood, and cover them with gold, and the table will be carried with these. 
02O	25	29	22250	And you will make its plates and dishes for incense, and its flagons and bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you will make them of pure gold. 
02O	25	30	22260	And you will set the bread of the Presence on the table before Me regularly. 
02O	25	31	22270	You will make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand will be made of hammered work: its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers will be of one piece from it. 
02O	25	32	22280	And there will be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it; 
02O	25	33	22290	three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on the other branch, like so for the six branches going out of the lampstand. 
02O	25	34	22300	And on the lampstand itself there will be four cups made like almond blossoms, with their calyxes and flowers, 
02O	25	35	22310	and a calyx of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out from the lampstand. 
02O	25	36	22320	Their calyxes and their branches will be of one piece with it, the whole of it a single piece of hammered work of pure gold. 
02O	25	37	22330	You will make seven lamps for it. And the lamps will be set up so as to give light in the area in front of it. 
02O	25	38	22340	Its tongs and their trays will be of pure gold. 
02O	25	39	22350	It will be made, with all these utensils, out of a talent of pure gold. 
02O	25	40	22360	And see that you make them after the likeness for them, which is being shown to you on the mountain. 
02O	26	1	22370	And you will make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you will make them the work of a skilled craftsman. 
02O	26	2	22380	The length of each curtain will be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains will be the same size. 
02O	26	3	22390	Five curtains will be attached to one another, and the other five curtains will be attached to one another. 
02O	26	4	22400	And you will make loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set. Likewise you will make loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set. 
02O	26	5	22410	Fifty loops you will make on the one curtain, and fifty loops you will make on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops will be opposite one another. 
02O	26	6	22420	And you will make fifty clasps of gold, and attach the curtains one to the other with the clasps. And it will become one tabernacle. 
02O	26	7	22430	You will also make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains will you make. 
02O	26	8	22440	The length of each curtain will be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains will be the same size. 
02O	26	9	22450	You will attach five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and the sixth curtain you will double over at the front of the tent. 
02O	26	10	22460	You will make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second set. 
02O	26	11	22470	You will make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and attach the tent together. And it will become one.  
02O	26	12	22480	And the portion that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, will hang over the back of the tabernacle. 
02O	26	13	22490	And the extra that remains in the length of the curtains, the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, will hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on this side and that side, to cover it. 
02O	26	14	22500	And you will make for the tent a covering of tanned rams' skins and a covering of goatskins on top. 
02O	26	15	22510	You will make upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood. 
02O	26	16	22520	Ten cubits will be the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the width of each frame. 
02O	26	17	22530	There will be two pegs in each frame, for fitting together. This way you will make all the frames of the tabernacle. 
02O	26	18	22540	You will make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side; 
02O	26	19	22550	and forty bases of silver you will make under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two pegs, and two bases under the next frame for its two pegs; 
02O	26	20	22560	and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side twenty frames, 
02O	26	21	22570	and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame, and two bases under the next frame. 
02O	26	22	22580	And for the rear of the tabernacle westward you will make six frames. 
02O	26	23	22590	And you will make two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear; 
02O	26	24	22600	they will be separate underneath, but joined at the top, at the first ring. This way it will be with both of them; they will form the two corners. 
02O	26	25	22610	And there will be eight frames, with their bases of silver, sixteen bases; two bases under one frame, and two bases under another frame. 
02O	26	26	22620	You will make bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle, 
02O	26	27	22630	and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the side of the tabernacle at the rear westward. 
02O	26	28	22640	The middle bar, halfway up the frames, will run from end to end. 
02O	26	29	22650	You will overlay the frames with gold and will make their rings of gold for holders for the bars, and you will cover the bars with gold. 
02O	26	30	22660	Then you will erect the tabernacle according to the style for it that you were shown on the mountain. 
02O	26	31	22670	And you will make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. It will be made with cherubim skillfully worked into it. 
02O	26	32	22680	And you will hang it on four pillars of acacia covered with gold, with hooks of gold, on four bases of silver. 
02O	26	33	22690	And you will hang the veil from the clasps, and bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil. And the veil will separate for you the Holy Place from the Most Holy. 
02O	26	34	22700	You will put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place. 
02O	26	35	22710	And you will set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle opposite the table, and you will put the table on the north side. 
02O	26	36	22720	You will make a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework. 
02O	26	37	22730	And you will make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and cover them with gold. Their hooks will be of gold, and you will cast five bases of bronze for them. 
02O	27	1	22740	You will make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide. The altar will be square, and its height will be three cubits. 
02O	27	2	22750	And you will make horns for it on its four corners; its horns will be of one piece of it, and you will cover it with bronze. 
02O	27	3	22760	You will make pots for it to receive its ashes, and shovels and basins and forks and fire pans. You will make all its utensils of bronze. 
02O	27	4	22770	You will also make for it a grating, a network of bronze, and on the net you will make four bronze rings at its four corners. 
02O	27	5	22780	And you will set it under the ledge of the altar so that the net extends halfway down the altar. 
02O	27	6	22790	And you will make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and cover them with bronze. 
02O	27	7	22800	And the poles will be put through the rings, so that the poles are on the two sides of the altar when it is carried. 
02O	27	8	22810	You will make it hollow, with boards. As it has been shown you on the mountain, this way will it be made. 
02O	27	9	22820	You will make the court of the tabernacle. On the south side the court will have curtains of fine twined linen a hundred cubits long for one side. 
02O	27	10	22830	Its twenty pillars and their twenty bases will be of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets will be of silver. 
02O	27	11	22840	And likewise for its length on the north side there will be curtains a hundred cubits long, its pillars twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets will be of silver. 
02O	27	12	22850	And for the width of the court on the west side there will be curtains for fifty cubits, with ten pillars and ten bases. 
02O	27	13	22860	The width of the court on the front to the east will be fifty cubits. 
02O	27	14	22870	The curtains for the one side of the gate will be fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and three bases. 
02O	27	15	22880	On the other side the curtains will be fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and three bases. 
02O	27	16	22890	For the gate of the court there will be a screen twenty cubits long, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework. It will have four pillars and with them four bases. 
02O	27	17	22900	All the pillars around the court will be banded with silver. Their hooks will be of silver, and their bases of bronze. 
02O	27	18	22910	The length of the court will be a hundred cubits, the width fifty, and the height five cubits, with curtains of fine twined linen and bases of bronze. 
02O	27	19	22920	All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use, and all its pegs and all the pegs of the court, will be of bronze. 
02O	27	20	22930	You will command the sons of Israel that they bring to you pure beaten olive oil for the light, that a lamp will regularly be set up to burn. 
02O	27	21	22940	In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons will tend it from evening to morning before the LORD. It will be a statute forever to be observed throughout their generations by the sons of Israel. 
02O	28	1	22950	Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the sons of Israel, to serve as priests to Me;  Aaron and Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 
02O	28	2	22960	And you will make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. 
02O	28	3	22970	You will speak to all the skillful, whom I have filled with a spirit of skill, that they make Aaron's garments to dedicate him for My priesthood. 
02O	28	4	22980	These are the garments that they will make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash. They will make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons to serve Me as priests. 
02O	28	5	22990	They will receive gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen. 
02O	28	6	23000	And they will make the ephod of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and of fine twined linen, skillfully made. 
02O	28	7	23010	It will have two shoulder pieces attached to its two edges, so that it may be joined together. 
02O	28	8	23020	And the skillfully woven belt on it will be made like it and be of one piece with it, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen. 
02O	28	9	23030	You will take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel, 
02O	28	10	23040	six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, in the order of their birth. 
02O	28	11	23050	As a jeweler engraves signets, so will you engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel. You will enclose them in settings of gold filigree. 
02O	28	12	23060	And you will set the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel. And Aaron will bear their names before the LORD on his two shoulders for remembrance. 
02O	28	13	23070	You will make settings of gold filigree, 
02O	28	14	23080	and two chains of pure gold, twisted like cords; and you will attach the corded chains to the settings. 
02O	28	15	23090	You will make a breastpiece of judgment, in skilled work. In the style of the ephod you will make it; of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen will you make it. 
02O	28	16	23100	It will be square and doubled, a span its length and a span its width. 
02O	28	17	23110	You will set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle will be the first row; 
02O	28	18	23120	and the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; 
02O	28	19	23130	and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 
02O	28	20	23140	and the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They will be set in gold filigree. 
02O	28	21	23150	There will be twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel. They will be like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes. 
02O	28	22	23160	You will make for the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold. 
02O	28	23	23170	And you will make for the breastpiece two rings of gold, and put the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece. 
02O	28	24	23180	And you will put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece. 
02O	28	25	23190	The two ends of the two cords you will attach to the two settings of filigree, and attach it in front to the shoulder pieces of the ephod. 
02O	28	26	23200	You will make two rings of gold, and put them at the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inside edge next to the ephod. 
02O	28	27	23210	And you will make two rings of gold, and attach them in front to the lower part of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, at its seam above the skillfully woven belt of the ephod. 
02O	28	28	23220	And they will bind the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, so that it will lie on the skillfully woven belt of the ephod, so that the breastpiece will not come loose from the ephod. 
02O	28	29	23230	So Aaron will bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of judgment on his heart, when he goes into the Holy Place, to bring them to regular remembrance before the LORD. 
02O	28	30	23240	And in the breastpiece of judgment you will put the Urim and the Thummim, and they will be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before the LORD. Thus Aaron will bear the judgment of the sons of Israel on his heart before the LORD regularly. 
02O	28	31	23250	You will make the robe of the ephod all of blue. 
02O	28	32	23260	It will have an opening for the head in the middle of it, with a woven binding around the opening, like the opening in a garment, so that it will not tear. 
02O	28	33	23270	On its hem you will make pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, around its hem, with bells of gold between them, 
02O	28	34	23280	a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe. 
02O	28	35	23290	And it will be on Aaron when he ministers, and its sound will be heard when he goes into the Holy Place before the LORD, and when he comes out, so that he does not die. 
02O	28	36	23300	You will make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, 'Holy to the LORD.' 
02O	28	37	23310	And you will fasten it on the turban by a blue cord.  It will be on the front of the turban. 
02O	28	38	23320	It will be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron will bear any guilt from the holy things that the sons of Israel dedicate as their holy gifts. It will regularly be on his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD. 
02O	28	39	23330	You will weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you will make a turban of fine linen, and you will make a sash embroidered with needlework. 
02O	28	40	23340	For Aaron's sons you will make coats and sashes and caps. You will make them for glory and beauty. 
02O	28	41	23350	And you will put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and will anoint them and ordain them and dedicate them, that they may serve Me as priests. 
02O	28	42	23360	You will make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked flesh. They will reach from the loins to the thighs; 
02O	28	43	23370	and they will be on Aaron and on his sons when they go into the tent of meeting or when they come near the altar to minister in the Holy Place, otherwise they bear guilt and die. This will be a statute forever for him and for his offspring after him. 
02O	29	1	23380	Now this is what you will do to them to dedicate them, that they may serve Me as priests. Take one bull of the herd and two rams without blemish, 
02O	29	2	23390	and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil. You will make them of fine wheat flour. 
02O	29	3	23400	You will put them in one basket and bring them in the basket, and bring the bull and the two rams. 
02O	29	4	23410	You will bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and wash them with water. 
02O	29	5	23420	Then you will take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastpiece, and gird him with the skillfully woven belt of the ephod. 
02O	29	6	23430	And you will set the turban on his head and put the holy crown on the turban. 
02O	29	7	23440	You will take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him. 
02O	29	8	23450	Then you will bring his sons and put coats on them, 
02O	29	9	23460	and you will gird Aaron and his sons with sashes and bind caps on them. And the priesthood will be theirs by a statute forever. Thus you will ordain Aaron and his sons. 
02O	29	10	23470	Then you will bring the bull before the tent of meeting. Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the head of the bull. 
02O	29	11	23480	Then you will kill the bull before the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting, 
02O	29	12	23490	and will take part of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and the rest of the blood you will pour out at the base of the altar. 
02O	29	13	23500	And you will take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the long lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar. 
02O	29	14	23510	But the flesh of the bull and its skin and its dung you will burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering. 
02O	29	15	23520	Then you will take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the head of the ram, 
02O	29	16	23530	and you will kill the ram and will take its blood and throw it against the sides of the altar. 
02O	29	17	23540	Then you will cut the ram into pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head, 
02O	29	18	23550	and burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD. It is a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD. 
02O	29	19	23560	You will take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the head of the ram, 
02O	29	20	23570	and you will kill the ram and take part of its blood and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron and on the tips of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the great toes of their right feet, and throw the rest of the blood against the sides of the altar. 
02O	29	21	23580	Then you will take part of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments, and on his sons and his sons' garments with him. He and his garments will be holy, and his sons and his sons' garments with him. 
02O	29	22	23590	You will also take the fat from the ram and the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails, and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of ordination), 
02O	29	23	23600	and one loaf of bread and one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD. 
02O	29	24	23610	You will put all these on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. 
02O	29	25	23620	Then you will take them from their hands and burn them on the altar on top of the burnt offering, as a pleasing aroma before the LORD. It is a food offering to the LORD. 
02O	29	26	23630	You will take the breast of the ram of Aaron's ordination and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD, and it will be your portion. 
02O	29	27	23640	And you will dedicate the breast of the wave offering that is waved and the thigh of the priests' portion that is contributed from the ram of ordination, from what was Aaron's and his sons'. 
02O	29	28	23650	It will be for Aaron and his sons as a perpetual due from the people of Israel, for it is a contribution. It will be a contribution from the sons of Israel from their peace offerings, their contribution to the LORD. 
02O	29	29	23660	The holy garments of Aaron will be for his sons after him; they will be anointed in them and ordained in them. 
02O	29	30	23670	The son who succeeds him as priest, who comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place, will wear them seven days. 
02O	29	31	23680	You will take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place. 
02O	29	32	23690	And Aaron and his sons will eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket in the entrance of the tent of meeting. 
02O	29	33	23700	They will eat those things with which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration, but an outsider will not eat of them, because they are holy. 
02O	29	34	23710	And if any of the flesh for the ordination or of the bread remain until the morning, then you will burn the remainder with fire. It will not be eaten, because it is holy. 
02O	29	35	23720	This you will do to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. Through seven days will you ordain them, 
02O	29	36	23730	and every day you will offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. Also you will purify the altar, when you make atonement for it, and will anoint it to dedicate it. 
02O	29	37	23740	Seven days you will make atonement for the altar and dedicate it, and the altar will be most holy. Whatever touches the altar will become holy. 
02O	29	38	23750	Now this is what you will offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day every day regularly. 
02O	29	39	23760	One lamb you will offer in the morning, and the other lamb you will offer at twilight. 
02O	29	40	23770	And with the first lamb a tenth seah of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering. 
02O	29	41	23780	The other lamb you will offer at twilight, and will offer with it a grain offering and its drink offering, as in the morning, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD. 
02O	29	42	23790	It will be a regular burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the LORD, where I will meet with you, to speak to you there. 
02O	29	43	23800	There I will meet with the sons of Israel, and it will be sanctified by my glory. 
02O	29	44	23810	I will dedicate the tent of meeting and the altar. Aaron also and his sons I will dedicate to serve Me as priests. 
02O	29	45	23820	I will dwell among the sons of Israel and will be their God. 
02O	29	46	23830	And they will know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them. I am the LORD their God. 
02O	30	1	23840	You will make an altar on which to burn incense; you will make it of acacia wood. 
02O	30	2	23850	A cubit will be its length, and a cubit its width. It will be square, and two cubits will be its height. Its horns will be of one piece with it. 
02O	30	3	23860	You will cover it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And you will make a molding of gold around it. 
02O	30	4	23870	And you will make two golden rings for it. Under its molding on two opposite sides of it you will make them, and they will be holders for poles with which to carry it. 
02O	30	5	23880	You will make the poles of acacia wood and cover them with gold. 
02O	30	6	23890	And you will put it in front of the veil that is above the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat that is above the testimony, where I will meet with you. 
02O	30	7	23900	And Aaron will burn fragrant incense on it. Every morning when he dresses the lamps he will burn it, 
02O	30	8	23910	and when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he will burn it, a regular incense offering before the LORD throughout your generations. 
02O	30	9	23920	You will not offer unauthorized incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering, and you will not pour a drink offering on it. 
02O	30	10	23930	Aaron will make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement he will make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the LORD." 
02O	30	11	23940	The LORD said to Moses, 
02O	30	12	23950	"When you take the census of the sons of Israel, then each will give a ransom for his life to the LORD when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them. 
02O	30	13	23960	Each one who is numbered in the census will give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the LORD. 
02O	30	14	23970	Everyone who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, will give the LORD's offering. 
02O	30	15	23980	The rich will not give more, and the poor will not give less, than the half shekel, when you give the LORD's offering to make atonement for your lives. 
02O	30	16	23990	You will take the atonement money from the sons of Israel and will give it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it will bring the sons of Israel to remembrance before the LORD, so as to make atonement for your lives." 
02O	30	17	24000	The LORD said to Moses, 
02O	30	18	24010	"You will also make a basin of bronze, with its stand of bronze, for washing. You will put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you will put water in it, 
02O	30	19	24020	with which Aaron and his sons will wash their hands and their feet. 
02O	30	20	24030	When they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn a food offering to the LORD, they will wash with water, so that they will not die. 
02O	30	21	24040	They will wash their hands and their feet, so that they will not die. It will be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his offspring throughout their generations." 
02O	30	22	24050	The LORD said to Moses, 
02O	30	23	24060	"Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh 500 shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, 250, and 250 of aromatic cane, 
02O	30	24	24070	and 500 of cassia, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil. 
02O	30	25	24080	And you will make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; it will be a holy anointing oil. 
02O	30	26	24090	With it you will anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony, 
02O	30	27	24100	and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense, 
02O	30	28	24110	and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils and the basin and its stand. 
02O	30	29	24120	You will dedicate them, that they will be most holy. Whatever touches them will become holy. 
02O	30	30	24130	You will anoint Aaron and his sons, and dedicate them, that they will serve me as priests. 
02O	30	31	24140	And you will say to the sons of Israel, 'This will be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations. 
02O	30	32	24150	It will not be poured on the body of an ordinary person, and you will make no other like it in proportion. It is holy, and it will be holy to you. 
02O	30	33	24160	Whoever mixes any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider will be cut off from his people.'" 
02O	30	34	24170	The LORD said to Moses, "Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense, of each will there be an equal part, 
02O	30	35	24180	and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy. 
02O	30	36	24190	You will beat some of it very small, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you. It will be most holy for you. 
02O	30	37	24200	And the incense that you will make according to its proportion, you will not make for yourselves. It will be for you holy to the LORD. 
02O	30	38	24210	Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume will be cut off from his people." 
02O	31	1	24220	The LORD said to Moses, 
02O	31	2	24230	"See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 
02O	31	3	24240	and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all manner of craftsmanship, 
02O	31	4	24250	to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, 
02O	31	5	24260	in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in all manner of crafts. 
02O	31	6	24270	And behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.  And I have given to all able men ability, that they may make all that I have commanded you: 
02O	31	7	24280	the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is on it, and all the furnishings of the tent, 
02O	31	8	24290	the table and its utensils, and the pure lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense, 
02O	31	9	24300	and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin and its stand, 
02O	31	10	24310	and the finely worked garments, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, for their service as priests, 
02O	31	11	24320	and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense for the Holy Place. According to all that I have commanded you, they will do." 
02O	31	12	24330	And the LORD said to Moses, 
02O	31	13	24340	"You are to speak to the sons of Israel and say, 'Above all you will keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the LORD, sanctify you. 
02O	31	14	24350	You will keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it will be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul will be cut off from among his people. 
02O	31	15	24360	Six days will work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day will be put to death. 
02O	31	16	24370	Therefore the sons of Israel will keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever. 
02O	31	17	24380	It is a sign forever between Me and the sons of Israel that in six times the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh time He rested and was refreshed.'" 
02O	31	18	24390	And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God. 
02O	32	1	24400	When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, "Up, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him." 
02O	32	2	24410	So Aaron said to them, "Take off the rings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me." 
02O	32	3	24420	And all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. 
02O	32	4	24430	And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf. And they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!" 
02O	32	5	24440	When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made proclamation and said, "Tomorrow will be a feast to the LORD." 
02O	32	6	24450	And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play. 
02O	32	7	24460	And the LORD said to Moses, "Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. 
02O	32	8	24470	They have quickly departed from the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!'" 
02O	32	9	24480	And the LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people. 
02O	32	10	24490	Now therefore let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may destroy them, in order that I may make a great nation of you." 
02O	32	11	24500	But Moses prayed to the LORD his God and said, "O LORD, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people, whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 
02O	32	12	24510	Why should the Egyptians say, 'With evil intent did He bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from Your burning anger and ease from this calamity upon Your people. 
02O	32	13	24520	Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they will inherit it forever.'" 
02O	32	14	24530	And the LORD eased from the calamity that he had spoken of bringing on his people. 
02O	32	15	24540	Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets that were written on both sides; on the front and on the back they were written. 
02O	32	16	24550	The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets. 
02O	32	17	24560	When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is a noise of battle in the camp." 
02O	32	18	24570	But he said, "It is not the sound of shouting for victory, or the sound of the cry of defeat, but the sound of singing that I hear." 
02O	32	19	24580	And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses' anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets from his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain. 
02O	32	20	24590	He took the calf that they had made and burned it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it on the water and made the people of Israel drink it. 
02O	32	21	24600	And Moses said to Aaron, "What did this people do to you that you have brought such a great sin upon them?" 
02O	32	22	24610	And Aaron said, "Let not the anger of my lord burn hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil. 
02O	32	23	24620	For they said to me, 'Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.' 
02O	32	24	24630	So I said to them, 'Let any who have gold take it off.' So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf." 
02O	32	25	24640	And when Moses saw that the people had broken loose (for Aaron had let them break loose, to their shame before their enemies), 
02O	32	26	24650	then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, "Who is on the LORD's side? Come to me." And all the sons of Levi gathered around him. 
02O	32	27	24660	And he said to them, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'Put your sword on your side each of you, and go here and there from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you kill his brother and his companion and his neighbor.'" 
02O	32	28	24670	And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And that day about three thousand men of the people fell. 
02O	32	29	24680	And Moses said, "Today you have been dedicated for the service of the LORD, each one at the cost of his son and of his brother, so that He might bestow a blessing upon you this day." 
02O	32	30	24690	The next day Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin." 
02O	32	31	24700	So Moses returned to the LORD and said, "Now, this people has sinned a great sin. They have made for themselves gods of gold. 
02O	32	32	24710	But now, if you will forgive their sin. And if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book that You have written." 
02O	32	33	24720	But the LORD said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book. 
02O	32	34	24730	But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; behold, my angel will go before you. Nevertheless, in the time when I visit, I will visit their sin on them." 
02O	32	35	24740	Then the LORD sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf, that which Aaron made. 
02O	33	1	24750	The LORD said to Moses, "Depart; go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, 'To your offspring I will give it.' 
02O	33	2	24760	I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 
02O	33	3	24770	Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people." 
02O	33	4	24780	When the people heard this bad news, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments. 
02O	33	5	24790	For the LORD had said to Moses, "Say to the people of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I would go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do with you.'" 
02O	33	6	24800	Therefore the people of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward. 
02O	33	7	24810	Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought the LORD would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp. 
02O	33	8	24820	Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would rise up, and each would stand at his tent door, and watch Moses until he had gone into the tent. 
02O	33	9	24830	When Moses entered the tent, the plume of clouds would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the LORD would speak with Moses. 
02O	33	10	24840	And when all the people saw the plume of clouds standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, each at his tent door. 
02O	33	11	24850	Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent. 
02O	33	12	24860	Moses said to the LORD, "See, you say to me, 'Bring up this people,' but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.' 
02O	33	13	24870	Now therefore, if I have found favor in Your sight, please show me now Your ways, that I may know You in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is Your people." 
02O	33	14	24880	And he said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." 
02O	33	15	24890	And he said to him, "If Your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. 
02O	33	16	24900	For how will it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not in Your going with us, so that we are distinct, I and Your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?" 
02O	33	17	24910	And the LORD said to Moses, "This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name." 
02O	33	18	24920	Moses said, "Please show me your glory." 
02O	33	19	24930	And he said, "I will make all My goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you My name 'The LORD.' And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. 
02O	33	20	24940	But," he said, "you cannot see my face, for man Will not see me and live." 
02O	33	21	24950	And the LORD said, "Behold, there is a place by Me where you will stand on the rock, 
02O	33	22	24960	and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with My hand until I have passed by. 
02O	33	23	24970	Then I will take away My hand, and you will see My back, but my face will not be seen." 
02O	34	1	24980	The LORD said to Moses, "Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. 
02O	34	2	24990	Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain. 
02O	34	3	25000	No one will come up with you, and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain." 
02O	34	4	25010	So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone. 
02O	34	5	25020	The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 
02O	34	6	25030	The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 
02O	34	7	25040	keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation." 
02O	34	8	25050	And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. 
02O	34	9	25060	And He said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Your inheritance." 
02O	34	10	25070	And He said, "Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are will see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you. 
02O	34	11	25080	Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 
02O	34	12	25090	Take care, otherwise you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, otherwise it become a trap in your midst. 
02O	34	13	25100	You will tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim 
02O	34	14	25110	for you will worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God, 
02O	34	15	25120	otherwise you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice, 
02O	34	16	25130	and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods. 
02O	34	17	25140	You will not make for yourself any gods of cast metal. 
02O	34	18	25150	You will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you will eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt. 
02O	34	19	25160	All that open the womb are mine, all your male livestock, the firstborn of cow and sheep. 
02O	34	20	25170	The firstborn of a donkey you will redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you will break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you will redeem. And none will appear before me empty-handed. 
02O	34	21	25180	Six days you will work, but on the seventh day you will rest. In plowing time and in harvest you will rest. 
02O	34	22	25190	You will observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end. 
02O	34	23	25200	Three times in the year will all your males appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel. 
02O	34	24	25210	For I will cast out nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet your land, when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year. 
02O	34	25	25220	You will not offer the blood of My sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning. 
02O	34	26	25230	The best of the firstfruits of your ground you will bring to the house of the LORD your God. You will not boil a young goat in its mother's milk." 
02O	34	27	25240	And the LORD said to Moses, "Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel." 
02O	34	28	25250	So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. 
02O	34	29	25260	When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. 
02O	34	30	25270	Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. 
02O	34	31	25280	But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them. 
02O	34	32	25290	Afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he commanded them all that the LORD had spoken with him in Mount Sinai. 
02O	34	33	25300	And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face. 
02O	34	34	25310	Whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. And when he came out and told the people of Israel what he was commanded, 
02O	34	35	25320	the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face was shining. And Moses would put the veil over his face again, until he went in to speak with Him. 
02O	35	1	25330	Moses assembled all the congregation of the sons of Israel and said to them, "These are the matters that the LORD has commanded you to do. 
02O	35	2	25340	Six days work will be done, but on the seventh day you will have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it will be put to death. 
02O	35	3	25350	You will kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day." 
02O	35	4	25360	Moses said to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, "This is that which the LORD has commanded. 
02O	35	5	25370	Take from among you a contribution to the LORD. Whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the LORD's contribution: gold, silver, and bronze; 
02O	35	6	25380	blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen; goats' hair, 
02O	35	7	25390	tanned rams' skins, and goatskins; acacia wood, 
02O	35	8	25400	oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, 
02O	35	9	25410	and onyx stones and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece. 
02O	35	10	25420	Let every skillful craftsman among you come and make all that the LORD has commanded: 
02O	35	11	25430	the tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its hooks and its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases; 
02O	35	12	25440	the ark with its poles, the mercy seat, and the veil of the screen; 
02O	35	13	25450	the table with its poles and all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence; 
02O	35	14	25460	the lampstand also for the light, with its utensils and its lamps, and the oil for the light; 
02O	35	15	25470	and the altar of incense, with its poles, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle; 
02O	35	16	25480	the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils, the basin and its stand; 
02O	35	17	25490	the curtains of the court, its pillars and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court; 
02O	35	18	25500	the pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the court, and their cords; 
02O	35	19	25510	the finely worked garments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, for their service as priests." 
02O	35	20	25520	Then all the congregation of the people of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. 
02O	35	21	25530	And they came, everyone whose heart stirred him, and everyone whose spirit moved him, and brought the LORD's contribution to be used for the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments. 
02O	35	22	25540	So they came, both men and women. All who were of a willing heart brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and armlets, all sorts of gold objects, every man dedicating an offering of gold to the LORD. 
02O	35	23	25550	And every one who possessed blue or purple or scarlet yarns or fine linen or goats' hair or tanned rams' skins or goatskins brought them. 
02O	35	24	25560	Everyone who could make a contribution of silver or bronze brought it as the LORD's contribution. And every one who possessed acacia wood of any use in the work brought it. 
02O	35	25	25570	And every skillful woman spun with her hands, and they all brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. 
02O	35	26	25580	All the women whose hearts stirred them to use their skill spun the goats' hair. 
02O	35	27	25590	And the leaders brought onyx stones and stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastpiece, 
02O	35	28	25600	and spices and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense. 
02O	35	29	25610	All the men and women, the sons of Israel, whose heart moved them to bring anything for the work that the LORD had commanded by Moses to be done brought it as a freewill offering to the LORD. 
02O	35	30	25620	Then Moses said to the people of Israel, "See, the LORD has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; 
02O	35	31	25630	and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship, 
02O	35	32	25640	to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and bronze, 
02O	35	33	25650	in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft. 
02O	35	34	25660	And he has inspired him to teach, both him and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan. 
02O	35	35	25670	He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver, by any sort of workman or skilled designer.
02O	36	1	25680	Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the LORD has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary will work in accordance with all that the LORD has commanded." 
02O	36	2	25690	And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the LORD had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work. 
02O	36	3	25700	And they received from Moses all the contribution that the sons of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning, 
02O	36	4	25710	so that all the craftsmen who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task that he was doing, 
02O	36	5	25720	and said to Moses, "The people bring much more than enough for doing the work that the LORD has commanded us to do." 
02O	36	6	25730	So Moses gave command, and word was proclaimed throughout the camp, "Let no man or woman do anything more for the contribution for the sanctuary." So the people were restricted from giving, 
02O	36	7	25740	for the material they had was sufficient to do all the work, and more. 
02O	36	8	25750	And all the craftsmen among the workmen made the tabernacle with ten curtains. They were made of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns, with cherubim skillfully worked. 
02O	36	9	25760	The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains were the same size. 
02O	36	10	25770	He attached five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he attached to one another. 
02O	36	11	25780	He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain of the first set. Likewise he made them on the edge of the outermost curtain of the second set. 
02O	36	12	25790	He made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was in the second set. The loops were opposite one another. 
02O	36	13	25800	And he made fifty clasps of gold, and attached the curtains one to the other with clasps. So the tabernacle was a single whole. 
02O	36	14	25810	He also made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle. He made eleven curtains. 
02O	36	15	25820	The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains were the same size. 
02O	36	16	25830	He attached five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. 
02O	36	17	25840	And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain of the one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the other connecting curtain. 
02O	36	18	25850	And he made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together that it might be a single whole. 
02O	36	19	25860	And he made for the tent a covering of tanned rams' skins and goatskins. 
02O	36	20	25870	Then he made the upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood. 
02O	36	21	25880	Ten cubits was the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the width of each frame. 
02O	36	22	25890	Each frame had two pegs for fitting together. He did this for all the frames of the tabernacle. 
02O	36	23	25900	The frames for the tabernacle he made thus: twenty frames for the south side. 
02O	36	24	25910	And he made forty bases of silver under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two pegs, and two bases under the next frame for its two pegs. 
02O	36	25	25920	For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty frames 
02O	36	26	25930	and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame and two bases under the next frame. 
02O	36	27	25940	For the rear of the tabernacle westward he made six frames. 
02O	36	28	25950	He made two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear. 
02O	36	29	25960	And they were separate beneath but joined at the top, at the first ring. He made two of them this way for the two corners. 
02O	36	30	25970	There were eight frames with their bases of silver: sixteen bases, under every frame two bases. 
02O	36	31	25980	He made bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle, 
02O	36	32	25990	and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the tabernacle at the rear westward. 
02O	36	33	26000	And he made the middle bar to run from end to end halfway up the frames. 
02O	36	34	26010	And he covered the frames with gold, and made their rings of gold for holders for the bars, and covered the bars with gold. 
02O	36	35	26020	He made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen; with cherubim skillfully worked into it he made it. 
02O	36	36	26030	And for it he made four pillars of acacia and covered them with gold. Their hooks were of gold, and he cast for them four bases of silver. 
02O	36	37	26040	He also made a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework, 
02O	36	38	26050	and its five pillars with their hooks. He covered their capitals, and their tops were of gold, but their five bases were of bronze. 
02O	37	1	26060	Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Two cubits and a half was its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height. 
02O	37	2	26070	And he covered it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold around it. 
02O	37	3	26080	And he cast for it four rings of gold for its four feet, two rings on its one side and two rings on its other side. 
02O	37	4	26090	And he made poles of acacia wood and covered them with gold 
02O	37	5	26100	and put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark. 
02O	37	6	26110	And he made a mercy seat of pure gold. Two cubits and a half was its length, and a cubit and a half its width. 
02O	37	7	26120	And he made two cherubim of gold. He made them of beaten work on the two ends of the mercy seat, 
02O	37	8	26130	one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat he made the cherubim on its two ends. 
02O	37	9	26140	The cherubim spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat were the faces of the cherubim. 
02O	37	10	26150	He also made the table of acacia wood. Two cubits was its length, a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height. 
02O	37	11	26160	And he covered it with pure gold, and made a molding of gold around it. 
02O	37	12	26170	And he made a rim around it a hand width wide, and made a molding of gold around the rim. 
02O	37	13	26180	He cast for it four rings of gold and fastened the rings to the four corners at its four legs. 
02O	37	14	26190	Close to the frame were the rings, as holders for the poles to carry the table. 
02O	37	15	26200	He made the poles of acacia wood to carry the table, and covered them with gold. 
02O	37	16	26210	And he made the vessels of pure gold that were to be on the table, its plates and dishes for incense, and its bowls and flagons with which to pour drink offerings. 
02O	37	17	26220	He also made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of beaten work. Its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers were of one piece with it. 
02O	37	18	26230	And there were six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it; 
02O	37	19	26240	three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on the other branch, this for the six branches going out of the lampstand. 
02O	37	20	26250	And on the lampstand itself were four cups made like almond blossoms, with their calyxes and flowers, 
02O	37	21	26260	and a calyx of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out of it. 
02O	37	22	26270	Their calyxes and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole of it was a single piece of beaten work of pure gold. 
02O	37	23	26280	And he made its seven lamps and its tongs and its trays of pure gold. 
02O	37	24	26290	He made it and all its utensils out of a talent of pure gold. 
02O	37	25	26300	He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. Its length was a cubit, and its width was a cubit. It was square, and two cubits was its height. Its horns were of one piece with it. 
02O	37	26	26310	He covered it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And he made a molding of gold around it, 
02O	37	27	26320	and made two rings of gold on it under its molding, on two opposite sides of it, as holders for the poles with which to carry it. 
02O	37	28	26330	And he made the poles of acacia wood and covered them with gold. 
02O	37	29	26340	He made the holy anointing oil also, and the pure fragrant incense, blended as by the perfumer. 
02O	38	1	26350	He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. Five cubits was its length, and five cubits its width. It was square, and three cubits was its height. 
02O	38	2	26360	He made horns for it on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he covered it with bronze. 
02O	38	3	26370	And he made all the utensils of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its utensils of bronze. 
02O	38	4	26380	And he made for the altar a grating, a network of bronze, under its ledge, extending halfway down. 
02O	38	5	26390	He cast four rings on the four corners of the bronze grating as holders for the poles. 
02O	38	6	26400	He made the poles of acacia wood and covered them with bronze. 
02O	38	7	26410	And he put the poles through the rings on the sides of the altar to carry it with them. He made it hollow, with boards. 
02O	38	8	26420	He made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze, from the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered in the entrance of the tent of meeting. 
02O	38	9	26430	And he made the court. For the south side the curtains of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits; 
02O	38	10	26440	their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. 
02O	38	11	26450	And for the north side there were curtains of a hundred cubits, their twenty pillars, their twenty bases were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. 
02O	38	12	26460	And for the west side were curtains of fifty cubits, their ten pillars, and their ten bases; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. 
02O	38	13	26470	And for the front to the east, fifty cubits. 
02O	38	14	26480	The curtains for one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and three bases. 
02O	38	15	26490	And so for the other side. On both sides of the gate of the court were curtains of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases. 
02O	38	16	26500	All the curtains around the court were of fine twined linen. 
02O	38	17	26510	And the bases for the pillars were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. The covering of their capitals was also of silver, and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver. 
02O	38	18	26520	And the screen for the gate of the court was embroidered with needlework in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. It was twenty cubits long and five cubits high in its width, corresponding to the curtains of the court. 
02O	38	19	26530	And their pillars were four in number. Their four bases were of bronze, their hooks of silver, and the covering of their capitals and their fillets of silver. 
02O	38	20	26540	And all the pegs for the tabernacle and for the court all around were of bronze. 
02O	38	21	26550	These are the totals of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were recorded at the commandment of Moses, the responsibility of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 
02O	38	22	26560	Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses; 
02O	38	23	26570	and with him was Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and designer and embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. 
02O	38	24	26580	All the gold that was used for the work, in all the construction of the sanctuary, the gold from the offering, was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary. 
02O	38	25	26590	The silver from those of the congregation who were recorded was a hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary: 
02O	38	26	26600	a beka a head (that is, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary), for everyone who was listed in the records, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men. 
02O	38	27	26610	The hundred talents of silver were for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases for the hundred talents, a talent a base. 
02O	38	28	26620	And of the 1,775 shekels he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their capitals and made fillets for them. 
02O	38	29	26630	The bronze that was offered was seventy talents and 2,400 shekels; 
02O	38	30	26640	with it he made the bases for the entrance of the tent of meeting, the bronze altar and the bronze grating for it and all the utensils of the altar, 
02O	38	31	26650	the bases around the court, and the bases of the gate of the court, all the pegs of the tabernacle, and all the pegs around the court. 
02O	39	1	26660	From the blue and purple and scarlet yarns they made finely woven garments, for ministering in the Holy Place. They made the holy garments for Aaron, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 
02O	39	2	26670	He made the ephod of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen. 
02O	39	3	26680	And they beat out gold leaf, and he cut it into threads to work into the blue and purple and the scarlet yarns, and into the fine twined linen, in skilled design. 
02O	39	4	26690	They made for the ephod attaching shoulder pieces, joined to it at its two edges. 
02O	39	5	26700	And the skillfully woven band on it was of one piece with it and made like it, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 
02O	39	6	26710	They made the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold filigree, and engraved like the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the sons of Israel. 
02O	39	7	26720	And he set them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod to be stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 
02O	39	8	26730	He made the breastpiece, in skilled work, in the style of the ephod, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen. 
02O	39	9	26740	It was square. They made the breastpiece doubled, a span its length and a span its width when doubled. 
02O	39	10	26750	And they set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was the first row; 
02O	39	11	26760	and the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; 
02O	39	12	26770	and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; 
02O	39	13	26780	and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in settings of gold filigree. 
02O	39	14	26790	There were twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel. They were like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes. 
02O	39	15	26800	And they made on the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold. 
02O	39	16	26810	And they made two settings of gold filigree and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece. 
02O	39	17	26820	And they put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece. 
02O	39	18	26830	They attached the two ends of the two cords to the two settings of filigree. Thus they attached it in front to the shoulder pieces of the ephod. 
02O	39	19	26840	Then they made two rings of gold, and put them at the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inside edge next to the ephod. 
02O	39	20	26850	And they made two rings of gold, and attached them in front to the lower part of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, at its seam above the skillfully woven band of the ephod. 
02O	39	21	26860	And they bound the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, so that it should lie on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece would not come loose from the ephod, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 
02O	39	22	26870	He also made the robe of the ephod woven all of blue, 
02O	39	23	26880	and the opening of the robe in it was like the opening in a garment, with a binding around the opening, so that it might not tear. 
02O	39	24	26890	On the hem of the robe they made pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. 
02O	39	25	26900	They also made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates all around the hem of the robe, between the pomegranates, 
02O	39	26	26910	a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate around the hem of the robe for ministering, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 
02O	39	27	26920	They also made the coats, woven of fine linen, for Aaron and his sons, 
02O	39	28	26930	and the turban of fine linen, and the caps of fine linen, and the linen undergarments of fine twined linen, 
02O	39	29	26940	and the sash of fine twined linen and of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, embroidered with needlework, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 
02O	39	30	26950	They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engraving of a signet, "Holy to the LORD." 
02O	39	31	26960	And they tied to it a cord of blue to fasten it on the turban above, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 
02O	39	32	26970	Then all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting was finished, and the people of Israel did according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses; this they did. 
02O	39	33	26980	Then they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its utensils, its hooks, its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases; 
02O	39	34	26990	the covering of tanned rams' skins and goatskins, and the veil of the screen; 
02O	39	35	27000	the ark of the testimony with its poles and the mercy seat; 
02O	39	36	27010	the table with all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence; 
02O	39	37	27020	the lampstand of pure gold and its lamps with the lamps set and all its utensils, and the oil for the light; 
02O	39	38	27030	Exo 39:38  the golden altar, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the entrance of the tent; 
02O	39	39	27040	the bronze altar, and its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin and its stand; 
02O	39	40	27050	the curtains of the court, its pillars, and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, and its pegs; and all the utensils for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting; 
02O	39	41	27060	the finely worked garments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons for their service as priests. 
02O	39	42	27070	According to all that the LORD had commanded Moses, so the people of Israel had done all the work. 
02O	39	43	27080	And Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it; as the LORD had commanded, so had they done it. Then Moses blessed them. 
02O	40	1	27090	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
02O	40	2	27100	"On the first day of the first month you will erect the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. 
02O	40	3	27110	And you will put in it the ark of the testimony, and you will screen the ark with the veil. 
02O	40	4	27120	And you will bring in the table and arrange it, and you will bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps. 
02O	40	5	27130	And you will put the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and set up the screen for the door of the tabernacle. 
02O	40	6	27140	You will set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, 
02O	40	7	27150	and place the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it. 
02O	40	8	27160	And you will set up the court all around, and hang up the screen for the gate of the court. 
02O	40	9	27170	Then you will take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and dedicate it and all its furniture, so that it may become holy. 
02O	40	10	27180	You will also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and dedicate the altar, so that the altar may become most holy. 
02O	40	11	27190	You will also anoint the basin and its stand, and dedicate it. 
02O	40	12	27200	Then you will bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and will wash them with water 
02O	40	13	27210	and put on Aaron the holy garments. And you will anoint him and dedicate him, that he may serve me as priest. 
02O	40	14	27220	You will bring his sons also and put coats on them, 
02O	40	15	27230	and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing will admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations." 
02O	40	16	27240	This Moses did; according to all that the LORD commanded him, this he did. 
02O	40	17	27250	In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected. 
02O	40	18	27260	Moses erected the tabernacle. He laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars. 
02O	40	19	27270	And he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 
02O	40	20	27280	He took the testimony and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark and set the mercy seat above on the ark. 
02O	40	21	27290	And he brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 
02O	40	22	27300	He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil, 
02O	40	23	27310	and arranged the bread on it before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 
02O	40	24	27320	He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle, 
02O	40	25	27330	and set up the lamps before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 
02O	40	26	27340	He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil, 
02O	40	27	27350	and burned fragrant incense on it, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 
02O	40	28	27360	He put in place the screen for the door of the tabernacle. 
02O	40	29	27370	And he set the altar of burnt offering at the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 
02O	40	30	27380	He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it for washing, 
02O	40	31	27390	with which Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet. 
02O	40	32	27400	When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed, as the LORD commanded Moses. 
02O	40	33	27410	And he erected the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work. 
02O	40	34	27420	Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. 
02O	40	35	27430	And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. 
02O	40	36	27440	Throughout all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out. 
02O	40	37	27450	But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out till the day that it was taken up. 
02O	40	38	27460	For the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys. 
03O	1	1	27470	The LORD called Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying, 
03O	1	2	27480	"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When any one of you brings an offering to the LORD, you will bring your offering of livestock from the herd or from the flock. 
03O	1	3	27490	If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he will offer a male without blemish. He will bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before the LORD. 
03O	1	4	27500	He will lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted for him to make atonement for him. 
03O	1	5	27510	Then he will kill the bull before the LORD, and Aaron's sons the priests will bring the blood and throw the blood against the sides of the altar that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 
03O	1	6	27520	Then he will skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces, 
03O	1	7	27530	and the sons of Aaron the priest will put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire. 
03O	1	8	27540	And Aaron's sons the priests will arrange the pieces, the head, and the fat, on the wood that is on the fire on the altar; 
03O	1	9	27550	but its entrails and its legs he will wash with water. And the priest will burn all of it on the altar, as a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 
03O	1	10	27560	If his gift for a burnt offering is from the flock, from the sheep or goats, he will bring a male without blemish, 
03O	1	11	27570	and he will kill it on the north side of the altar before the LORD, and Aaron's sons the priests will throw its blood against the sides of the altar. 
03O	1	12	27580	And he will cut it into pieces, with its head and its fat, and the priest will arrange them on the wood that is on the fire on the altar, 
03O	1	13	27590	but the entrails and the legs he will wash with water. And the priest will offer all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 
03O	1	14	27600	If his offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, then he will bring his offering of turtledoves or pigeons. 
03O	1	15	27610	And the priest will bring it to the altar and wring off its head and burn it on the altar. Its blood will be drained out on the side of the altar. 
03O	1	16	27620	He will remove its gizzard with its contents and cast it beside the altar on the east side, in the place for ashes. 
03O	1	17	27630	He will tear it open by its wings, but will not sever it completely. And the priest will burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 
03O	2	1	27640	When anyone brings a grain offering as an offering to the LORD, his offering will be of fine flour. He will pour oil on it and put frankincense on it 
03O	2	2	27650	and bring it to Aaron's sons the priests. And he will take from it a handful of the fine flour and oil, with all of its frankincense, and the priest will burn this as its memorial portion on the altar, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 
03O	2	3	27660	But the rest of the grain offering will be for Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the LORD's food offerings. 
03O	2	4	27670	When you bring a grain offering baked in the oven as an offering, it will be unleavened loaves of fine flour mixed with oil or unleavened wafers smeared with oil. 
03O	2	5	27680	And if your offering is a grain offering baked on a griddle, it will be of fine flour unleavened, mixed with oil. 
03O	2	6	27690	You will break it in pieces and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering. 
03O	2	7	27700	And if your offering is a grain offering cooked in a pan, it will be made of fine flour with oil. 
03O	2	8	27710	And you will bring the grain offering that is made of these things to the LORD, and when it is presented to the priest, he will bring it to the altar. 
03O	2	9	27720	And the priest will take from the grain offering its memorial portion and burn this on the altar, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 
03O	2	10	27730	But the rest of the grain offering will be for Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the LORD's food offerings. 
03O	2	11	27740	No grain offering that you bring to the LORD will be made with leaven, for you will burn no leaven nor any honey as a food offering to the LORD. 
03O	2	12	27750	As an offering of firstfruits you may bring them to the LORD, but they will not be offered on the altar for a pleasing aroma. 
03O	2	13	27760	You will season all your grain offerings with salt. You will not let the salt of the covenant with your God be missing from your grain offering; with all your offerings you will offer salt. 
03O	2	14	27770	If you offer a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you will offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits fresh ears, roasted with fire, crushed new grain. 
03O	2	15	27780	And you will put oil on it and lay frankincense on it; it is a grain offering. 
03O	2	16	27790	And the priest will burn as its memorial portion some of the crushed grain and some of the oil with all of its frankincense; it is a food offering to the LORD.
03O	3	1	27800	If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offers an animal from the herd, male or female, he will offer it without blemish before the LORD. 
03O	3	2	27810	And he will lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and Aaron's sons the priests will throw the blood against the sides of the altar. 
03O	3	3	27820	And from the sacrifice of the peace offering, as a food offering to the LORD, he will offer the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails, 
03O	3	4	27830	and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he will remove with the kidneys. 
03O	3	5	27840	Then Aaron's sons will burn it on the altar on top of the burnt offering, which is on the wood on the fire; it is a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 
03O	3	6	27850	If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD is an animal from the flock, male or female, he will offer it without blemish. 
03O	3	7	27860	If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he will offer it before the LORD, 
03O	3	8	27870	lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it in front of the tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons will throw its blood against the sides of the altar. 
03O	3	9	27880	Then from the sacrifice of the peace offering he will offer as a food offering to the LORD its fat; he will remove the whole fat tail, cut off close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails 
03O	3	10	27890	and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he will remove with the kidneys. 
03O	3	11	27900	And the priest will burn it on the altar as a food offering to the LORD. 
03O	3	12	27910	If his offering is a goat, then he will offer it before the LORD 
03O	3	13	27920	and lay his hand on its head and kill it in front of the tent of meeting, and the sons of Aaron will throw its blood against the sides of the altar. 
03O	3	14	27930	Then he will offer from it, as his offering for a food offering to the LORD, the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails 
03O	3	15	27940	and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he will remove with the kidneys. 
03O	3	16	27950	And the priest will burn them on the altar as a food offering with a pleasing aroma. All fat is the LORD's. 
03O	3	17	27960	It will be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood." 
03O	4	1	27970	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	4	2	27980	"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If anyone sins unwittingly in any of the LORD's commandments about things not to be done, and does any one of them, 
03O	4	3	27990	if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then he will offer for the sin that he has committed a bull from the herd without blemish to the LORD for a sin offering. 
03O	4	4	28000	He will bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of meeting before the LORD and lay his hand on the head of the bull and kill the bull before the LORD. 
03O	4	5	28010	And the anointed priest will take some of the blood of the bull and bring it into the tent of meeting, 
03O	4	6	28020	and the priest will dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle part of the blood seven times before the LORD in front of the veil of the sanctuary. 
03O	4	7	28030	And the priest will put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before the LORD that is in the tent of meeting, and all the rest of the blood of the bull he will pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 
03O	4	8	28040	And all the fat of the bull of the sin offering he will remove from it, the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails 
03O	4	9	28050	and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he will remove with the kidneys 
03O	4	10	28060	Even as these are taken from the ox of the sacrifice of the peace offerings, the priest will burn them on the altar of burnt offering. 
03O	4	11	28070	And the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung, 
03O	4	12	28080	even the rest of the bull, he will carry outside the camp to a clean place, to the ash heap, and will burn it up on a fire of wood. On the ash heap it will be burned. 
03O	4	13	28090	If the whole congregation of Israel sins unwittingly and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do any one of the things that by the LORD's commandments ought not to be done, and they realize their guilt, 
03O	4	14	28100	when the sin which they have committed becomes known, the assembly will offer a bull from the herd for a sin offering and bring it in front of the tent of meeting. 
03O	4	15	28110	And the elders of the congregation will lay their hands on the head of the bull before the LORD, and the bull will be killed before the LORD. 
03O	4	16	28120	Then the anointed priest will bring some of the blood of the bull into the tent of meeting, 
03O	4	17	28130	and the priest will dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD in front of the veil. 
03O	4	18	28140	And he will put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is in the tent of meeting before the LORD, and the rest of the blood he will pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 
03O	4	19	28150	And all its fat he will take from it and burn on the altar. 
03O	4	20	28160	Thus will he do with the bull. As he did with the bull of the sin offering, so will he do with this. And the priest will make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven. 
03O	4	21	28170	And he will carry the bull outside the camp and burn it up as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly. 
03O	4	22	28180	When a leader sins, doing unwittingly any one of all the things that by the commandments of the LORD his God ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt, 
03O	4	23	28190	or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he will bring as his offering a goat, a male without blemish, 
03O	4	24	28200	and will lay his hand on the head of the goat and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD; it is a sin offering. 
03O	4	25	28210	Then the priest will take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering. 
03O	4	26	28220	And all its fat he will burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. So the priest will make atonement for him for his sin, and he will be forgiven. 
03O	4	27	28230	If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly in doing any one of the things that by the LORD's commandments ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt, 
03O	4	28	28240	or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he will bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed. 
03O	4	29	28250	And he will lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering. 
03O	4	30	28260	And the priest will take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar. 
03O	4	31	28270	And all its fat he will remove, as the fat is removed from the peace offerings, and the priest will burn it on the altar for a pleasing aroma to the LORD. And the priest will make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven. 
03O	4	32	28280	If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he will bring a female without blemish 
03O	4	33	28290	and lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering. 
03O	4	34	28300	Then the priest will take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar. 
03O	4	35	28310	And all its fat he will remove as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the priest will burn it on the altar, on top of the LORD's food offerings. And the priest will make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed, and he will be forgiven. 
03O	5	1	28320	If anyone sins in that he hears a public oath, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he will bear his iniquity; 
03O	5	2	28330	or if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean wild animal or a carcass of unclean livestock or a carcass of unclean swarming things, and it is hidden from him and he has become unclean, and he realizes his guilt; 
03O	5	3	28340	or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever sort the uncleanness may be with which one becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and realizes his guilt; 
03O	5	4	28350	or if anyone utters with his lips a rash oath to do evil or to do good, any sort of rash oath that people swear, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and he realizes his guilt in any of these; 
03O	5	5	28360	when he realizes his guilt in any of these and confesses the sin he has committed, 
03O	5	6	28370	he will bring to the LORD as his compensation for the sin that he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering. And the priest will make atonement for him for his sin. 
03O	5	7	28380	But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he will bring to the LORD as his compensation for the sin that he has committed two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. 
03O	5	8	28390	He will bring them to the priest, who will offer first the one for the sin offering. He will wring its head from its neck but will not sever it completely, 
03O	5	9	28400	and he will sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, while the rest of the blood will be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering. 
03O	5	10	28410	Then he will offer the second for a burnt offering according to the rule. And the priest will make atonement for him for the sin that he has committed, and he will be forgiven. 
03O	5	11	28420	But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, then he will bring as his offering for the sin that he has committed a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He will put no oil on it and will put no frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering. 
03O	5	12	28430	And he will bring it to the priest, and the priest will take a handful of it as its memorial portion and burn this on the altar, on the LORD's food offerings; it is a sin offering. 
03O	5	13	28440	Thus the priest will make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed in any one of these things, and he will be forgiven. And the remainder will be for the priest, as in the grain offering." 
03O	5	14	28450	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	5	15	28460	If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unwittingly in any of the holy things of the LORD, he will bring to the LORD as his compensation, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued in silver shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering. 
03O	5	16	28470	He will also make restitution for what he has done amiss in the holy thing and will add a fifth to it and give it to the priest. And the priest will make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he will be forgiven. 
03O	5	17	28480	If anyone sins, doing any of the things that by the LORD's commandments ought not to be done, though he did not know it, then realizes his guilt, he will bear his iniquity. 
03O	5	18	28490	He will bring to the priest a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent for a guilt offering, and the priest will make atonement for him for the mistake that he made unwittingly, and he will be forgiven. 
03O	5	19	28500	It is a guilt offering; he has indeed incurred guilt before the LORD." 
03O	6	1	28510	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	6	2	28520	"If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor 
03O	6	3	28530	or has found something lost and lied about it, swearing falsely, in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby, 
03O	6	4	28540	if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found 
03O	6	5	28550	or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he will restore it in full and will add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt. 
03O	6	6	28560	And he will bring to the priest as his compensation to the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equal for a guilt offering. 
03O	6	7	28570	And the priest will make atonement for him before the LORD, and he will be forgiven for any of the things that one may do and thereby become guilty." 
03O	6	8	28580	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	6	9	28590	"Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering. The burnt offering will be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar will be kept burning on it. 
03O	6	10	28600	And the priest will put on his linen garment and put his linen undergarment on his body, and he will take up the ashes to which the fire has reduced the burnt offering on the altar and put them beside the altar. 
03O	6	11	28610	Then he will take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. 
03O	6	12	28620	The fire on the altar will be kept burning on it; it will not go out. The priest will burn wood on it every morning, and he will arrange the burnt offering on it and will burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. 
03O	6	13	28630	Fire will be kept burning on the altar continually; it will not go out. 
03O	6	14	28640	And this is the law of the grain offering. The sons of Aaron will offer it before the LORD in front of the altar. 
03O	6	15	28650	And one will take from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering and its oil and all the frankincense that is on the grain offering and burn this as its memorial portion on the altar, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 
03O	6	16	28660	And the rest of it Aaron and his sons will eat. It will be eaten unleavened in a holy place. In the court of the tent of meeting they will eat it. 
03O	6	17	28670	It will not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my food offerings. It is a thing most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering. 
03O	6	18	28680	Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as decreed forever throughout your generations, from the LORD's food offerings. Whatever touches them will become holy." 
03O	6	19	28690	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	6	20	28700	"This is the offering that Aaron and his sons will offer to the LORD on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening. 
03O	6	21	28710	It will be made with oil on a griddle. You will bring it well mixed, in baked pieces like a grain offering, and offer it for a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 
03O	6	22	28720	The priest from among Aaron's sons, who is anointed to succeed him, will offer it to the LORD as decreed forever. The whole of it will be burned. 
03O	6	23	28730	Every grain offering of a priest will be wholly burned. It will not be eaten." 
03O	6	24	28740	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	6	25	28750	"Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is killed will the sin offering be killed before the LORD; it is most holy. 
03O	6	26	28760	The priest who offers it for sin will eat it. In a holy place it will be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting. 
03O	6	27	28770	Whatever touches its flesh will be holy, and when any of its blood is splashed on a garment, you will wash that on which it was splashed in a holy place. 
03O	6	28	28780	And the earthenware vessel in which it is boiled will be broken. But if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, that will be scoured and rinsed in water. 
03O	6	29	28790	Every male among the priests may eat of it; it is most holy. 
03O	6	30	28800	But no sin offering will be eaten from which any blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place; it will be burned up with fire.
03O	7	1	28810	This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy. 
03O	7	2	28820	In the place where they kill the burnt offering they will kill the guilt offering, and its blood will be thrown against the sides of the altar. 
03O	7	3	28830	And all its fat will be offered, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, 
03O	7	4	28840	the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he will remove with the kidneys. 
03O	7	5	28850	The priest will burn them on the altar as a food offering to the LORD; it is a guilt offering. 
03O	7	6	28860	Every male among the priests may eat of it. It will be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy. 
03O	7	7	28870	The guilt offering is just like the sin offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with it will have it. 
03O	7	8	28880	And the priest who offers any man's burnt offering will have for himself the skin of the burnt offering that he has offered. 
03O	7	9	28890	And every grain offering baked in the oven and all that is prepared on a pan or a griddle will belong to the priest who offers it. 
03O	7	10	28900	And every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, will be shared equally among all the sons of Aaron. 
03O	7	11	28910	And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that one may offer to the LORD. 
03O	7	12	28920	If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he will offer with the thanksgiving sacrifice unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and loaves of fine flour well mixed with oil. 
03O	7	13	28930	With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving he will bring his offering with loaves of leavened bread. 
03O	7	14	28940	And from it he will offer one loaf from each offering, as a gift to the LORD. It will belong to the priest who throws the blood of the peace offerings. 
03O	7	15	28950	And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving will be eaten on the day of his offering. He will not leave any of it until the morning. 
03O	7	16	28960	But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow offering or a freewill offering, it will be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the next day what remains of it will be eaten. 
03O	7	17	28970	But what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day will be burned up with fire. 
03O	7	18	28980	If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten on the third day, he who offers it will not be accepted, neither will it be credited to him. It is tainted, and he who eats of it will bear his iniquity. 
03O	7	19	28990	Flesh that touches any unclean thing will not be eaten. It will be burned up with fire. All who are clean may eat flesh, 
03O	7	20	29000	but the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the LORD's peace offerings while an uncleanness is on him, that person will be cut off from his people. 
03O	7	21	29010	And if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether human uncleanness or an unclean beast or any unclean detestable creature, and then eats some flesh from the sacrifice of the LORD's peace offerings, that person will be cut off from his people." 
03O	7	22	29020	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	7	23	29030	"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, You will eat no fat, of ox or sheep or goat. 
03O	7	24	29040	The fat of an animal that dies of itself and the fat of one that is torn by beasts may be put to any other use, but on no account will you eat it. 
03O	7	25	29050	For every person who eats of the fat of an animal of which a food offering may be made to the LORD will be cut off from his people. 
03O	7	26	29060	Moreover, you will eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places. 
03O	7	27	29070	Whoever eats any blood, that person will be cut off from his people." 
03O	7	28	29080	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	7	29	29090	"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Whoever offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the LORD will bring his offering to the LORD from the sacrifice of his peace offerings. 
03O	7	30	29100	His own hands will bring the LORD's food offerings. He will bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before the LORD. 
03O	7	31	29110	The priest will burn the fat on the altar, but the breast will be for Aaron and his sons. 
03O	7	32	29120	And the right thigh you will give to the priest as a contribution from the sacrifice of your peace offerings. 
03O	7	33	29130	Whoever among the sons of Aaron offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat will have the right thigh for a portion. 
03O	7	34	29140	For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel. 
03O	7	35	29150	This is the portion of Aaron and of his sons from the LORD's food offerings, from the day they were presented to serve as priests of the LORD. 
03O	7	36	29160	The LORD commanded this to be given them by the people of Israel, from the day that he anointed them. It is a perpetual due throughout their generations." 
03O	7	37	29170	This is the law of the burnt offering, of the grain offering, of the sin offering, of the guilt offering, of the ordination offering, and of the peace offering, 
03O	7	38	29180	which the LORD commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day that he commanded the people of Israel to bring their offerings to the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai. 
03O	8	1	29190	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	8	2	29200	"Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments and the anointing oil and the bull of the sin offering and the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread. 
03O	8	3	29210	And assemble all the congregation at the entrance of the tent of meeting." 
03O	8	4	29220	And Moses did as the LORD commanded him, and the congregation was assembled at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 
03O	8	5	29230	And Moses said to the congregation, "This is the thing that the LORD has commanded to be done." 
03O	8	6	29240	And Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water. 
03O	8	7	29250	And he put the coat on him and tied the sash around his waist and clothed him with the robe and put the ephod on him and tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod around him, binding it to him with the band. 
03O	8	8	29260	And he placed the breastpiece on him, and in the breastpiece he put the Urim and the Thummim. 
03O	8	9	29270	And he set the turban on his head, and on the turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown, as the LORD commanded Moses. 
03O	8	10	29280	Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and dedicated them. 
03O	8	11	29290	And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils and the basin and its stand, to dedicate them. 
03O	8	12	29300	And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to dedicate him. 
03O	8	13	29310	And Moses brought Aaron's sons and clothed them with coats and tied sashes around their waists and bound caps on them, as the LORD commanded Moses. 
03O	8	14	29320	Then he brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering. 
03O	8	15	29330	And he killed it, and Moses took the blood, and with his finger put it on the horns of the altar around it and purified the altar and poured out the blood at the base of the altar and dedicated it to make atonement for it. 
03O	8	16	29340	And he took all the fat that was on the entrails and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar. 
03O	8	17	29350	But the bull and its skin and its flesh and its dung he burned up with fire outside the camp, as the LORD commanded Moses. 
03O	8	18	29360	Then he presented the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. 
03O	8	19	29370	And he killed it, and Moses threw the blood against the sides of the altar. 
03O	8	20	29380	He cut the ram into pieces, and Moses burned the head and the pieces and the fat. 
03O	8	21	29390	He washed the entrails and the legs with water, and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering for the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses. 
03O	8	22	29400	Then he presented the other ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. 
03O	8	23	29410	And he killed it, and Moses took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot. 
03O	8	24	29420	Then he presented Aaron's sons, and Moses put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet. And Moses threw the blood against the sides of the altar. 
03O	8	25	29430	Then he took the fat and the fat tail and all the fat that was on the entrails and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat and the right thigh, 
03O	8	26	29440	and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD he took one unleavened loaf and one loaf of bread with oil and one wafer and placed them on the pieces of fat and on the right thigh. 
03O	8	27	29450	And he put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons and waved them as a wave offering before the LORD. 
03O	8	28	29460	Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD. 
03O	8	29	29470	And Moses took the breast and waved it for a wave offering before the LORD. It was Moses' portion of the ram of ordination, as the LORD commanded Moses. 
03O	8	30	29480	Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron and his garments, and also on his sons and his sons' garments. So he dedicated Aaron and his garments, and his sons and his sons' garments with him. 
03O	8	31	29490	And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, "Boil the flesh at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons will eat it.' 
03O	8	32	29500	And what remains of the flesh and the bread you will burn up with fire. 
03O	8	33	29510	And you will not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for it will take seven days to ordain you. 
03O	8	34	29520	As has been done today, the LORD has commanded to be done to make atonement for you. 
03O	8	35	29530	At the entrance of the tent of meeting you will remain day and night for seven days, performing what the LORD has charged, so that you do not die, for so I have been commanded." 
03O	8	36	29540	And Aaron and his sons did all the things that the LORD commanded by Moses. 
03O	9	1	29550	On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel, 
03O	9	2	29560	and he said to Aaron, "Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and offer them before the LORD. 
03O	9	3	29570	And say to the sons of Israel, 'Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both a year old without blemish, for a burnt offering, 
03O	9	4	29580	and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain offering mixed with oil, for today the LORD will appear to you.'" 
03O	9	5	29590	And they brought what Moses commanded in front of the tent of meeting, and all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD. 
03O	9	6	29600	And Moses said, "This is the thing that the LORD commanded you to do, that the glory of the LORD may appear to you." 
03O	9	7	29610	Then Moses said to Aaron, "Draw near to the altar and offer your sin offering and your burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and for the people, and bring the offering of the people and make atonement for them, as the LORD has commanded." 
03O	9	8	29620	So Aaron drew near to the altar and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself. 
03O	9	9	29630	And the sons of Aaron presented the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar and poured out the blood at the base of the altar. 
03O	9	10	29640	But the fat and the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver from the sin offering he burned on the altar, as the LORD commanded Moses. 
03O	9	11	29650	The flesh and the skin he burned up with fire outside the camp. 
03O	9	12	29660	Then he killed the burnt offering, and Aaron's sons handed him the blood, and he threw it against the sides of the altar. 
03O	9	13	29670	And they handed the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head, and he burned them on the altar. 
03O	9	14	29680	And he washed the entrails and the legs and burned them with the burnt offering on the altar. 
03O	9	15	29690	Then he presented the people's offering and took the goat of the sin offering that was for the people and killed it and offered it as a sin offering, like the first one. 
03O	9	16	29700	And he presented the burnt offering and offered it according to the ordinance. 
03O	9	17	29710	And he presented the grain offering, took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning. 
03O	9	18	29720	Then he killed the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings for the people. And Aaron's sons handed him the blood, and he threw it against the sides of the altar. 
03O	9	19	29730	But the fat pieces of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail and that which covers the entrails and the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver, 
03O	9	20	29740	they put the fat pieces on the breasts, and he burned the fat pieces on the altar, 
03O	9	21	29750	but the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave offering before the LORD, as Moses commanded. 
03O	9	22	29760	Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and he came down from offering the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings. 
03O	9	23	29770	And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, and when they came out they blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people. 
03O	9	24	29780	And fire came out from before the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar, and when all the people saw it, they cried aloud and fell on their faces. 
03O	10	1	29790	Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them. 
03O	10	2	29800	And fire came out from before the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD. 
03O	10	3	29810	Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the LORD has said, 'Among those who are near me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.'" And Aaron held was silent. 
03O	10	4	29820	And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, "Come near; carry your brothers away from the front of the sanctuary and out of the camp." 
03O	10	5	29830	So they came near and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said. 
03O	10	6	29840	And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his sons, "Do not let the hair of your heads hang loose, and do not tear your clothes, lest you die, and wrath come upon all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, mourn the burning that the LORD has kindled. 
03O	10	7	29850	And do not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting, otherwise you die, for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you." And they did according to the word of Moses. 
03O	10	8	29860	And the LORD spoke to Aaron, saying, 
03O	10	9	29870	"Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, otherwise you die. It will be a statute forever throughout your generations. 
03O	10	10	29880	You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean, 
03O	10	11	29890	and you are to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes that the LORD has spoken to them by Moses." 
03O	10	12	29900	Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his surviving sons: "Take the grain offering that is left of the LORD's food offerings, and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy. 
03O	10	13	29910	You will eat it in a holy place, because it is your due and your sons' due, from the LORD's food offerings, for so I am commanded. 
03O	10	14	29920	But the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed you will eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you, for they are given as your due and your sons' due from the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the sons of Israel. 
03O	10	15	29930	The thigh that is contributed and the breast that is waved they will bring with the food offerings of the fat pieces to wave for a wave offering before the LORD, and it will be yours and your sons' with you as a due forever, as the LORD has commanded." 
03O	10	16	29940	Now Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it was burned up! And he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the surviving sons of Aaron, saying, 
03O	10	17	29950	"Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is a thing most holy and has been given to you that you may bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD? 
03O	10	18	29960	Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary. You certainly ought to have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded." 
03O	10	19	29970	And Aaron said to Moses, "Behold, today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD, and yet such things as these have happened to me! If I had eaten the sin offering today, would the LORD have approved?" 
03O	10	20	29980	And when Moses heard that, he approved. 
03O	11	1	29990	And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, 
03O	11	2	30000	"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. 
03O	11	3	30010	Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. 
03O	11	4	30020	Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you will not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. 
03O	11	5	30030	And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. 
03O	11	6	30040	And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. 
03O	11	7	30050	And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. 
03O	11	8	30060	You will not eat any of their flesh, and you will not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you. 
03O	11	9	30070	These you may eat, of all that are in the waters. Everything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat. 
03O	11	10	30080	But anything in the seas or the rivers that has not fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters, is detestable to you. 
03O	11	11	30090	You will regard them as detestable; you will not eat any of their flesh, and you will avoid their carcasses. 
03O	11	12	30100	Everything in the waters that has not fins and scales is detestable to you. 
03O	11	13	30110	And these you will detest among the birds; they will not be eaten; they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, 
03O	11	14	30120	the kite, the falcon of any kind, 
03O	11	15	30130	every raven of any kind, 
03O	11	16	30140	the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind, 
03O	11	17	30150	the little owl, the cormorant, the short-eared owl, 
03O	11	18	30160	the barn owl, the tawny owl, the carrion vulture, 
03O	11	19	30170	the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat. 
03O	11	20	30180	All winged insects that go on all fours are detestable to you. 
03O	11	21	30190	Yet among the winged insects that go on all fours you may eat those that have jointed legs above their feet, with which to hop on the ground. 
03O	11	22	30200	Of them you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind. 
03O	11	23	30210	But all other winged insects that have four feet are detestable to you. 
03O	11	24	30220	And by these you will become unclean. Whoever touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening, 
03O	11	25	30230	and whoever carries any part of their carcass will wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. 
03O	11	26	30240	Every animal that parts the hoof but is not cloven-footed or does not chew the cud is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them will be unclean. 
03O	11	27	30250	And all that walk on their paws, among the animals that go on all fours, are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening, 
03O	11	28	30260	and he who carries their carcass will wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you. 
03O	11	29	30270	And these are unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the ground: the mole rat, the mouse, the great lizard of any kind, 
03O	11	30	30280	the gecko, the monitor lizard, the lizard, the sand lizard, and the chameleon. 
03O	11	31	30290	These are unclean to you among all that swarm. Whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean until the evening. 
03O	11	32	30300	And anything on which any of them falls when they are dead will be unclean, whether it is an article of wood or a garment or a skin or a sack, any article that is used for any purpose. It must be put into water, and it will be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean. 
03O	11	33	30310	And if any of them falls into any earthenware vessel, all that is in it will be unclean, and you will break it. 
03O	11	34	30320	Any food in it that could be eaten, on which water falls, will be unclean. And all drink that could be drunk from every such vessel will be unclean. 
03O	11	35	30330	And everything on which any part of their carcass falls will be unclean. Whether oven or stove, it will be broken in pieces. They are unclean and will remain unclean for you. 
03O	11	36	30340	Nevertheless, a spring or a cistern holding water will be clean, but whoever touches a carcass in them will be unclean. 
03O	11	37	30350	And if any part of their carcass falls upon any seed grain that is to be sown, it is clean, 
03O	11	38	30360	but if water is put on the seed and any part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you. 
03O	11	39	30370	And if any animal which you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass will be unclean until the evening, 
03O	11	40	30380	and whoever eats of its carcass will wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. And whoever carries the carcass will wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. 
03O	11	41	30390	Every swarming thing that swarms on the ground is detestable; it will not be eaten. 
03O	11	42	30400	Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, any swarming thing that swarms on the ground, you will not eat, for they are detestable. 
03O	11	43	30410	You will not make yourselves detestable with any swarming thing that swarms, and you will not defile yourselves with them, and become unclean through them. 
03O	11	44	30420	For I am the LORD your God. Dedicate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You will not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground. 
03O	11	45	30430	For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You will therefore be holy, for I am holy." 
03O	11	46	30440	This is the law about beast and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms on the ground, 
03O	11	47	30450	to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten."
03O	12	1	30460	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	12	2	30470	"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'If a woman conceives and bears a male child, then she will be unclean seven days. As at the time of her menstruation, she will be unclean. 
03O	12	3	30480	And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin will be circumcised. 
03O	12	4	30490	Then she will continue for thirty-three days in the blood of her purifying. She will not touch anything holy, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed. 
03O	12	5	30500	But if she bears a female child, then she will be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation. And she will continue in the blood of her purifying for sixty-six days. 
03O	12	6	30510	And when the days of her purifying are completed, whether for a son or for a daughter, she will bring to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting a lamb a year old for a burnt offering, and a pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering, 
03O	12	7	30520	and he will offer it before the LORD and make atonement for her. Then she will be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, either male or female. 
03O	12	8	30530	And if she cannot afford a lamb, then she will take two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. And the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.'" 
03O	13	1	30540	The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 
03O	13	2	30550	"When a person has on the skin of his body a swelling or an eruption or a spot, and it turns into a case of leprous disease on the skin of his body, then he will be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests, 
03O	13	3	30560	and the priest will examine the diseased area on the skin of his body. And if the hair in the diseased area has turned white and the disease appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is a case of leprous disease. When the priest has examined him, he will pronounce him unclean. 
03O	13	4	30570	But if the spot is white in the skin of his body and appears no deeper than the skin, and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest will shut up the diseased person for seven days. 
03O	13	5	30580	And the priest will examine him on the seventh day, and if in his eyes the disease is checked and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest will shut him up for another seven days. 
03O	13	6	30590	And the priest will examine him again on the seventh day, and if the diseased area has faded and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest will pronounce him clean; it is only an rash. And he will wash his clothes and be clean. 
03O	13	7	30600	But if the rash spreads in the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he will appear again before the priest. 
03O	13	8	30610	And the priest will look, and if the rash has spread in the skin, then the priest will pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous disease. 
03O	13	9	30620	When a man is afflicted with a leprous disease, he will be brought to the priest, 
03O	13	10	30630	and the priest will look. And if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling, 
03O	13	11	30640	it is a chronic leprous disease in the skin of his body, and the priest will pronounce him unclean. He will not shut him up, for he is unclean. 
03O	13	12	30650	And if the leprous disease breaks out in the skin, so that the leprous disease covers all the skin of the diseased person from head to foot, so far as the priest can see, 
03O	13	13	30660	then the priest will look, and if the leprous disease has covered all his body, he will pronounce him clean of the disease; it has all turned white, and he is clean. 
03O	13	14	30670	But when raw flesh appears on him, he will be unclean. 
03O	13	15	30680	And the priest will examine the raw flesh and pronounce him unclean. Raw flesh is unclean, for it is a leprous disease. 
03O	13	16	30690	But if the raw flesh recovers and turns white again, then he will come to the priest, 
03O	13	17	30700	and the priest will examine him, and if the disease has turned white, then the priest will pronounce the diseased person clean; he is clean. 
03O	13	18	30710	If there is in the skin of one's body a boil and it heals, 
03O	13	19	30720	and in the place of the boil there comes a white swelling or a reddish-white spot, then it will be shown to the priest. 
03O	13	20	30730	And the priest will look, and if it appears deeper than the skin and its hair has turned white, then the priest will pronounce him unclean. It is a case of leprous disease that has broken out in the boil. 
03O	13	21	30740	But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in it and it is not deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest will shut him up seven days. 
03O	13	22	30750	 And if it spreads in the skin, then the priest will pronounce him unclean; it is a disease. 
03O	13	23	30760	But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread, it is an inflamed boil, and the priest will pronounce him clean. 
03O	13	24	30770	Or, when the body has a burn on its skin and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a spot, reddish-white or white, 
03O	13	25	30780	the priest will examine it, and if the hair in the spot has turned white and it appears deeper than the skin, then it is a leprous disease. It has broken out in the burn, and the priest will pronounce him unclean; it is a case of leprous disease. 
03O	13	26	30790	But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in the spot and it is no deeper than the skin, but has faded, the priest will shut him up seven days, 
03O	13	27	30800	and the priest will examine him the seventh day. If it is spreading in the skin, then the priest will pronounce him unclean; it is a case of leprous disease. 
03O	13	28	30810	But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread in the skin, but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest will pronounce him clean, for it is the scar of the burn. 
03O	13	29	30820	When a man or woman has a disease on the head or the beard, 
03O	13	30	30830	the priest will examine the disease. And if it appears deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest will pronounce him unclean. It is an scall, a leprous disease of the head or the beard. 
03O	13	31	30840	And if the priest examines the scall and it appears no deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, then the priest will shut up the person with the scall for seven days, 
03O	13	32	30850	and on the seventh day the priest will examine the disease. If the scall has not spread, and there is in it no yellow hair, and the scall appears to be no deeper than the skin, 
03O	13	33	30860	then he will shave himself, but the scll he will not shave; and the priest will shut up the person with the scall for another seven days. 
03O	13	34	30870	And on the seventh day the priest will examine the scall, and if the scall has not spread in the skin and it appears to be no deeper than the skin, then the priest will pronounce him clean. And he will wash his clothes and be clean. 
03O	13	35	30880	But if the scall spreads in the skin after his cleansing, 
03O	13	36	30890	then the priest will examine him, and if the scall has spread in the skin, the priest need not seek for the yellow hair; he is unclean. 
03O	13	37	30900	But if in his eyes the scall is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, the scall is healed and he is clean, and the priest will pronounce him clean. 
03O	13	38	30910	When a man or a woman has spots on the skin of the body, white spots, 
03O	13	39	30920	the priest will look, and if the spots on the skin of the body are of a dull white, it is paled spot that has broken out in the skin; he is clean. 
03O	13	40	30930	If a man's hair falls out from his head, he is bald; he is clean. 
03O	13	41	30940	And if a man's hair falls out from his forehead, he has baldness of the forehead; he is clean. 
03O	13	42	30950	But if there is on the bald head or the bald forehead a reddish-white diseased area, it is a leprous disease breaking out on his bald head or his bald forehead. 
03O	13	43	30960	Then the priest will examine him, and if the diseased swelling is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprous disease in the skin of the body, 
03O	13	44	30970	he is a leprous man, he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean; his disease is on his head. 
03O	13	45	30980	The leprous person who has the disease will wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he will cover his upper lip and cry out, 'Unclean, unclean.' 
03O	13	46	30990	He will remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He will live alone. His dwelling will be outside the camp. 
03O	13	47	31000	When there is a case of leprous disease in a garment, whether a woolen or a linen garment, 
03O	13	48	31010	in warp or woof of linen or wool, or in a skin or in anything made of skin, 
03O	13	49	31020	if the disease is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin or in the warp or the woof or in any article made of skin, it is a case of leprous disease, and it will be shown to the priest. 
03O	13	50	31030	And the priest will examine the disease and shut up that which has the disease for seven days. 
03O	13	51	31040	Then he will examine the disease on the seventh day. If the disease has spread in the garment, in the warp or the woof, or in the skin, whatever be the use of the skin, the disease is a persistent leprous disease; it is unclean. 
03O	13	52	31050	And he will burn the garment, or the warp or the woof, the wool or the linen, or any article made of skin that is diseased, for it is a persistent leprous disease. It will be burned in the fire. 
03O	13	53	31060	And if the priest examines, and if the disease has not spread in the garment, in the warp or the woof or in any article made of skin, 
03O	13	54	31070	then the priest will command that they wash the thing in which is the disease, and he will shut it up for another seven days. 
03O	13	55	31080	And the priest will examine the diseased thing after it has been washed. And if the appearance of the diseased area has not changed, though the disease has not spread, it is unclean. You will burn it in the fire, whether the rot is on the back or on the front. 
03O	13	56	31090	But if the priest examines, and if the diseased area has faded after it has been washed, he will tear it out of the garment or the skin or the warp or the woof. 
03O	13	57	31100	Then if it appears again in the garment, in the warp or the woof, or in any article made of skin, it is spreading. You will burn with fire whatever has the disease. 
03O	13	58	31110	But the garment, or the warp or the woof, or any article made of skin from which the disease departs when you have washed it, will then be washed a second time, and be clean." 
03O	13	59	31120	This is the law for a case of leprous disease in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp or the woof, or in any article made of skin, to determine whether it is clean or unclean. 
03O	14	1	31130	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	14	2	31140	"This will be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing. He will be brought to the priest, 
03O	14	3	31150	and the priest will go out of the camp, and the priest will look. Then, if the case of plague is healed in the leprous person, 
03O	14	4	31160	the priest will command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop. 
03O	14	5	31170	And the priest will command them to kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water. 
03O	14	6	31180	He will take the live bird with the cedarwood and the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water. 
03O	14	7	31190	And he will sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed of the leprous disease. Then he will pronounce him clean and will let the living bird go into the open field. 
03O	14	8	31200	And he who is to be cleansed will wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water, and he will be clean. And after that he may come into the camp, but live outside his tent seven days. 
03O	14	9	31210	And on the seventh day he will shave off all his hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows. He will shave off all his hair, and then he will wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he will be clean. 
03O	14	10	31220	And on the eighth day he will take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, and one log of oil. 
03O	14	11	31230	And the priest who cleanses him will set the man who is to be cleansed and these things before the LORD, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 
03O	14	12	31240	And the priest will take one of the male lambs and offer it for a guilt offering, along with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. 
03O	14	13	31250	And he will kill the lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary. For the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy. 
03O	14	14	31260	The priest will take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest will put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot. 
03O	14	15	31270	Then the priest will take some of the log of oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand 
03O	14	16	31280	and dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand and sprinkle some oil with his finger seven times before the LORD. 
03O	14	17	31290	And some of the oil that remains in his hand the priest will put on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering. 
03O	14	18	31300	And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he will put on the head of him who is to be cleansed. Then the priest will make atonement for him before the LORD. 
03O	14	19	31310	The priest will offer the sin offering, to make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. And afterward he will kill the burnt offering. 
03O	14	20	31320	And the priest will offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the priest will make atonement for him, and he will be clean. 
03O	14	21	31330	But if he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he will take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil; 
03O	14	22	31340	also two turtledoves or two pigeons, whichever he can afford. The one will be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. 
03O	14	23	31350	And on the eighth day he will bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, before the LORD. 
03O	14	24	31360	And the priest will take the lamb of the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest will wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. 
03O	14	25	31370	And he will kill the lamb of the guilt offering. And the priest will take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot. 
03O	14	26	31380	And the priest will pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand, 
03O	14	27	31390	and will sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD. 
03O	14	28	31400	And the priest will put some of the oil that is in his hand on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, in the place where the blood of the guilt offering was put. 
03O	14	29	31410	And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he will put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD. 
03O	14	30	31420	And he will offer, of the turtledoves or pigeons, whichever he can afford, 
03O	14	31	31430	one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, along with a grain offering. And the priest will make atonement before the LORD for him who is being cleansed. 
03O	14	32	31440	This is the law for him in whom is a case of leprous disease, who cannot afford the offerings for his cleansing." 
03O	14	33	31450	The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 
03O	14	34	31460	"When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a case of leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession, 
03O	14	35	31470	then he who owns the house will come and tell the priest, 'There seems to me to be some case of disease in my house.' 
03O	14	36	31480	Then the priest will command that they empty the house before the priest goes to examine the disease, lest all that is in the house be declared unclean. And afterward the priest will go in to see the house. 
03O	14	37	31490	And he will examine the disease. And if the disease is in the walls of the house with greenish or reddish spots, and if it appears to be deeper than the surface, 
03O	14	38	31500	then the priest will go out of the house to the door of the house and shut up the house seven days. 
03O	14	39	31510	And the priest will come again on the seventh day, and look. If the disease has spread in the walls of the house, 
03O	14	40	31520	then the priest will command that they take out the stones in which is the disease and throw them into an unclean place outside the city. 
03O	14	41	31530	And he will have the inside of the house scraped all around, and the plaster that they scrape off they will pour out in an unclean place outside the city. 
03O	14	42	31540	Then they will take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he will take other plaster and plaster the house. 
03O	14	43	31550	If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it, 
03O	14	44	31560	then the priest will go and look. And if the disease has spread in the house, it is a persistent leprous disease in the house; it is unclean. 
03O	14	45	31570	And he will break down the house, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house, and he will carry them out of the city to an unclean place. 
03O	14	46	31580	Moreover, whoever enters the house while it is shut up will be unclean until the evening, 
03O	14	47	31590	and whoever sleeps in the house will wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house will wash his clothes. 
03O	14	48	31600	But if the priest comes and looks, and if the disease has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest will pronounce the house clean, for the disease is healed. 
03O	14	49	31610	And for the cleansing of the house he will take two small birds, with cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop, 
03O	14	50	31620	and will kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water 
03O	14	51	31630	and will take the cedarwood and the hyssop and the scarlet yarn, along with the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed and in the fresh water and sprinkle the house seven times. 
03O	14	52	31640	Thus he will cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the fresh water and with the live bird and with the cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn. 
03O	14	53	31650	And he will let the live bird go out of the city into the open country. So he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean." 
03O	14	54	31660	This is the law for any case of leprous disease: for an scall, 
03O	14	55	31670	for leprous disease in a garment or in a house, 
03O	14	56	31680	and for a swelling or an rash or a spot, 
03O	14	57	31690	to show when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law for leprous disease. 
03O	15	1	31700	The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 
03O	15	2	31710	"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean. 
03O	15	3	31720	And this is the law of his uncleanness for a discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is blocked up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness. 
03O	15	4	31730	Every bed on which the one with the discharge lies will be unclean, and everything on which he sits will be unclean. 
03O	15	5	31740	And anyone who touches his bed will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. 
03O	15	6	31750	And whoever sits on anything on which the one with the discharge has sat will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. 
03O	15	7	31760	And whoever touches the body of the one with the discharge will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. 
03O	15	8	31770	And if the one with the discharge spits on someone who is clean, then he will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. 
03O	15	9	31780	And any saddle on which the one with the discharge rides will be unclean. 
03O	15	10	31790	And whoever touches anything that was under him will be unclean until the evening. And whoever carries such things will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. 
03O	15	11	31800	Anyone whom the one with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. 
03O	15	12	31810	And an earthenware vessel that the one with the discharge touches will be broken, and every vessel of wood will be rinsed in water. 
03O	15	13	31820	And when the one with a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he will count for himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes. And he will bathe his body in fresh water and will be clean. 
03O	15	14	31830	And on the eighth day he will take two turtledoves or two pigeons and come before the LORD to the entrance of the tent of meeting and give them to the priest. 
03O	15	15	31840	And the priest will use them, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest will make atonement for him before the LORD for his discharge. 
03O	15	16	31850	If a man has an emission of semen, he will bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until the evening. 
03O	15	17	31860	And every garment and every skin on which the semen comes will be washed with water and be unclean until the evening. 
03O	15	18	31870	If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them will bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening. 
03O	15	19	31880	When a woman has a discharge, and the discharge in her body is blood, she will be in her menstrual impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her will be unclean until the evening. 
03O	15	20	31890	And everything on which she lies during her menstrual impurity will be unclean. Everything also on which she sits will be unclean. 
03O	15	21	31900	And whoever touches her bed will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. 
03O	15	22	31910	And whoever touches anything on which she sits will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. 
03O	15	23	31920	Whether it is the bed or anything on which she sits, when he touches it he will be unclean until the evening. 
03O	15	24	31930	And if any man lies with her and her menstrual impurity comes upon him, he will be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies will be unclean. 
03O	15	25	31940	If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, not at the time of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of the discharge she will continue in uncleanness. As in the days of her impurity, she will be unclean. 
03O	15	26	31950	Every bed on which she lies, all the days of her discharge, will be to her as the bed of her impurity. And everything on which she sits will be unclean, as in the uncleanness of her menstrual impurity. 
03O	15	27	31960	And whoever touches these things will be unclean, and will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. 
03O	15	28	31970	But if she is cleansed of her discharge, she will count for herself seven days, and after that she will be clean. 
03O	15	29	31980	And on the eighth day she will take two turtledoves or two pigeons and bring them to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting. 
03O	15	30	31990	And the priest will use one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest will make atonement for her before the LORD for her unclean discharge. 
03O	15	31	32000	Thus you will keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst." 
03O	15	32	32010	This is the law for him who has a discharge and for him who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean thereby; 
03O	15	33	32020	also for her who is menstruating, that is, for anyone, male or female, who has a discharge, and for the man who lies with a woman who is unclean. 
03O	16	1	32030	The LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the LORD and died, 
03O	16	2	32040	and the LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your brother not to come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat. 
03O	16	3	32050	But in this way Aaron will come into the Holy Place: with a bull from the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering. 
03O	16	4	32060	He will put on the holy linen coat and will have the linen undergarment on his body, and he will tie the linen sash around his waist, and wear the linen turban; these are the holy garments. He will bathe his body in water and then put them on. 
03O	16	5	32070	And he will take from the congregation of the sons of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. 
03O	16	6	32080	Aaron will offer the bull as a sin offering for himself and will make atonement for himself and for his house. 
03O	16	7	32090	Then he will take the two goats and set them before the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 
03O	16	8	32100	And Aaron will cast lots over the two goats, one lot for the LORD and the other lot for Azazel (the scapegoat). 
03O	16	9	32110	And Aaron will present the goat on which the lot fell for the LORD and use it as a sin offering, 
03O	16	10	32120	but the goat on which the lot fell for Azazel will be presented alive before the LORD to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Azazel. 
03O	16	11	32130	Aaron will present the bull as a sin offering for himself, and will make atonement for himself and for his house. He will kill the bull as a sin offering for himself. 
03O	16	12	32140	And he will take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and he will bring it inside the veil 
03O	16	13	32150	and put the incense on the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is over the testimony, so that he does not die. 
03O	16	14	32160	And he will take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the mercy seat on the east side, and in front of the mercy seat he will sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times. 
03O	16	15	32170	Then he will kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring its blood inside the veil and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, sprinkling it over the mercy seat and in front of the mercy seat. 
03O	16	16	32180	Thus he will make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleannesses of the people of Israel and because of their transgressions, all their sins. And so he will do for the tent of meeting, which dwells with them in the midst of their uncleannesses. 
03O	16	17	32190	No one may be in the tent of meeting from the time he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place until he comes out and has made atonement for himself and for his house and for all the assembly of Israel. 
03O	16	18	32200	Then he will go out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it, and will take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar all around. 
03O	16	19	32210	And he will sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it and consecrate it from the uncleannesses of the sons of Israel. 
03O	16	20	32220	And when he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he will present the live goat. 
03O	16	21	32230	And Aaron will lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins. And he will put them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness. 
03O	16	22	32240	The goat will bear all their iniquities on itself to a remote area, and he will let the goat go free in the wilderness. 
03O	16	23	32250	Then Aaron will come into the tent of meeting and will take off the linen garments that he put on when he went into the Holy Place and will leave them there. 
03O	16	24	32260	And he will bathe his body in water in a holy place and put on his garments and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people and make atonement for himself and for the people. 
03O	16	25	32270	And the fat of the sin offering he will burn on the altar. 
03O	16	26	32280	And he who lets the goat go to Azazel will wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. 
03O	16	27	32290	And the bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, will be carried outside the camp. Their skin and their flesh and their dung will be burned up with fire. 
03O	16	28	32300	And he who burns them will wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. 
03O	16	29	32310	And it will be a statute to you forever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you will humble yourselves and will do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you. 
03O	16	30	32320	For on this day will atonement be made for you to cleanse you. You will be clean before the LORD from all your sins. 
03O	16	31	32330	It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you will humble yourselves; it is a statute forever. 
03O	16	32	32340	And the priest who is anointed and dedicated as priest in his father's place will make atonement, wearing the holy linen garments. 
03O	16	33	32350	He will make atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he will make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar, and he will make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly. 
03O	16	34	32360	And this will be a statute forever for you, that atonement may be made for the people of Israel once in the year because of all their sins." And Moses did as the LORD commanded him. 
03O	17	1	32370	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	17	2	32380	"Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the sons of Israel and say to them, This is what the LORD has commanded. 
03O	17	3	32390	If any one of the house of Israel kills an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or kills it outside the camp, 
03O	17	4	32400	and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it as a gift to the LORD in front of the tabernacle of the LORD, bloodguilt will be charged to that man. He has shed blood, and that man will be cut off from among his people. 
03O	17	5	32410	This means that the sons of Israel may bring their sacrifices that they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to the LORD, to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace offerings to the LORD. 
03O	17	6	32420	And the priest will throw the blood on the altar of the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting and burn the fat for a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 
03O	17	7	32430	So they will no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they whore. This will be a statute forever for them throughout their generations. 
03O	17	8	32440	And you will say to them, Any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice 
03O	17	9	32450	and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it to the LORD, that man will be cut off from his people. 
03O	17	10	32460	"If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will condemn that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people. 
03O	17	11	32470	For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life. 
03O	17	12	32480	Therefore I have said to the sons of Israel, No person among you will eat blood, neither will any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood. 
03O	17	13	32490	Any one also of the sons of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten will pour out its blood and cover it with earth. 
03O	17	14	32500	For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the sons of Israel, You will not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it will be cut off. 
03O	17	15	32510	And every person who eats what dies of itself or what is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or a sojourner, will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening; then he will be clean. 
03O	17	16	32520	But if he does not wash them or bathe his flesh, he will suffer his punishment." 
03O	18	1	32530	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	18	2	32540	Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, I am the LORD your God. 
03O	18	3	32550	You will not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you will not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You will not walk in their statutes. 
03O	18	4	32560	You will follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the LORD your God. 
03O	18	5	32570	You will therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he will live by them: I am the LORD. 
03O	18	6	32580	None of you will approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the LORD. 
03O	18	7	32590	You will not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you will not uncover her nakedness. 
03O	18	8	32600	You will not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness. 
03O	18	9	32610	You will not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home. 
03O	18	10	32620	You will not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter or of your daughter's daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness. 
03O	18	11	32630	You will not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, brought up in your father's family, since she is your sister. 
03O	18	12	32640	You will not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's relative. 
03O	18	13	32650	You will not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's relative. 
03O	18	14	32660	You will not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, that is, you will not approach his wife; she is your aunt. 
03O	18	15	32670	You will not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you will not uncover her nakedness. 
03O	18	16	32680	You will not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness. 
03O	18	17	32690	You will not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you will not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity. 
03O	18	18	32700	And you will not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive. 
03O	18	19	32710	You will not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness. 
03O	18	20	32720	And you will not lie sexually with your neighbor's wife and so make yourself unclean with her. 
03O	18	21	32730	You will not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD. 
03O	18	22	32740	You will not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. 
03O	18	23	32750	And you will not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither will any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion. 
03O	18	24	32760	Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, 
03O	18	25	32770	and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. 
03O	18	26	32780	But you will keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you 
03O	18	27	32790	For the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean. 
03O	18	28	32800	Otherwise the land may vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. 
03O	18	29	32810	For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them will be cut off from among their people. 
03O	18	30	32820	So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the LORD your God." 
03O	19	1	32830	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	19	2	32840	"Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them, You will be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy. 
03O	19	3	32850	Every one of you will respect his mother and his father, and you will keep my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God. 
03O	19	4	32860	Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the LORD your God. 
03O	19	5	32870	When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you will offer it so that you may be accepted. 
03O	19	6	32880	t will be eaten the same day you offer it or on the day after, and anything left over until the third day will be burned up with fire. 
03O	19	7	32890	If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is tainted; it will not be accepted, 
03O	19	8	32900	and everyone who eats it will suffer his punishment, because he has profaned what is holy to the LORD, and that person will be cut off from his people. 
03O	19	9	32910	When you reap the harvest of your land, you will not reap your field right up to its edge, neither will you gather the gleanings after your harvest. 
03O	19	10	32920	And you will not strip your vineyard bare, neither will you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You will leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the LORD your God. 
03O	19	11	32930	You will not steal; you will not deal falsely; you will not lie to one another. 
03O	19	12	32940	You will not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD. 
03O	19	13	32950	You will not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant will not remain with you all night until the morning. 
03O	19	14	32960	You will not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you will fear your God: I am the LORD. 
03O	19	15	32970	You will do no injustice in court. You will not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness will you judge your neighbor. 
03O	19	16	32980	You will not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you will not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD. 
03O	19	17	32990	You will not hate your brother in your heart, but you will reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. 
03O	19	18	33000	You will not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you will love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD. 
03O	19	19	33010	You will keep my statutes. You will not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You will not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor will you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material. 
03O	19	20	33020	If a man lies sexually with a woman who is a slave, assigned to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, there will be punishment. They will not be put to death, because she was not free; 
03O	19	21	33030	but he will bring his compensation to the LORD, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering. 
03O	19	22	33040	And the priest will make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the LORD for his sin that he has committed, and he will be forgiven for the sin that he has committed. 
03O	19	23	33050	When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, then you will regard its fruit as forbidden. Three years it will be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten. 
03O	19	24	33060	And in the fourth year all its fruit will be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD. 
03O	19	25	33070	But in the fifth year you may eat of its fruit, to increase its yield for you: I am the LORD your God. 
03O	19	26	33080	You will not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You will not interpret omens or tell fortunes. 
03O	19	27	33090	You will not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard. 
03O	19	28	33100	You will not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the LORD. 
03O	19	29	33110	Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, otherwise the land fall into prostitution and the land become full of depravity. 
03O	19	30	33120	You will keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. 
03O	19	31	33130	Do not turn to mediums or wizards; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the LORD your God. 
03O	19	32	33140	You will rise up before the gray head and respect an old man, and you will fear your God: I am the LORD. 
03O	19	33	33150	When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you will him no wrong. 
03O	19	34	33160	You will treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you will love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. 
03O	19	35	33170	You will not do wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity. 
03O	19	36	33180	You will have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. 
03O	19	37	33190	And you will observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the LORD." 
03O	20	1	33200	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	20	2	33210	Say to the sons of Israel, Any one of the sons of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech will surely be put to death. The people of the land will stone him with stones. 
03O	20	3	33220	I Myself will condemn that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make My sanctuary unclean and to profane My holy name. 
03O	20	4	33230	And if the people of the land do at all look the other way for that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death, 
03O	20	5	33240	then I will condemn that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech. 
03O	20	6	33250	If a person turns to mediums and wizards, whoring after them, I will condemn that person and will cut him off from among his people. 
03O	20	7	33260	Dedicate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the LORD your God. 
03O	20	8	33270	Keep my statutes and do them; I am the LORD who sanctifies you. 
03O	20	9	33280	For anyone who curses his father or his mother will be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him. 
03O	20	10	33290	If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress will be put to death. 
03O	20	11	33300	If a man lies with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them will be put to death; their blood is upon them. 
03O	20	12	33310	If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them will be put to death; they have committed perversion; their blood is upon them. 
03O	20	13	33320	If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they will be put to death; their blood is upon them. 
03O	20	14	33330	If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they will be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you. 
03O	20	15	33340	If a man lies with an animal, he will be put to death, and you will kill the animal. 
03O	20	16	33350	If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you will kill the woman and the animal; they will be put to death; their blood is upon them. 
03O	20	17	33360	If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they will be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister's nakedness, and he will suffer his punishment. 
03O	20	18	33370	If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual period and uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them will be cut off from among their people. 
03O	20	19	33380	You will not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or of your father's sister, for that is to make naked one's relative; they will suffer their punishment. 
03O	20	20	33390	If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness; they will bear their sin; they will die childless. 
03O	20	21	33400	If a man takes his brother's wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they will be childless. 
03O	20	22	33410	You will therefore keep all My statutes and all My rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out. 
03O	20	23	33420	And you will not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them. 
03O	20	24	33430	But I have said to you, 'You will inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the nations. 
03O	20	25	33440	You will therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You will not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean. 
03O	20	26	33450	You will be holy to Me, for I the LORD am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine. 
03O	20	27	33460	A man or a woman who is a medium or a wizard will be put to death. They will be stoned with stones; their blood will be upon them." 
03O	21	1	33470	And the LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: No one will make himself unclean for the dead among his people, 
03O	21	2	33480	except for his closest relatives, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother, 
03O	21	3	33490	or his virgin sister, who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may make himself unclean. 
03O	21	4	33500	He will not make himself unclean as a husband among his people and so profane himself. 
03O	21	5	33510	They will not make bald patches on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their body. 
03O	21	6	33520	They will be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they offer the LORD's food offerings, the bread of their God; therefore they will be holy. 
03O	21	7	33530	They will not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither will they marry a woman divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God. 
03O	21	8	33540	You will sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He will be holy to you, for I, the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy. 
03O	21	9	33550	And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father; she will be burned with fire. 
03O	21	10	33560	The priest who is chief among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, will not let the hair of his head hang loose nor tear his clothes. 
03O	21	11	33570	He will not go in to any dead bodies nor make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother. 
03O	21	12	33580	He will not go out of the sanctuary, lest he profane the sanctuary of his God, for the dedication of the anointing oil of his God is on him: I am the LORD. 
03O	21	13	33590	And he will take a wife in her virginity. 
03O	21	14	33600	A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he will not marry. But he will take as his wife a virgin of his own people, 
03O	21	15	33610	that he may not profane his offspring among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him." 
03O	21	16	33620	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	21	17	33630	"Speak to Aaron, saying, None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a blemish may approach to offer the bread of his God. 
03O	21	18	33640	For no one who has a blemish will draw near, a man blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long, 
03O	21	19	33650	or a man who has an injured foot or an injured hand, 
03O	21	20	33660	or a hunchback or a dwarf or a man with a defect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles. 
03O	21	21	33670	No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a blemish will come near to offer the LORD's food offerings; since he has a blemish, he will not come near to offer the bread of his God. 
03O	21	22	33680	He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy things, 
03O	21	23	33690	but he will not go through the veil or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them." 
03O	21	24	33700	So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the people of Israel. 
03O	22	1	33710	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	22	2	33720	"Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, that they set themselves apart from the holy things of the sons of Israel, which they dedicate to me, so that they do not profane My holy name: I am the LORD. 
03O	22	3	33730	Say to them, 'If any one of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy things that the sons of Israel dedicate to the LORD, while he has an uncleanness, that person will be cut off from My presence: I am the LORD. 
03O	22	4	33740	None of the offspring of Aaron who has a leprous disease or a discharge may eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean through contact with the dead or a man who has had an emission of semen, 
03O	22	5	33750	and whoever touches a swarming thing by which he may be made unclean or a person from whom he may take uncleanness, whatever his uncleanness may be, 
03O	22	6	33760	the person who touches such a thing will be unclean until the evening and will not eat of the holy things unless he has bathed his body in water. 
03O	22	7	33770	When the sun goes down he will be clean, and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because they are his food. 
03O	22	8	33780	He will not eat what dies of itself or is torn by beasts, and so make himself unclean by it: I am the LORD.' 
03O	22	9	33790	They will therefore keep my charge, otherwise they bear sin for it and die thereby when they profane it: I am the LORD who sanctifies them. 
03O	22	10	33800	A lay person will not eat of a holy thing; no foreign guest of the priest or hired servant will eat of a holy thing, 
03O	22	11	33810	but if a priest buys a slave as his property for money, the slave may eat of it, and anyone born in his house may eat of his food. 
03O	22	12	33820	If a priest's daughter marries a layman, she will not eat of the contribution of the holy things. 
03O	22	13	33830	But if a priest's daughter is widowed or divorced and has no child and returns to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food; yet no lay person will eat of it. 
03O	22	14	33840	And if anyone eats of a holy thing unwittingly, he will add the fifth of its value to it and give the holy thing to the priest. 
03O	22	15	33850	They will not profane the holy things of the sons of Israel, which they contribute to the LORD, 
03O	22	16	33860	and so cause them to bear iniquity and guilt, by eating their holy things: for I am the LORD who sanctifies them." 
03O	22	17	33870	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	22	18	33880	"Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the sons of Israel and say to them, When any one of the house of Israel or of the sojourners in Israel presents a burnt offering as his offering, for any of their vows or freewill offerings that they offer to the LORD, 
03O	22	19	33890	if it is to be accepted for you it will be a male without blemish, of the bulls or the sheep or the goats. 
03O	22	20	33900	You will not offer anything that has a blemish, for it will not be acceptable for you. 
03O	22	21	33910	And when anyone offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the herd or from the flock, to be accepted it must be perfect; there will be no blemish in it. 
03O	22	22	33920	Animals blind or disabled or mutilated or having a discharge or an itch or scabs you will not offer to the LORD or give them to the LORD as a food offering on the altar. 
03O	22	23	33930	You may present a bull or a lamb that has a part too long or too short for a freewill offering, but for a vow offering it cannot be accepted. 
03O	22	24	33940	Any animal that has its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut you will not offer to the LORD; you will not do it within your land, 
03O	22	25	33950	neither will you offer as the bread of your God any such animals gotten from a foreigner. Since there is a blemish in them, because of their mutilation, they will not be accepted for you." 
03O	22	26	33960	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	22	27	33970	"When an ox or sheep or goat is born, it will remain seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it will be acceptable as a food offering to the LORD. 
03O	22	28	33980	But you will not kill an ox or a sheep and her young in one day. 
03O	22	29	33990	And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the LORD, you will sacrifice it so that you may be accepted. 
03O	22	30	34000	It will be eaten on the same day; you will leave none of it until morning: I am the LORD. 
03O	22	31	34010	So you will keep my commandments and do them: I am the LORD. 
03O	22	32	34020	And you will not profane my holy name, that I may be sanctified among the people of Israel. I am the LORD who sanctifies you, 
03O	22	33	34030	who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the LORD." 
03O	23	1	34040	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	23	2	34050	"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, These are the appointed feasts of the LORD that you will proclaim as holy convocations; they are my appointed feasts. 
03O	23	3	34060	Six days will work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You will do no work. It is a Sabbath to the LORD in all your dwelling places. 
03O	23	4	34070	These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, the holy convocations, which you will proclaim at the time appointed for them. 
03O	23	5	34080	In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the LORD's Passover. 
03O	23	6	34090	And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven days you will eat unleavened bread. 
03O	23	7	34100	On the first day you will have a holy convocation; you will not do any ordinary work. 
03O	23	8	34110	But you will present a food offering to the LORD for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you will not do any ordinary work." 
03O	23	9	34120	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	23	10	34130	"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you will bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest, 
03O	23	11	34140	and he will wave the sheaf before the LORD, so that you may be accepted. On the day after the Sabbath the priest will wave it. 
03O	23	12	34150	And on the day when you wave the sheaf, you will offer a male lamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD. 
03O	23	13	34160	And the grain offering with it will be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, a food offering to the LORD with a pleasing aroma, and the drink offering with it will be of wine, a fourth of a hin. 
03O	23	14	34170	And you will eat neither bread nor grain parched or fresh until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 
03O	23	15	34180	You will count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering. 
03O	23	16	34190	You will count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you will present a grain offering of new grain to the LORD. 
03O	23	17	34200	You will bring from your dwelling places two loaves of bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephah. They will be of fine flour, and they will be baked with leaven, as firstfruits to the LORD. 
03O	23	18	34210	And you will present with the bread seven lambs a year old without blemish, and one bull from the herd and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 
03O	23	19	34220	And you will offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings. 
03O	23	20	34230	And the priest will wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs. They will be holy to the LORD for the priest. 
03O	23	21	34240	And you will make a proclamation on the same day. You will hold a holy convocation. You will not do any ordinary work. It is a statute forever in all your dwelling places throughout your generations. 
03O	23	22	34250	And when you reap the harvest of your land, you will not reap your field right up to its edge, nor will you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You will leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the LORD your God." 
03O	23	23	34260	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	23	24	34270	"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you will observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation. 
03O	23	25	34280	You will not do any ordinary work, and you will present a food offering to the LORD." 
03O	23	26	34290	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	23	27	34300	"Now on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It will be for you a time of holy convocation, and you will humble yourselves and present a food offering to the LORD. 
03O	23	28	34310	And you will not do any work on that very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God. 
03O	23	29	34320	For whoever is not humbled on that very day will be cut off from his people. 
03O	23	30	34330	And whoever does any work on that very day, that person I will destroy from among his people. 
03O	23	31	34340	You will not do any work. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwelling places. 
03O	23	32	34350	It will be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you will afflict yourselves. On the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening will you keep your Sabbath." 
03O	23	33	34360	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	23	34	34370	"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the LORD. 
03O	23	35	34380	On the first day will be a holy convocation; you will not do any ordinary work. 
03O	23	36	34390	For seven days you will present food offerings to the LORD. On the eighth day you will hold a holy convocation and present a food offering to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you will not do any ordinary work. 
03O	23	37	34400	These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you will proclaim as times of holy convocation, for presenting to the LORD food offerings, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day, 
03O	23	38	34410	besides the LORD's Sabbaths and besides your gifts and besides all your vow offerings and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to the LORD. 
03O	23	39	34420	On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you will celebrate the feast of the LORD seven days. On the first day will be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day will be a solemn rest. 
03O	23	40	34430	And you will take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you will rejoice before the LORD your God seven days. 
03O	23	41	34440	You will celebrate it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations; you will celebrate it in the seventh month. 
03O	23	42	34450	You will dwell in booths for seven days. All native Israelites will dwell in booths, 
03O	23	43	34460	that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God." 
03O	23	44	34470	Thus Moses declared to the sons of Israel the appointed feasts of the LORD. 
03O	24	1	34480	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	24	2	34490	"Command the sons of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning continually. 
03O	24	3	34500	Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron will arrange it from evening to morning before the LORD continually. It will be a statute forever throughout your generations. 
03O	24	4	34510	He will arrange the lamps on the lampstand of pure gold before the LORD continually. 
03O	24	5	34520	You will take fine flour and bake twelve loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah will be in each loaf. 
03O	24	6	34530	And you will set them in two piles, six in a pile, on the table of pure gold before the LORD. 
03O	24	7	34540	And you will put pure frankincense on each pile, that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion as a food offering to the LORD. 
03O	24	8	34550	Every Sabbath day Aaron will arrange it before the LORD continually; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever. 
03O	24	9	34560	And it will be for Aaron and his sons, and they will eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the LORD's food offerings, a perpetual due." 
03O	24	10	34570	Now an Israelite woman's son, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the people of Israel. And the Israelite woman's son and a man of Israel fought in the camp, 
03O	24	11	34580	and the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the Name, and cursed. Then they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. 
03O	24	12	34590	And they put him under guard, till the will of the LORD should be clear to them. 
03O	24	13	34600	Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	24	14	34610	"Bring out of the camp the one who cursed, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation to stone him. 
03O	24	15	34620	And speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God will bear his sin. 
03O	24	16	34630	Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD will surely be put to death. All the congregation will stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, will be put to death. 
03O	24	17	34640	Whoever takes a human life will be put to death. 
03O	24	18	34650	Whoever takes an animal's life will make it good, life for life. 
03O	24	19	34660	If anyone injures his neighbor, as he has done it will be done to him, 
03O	24	20	34670	fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has caused a person will be given to him. 
03O	24	21	34680	Whoever kills an animal will make it good, and whoever kills a person will be put to death. 
03O	24	22	34690	You will have the same rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the LORD your God." 
03O	24	23	34700	So Moses spoke to the people of Israel, and they brought out of the camp the one who had cursed and stoned him with stones. Thus the people of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses. 
03O	25	1	34710	The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, 
03O	25	2	34720	"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you, the land will keep a Sabbath to the LORD. 
03O	25	3	34730	For six years you will sow your field, and for six years you will prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits, 
03O	25	4	34740	but in the seventh year there will be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the LORD. You will not sow your field or prune your vineyard. 
03O	25	5	34750	You will not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It will be a year of solemn rest for the land. 
03O	25	6	34760	The Sabbath of the land will provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired servant and the sojourner who lives with you, 
03O	25	7	34770	and for your cattle and for the wild animals that are in your land: all its yield will be for food. 
03O	25	8	34780	You will count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years will give you forty-nine years. 
03O	25	9	34790	Then you will sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you will sound the trumpet throughout all your land. 
03O	25	10	34800	And you will dedicate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a jubilee for you, when each of you will return to his property and each of you will return to his clan. 
03O	25	11	34810	That fiftieth year will be a jubilee for you; in it you will neither sow nor reap what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines. 
03O	25	12	34820	For it is a jubilee. It will be holy to you. You may eat the produce of the field. 
03O	25	13	34830	In this year of jubilee each of you will return to his property. 
03O	25	14	34840	And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you will not cheat one another. 
03O	25	15	34850	You will pay your neighbor according to the number of years after the jubilee, and he will sell to you according to the number of years for crops. 
03O	25	16	34860	If the years are many, you will increase the price, and if the years are few, you will reduce the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you. 
03O	25	17	34870	You will not cheat one another, but you will fear your God, for I am the LORD your God. 
03O	25	18	34880	Therefore you will do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then you will dwell in the land safely. 
03O	25	19	34890	The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and dwell in it safely. 
03O	25	20	34900	And if you say, 'What will we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?' 
03O	25	21	34910	I will set my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years. 
03O	25	22	34920	When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating some of the old crop; you will eat the old until the ninth year, when its crop arrives. 
03O	25	23	34930	The land will not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with Me. 
03O	25	24	34940	And in all the country you possess, you will allow a redemption of the land. 
03O	25	25	34950	If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer will come and redeem what his brother has sold. 
03O	25	26	34960	If a man has no one to redeem it and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it, 
03O	25	27	34970	let him calculate the years since he sold it and pay back the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and then return to his property. 
03O	25	28	34980	But if he has not sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold will remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it will be released, and he will return to his property. 
03O	25	29	34990	If a man sells a dwelling house in a protected city, he may redeem it within a year of its sale. For a full year he will have the right of redemption. 
03O	25	30	35000	If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the protected city will belong in perpetuity to the buyer, throughout his generations; it will not be released in the jubilee. 
03O	25	31	35010	But the houses of the villages that have no protection around them will be classified with the fields of the land. They may be redeemed, and they will be released in the jubilee. 
03O	25	32	35020	As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they possess. 
03O	25	33	35030	And if one of the Levites exercises his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city they possess will be released in the jubilee. For the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel. 
03O	25	34	35040	But the fields of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever. 
03O	25	35	35050	If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you will support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he will live with you. 
03O	25	36	35060	Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. 
03O	25	37	35070	You will not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit. 
03O	25	38	35080	I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. 
03O	25	39	35090	If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you will not make him serve as a slave: 
03O	25	40	35100	he will be with you as a hired servant and as a sojourner. He will serve with you until the year of the jubilee. 
03O	25	41	35110	Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return to the possession of his fathers. 
03O	25	42	35120	For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they will not be sold as slaves. 
03O	25	43	35130	You will not rule over him ruthlessly but will fear your God. 
03O	25	44	35140	As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you. 
03O	25	45	35150	You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property. 
03O	25	46	35160	You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the sons of Israel you will not rule, one over another ruthlessly. 
03O	25	47	35170	If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you or to a member of the stranger's clan, 
03O	25	48	35180	then after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him, 
03O	25	49	35190	or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or a close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he grows wealthy he may redeem himself. 
03O	25	50	35200	He will calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale will vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner will be rated as the time of a hired servant. 
03O	25	51	35210	If there are still many years left, he will pay proportionately for his redemption some of his sale price. 
03O	25	52	35220	If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he will calculate and pay for his redemption in proportion to his years of service. 
03O	25	53	35230	He will treat him as a servant hired year by year. He will not rule ruthlessly over him before you. 
03O	25	54	35240	And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he and his children with him will be released in the year of jubilee. 
03O	25	55	35250	For it is to Me that the people of Israel are servants. They are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. 
03O	26	1	35260	You will not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you will not set up a carved stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God. 
03O	26	2	35270	You will keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. 
03O	26	3	35280	If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, 
03O	26	4	35290	then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land will yield its increase, and the trees of the field will yield their fruit. 
03O	26	5	35300	Your threshing will last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will last to the time for sowing. And you will eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land safely. 
03O	26	6	35310	I will give peace in the land, and you will lie down, and none will make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword will not go through your land. 
03O	26	7	35320	You will chase your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword. 
03O	26	8	35330	Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword. 
03O	26	9	35340	I will respect you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you. 
03O	26	10	35350	You will eat old stored supplies, and you will clear out the old to make way for the new. 
03O	26	11	35360	I will make My dwelling among you, and My soul will not abhor you. 
03O	26	12	35370	And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you will be My people. 
03O	26	13	35380	I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright. 
03O	26	14	35390	But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, 
03O	26	15	35400	if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant, 
03O	26	16	35410	then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it. 
03O	26	17	35420	I will condemn you, and you will be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when none pursues you. 
03O	26	18	35430	And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins, 
03O	26	19	35440	and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze. 
03O	26	20	35450	And your work will be spent in vain, for your land will not yield its increase, and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit. 
03O	26	21	35460	Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins. 
03O	26	22	35470	And I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which will rob you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that your roads will be deserted. 
03O	26	23	35480	And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me, 
03O	26	24	35490	then I also will strive against you, and I Myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins. 
03O	26	25	35500	And I will bring a sword upon you, that will execute vengeance of the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send disease among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 
03O	26	26	35510	When I break your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and will dole out your bread again by weight, and you will eat and not be filled. 
03O	26	27	35520	But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but strive against Me, 
03O	26	28	35530	then I will strive against you in wrath, and I Myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins. 
03O	26	29	35540	You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters. 
03O	26	30	35550	And I will destroy your shrines and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and My soul will detest you. 
03O	26	31	35560	And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas. 
03O	26	32	35570	And I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it will be astonished at it. 
03O	26	33	35580	And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land will be a desolation, and your cities will be a waste. 
03O	26	34	35590	Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land will rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. 
03O	26	35	35600	As long as it lies desolate it will have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it. 
03O	26	36	35610	And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as one flees from the sword, and they will fall when no one pursues. 
03O	26	37	35620	They will stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though no one pursues. And you will have no power to stand before your enemies. 
03O	26	38	35630	And you will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will devour you. 
03O	26	39	35640	And those of you who are left will rot away in your enemies' lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they will rot away like them. 
03O	26	40	35650	But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against Me, and also in striving against Me, 
03O	26	41	35660	so that I strived against them and brought them into the land of their enemies, if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 
03O	26	42	35670	then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. 
03O	26	43	35680	But the land will be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they will make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul detested my statutes. 
03O	26	44	35690	Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I detest them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God. 
03O	26	45	35700	But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD." 
03O	26	46	35710	These are the statutes and rules and laws that the LORD made between Himself and the sons of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai. 
03O	27	1	35720	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
03O	27	2	35730	"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the valuation of persons, 
03O	27	3	35740	then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old will be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. 
03O	27	4	35750	If the person is a female, the valuation will be thirty shekels. 
03O	27	5	35760	If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation will be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 
03O	27	6	35770	If the person is from a month old up to five years old, the valuation will be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female the valuation will be three shekels of silver. 
03O	27	7	35780	And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the valuation for a male will be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 
03O	27	8	35790	And if someone is too poor to pay the valuation, then he will be made to stand before the priest, and the priest will value him; the priest will value him according to what the vower can afford. 
03O	27	9	35800	If the vow is an animal that may be offered as an offering to the LORD, all of it that he gives to the LORD is holy. 
03O	27	10	35810	He will not exchange it or make a substitute for it, good for bad, or bad for good; and if he does in fact substitute one animal for another, then both it and the substitute will be holy. 
03O	27	11	35820	And if it is any unclean animal that may not be offered as an offering to the LORD, then he will stand the animal before the priest, 
03O	27	12	35830	and the priest will value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it will be. 
03O	27	13	35840	But if he wishes to redeem it, he will add a fifth to the valuation. 
03O	27	14	35850	When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the LORD, the priest will value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it will stand. 
03O	27	15	35860	And if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he will add a fifth to the valuation price, and it will be his. 
03O	27	16	35870	If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation will be in proportion to its seed. A homer of barley seed will be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 
03O	27	17	35880	If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, the valuation will stand, 
03O	27	18	35890	but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest will calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction will be made from the valuation. 
03O	27	19	35900	And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he will add a fifth to its valuation price, and it will remain his. 
03O	27	20	35910	But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it will not be redeemed anymore. 
03O	27	21	35920	But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, will be a holy gift to the LORD, like a field that has been devoted. The priest will be in possession of it. 
03O	27	22	35930	If he dedicates to the LORD a field that he has bought, which is not a part of his possession, 
03O	27	23	35940	then the priest will calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man will give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the LORD. 
03O	27	24	35950	In the year of jubilee the field will return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession. 
03O	27	25	35960	Every valuation will be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs will make a shekel. 
03O	27	26	35970	But a firstborn of animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the LORD, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the LORD's. 
03O	27	27	35980	And if it is an unclean animal, then he will buy it back at the valuation, and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it will be sold at the valuation. 
03O	27	28	35990	But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the LORD, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, will be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD. 
03O	27	29	36000	No one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction from mankind, will be ransomed; he will surely be put to death. 
03O	27	30	36010	Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the LORD's; it is holy to the LORD. 
03O	27	31	36020	If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he will add a fifth to it. 
03O	27	32	36030	And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman's staff, will be holy to the LORD. 
03O	27	33	36040	One will not differentiate between good or bad, neither will he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute will be holy; it will not be redeemed." 
03O	27	34	36050	These are the commandments that the LORD commanded Moses for the sons of Israel on Mount Sinai. 
04O	1	1	36060	The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of assembly, on the first of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 
04O	1	2	36070	"Take the sum of all the assembly of the sons of Israel, by tribe, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, by their head. 
04O	1	3	36080	From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron will count them, by company. 
04O	1	4	36090	And there will be with you a man from each tribe, every man the head of the house of his fathers. 
04O	1	5	36100	And these are the names of the men who will stand with you. From Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur; 
04O	1	6	36110	from Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai; 
04O	1	7	36120	from Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab; 
04O	1	8	36130	from Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar; 
04O	1	9	36140	from Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon; 
04O	1	10	36150	from the sons of Joseph, from Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud, and from Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur; 
04O	1	11	36160	from Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni; 
04O	1	12	36170	from Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai; 
04O	1	13	36180	from Asher, Pagiel the son of Ochran; 
04O	1	14	36190	from Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel; 
04O	1	15	36200	from Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan." 
04O	1	16	36210	These were the ones chosen from the assembly, the chiefs of their tribes, the heads of the families of Israel. 
04O	1	17	36220	Moses and Aaron took these men who had been named, 
04O	1	18	36230	and they gathered the whole assembly together and on the first of the second month, and they registered themselves by tribes, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, by their head, 
04O	1	19	36240	as the LORD commanded Moses. So he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai. 
04O	1	20	36250	The sons of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war: 
04O	1	21	36260	those counted of the tribe of Reuben were 46 families and 500. 
04O	1	22	36270	Of the sons of Simeon, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, those of them who were counted, according to the number of names, by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war: 
04O	1	23	36280	those counted of the tribe of Simeon were 59 families and 300. 
04O	1	24	36290	Of the sons of Gad, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war: 
04O	1	25	36300	those counted of the tribe of Gad were 45 families and 650. 
04O	1	26	36310	Of the sons of Judah, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 
04O	1	27	36320	those counted of the tribe of Judah were 74 families and 600. 
04O	1	28	36330	Of the sons of Issachar, their generations, by their tribes, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 
04O	1	29	36340	those counted of the tribe of Issachar were 54 families and 400. 
04O	1	30	36350	Of the sons of Zebulun, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 
04O	1	31	36360	those counted of the tribe of Zebulun were 57 families and 400. 
04O	1	32	36370	Of the sons of Joseph, namely, of the people of Ephraim, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 
04O	1	33	36380	those counted of the tribe of Ephraim were 40 families and 500. 
04O	1	34	36390	Of the sons of Manasseh, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 
04O	1	35	36400	those counted of the tribe of Manasseh were 32 families and 200. 
04O	1	36	36410	Of the sons of Benjamin, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 
04O	1	37	36420	those counted of the tribe of Benjamin were 35 families and 400. 
04O	1	38	36430	Of the sons of Dan, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 
04O	1	39	36440	those counted of the tribe of Dan were 62 families and 700. 
04O	1	40	36450	Of the sons of Asher, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 
04O	1	41	36460	those counted of the tribe of Asher were 41 families and 500. 
04O	1	42	36470	Of the sons of Naphtali, their generations, by their tribe, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 
04O	1	43	36480	those counted of the tribe of Naphtali were 53 families and 400. 
04O	1	44	36490	These are those who were counted, whom Moses and Aaron counted with the help of the chiefs of Israel, twelve men, each representing his fathers' house. 
04O	1	45	36500	So all those counted of the sons of Israel, by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war in Israel, 
04O	1	46	36510	all those counted were 598 families and 5,550. 
04O	1	47	36520	But the Levites were not counted along with them by their tribe. 
04O	1	48	36530	For the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	1	49	36540	"Only the tribe of Levi you will not count, and you will not take a sum of them among the sons of Israel. 
04O	1	50	36550	But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they will take care of it and will camp around the tabernacle. 
04O	1	51	36560	When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites will take it down, and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites will set it up. And if any stranger comes near, he will be put to death. 
04O	1	52	36570	The sons of Israel will pitch their tents by their companies, each man in his own camp and each man by his own standard. 
04O	1	53	36580	But the Levites will camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that there may be no strife in the assembly of the sons of Israel. And the Levites will keep guard over the tabernacle of the testimony." 
04O	1	54	36590	Thus did the sons of Israel; they did all that the LORD commanded Moses, this they accomplished. 
04O	2	1	36600	The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 
04O	2	2	36610	"Every man of the children of Israel will camp each by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers' houses. They will camp facing the tabernacle of assembly on every side. 
04O	2	3	36620	Those to camp on the east side toward the sunrise will be of the standard of the camp of Judah by their companies, the chief of the sons of Judah being Nahshon the son of Amminadab, 
04O	2	4	36630	his company as counted being 74 families and 600. 
04O	2	5	36640	Those to camp next to him will be the tribe of Issachar, the chief of the sons of Issachar being Nethanel the son of Zuar, 
04O	2	6	36650	his company as counted being 54 families and 400. 
04O	2	7	36660	Then the tribe of Zebulun, the chief of the sons of Zebulun being Eliab the son of Helon, 
04O	2	8	36670	his company as counted being 57 families and 400. 
04O	2	9	36680	All those counted of the camp of Judah, by their companies, were 185 families and 1,400. They will set out first. 
04O	2	10	36690	On the south side will be the standard of the camp of Reuben by their companies, the chief of the sons of Reuben being Elizur the son of Shedeur, 
04O	2	11	36700	his company as counted being 46 families and 500. 
04O	2	12	36710	And those to camp next to him will be the tribe of Simeon, the chief of the sons of Simeon being Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, 
04O	2	13	36720	his company as counted being 59 families and 300. 
04O	2	14	36730	Then the tribe of Gad, the chief of the sons of Gad being Eliasaph the son of Reuel, 
04O	2	15	36740	his company as counted being 45 families and 650. 
04O	2	16	36750	All those counted of the camp of Reuben, by their companies, were 150 families and 1,450. They will set out second. 
04O	2	17	36760	Then the tabernacle of assembly will set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; as they camp, so will they set out, each in position, by their standard. 
04O	2	18	36770	On the west side will be the standard of the camp of Ephraim by their companies, the chief of the sons of Ephraim being Elishama the son of Ammihud, 
04O	2	19	36780	his company as counted being 40 families and 500. 
04O	2	20	36790	And next to him will be the tribe of Manasseh, the chief of the sons of Manasseh being Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, 
04O	2	21	36800	his company as counted being 32 families and 200. 
04O	2	22	36810	Then the tribe of Benjamin, the chief of the sons of Benjamin being Abidan the son of Gideoni, 
04O	2	23	36820	his company as counted being 35 families and 400. 
04O	2	24	36830	All those counted of the camp of Ephraim, by their companies, were 107 families and 1,100. They will set out third. 
04O	2	25	36840	On the north side will be the standard of the camp of Dan by their companies, the chief of the people of Dan being Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, 
04O	2	26	36850	his company as counted being 62 families and 700. 
04O	2	27	36860	And those to camp next to him will be the tribe of Asher, the chief of the sons of Asher being Pagiel the son of Ochran, 
04O	2	28	36870	his company as counted being 41 families and 500. 
04O	2	29	36880	Then the tribe of Naphtali, the chief of the sons of Naphtali being Ahira the son of Enan, 
04O	2	30	36890	his company as counted being 53 families and 400. 
04O	2	31	36900	All those counted of the camp of Dan were 156 families 1,600. They will set out last, by their standard." 
04O	2	32	36910	These are the sons of Israel as counted by their fathers' houses. All those counted in the camps by their companies were 598 families and 5,550. 
04O	2	33	36920	But the Levites were not counted among the sons of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses. 
04O	2	34	36930	Thus did the sons of Israel. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they camped by their standards, and so they set out, each one in his tribe, according to his fathers' house. 
04O	3	1	36940	These are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai. 
04O	3	2	36950	These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 
04O	3	3	36960	These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to serve as priests. 
04O	3	4	36970	But Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered profane fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests in the presence of Aaron their father. 
04O	3	5	36980	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	3	6	36990	"Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him. 
04O	3	7	37000	They will keep watch over him and watch over all the assembly before the tabernacle of assembly, as they serve at the tabernacle. 
04O	3	8	37010	They will watch all the furnishings of the tabernacle of assembly, and keep watch over the sons of Israel as they serve at the tabernacle. 
04O	3	9	37020	And you will give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the sons of Israel. 
04O	3	10	37030	And you will appoint Aaron and his sons, and they will attend to their priesthood. But if any stranger comes near, he will be put to death." 
04O	3	11	37040	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	3	12	37050	"Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the sons of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the sons of Israel. The Levites will be mine, 
04O	3	13	37060	for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I dedicated for My own all the firstborn in Israel, both of man and of beast. They will be mine: I am the LORD." 
04O	3	14	37070	And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, 
04O	3	15	37080	"count the sons of Levi, by fathers' houses and by tribe; every male from a month old and upward you will count." 
04O	3	16	37090	So Moses counted them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded. 
04O	3	17	37100	And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari. 
04O	3	18	37110	And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their tribes: Libni and Shimei. 
04O	3	19	37120	And the sons of Kohath by their tribes: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 
04O	3	20	37130	And the sons of Merari by their tribes: Mahli and Mushi. These are the tribes of the Levites, by their fathers' houses. 
04O	3	21	37140	To Gershon belonged the tribe of the Libnites and the tribe of the Shimeites; these were the tribes of the Gershonites. 
04O	3	22	37150	Their sum according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was 7 families and 500. 
04O	3	23	37160	The tribes of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle on the west, 
04O	3	24	37170	with Eliasaph, the son of Lael as chief of the fathers' house of the Gershonites. 
04O	3	25	37180	And the duty of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of assembly included the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the screen for the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly, 
04O	3	26	37190	the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the court that is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its cords, all the service connected with these. 
04O	3	27	37200	To Kohath belonged the tribe of the Amramites and the tribe of the Izharites and the tribe of the Hebronites and the tribe of the Uzzielites; these are the tribes of the Kohathites. 
04O	3	28	37210	According to the sum of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were 8 families and 600, keeping watch over the sanctuary. 
04O	3	29	37220	The tribes of the sons of Kohath were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle, 
04O	3	30	37230	with Elizaphan the son of Uzziel as chief of the fathers' house of the tribes of the Kohathites. 
04O	3	31	37240	And their duty involved the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which the priests serve, and the screen; all the service connected with these. 
04O	3	32	37250	And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest was to be chief over the chiefs of the Levites, and to have oversight of those who kept guard over the sanctuary. 
04O	3	33	37260	To Merari belonged the tribe of the Mahlites and the tribe of the Mushites: these are the tribes of Merari. 
04O	3	34	37270	Their sum according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was 6 families and 200. 
04O	3	35	37280	And the chief of the fathers' house of the tribes of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle. 
04O	3	36	37290	And the appointed duty of the sons of Merari included the frames of the tabernacle, the bars, the pillars, the bases, and all their accessories; all the service connected with these; 
04O	3	37	37300	also the pillars around the court, with their bases and pegs and cords. 
04O	3	38	37310	Those who were to camp before the tabernacle on the east, before the tabernacle of assembly toward the sunrise, were Moses and Aaron and his sons, watching the sanctuary itself, to protect the sons of Israel. And any stranger who came near was to be put to death. 
04O	3	39	37320	All those counted among the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the commandment of the LORD, by tribes, all the males from a month old and upward, were 21 families and 1,000. 
04O	3	40	37330	And the LORD said to Moses, "Count all the firstborn males of the sons of Israel, from a month old and upward, taking the number of their names. 
04O	3	41	37340	And you will take the Levites for me, I am the LORD, instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the sons of Israel." 
04O	3	42	37350	So Moses counted all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, as the LORD commanded him. 
04O	3	43	37360	And all the firstborn males, according to the number of names, from a month old and upward as counted were 21 families and 1,273. 
04O	3	44	37370	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	3	45	37380	"Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle. The Levites will be mine: I am the LORD. 
04O	3	46	37390	And as the redemption price for the 273 of the firstborn of the sons of Israel, over and above the number of the male Levites, 
04O	3	47	37400	you will take five shekels per head; you will take them according to the shekel of the sanctuary, the shekel of twenty gerahs, 
04O	3	48	37410	and give the money to Aaron and his sons as the redemption for those who are over." 
04O	3	49	37420	So Moses took the redemption money from those who were over and above those redeemed by the Levites. 
04O	3	50	37430	From the firstborn of the sons of Israel he took the money, 1,365 shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary. 
04O	3	51	37440	And Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses. 
04O	4	1	37450	The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 
04O	4	2	37460	"Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their tribes and their fathers' houses, 
04O	4	3	37470	from thirty years old up to fifty years old, all who can be on duty, to do the work in the tabernacle of assembly. 
04O	4	4	37480	This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of assembly: the most holy things. 
04O	4	5	37490	When the camp is to set out, Aaron and his sons will go in and take down the veil of the screen and cover the ark of the testimony with it. 
04O	4	6	37500	Then they will put on it a covering of goatskin and spread on top of that an all blue cloth, and will put in its poles. 
04O	4	7	37510	And over the table of the showbread they will spread a cloth of blue and put on it the plates, the dishes for incense, the bowls, and the cups for the drink offering; the perpetual bread also will be on it. 
04O	4	8	37520	Then they will spread over them a cloth of scarlet and cover the same with a covering of goatskin, and will put in its poles. 
04O	4	9	37530	And they will take a cloth of blue and cover the lampstand for the light, with its lamps, its tongs, its trays, and all the vessels for oil with which which they serve it. 
04O	4	10	37540	And they will put it with all its utensils in a covering of goatskin and put it on the carrying frame. 
04O	4	11	37550	And over the golden altar they will spread a cloth of blue and cover it with a covering of goatskin, and will put in its poles. 
04O	4	12	37560	And they will take all the vessels of the service that are used in the sanctuary and put them in a cloth of blue and cover them with a covering of goatskin and put them on the carrying frame. 
04O	4	13	37570	And they will take away the ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it. 
04O	4	14	37580	And they will put on it all the utensils of the altar, with which they serve around it, the fire pans, the forks, the shovels, and the basins, all the utensils of the altar; and they will spread on it a covering of goatskin, and will put in its poles. 
04O	4	15	37590	And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath will come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, or they die. These are the things of the tabernacle of assembly that the sons of Kohath are to carry. 
04O	4	16	37600	And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest will have charge of the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the perpetual food offering, and the anointing oil, with the oversight of the whole tabernacle and all that is in it, of the sanctuary and its vessels." 
04O	4	17	37610	The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 
04O	4	18	37620	"Let not the tribe of the families of the Kohathites be destroyed from among the Levites, 
04O	4	19	37630	but prepare them, that they may live and not die when they approach the most holy things: Aaron and his sons will go in and appoint them each to his task and to his burden, 
04O	4	20	37640	but they will not go in to look on the holy things as they are covered, that they may not die." 
04O	4	21	37650	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	4	22	37660	"Take the sum of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses and by their tribes. 
04O	4	23	37670	From thirty years old up to fifty years old, you will count them, all who can come to do duty, to do service in the tabernacle of assembly. 
04O	4	24	37680	This is the service of the tribes of the Gershonites, in serving and bearing burdens: 
04O	4	25	37690	they will carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tabernacle of assembly with its covering and the covering of goatskin that is on top of it and the screen for the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly 
04O	4	26	37700	and the hangings of the court and the screen for the entrance of the gate of the court that is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their cords and all the equipment for their service. And they will do all that needs to be done with regard to them. 
04O	4	27	37710	All the service of the sons of the Gershonites will be at the command of Aaron and his sons, in all that they are to carry and in all that they have to do. And you will assign to their charge all that they are to carry. 
04O	4	28	37720	This is the service of the tribes of the sons of the Gershonites in the tabernacle of assembly, and their duty is to be under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 
04O	4	29	37730	"As for the sons of Merari, you will count them by their tribes and their fathers' houses. 
04O	4	30	37740	From thirty years old up to fifty years old, you will count them, everyone who can come on duty, to do the service of the tabernacle of assembly. 
04O	4	31	37750	And this is what they are charged to carry, as the whole of their service in the tabernacle of assembly: the frames of the tabernacle, with its bars, pillars, and bases, 
04O	4	32	37760	and the pillars around the court with their bases, pegs, and cords, with all their equipment and all their accessories. And you will list by name the objects that they are required to carry. 
04O	4	33	37770	This is the service of the tribes of the sons of Merari, the whole of their service in the tabernacle of assembly, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest." 
04O	4	34	37780	And Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the congregation counted the sons of the Kohathites, by their tribes and their fathers' houses, 
04O	4	35	37790	from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come on duty, for service in the tabernacle of assembly; 
04O	4	36	37800	and those counted by tribes were 2 families and 750. 
04O	4	37	37810	This was the count of the tribes of the Kohathites, all who served in the tabernacle of assembly, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses. 
04O	4	38	37820	Those counted of the sons of Gershon, by their tribes and their fathers' houses, 
04O	4	39	37830	from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come on duty for service in the tabernacle of assembly,
04O	4	40	37840	those counted by their tribes and their fathers' houses were 2 families and 630. 
04O	4	41	37850	This was the count of the tribes of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the tabernacle of assembly, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of the LORD. 
04O	4	42	37860	Those counted of the tribes of the sons of Merari, by their tribes and their fathers' houses, 
04O	4	43	37870	from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come on duty, for service in the tabernacle of assembly, 
04O	4	44	37880	those counted by tribes were 3 families and 200. 
04O	4	45	37890	This was the count of the tribes of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses. 
04O	4	46	37900	All those who were counted of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of Israel counted, by their tribes and their fathers' houses, 
04O	4	47	37910	from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come to do the service of ministry and the service of bearing burdens in the tabernacle of assembly, 
04O	4	48	37920	those counted were 7 families and 1,580. 
04O	4	49	37930	According to the commandment of the LORD through Moses they were counted, each one with his task of serving or carrying. Thus they were counted by him, as the LORD commanded Moses. 
04O	5	1	37940	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	5	2	37950	"Command the sons of Israel that they remove from the camp everyone who is leprous or has a discharge and everyone who is unclean through contact with the dead. 
04O	5	3	37960	You will remove both male and female, setting them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell." 
04O	5	4	37970	And the sons of Israel did so, and removed them outside the camp; as the LORD said to Moses, so the sons of Israel accomplished it. 
04O	5	5	37980	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	5	6	37990	"Speak to the sons of Israel, When a man or woman commits any of the sins that people commit by breaking faith with the LORD, and that person realizes his guilt, 
04O	5	7	38000	he will confess his sin that he has committed. And he will make full restitution for his wrong, adding a fifth to it and giving it to him to whom he did the wrong. 
04O	5	8	38010	But if the man has no next of kin to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for wrong will go to the LORD for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for him. 
04O	5	9	38020	And every contribution, all the holy donations of the sons of Israel, which they bring to the priest, will be his. 
04O	5	10	38030	Each one will keep his holy donations: whatever anyone gives to the priest will be his." 
04O	5	11	38040	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	5	12	38050	"Speak to the sons of Israel, If any man's wife goes astray and deals treacherously with him, 
04O	5	13	38060	if a man lies with her sexually, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, since she was not taken in the act, 
04O	5	14	38070	and if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself, or if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself, 
04O	5	15	38080	then the man will bring his wife to the priest and bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He will pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on it, for it is a food offering of jealousy, a food offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. 
04O	5	16	38090	And the priest will bring her near and set her before the LORD. 
04O	5	17	38100	And the priest will take holy water in an earthenware vessel and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water. 
04O	5	18	38110	And the priest will set the woman before the LORD and unbind the hair of the woman's head and place in her hands the food offering of remembrance, which is the food offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest will have the water of bitterness that brings the curse. 
04O	5	19	38120	Then the priest will make her take an oath, saying, 'If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness while you were under your husband's authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings the curse. 
04O	5	20	38130	But if you have gone astray, though you are under your husband's authority, and if you have defiled yourself, and some man other than your husband has lain with you, 
04O	5	21	38140	then let the priest make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman, 'the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh fall away and your belly swell. 
04O	5	22	38150	May this water that brings the curse pass into your bowels and make your belly swell and your thigh fall away.' And the woman will say, 'Amen, Amen.' 
04O	5	23	38160	Then the priest will write these curses in a book and wash them off into the water of bitterness. 
04O	5	24	38170	And he will make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse will enter into her and cause bitter pain. 
04O	5	25	38180	And the priest will take the grain offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand and will wave the grain offering before the LORD and bring it to the altar. 
04O	5	26	38190	And the priest will take a handful of the food offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward will make the woman drink the water. 
04O	5	27	38200	And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has dealt treacherously with her husband, the water that brings the curse will enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her belly will swell, and her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse among her people. 
04O	5	28	38210	But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she will be free and will bear children. 
04O	5	29	38220	This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though under her husband's authority, goes astray and defiles herself, 
04O	5	30	38230	or when the spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife. Then he will set the woman before the LORD, and the priest will carry out for her all this law. 
04O	5	31	38240	The man will be free from iniquity, but the woman will bear her iniquity." 
04O	6	1	38250	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	6	2	38260	"Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to dedicate himself to the LORD, 
04O	6	3	38270	he will abstain himself from wine and strong drink. He will drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and will not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried. 
04O	6	4	38280	All the days of his dedication he will eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins. 
04O	6	5	38290	All the days of his vow of dedication, no razor will touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he dedicates himself to the LORD, he will be holy. He will let the locks of hair of his head grow long. 
04O	6	6	38300	All the days that he dedicates himself to the LORD he will not go near a dead body. 
04O	6	7	38310	Not even for his father or for his mother, for brother or sister, if they die, will he make himself unclean, because his dedication to God is on his head. 
04O	6	8	38320	All the days of his dedication he is holy to the LORD. 
04O	6	9	38330	And if any man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his dedicated head, then he will shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he will shave it. 
04O	6	10	38340	On the eighth day he will bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to the priest to the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly, 
04O	6	11	38350	and the priest will offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead body. And he will dedicate his head that same day 
04O	6	12	38360	and dedicate himself to the LORD for the days of his dedication and bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering. But the previous period will be void, because his dedication was defiled. 
04O	6	13	38370	And this is the law for the Nazirite, when the time of his dedication has been completed: he will be brought to the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly, 
04O	6	14	38380	and he will bring his gift to the LORD, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish as a sin offering, and one ram without blemish as a peace offering, 
04O	6	15	38390	and a basket of unleavened bread, loaves of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and their food offering and their drink offerings. 
04O	6	16	38400	And the priest will bring them before the LORD and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering, 
04O	6	17	38410	and he will offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest will offer also its food offering and its drink offering. 
04O	6	18	38420	And the Nazirite will shave his dedicated head at the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly and will take the hair from his dedicated head and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of the peace offering. 
04O	6	19	38430	And the priest will take the shoulder of the ram, when it is boiled, and one unleavened loaf out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and will put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the hair of his dedication, 
04O	6	20	38440	and the priest will wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. They are a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed. And after that the Nazirite may drink wine. 
04O	6	21	38450	"This is the law of the Nazirite. But if he vows an offering to the LORD above his Nazirite vow, as he can afford, in exact accordance with the vow that he takes, then he will do in addition to the law of the Nazirite." 
04O	6	22	38460	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	6	23	38470	"Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, Thus you will bless the sons of Israel: you will say to them, 
04O	6	24	38480	The LORD bless you and keep you; 
04O	6	25	38490	the LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; 
04O	6	26	38500	the LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. 
04O	6	27	38510	So will they put My name upon the sons of Israel, and I will bless them." 
04O	7	1	38520	On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and dedicated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and dedicated the altar with all its utensils, 
04O	7	2	38530	the chiefs of Israel, heads of their fathers' houses, who were the chiefs of the tribes, who were over those who were counted, approached 
04O	7	3	38540	and put their offerings before the LORD, six wagons and twelve oxen, a wagon for every two of the chiefs, and for each one an ox. They presented them before the tabernacle. 
04O	7	4	38550	Then the LORD said to Moses, 
04O	7	5	38560	"Accept these from them, that they may be used in the service of the tabernacle of assembly, and give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service." 
04O	7	6	38570	So Moses took the wagons and the oxen and gave them to the Levites. 
04O	7	7	38580	Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service. 
04O	7	8	38590	And four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 
04O	7	9	38600	But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because they were charged with the service of the holy things that had to be carried on the shoulder. 
04O	7	10	38610	And the chiefs offered offerings for the dedication of the altar on the day it was anointed; and the chiefs offered their offering before the altar. 
04O	7	11	38620	And the LORD said to Moses, "They will offer their offerings, one chief each day, for the dedication of the altar." 
04O	7	12	38630	He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah. 
04O	7	13	38640	And his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering; 
04O	7	14	38650	one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense; 
04O	7	15	38660	one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 
04O	7	16	38670	one male goat for a sin offering; 
04O	7	17	38680	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 
04O	7	18	38690	On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, the chief of Issachar, made an offering. 
04O	7	19	38700	He offered for his offering one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering; 
04O	7	20	38710	one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense; 
04O	7	21	38720	one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 
04O	7	22	38730	one male goat for a sin offering; 
04O	7	23	38740	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar. 
04O	7	24	38750	On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, the chief of the sons of Zebulun: 
04O	7	25	38760	his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering; 
04O	7	26	38770	one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense; 
04O	7	27	38780	one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 
04O	7	28	38790	one male goat for a sin offering; 
04O	7	29	38800	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon. 
04O	7	30	38810	On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, the chief of the sons of Reuben: 
04O	7	31	38820	his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering; 
04O	7	32	38830	one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense; 
04O	7	33	38840	one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 
04O	7	34	38850	one male goat for a sin offering; 
04O	7	35	38860	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur. 
04O	7	36	38870	On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, the chief of the sons of Simeon: 
04O	7	37	38880	his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering; 
04O	7	38	38890	one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense; 
04O	7	39	38900	one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 
04O	7	40	38910	one male goat for a sin offering; 
04O	7	41	38920	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 
04O	7	42	38930	On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, the chief of the sons of Gad: 
04O	7	43	38940	his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering; 
04O	7	44	38950	one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense; 
04O	7	45	38960	one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 
04O	7	46	38970	one male goat for a sin offering; 
04O	7	47	38980	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel. 
04O	7	48	38990	On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, the chief of the sons of Ephraim: 
04O	7	49	39000	his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering; 
04O	7	50	39010	one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense; 
04O	7	51	39020	one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 
04O	7	52	39030	one male goat for a sin offering; 
04O	7	53	39040	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud. 
04O	7	54	39050	On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, the chief of the sons of Manasseh: 
04O	7	55	39060	his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering; 
04O	7	56	39070	one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense; 
04O	7	57	39080	one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 
04O	7	58	39090	one male goat for a sin offering; 
04O	7	59	39100	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 
04O	7	60	39110	On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, the chief of the sons of Benjamin: 
04O	7	61	39120	his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering; 
04O	7	62	39130	one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense; 
04O	7	63	39140	one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 
04O	7	64	39150	one male goat for a sin offering; 
04O	7	65	39160	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni. 
04O	7	66	39170	On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, the chief of the sons of Dan: 
04O	7	67	39180	his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering; 
04O	7	68	39190	one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense; 
04O	7	69	39200	one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 
04O	7	70	39210	one male goat for a sin offering; 
04O	7	71	39220	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 
04O	7	72	39230	On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, the chief of the sons of Asher: 
04O	7	73	39240	his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering; 
04O	7	74	39250	one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense; 
04O	7	75	39260	one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 
04O	7	76	39270	one male goat for a sin offering; 
04O	7	77	39280	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran. 
04O	7	78	39290	On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, the chief of the sons of Naphtali: 
04O	7	79	39300	his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a food offering; 
04O	7	80	39310	one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense; 
04O	7	81	39320	one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering; 
04O	7	82	39330	one male goat for a sin offering; 
04O	7	83	39340	and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan. 
04O	7	84	39350	This was the dedication offering for the altar on the day when it was anointed, from the chiefs of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve golden dishes, 
04O	7	85	39360	each silver plate weighing 130 shekels and each basin 70, all the silver of the vessels 2,400 shekels according to the shekel of the sanctuary, 
04O	7	86	39370	the twelve golden dishes, full of incense, weighing 10 shekels apiece according to the shekel of the sanctuary, all the gold of the dishes being 120 shekels; 
04O	7	87	39380	all the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, twelve rams, twelve male lambs a year old, with their grain offering; and twelve male goats for a sin offering; 
04O	7	88	39390	and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed. 
04O	7	89	39400	And when Moses went into the tabernacle of assembly to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and it spoke to him. 
04O	8	1	39410	Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	8	2	39420	"Speak to Aaron and say to him, When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps will give light in front of the lampstand." 
04O	8	3	39430	And Aaron obeyed: he set up its lamps in front of the lampstand, as the LORD commanded Moses. 
04O	8	4	39440	And this was the design of the lampstand, hammered gold. From its base to its flowers, it was hammered according to the pattern that the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand. 
04O	8	5	39450	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	8	6	39460	"Take the Levites from among the sons of Israel and cleanse them. 
04O	8	7	39470	Therefore you will prepare them to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of purification upon them, and have them shave over all their body, and wash their clothes and cleanse themselves. 
04O	8	8	39480	Then let them take a bull from the herd and its food offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you will take another bull from the herd for a sin offering. 
04O	8	9	39490	And you will bring the Levites before the tabernacle of assembly and assemble the whole congregation of the sons of Israel. 
04O	8	10	39500	When you bring the Levites before the LORD, the sons of Israel will lay their hands on the Levites, 
04O	8	11	39510	and Aaron will offer the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the sons of Israel, that they may do the service of the LORD. 
04O	8	12	39520	Then the Levites will lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you will offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the LORD to make atonement for the Levites. 
04O	8	13	39530	And you will set the Levites before Aaron and his sons, and will offer them as a wave offering to the LORD. 
04O	8	14	39540	Therefore you will separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel, and the Levites will be Mine. 
04O	8	15	39550	And after that the Levites will go in to serve at the tabernacle of assembly, when you have cleansed them and offered them as a wave offering. 
04O	8	16	39560	For they are wholly given to me from among the sons of Israel. Instead of all who open the womb, the firstborn of all the sons of Israel, I have taken them for Myself. 
04O	8	17	39570	For all the firstborn among the sons of Israel are Mine, both of man and of beast. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I dedicated them for Myself, 
04O	8	18	39580	and I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel. 
04O	8	19	39590	And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the sons of Israel, to do the service for the sons of Israel at the tabernacle of assembly and to make atonement for the sons of Israel, that there will be no plague among the sons of Israel when the sons of Israel come near the sanctuary." 
04O	8	20	39600	This Moses and Aaron did and all the congregation of the sons of Israel to the Levites. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, the sons of Israel did to them. 
04O	8	21	39610	And the Levites purified themselves from sin and washed their clothes, and Aaron offered them as a wave offering before the LORD, and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them. 
04O	8	22	39620	And after that the Levites went in to do their service in the tabernacle of assembly before Aaron and his sons; as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they prepared them. 
04O	8	23	39630	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	8	24	39640	"This applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward, they will come to do duty in the service of the tabernacle of assembly. 
04O	8	25	39650	And from the age of fifty years they will cease from the duty of the service and serve no more. 
04O	8	26	39660	They attend for their brothers in the tabernacle of assembly by keeping guard, but they will do no labour. Thus will you appoint the Levites in assigning their duties." 
04O	9	1	39670	And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 
04O	9	2	39680	"Let the sons of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time. 
04O	9	3	39690	On the fourteenth day of this month, at dusk, you will keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you will observe it." 
04O	9	4	39700	So Moses told the sons of Israel that they should keep the Passover. 
04O	9	5	39710	And they observed the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at dusk, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel prepared it. 
04O	9	6	39720	And there were certain men who were unclean through touching a dead body, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day. 
04O	9	7	39730	And those men said to him, "We are unclean through touching a dead body. Why are we kept from bringing the LORD's offering at its appointed time among the sons of Israel?" 
04O	9	8	39740	And Moses said to them, "Wait, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you." 
04O	9	9	39750	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	9	10	39760	"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is on a long journey, he will still keep the Passover to the LORD. 
04O	9	11	39770	In the second month on the fourteenth day at dusk they will observe it. They will eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 
04O	9	12	39780	They will leave none of it until the morning, nor break any of its bones; according to all the statute for the Passover they will observe it. 
04O	9	13	39790	But if anyone who is clean and is not on a journey fails to keep the Passover, that person will be cut off from his people because he did not bring the LORD's offering at its appointed time; that man will bear his sin. 
04O	9	14	39800	And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so will he do. You will have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native." 
04O	9	15	39810	On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony. And at dusk it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until dawn. 
04O	9	16	39820	So it was always: the cloud covered it and the appearance of fire by night. 
04O	9	17	39830	And whenever the cloud lifted from over the tent, after that the sons of Israel set out, and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the sons of Israel camped. 
04O	9	18	39840	At the command of the LORD the sons of Israel set out, and at the command of the LORD they camped. As long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they remained in camp. 
04O	9	19	39850	Even when the cloud continued over the tabernacle a long time, the sons of Israel kept the charge of the LORD and did not set out. 
04O	9	20	39860	Sometimes the cloud was for  a long time over the tabernacle, and according to the command of the LORD they remained in camp; then according to the command of the LORD they set out. 
04O	9	21	39870	And sometimes the cloud remained from dusk until dawn. And when the cloud lifted in the morning, they set out, or if it continued for a day and a night, when the cloud lifted they set out. 
04O	9	22	39880	Whether it was two days, or a month, or a longer time, that the cloud continued over the tabernacle, abiding there, the sons of Israel remained in camp and did not set out, but when it lifted they set out. 
04O	9	23	39890	At the command of the LORD they camped, and at the command of the LORD they set out. They kept the charge of the LORD, at the command of the LORD by Moses. 
04O	10	1	39900	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	10	2	39910	"Make two silver trumpets. Of hammered work you will make them, and you will use them for summoning the assembly and for breaking camp. 
04O	10	3	39920	And when both are blown, all the assembly will gather themselves to you at the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly. 
04O	10	4	39930	But if they blow only one, then the chiefs, the heads of the tribes of Israel, will gather themselves to you. 
04O	10	5	39940	When you blow an alarm, the camps that are on the east side will set out. 
04O	10	6	39950	And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are on the south side will set out. An alarm is to be blown whenever they are to set out. 
04O	10	7	39960	But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you will blow a long blast, but you will not sound an alarm. 
04O	10	8	39970	And the sons of Aaron, the priests,will blow the trumpets. The trumpets will be to you for a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations. 
04O	10	9	39980	And when you go to war in your land against the enemy who distresses you, then you will sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the LORD your God, and you will be safe from your enemies. 
04O	10	10	39990	On the day of your joyfulness also, and at your appointed feasts and at the beginnings of your months, you will blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They will be a reminder of you before your God: I am the LORD your God." 
04O	10	11	40000	In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony, 
04O	10	12	40010	and the sons of Israel set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran. 
04O	10	13	40020	They set out for the first time at the command of the LORD by Moses. 
04O	10	14	40030	The standard of the camp of the sons of Judah set out first by their companies, and over their company was Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 
04O	10	15	40040	And over the company of the tribe of the sons of Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar. 
04O	10	16	40050	And over the company of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon. 
04O	10	17	40060	And when the tabernacle was taken down, the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who carried the tabernacle, set out. 
04O	10	18	40070	And the standard of the camp of Reuben set out by their companies, and over their company was Elizur the son of Shedeur. 
04O	10	19	40080	And over the company of the tribe of the sons of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 
04O	10	20	40090	And over the company of the tribe of the sons of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel. 
04O	10	21	40100	Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival. 
04O	10	22	40110	And the standard of the camp of the sons of Ephraim set out by their companies, and over their company was Elishama the son of Ammihud. 
04O	10	23	40120	And over the company of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 
04O	10	24	40130	And over the company of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni. 
04O	10	25	40140	Then the standard of the camp of the sons of Dan, acting as the rear guard of all the camps, set out by their companies, and over their company was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 
04O	10	26	40150	And over the company of the tribe of the sons of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ochran. 
04O	10	27	40160	And over the company of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan. 
04O	10	28	40170	This was the order of march of the sons of Israel by their companies, when they set out. 
04O	10	29	40180	And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will do good to you, for the LORD has promised good to Israel." 
04O	10	30	40190	But he said to him, "I will not go. I will depart to my own land and to my kindred." 
04O	10	31	40200	And he said, "Please do not leave us, for you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us. 
04O	10	32	40210	And if you do go with us, whatever good the LORD will do to us, the same will we do to you." 
04O	10	33	40220	So they set out from the mount of the LORD three days' journey. And the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them. 
04O	10	34	40230	And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day, whenever they set out from the camp. 
04O	10	35	40240	And whenever the ark set out, Moses said, "Arise, O LORD, and let your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate you flee before you." 
04O	10	36	40250	And when it rested, he said, "Return, O LORD, to the many thousands of Israel." 
04O	11	1	40260	And the people complained and when the LORD heard it He was displeased, His anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp. 
04O	11	2	40270	Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down. 
04O	11	3	40280	So the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD burned among them. 
04O	11	4	40290	Now the mixed multitude that was among them had a strong craving. And the sons of Israel also wept again and said, "Who will give us meat to eat! 
04O	11	5	40300	We remember the fish we ate in Egypt for no cost, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. 
04O	11	6	40310	But now our vitality dries up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to face." 
04O	11	7	40320	Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the resemblance of bdellium. 
04O	11	8	40330	The people went about and gathered it and ground it in mills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes fresh oil. 
04O	11	9	40340	When the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell with it. 
04O	11	10	40350	Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent. And the anger of the LORD blazed greatly, and Moses was displeased. 
04O	11	11	40360	Moses said to the LORD, "Why have you punished your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that you lay the burden of all these people on me? 
04O	11	12	40370	Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,' to the land that you swore to give their fathers? 
04O	11	13	40380	Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.' 
04O	11	14	40390	I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too difficult for me. 
04O	11	15	40400	If you will treat me like this, destroy me, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my misery." 
04O	11	16	40410	Then the LORD said to Moses, "Assemble for Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them, and bring them to the tabernacle of assembly, and let them take their stand there with you. 
04O	11	17	40420	And I will come down and talk with you there. And I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them, and they will bear the burden of the people with you, so that you may not bear it yourself alone. 
04O	11	18	40430	And say to the people, 'Cleanse yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, "Who will give us meat to eat? For it was better for us in Egypt." Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat. 
04O	11	19	40440	You will not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days, 
04O	11	20	40450	but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes disgusting to you, because you have rejected the LORD who is among you and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come out of Egypt?"'" 
04O	11	21	40460	But Moses said, "The people among whom I am number six hundred families on foot, and you have said, 'I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!' 
04O	11	22	40470	Will flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, and be enough for them? Or will all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, and be enough for them?" 
04O	11	23	40480	And the LORD said to Moses, "Is the LORD's hand insufficient? Now you will see if My word will come true for you or not." 
04O	11	24	40490	So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD. And he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tabernacle. 
04O	11	25	40500	Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. And as soon as the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied. But they did not continue doing so. 
04O	11	26	40510	Now two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the Spirit rested on them. They were among those counted, but they had not gone out to the tabernacle, and so they prophesied in the camp. 
04O	11	27	40520	And a young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp." 
04O	11	28	40530	And Joshua the son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from his youth, said, "My lord Moses, stop them." 
04O	11	29	40540	But Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the LORD's people were prophets, that the LORD would put His Spirit on them!" 
04O	11	30	40550	And Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp. 
04O	11	31	40560	Then a wind from the LORD sprang up, and it brought quail from the sea and let them fall around the camp, about a day's journey on this side and a day's journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the face of the ground. 
04O	11	32	40570	And the people rose all that day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail. Those who gathered the least gathered ten homers. And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp. 
04O	11	33	40580	While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck down the people with a very great plague. 
04O	11	34	40590	Therefore the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving. 
04O	11	35	40600	From Kibroth-hattaavah the people journeyed to Hazeroth, and they remained at Hazeroth. 
04O	12	1	40610	Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had taken, for he had married a Cushite woman. 
04O	12	2	40620	And they said, "Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?" And the LORD heard it. 
04O	12	3	40630	Now the man Moses was very humble, more than any other man who were on the face of the earth. 
04O	12	4	40640	And suddenly the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, "Come out, you three, to the tabernacle of assembly." And the three of them went. 
04O	12	5	40650	And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tabernacle and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward. 
04O	12	6	40660	And he said, "Hear My words: If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD make Myself known to him in a vision; I will speak with him in a dream. 
04O	12	7	40670	Not so with My servant Moses. He is faithful in all My house. 
04O	12	8	40680	With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then are you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?" 
04O	12	9	40690	And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them, and He departed. 
04O	12	10	40700	When the cloud removed from over the tabernacle, behold, Miriam was leprous, like snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and behold, she was leprous. 
04O	12	11	40710	And Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, do not punish us because we have been foolish and have sinned. 
04O	12	12	40720	Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother's womb." 
04O	12	13	40730	And Moses cried to the LORD, "O God, please heal her, please." 
04O	12	14	40740	But the LORD said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, would she not be ashamed seven days? Have her shut outside the camp seven days, and after that she may be received again." 
04O	12	15	40750	So Miriam was shut outside the camp seven days, and the people did not set out on the march till Miriam was received again. 
04O	12	16	40760	After that the people set out from Hazeroth, and camped in the wilderness of Paran. 
04O	13	1	40770	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	13	2	40780	"Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you will send a man, every one a chief among them." 
04O	13	3	40790	So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the sons of Israel. 
04O	13	4	40800	And these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur; 
04O	13	5	40810	from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori; 
04O	13	6	40820	from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh; 
04O	13	7	40830	from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph; 
04O	13	8	40840	from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun; 
04O	13	9	40850	from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu; 
04O	13	10	40860	from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi; 
04O	13	11	40870	from the tribe of Joseph, that is, from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi; 
04O	13	12	40880	from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli; 
04O	13	13	40890	from the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael; 
04O	13	14	40900	from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi; 
04O	13	15	40910	from the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. 
04O	13	16	40920	These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua. 
04O	13	17	40930	Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, "Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hills, 
04O	13	18	40940	and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many, 
04O	13	19	40950	and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or fortresses, 
04O	13	20	40960	and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not. Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land." Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes. 
04O	13	21	40970	So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, coming to Hamath. 
04O	13	22	40980	They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, were children of Anak. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt. 
04O	13	23	40990	And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; also some pomegranates and figs. 
04O	13	24	41000	That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster that the sons of Israel cut down from there. 
04O	13	25	41010	They returned from spying out the land after the end of forty days. 
04O	13	26	41020	And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly of the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the assembly, and showed them the fruit of the land. 
04O	13	27	41030	And they told him, "We came to the land to which you sent us. Indeed it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. 
04O	13	28	41040	However, the people who dwell in the land are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. And also we saw the children of Anak there. 
04O	13	29	41050	The Amalekite dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hills. And the Canaanite dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan." 
04O	13	30	41060	But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it." 
04O	13	31	41070	Then the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we." 
04O	13	32	41080	So they brought to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are men of stature. 
04O	13	33	41090	And there we saw the tyrants, the sons of Anak, of the giants, and we were in our own sight like grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight." 
04O	14	1	41100	Then all the assembly raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night. 
04O	14	2	41110	And all the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole assembly said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness! 
04O	14	3	41120	Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?" 
04O	14	4	41130	And they said to one another, "Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt." 
04O	14	5	41140	Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the multitude of the sons of Israel. 
04O	14	6	41150	And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes 
04O	14	7	41160	and said to all the multitude of the sons of Israel, "The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land. 
04O	14	8	41170	If the LORD favors us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey. 
04O	14	9	41180	Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not fear the people of the land, for they are food for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them." 
04O	14	10	41190	Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones. But the glory of the LORD appeared at the tabernacle of assembly to all the sons of Israel. 
04O	14	11	41200	And the LORD said to Moses, "How long will this people scorn Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, in spite of all the signs that I have performed among them? 
04O	14	12	41210	I will strike them with the plague and dispossess them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they." 
04O	14	13	41220	But Moses said to the LORD, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for You raised up this people in Your strength from among them, 
04O	14	14	41230	and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, O LORD, are within this people. For You, O LORD, are seen face to face, and Your cloud stands over them and You go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night. 
04O	14	15	41240	Now if You kill this flock as one people, then the nations who have heard Your fame will say, 
04O	14	16	41250	'It is because the LORD did not have power to bring this people into the land that He swore to give to them therefore He has slain them in the wilderness.' 
04O	14	17	41260	And now, please let the power of the Lord be great as you have promised, saying, 
04O	14	18	41270	'The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons, to the third and the fourth generation.' 
04O	14	19	41280	Please pardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of Your steadfast love, just as You have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now." 
04O	14	20	41290	Then the LORD said, "I have forgiven, according to your word. 
04O	14	21	41300	But truly, as I live, and as all the earth will be filled with the glory of the LORD, 
04O	14	22	41310	for of the men who have seen My glory and My signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed My voice, 
04O	14	23	41320	they will not see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who scorned Me will see it. 
04O	14	24	41330	But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his seed will possess it. 
04O	14	25	41340	Now, since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Sea of Reeds." 
04O	14	26	41350	And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 
04O	14	27	41360	"How long will this wicked assembly grumble against Me? I have heard the grumblings of the sons of Israel, which they complain against Me. 
04O	14	28	41370	Say to them, 'As I live, declares the LORD, what you have said in My hearing I will bestow to you: 
04O	14	29	41380	your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, and of all your number counted in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against Me, 
04O	14	30	41390	not one will come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. 
04O	14	31	41400	But your children, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they will know the land that you have rejected. 
04O	14	32	41410	But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness. 
04O	14	33	41420	And your children will be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and will suffer for your adultery, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. 
04O	14	34	41430	According to the amount of time in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you will bear your iniquity forty years, and you will know My enmity.' 
04O	14	35	41440	I, the LORD, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all this wicked assembly who are gathered together against Me: in this wilderness they will come to a full end, and there they will die." 
04O	14	36	41450	And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the assembly grumble against Him, who came with a bad report about the land, 
04O	14	37	41460	even the men who came with a bad report of the land, died by plague before the LORD. 
04O	14	38	41470	Of those men who went to spy out the land, only Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive. 
04O	14	39	41480	When Moses told these words to all the sons of Israel, the people mourned greatly. 
04O	14	40	41490	And they rose up early in the dawn and went up to the heights of the hills, saying, "Here we are. We will go up to the place that the LORD has promised, for we have sinned." 
04O	14	41	41500	But Moses said, "Why now are you transgressing the command of the LORD, when that will not prosper? 
04O	14	42	41510	Do not go up, for the Lord is not in your midst, you be defeated before your enemies. 
04O	14	43	41520	For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are facing you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from following the LORD, the LORD will not be with you." 
04O	14	44	41530	But they presumed to go up to the heights of the hills, although neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses departed out of the camp. 
04O	14	45	41540	Then the Amalekite and the Canaanite who lived in that hill country came down and defeated them and beat them down, even to Hormah. 
04O	15	1	41550	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	15	2	41560	"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you, 
04O	15	3	41570	and you offer to the LORD from the herd or from the flock a food offering or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing aroma to the LORD, 
04O	15	4	41580	then he who brings his offering will offer to the LORD a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil; 
04O	15	5	41590	and you will offer with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, a fourth of a hin of wine for the drink offering for each lamb. 
04O	15	6	41600	Or for a ram, you will offer for a food offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil. 
04O	15	7	41610	And for the drink offering you will offer a third of a hin of wine, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 
04O	15	8	41620	And when you offer a son of the heard as a burnt offering or sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or for peace offerings to the LORD, 
04O	15	9	41630	then one will offer with the son of the herd a grain offering of three tenths part of fine flour, mixed with half a hin of oil. 
04O	15	10	41640	And you will offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 
04O	15	11	41650	Thus it will be done for each bull or ram, or for each lamb or kid. 
04O	15	12	41660	As many as you offer, so will you provide with each one, as many as there are. 
04O	15	13	41670	Every native will do these things in this way, in offering a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 
04O	15	14	41680	And if a stranger is sojourning with you, or anyone is living among you for generations, and he wishes to offer a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he will do as you do. 
04O	15	15	41690	For the assembly, there will be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a statute forever throughout your generations. You and the sojourner will be alike before the LORD. 
04O	15	16	41700	One law and one rule will be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you." 
04O	15	17	41710	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	15	18	41720	"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land to which I bring you 
04O	15	19	41730	and when you eat of the bread of the land, you will provide a gift to the LORD. 
04O	15	20	41740	Of the first of your dough you will present a loaf as a gift; like a gift from the threshing floor, you will present it. 
04O	15	21	41750	Some of the first of your dough you will give to the LORD as a gift throughout your generations. 
04O	15	22	41760	But if you stray, and not observe all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses, 
04O	15	23	41770	all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment, and onward for your generations, 
04O	15	24	41780	then if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the assembly, all the assembly will offer one bull from the herd for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its food offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and one kid goat for a sin offering. 
04O	15	25	41790	And the priest will make atonement for all the assembly of the sons of Israel, and they will be forgiven, because it was a mistake, and they have given their offering, a food offering to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD for their mistake. 
04O	15	26	41800	And all the assembly of the sons of Israel will be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them, because the whole population was involved in the mistake. 
04O	15	27	41810	If one person sins unintentionally, he will offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering. 
04O	15	28	41820	And the priest will make atonement before the LORD for the person who makes a mistake, when he goes astray, to make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven. 
04O	15	29	41830	You will have one law for him who goes astray, for him who is native among the sons of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them. 
04O	15	30	41840	But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, and reviles the LORD, that person will be cut off from among his people. 
04O	15	31	41850	Because he has scorned the word of the LORD and has broken His commandment, that person will be utterly cut off; his iniquity will be on him." 
04O	15	32	41860	While the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day. 
04O	15	33	41870	And those who found him gathering wood took him to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly. 
04O	15	34	41880	They put him under guard, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him. 
04O	15	35	41890	And the LORD said to Moses, "The man will be put to death; all the assembly will stone him with stones outside the camp." 
04O	15	36	41900	And all the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the LORD commanded Moses. 
04O	15	37	41910	The LORD said to Moses, 
04O	15	38	41920	"Speak to the sons of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their clothes throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner. 
04O	15	39	41930	And it will be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, when you may commit adultery. 
04O	15	40	41940	So you will remember and do all My commandments, and be holy to your God. 
04O	15	41	41950	I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the LORD your God." 
04O	16	1	41960	Now Korah the son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men. 
04O	16	2	41970	And they rose up against Moses, with a number of the sons of Israel, 250 chiefs of the multitude, chosen from the assembly, men of authority. 
04O	16	3	41980	They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, "You have gone too far! For all in the assembly are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is with them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?" 
04O	16	4	41990	When Moses heard it, he fell on his face, 
04O	16	5	42000	and he said to Korah and all his multitude, "In the morning the LORD will show who is His, and who is holy, and will bring him near to Him. The one whom He chooses He will bring near to Him. 
04O	16	6	42010	Therefore prepare: take censers, Korah and all his multitude; 
04O	16	7	42020	put fire in them and put incense on them before the LORD tomorrow, and the man whom the LORD chooses will be the holy one. You have gone too far, sons of Levi!" 
04O	16	8	42030	And Moses said to Korah, "Hear now, you sons of Levi: 
04O	16	9	42040	is it but a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the assembly of Israel, to bring you near to Himself, to do service in the tabernacle of the LORD and to stand before the assembly to minister to them, 
04O	16	10	42050	and that He has brought you near Him, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? And would you seek the priesthood also? 
04O	16	11	42060	Therefore it is against the LORD that you and all your company have gathered together. What is Aaron that you complain of him?" 
04O	16	12	42070	And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and they said, "We will not come up. 
04O	16	13	42080	Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a ruler over us? 
04O	16	14	42090	Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us possession of fields and vineyards. Will you pierce the eyes of these men? We will not come up." 
04O	16	15	42100	And Moses was very angry and said to the LORD, "Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, and I have not harmed one of them." 
04O	16	16	42110	And Moses said to Korah, "Be present, you and all your multitude, before the LORD, you and they, and Aaron, tomorrow. 
04O	16	17	42120	And let every one of you take his censer and put incense on it, and every one of you bring before the LORD his censer, 250 censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer." 
04O	16	18	42130	So every man took his censer and put fire in them and laid incense on them and stood at the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly with Moses and Aaron. 
04O	16	19	42140	Then Korah assembled all the multitude against them at the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly. And the glory of the LORD appeared to all the assembly. 
04O	16	20	42150	And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 
04O	16	21	42160	"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a instant." 
04O	16	22	42170	And they fell on their faces and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, will one man sin, and will you be angry with all the multitude?" 
04O	16	23	42180	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	16	24	42190	"Say to the assembly, Get away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram." 
04O	16	25	42200	Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him. 
04O	16	26	42210	And he spoke to the assembly, saying, "Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, or you will be consumed with all their sins." 
04O	16	27	42220	So they got away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents, together with their wives, their sons, and their children. 
04O	16	28	42230	And Moses said, "By this you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own thinking. 
04O	16	29	42240	If these die a natural death as all men die, and if they are visited by the fate of all mankind, then the LORD has not sent me. 
04O	16	30	42250	But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the grave, then you will know that these men have scorned the LORD." 
04O	16	31	42260	And as soon as he had finished speaking all these words, the ground under them opened up. 
04O	16	32	42270	And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men who belonged to Korah and all their goods. 
04O	16	33	42280	So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into the grave, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly. 
04O	16	34	42290	And all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, "Or the earth will swallow us up!" 
04O	16	35	42300	And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men offering the incense. 
04O	16	36	42310	Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	16	37	42320	"Tell Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers out of the blaze. Then scatter the fire far and wide, for they have become holy. 
04O	16	38	42330	As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the LORD, and they became holy. Thus they will be a sign to the sons of Israel." 
04O	16	39	42340	So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar, 
04O	16	40	42350	to be a reminder to the sons of Israel, so that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the LORD, or he will become like Korah and his company, as the LORD said to him through Moses. 
04O	16	41	42360	But on the next day all the assembly of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron, saying, "You have killed the people of the LORD." 
04O	16	42	42370	And when the assembly had gathered against Moses and against Aaron, they turned toward the tabernacle of assembly. And behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared. 
04O	16	43	42380	And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tabernacle of assembly, 
04O	16	44	42390	and the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	16	45	42400	"Get away from the midst of this assembly, that I may consume them in a instant." And they fell on their faces. 
04O	16	46	42410	And Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the assembly and make atonement for them, for anger has gone out from the LORD; the plague has begun." 
04O	16	47	42420	So Aaron took it as Moses said and ran into the midst of the assembly. And behold, the plague had already begun among the people. And he put on the incense and made atonement for the people. 
04O	16	48	42430	And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped. 
04O	16	49	42440	Now those who died in the plague were 14,700, besides those who died in the affair of Korah. 
04O	16	50	42450	And Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly, when the plague was stopped.
04O	17	1	42460	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	17	2	42470	"Speak to the sons of Israel, and get from them staffs, one for each fathers' house, from all their chiefs according to their fathers' houses, twelve staffs. Write each man's name on his staff, 
04O	17	3	42480	and write Aaron's name on the staff of Levi. For there will be one staff for the head of each fathers' house. 
04O	17	4	42490	Then you will deposit them in the tabernacle of assembly before the testimony, where I meet with you. 
04O	17	5	42500	And the staff of the man whom I choose will sprout. Thus I will make to cease from Me the complaining of the sons of Israel, which they grumble against you." 
04O	17	6	42510	Moses spoke to the sons of Israel. And all their chiefs gave him staffs, one for each chief, according to their fathers' houses, twelve staffs. And the staff of Aaron was among their staffs. 
04O	17	7	42520	And Moses deposited the staffs before the LORD in the tabernacle of the testimony. 
04O	17	8	42530	On the next day Moses went into the tabernacle of the testimony, and behold, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds. 
04O	17	9	42540	Then Moses took all the staffs from before the LORD to all the sons of Israel. And they looked, and each man took his staff. 
04O	17	10	42550	And the LORD said to Moses, "Put back the staff of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make an end of their complaining against Me, or they die." 
04O	17	11	42560	Thus did Moses; as the LORD commanded him, so he did. 
04O	17	12	42570	And the sons of Israel said to Moses, "Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone. 
04O	17	13	42580	Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the LORD, will die. Are we all to perish?" 
04O	18	1	42590	So the LORD said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your father's house with you will accept iniquity connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you will accept the iniquity connected with your priesthood. 
04O	18	2	42600	And with you bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and serve you while you and your sons with you are before the tabernacle of the testimony. 
04O	18	3	42610	They will keep guard over you and over the whole tabernacle, but will not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary or to the altar or they and you die. 
04O	18	4	42620	They will join you and keep guard over the tabernacle of assembly for all the service of the tabernacle, and no stranger will come near you. 
04O	18	5	42630	And you will keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, that there may never again be anger on the sons of Israel. 
04O	18	6	42640	And behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the sons of Israel. They are a gift to you, given to the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of assembly. 
04O	18	7	42650	And you and your sons with you will guard your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil; and you will serve. I give your priesthood as a gift, and any stranger who comes near will be put to death." 
04O	18	8	42660	Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, "Behold, I have given you charge of the gifts made to me, all the dedicated things of the sons of Israel. I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due. 
04O	18	9	42670	This will be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every food offering of theirs and every sin offering of theirs and every guilt offering of theirs, which they render to me, will be most holy to you and to your sons. 
04O	18	10	42680	In a most holy place will you eat it. Every male may eat it; it is holy to you. 
04O	18	11	42690	This also is yours: the contribution of their gift, all the wave offerings of the sons of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it. 
04O	18	12	42700	All the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the firstfruits of what they give to the LORD, I give to you. 
04O	18	13	42710	The first ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, will be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it. 
04O	18	14	42720	Every devoted thing in Israel will be yours. 
04O	18	15	42730	Everything that opens the womb of all flesh, whether man or beast, which they offer to the LORD, will be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn of man you will redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you will redeem. 
04O	18	16	42740	And their redemption price, at a month old you will redeem them, you will fix at five shekels in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. 
04O	18	17	42750	But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you will not redeem; they are holy. You will sprinkle their blood on the altar and will burn their fat as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 
04O	18	18	42760	But their flesh will be yours, as the breast that is waved and as the right thigh are yours. 
04O	18	19	42770	All the holy gifts that the sons of Israel present to the LORD I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD for you and for your seed with you." 
04O	18	20	42780	And the LORD said to Aaron, "You will have no inheritance in their land, neither will you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the sons of Israel. 
04O	18	21	42790	To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tabernacle of assembly, 
04O	18	22	42800	so that the sons of Israel do not come near the tabernacle of assembly, or they bear sin and die. 
04O	18	23	42810	But the Levites will do the service of the tabernacle of assembly, and they will bear their iniquity. It will be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the sons of Israel they will have no inheritance. 
04O	18	24	42820	For the tithe of the sons of Israel, which they present as a gift to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said of them that they will have no inheritance among the sons of Israel." 
04O	18	25	42830	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	18	26	42840	"Moreover, you will speak and say to the Levites, 'When you take from the sons of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you will present a gift from it to the LORD, a tithe of the tithe. 
04O	18	27	42850	And your gift will be counted to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress. 
04O	18	28	42860	So you will also present a gift to the LORD from all your tithes, which you receive from the sons of Israel. And from it you will give the LORD's gift to Aaron the priest. 
04O	18	29	42870	Out of all the gifts to you, you will present every gift due to the LORD; from each its best part is to be dedicated.' 
04O	18	30	42880	Therefore you will say to them, 'When you have offered from it the best of it, then the rest will be counted to the Levites as produce of the threshing floor, and as produce of the winepress. 
04O	18	31	42890	And you may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the tabernacle of assembly. 
04O	18	32	42900	And you will accept no sin by reason of it, when you have contributed the best of it. But you will not profane the holy things of the sons of Israel, or you die.'" 
04O	19	1	42910	Now the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 
04O	19	2	42920	"This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Tell the sons of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and on which a yoke has not been set. 
04O	19	3	42930	And you will give it to Eleazar the priest, and it will be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him. 
04O	19	4	42940	And Eleazar the priest will take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the tabernacle of assembly seven times. 
04O	19	5	42950	And the heifer will be burned in his sight. Its skin, its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, will be burned. 
04O	19	6	42960	And the priest will take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the fire burning the heifer. 
04O	19	7	42970	Then the priest will wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. But the priest will be unclean until evening. 
04O	19	8	42980	The one who burns the heifer will wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water and will be unclean until evening. 
04O	19	9	42990	And a man who is clean will gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place. And they will be kept for the assembly of the sons of Israel for the water of impurity; it is a sin offering. 
04O	19	10	43000	And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer will wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. And this will be a perpetual statute for the sons of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them. 
04O	19	11	43010	"Whoever touches the dead body of any person will be unclean seven days. 
04O	19	12	43020	He will cleanse himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so be clean. But if he does not cleanse himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not become clean. 
04O	19	13	43030	Whoever touches a dead person, the body of anyone who has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD, and that person will be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown on him, he will be unclean. His uncleanness is still with him. 
04O	19	14	43040	This is the law when someone dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent will be unclean seven days. 
04O	19	15	43050	And every open vessel that has no cover fastened on it is unclean. 
04O	19	16	43060	Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean seven days. 
04O	19	17	43070	For the unclean they will take some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and fresh water will be added in a vessel. 
04O	19	18	43080	Then a clean person will take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there and on whoever touched the bone, or the slain or the dead or the grave. 
04O	19	19	43090	And the clean person will sprinkle it on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day. Thus on the seventh day he will cleanse him, and he will wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and at evening he will be clean. 
04O	19	20	43100	If the man who is unclean does not cleanse himself, that person will be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. Because the water for impurity has not been thrown on him, he is unclean. 
04O	19	21	43110	And it will be a statute forever for them. The one who sprinkles the water for impurity will wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water for impurity will be unclean until evening. 
04O	19	22	43120	And whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening." 
04O	20	1	43130	And the sons of Israel, the whole assembly, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. And Miriam died there and was buried there. 
04O	20	2	43140	Now there was no water for the assembly. And they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 
04O	20	3	43150	And the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Would that we had perished when our brothers perished before the LORD! 
04O	20	4	43160	Why have you led the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we should die here, both us and our cattle? 
04O	20	5	43170	And why have you caused us come up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It is no place for grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink." 
04O	20	6	43180	Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly and fell on their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared to them, 
04O	20	7	43190	and the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	20	8	43200	"Take the staff, and assemble the multitude, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. So you will bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the assembly and their cattle." 
04O	20	9	43210	And Moses took the staff from before the LORD, as He commanded him. 
04O	20	10	43220	Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels: will we bring water for you out of this rock?" 
04O	20	11	43230	And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out mightly, and the assembly drank, and their livestock. 
04O	20	12	43240	And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe in Me, to uphold Me as holy in the eyes of the sons of Israel, therefore you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them." 
04O	20	13	43250	These are the waters of Meribah, where the sons of Israel quarreled with the LORD, and through them He showed Himself holy. 
04O	20	14	43260	Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the hardship that we have met: 
04O	20	15	43270	how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. And the Egyptians dealt harshly with us and our fathers. 
04O	20	16	43280	And when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice and sent an angel and got us out of Egypt. And here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory. 
04O	20	17	43290	Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or vineyard, or drink water from a well. We will go along the King's Highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory." 
04O	20	18	43300	But Edom said to him, "You will not pass through, or I come out with the sword against you." 
04O	20	19	43310	And the sons of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the highway, and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then I will pay for it. Let me only pass through on foot, nothing more." 
04O	20	20	43320	But he said, "You will not pass through." And Edom came out against them with a many troops and with a strong force. 
04O	20	21	43330	Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory, so Israel turned away from him. 
04O	20	22	43340	And they journeyed from Kadesh, and the sons of Israel, the whole assembly, came to Mount Hor. 
04O	20	23	43350	And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron at Mount Hor, on the border of the land of Edom, 
04O	20	24	43360	"Let Aaron be gathered to his people, for he will not enter the land that I have given to the sons of Israel, because you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah. 
04O	20	25	43370	Take Aaron and Eleazar his son and bring them up to Mount Hor. 
04O	20	26	43380	And strip Aaron of his clothes and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron will be gathered to his people and will die there." 
04O	20	27	43390	Moses did as the LORD commanded. And they went up Mount Hor in the sight of all the assembly. 
04O	20	28	43400	And Moses stripped Aaron of his clothes and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain. 
04O	20	29	43410	And when all the assembly saw that Aaron had perished, all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days. 
04O	21	1	43420	And King Arad the Canaanite, who lived in the south, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive. 
04O	21	2	43430	And Israel gave a vow to the LORD and said, "If you will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities." 
04O	21	3	43440	And the LORD heard the voice of Israel and gave over the Canaanites, and they utterly destroyed them and their cities; So the name of the place was called Hormah. 
04O	21	4	43450	From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Sea of Reeds, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became discouraged on the way. 
04O	21	5	43460	And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we are disgusted by this light bread." 
04O	21	6	43470	Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many sons of Israel died. 
04O	21	7	43480	And the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD, that he remove the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people. 
04O	21	8	43490	And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, will live." 
04O	21	9	43500	So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he could look at the bronze serpent and live. 
04O	21	10	43510	And the sons of Israel set out and camped in Oboth. 
04O	21	11	43520	And they set out from Oboth and camped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness that is opposite Moab, toward the sunrise. 
04O	21	12	43530	From there they set out and camped in the Valley of Zered. 
04O	21	13	43540	From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the border of the Amorite, for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorite. 
04O	21	14	43550	Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD, "Waheb in Suphah, and the stream of Arnon, 
04O	21	15	43560	and the slope of the valleys that extends to the abode of Ar, and leans to the border of Moab." 
04O	21	16	43570	And from there they continued to Beer; that is the well of which the LORD said to Moses, "Gather the people together, so that I may give them water." 
04O	21	17	43580	Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well! Sing to it!
04O	21	18	43590	the well that the rulers made, that the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter and with their staffs." And from the wilderness they went on to Mattanah, 
04O	21	19	43600	and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth, 
04O	21	20	43610	and from Bamoth to the valley lying in the region of Moab by the top of Pisgah that looks down on the desert. 
04O	21	21	43620	Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, 
04O	21	22	43630	"Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field or vineyard. We will not drink the water of a well. We will go by the King's Highway until we have passed through your territory." 
04O	21	23	43640	But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. He gathered all his people together and went out against Israel to the wilderness and came to Jahaz and battled against Israel. 
04O	21	24	43650	And Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the Ammonite, for the border of the Ammonite was strong. 
04O	21	25	43660	And Israel took all these cities, and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorite, in Heshbon, and in all its villages. 
04O	21	26	43670	For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorite, who had battled against the former king of Moab and taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon. 
04O	21	27	43680	Therefore the ballad singers say, "Come to Heshbon, let it be built; let the city of Sihon be established. 
04O	21	28	43690	For fire came out from Heshbon, flame from the city of Sihon. It devoured Ar of Moab, and swallowed the heights of the Arnon. 
04O	21	29	43700	Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters captives, to an Amorite king, Sihon. 
04O	21	30	43710	So we overthrew them; Heshbon, as far as Dibon, perished; and we laid waste as far as Nophah; fire spread as far as Medeba." 
04O	21	31	43720	Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorite. 
04O	21	32	43730	And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and drove our the Amorite who were there. 
04O	21	33	43740	Then they turned and went up by the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. 
04O	21	34	43750	But the LORD said to Moses, "Do not fear him, for I have given him into your hand, and all his people, and his land. And you will do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorite, who lived at Heshbon." 
04O	21	35	43760	So they struck him and his sons and all his people, until he had no survivor left. And they occupied his land. 
04O	22	1	43770	Then the sons of Israel set out and camped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. 
04O	22	2	43780	And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. 
04O	22	3	43790	And Moab greatly feared the people, because they were many. Moab was distressed because of the sons of Israel. 
04O	22	4	43800	And Moab said to the elders of Midian, "This multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field." So Balak the son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time, 
04O	22	5	43810	sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor at Pethor, which is near the River in the land of the people of Amaw, to call him, saying, "Behold, a troop come out of Egypt. They cover the face of the earth, and they are dwelling next to me. 
04O	22	6	43820	Come now, curse this people for me, since they are too powerful for me. Perhaps I will be able to defeat them and drive them from the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed." 
04O	22	7	43830	So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fees for the seer in their hand. And they came to Balaam and gave him Balak's message. 
04O	22	8	43840	And he said to them, "Stay here tonight, and I will bring back word to you, as the LORD speaks to me." So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam. 
04O	22	9	43850	And God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men with you?" 
04O	22	10	43860	And Balaam said to God, "Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, saying, 
04O	22	11	43870	'Behold, a troop has come out of Egypt, and it covers the face of the earth. Now come, curse them for me. Perhaps I will be able to battle them and drive them out.'" 
04O	22	12	43880	God said to Balaam, "You will not go with them. You will not curse the people, for they are blessed." 
04O	22	13	43890	So Balaam rose in the morning and said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your own land, for the LORD has refused to let me go with you." 
04O	22	14	43900	So the princes of Moab rose and went to Balak and said, "Balaam refuses to come with us." 
04O	22	15	43910	Once again Balak sent rulers, more in number and more honorable than these. 
04O	22	16	43920	And they came to Balaam and said to him, "Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: 'Let nothing keep you from coming to me, 
04O	22	17	43930	for I will greatly honor you, and whatever you say to me I will do. Come, curse this people for me.'" 
04O	22	18	43940	But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, "Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the LORD my God to do less or more. 
04O	22	19	43950	So you, too, please stay here tonight, that I may know anything more the LORD will say to me." 
04O	22	20	43960	And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, "If the men have come to invite you, rise, go with them; but only do what I tell you." 
04O	22	21	43970	So Balaam rose in the morning and saddled his donkey and went with the rulers of Moab. 
04O	22	22	43980	But God's anger was kindled because he went, and the angel of the LORD took his stand in the way as his opponent. Now he was riding on the donkey, and his two servants were with him. 
04O	22	23	43990	And the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road, with a drawn sword in his hand. And the donkey turned aside out of the road and went into the field. And Balaam beat the donkey, to turn her into the road. 
04O	22	24	44000	Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, with a wall on either side. 
04O	22	25	44010	And when the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she pushed against the wall and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall. So he beat her again. 
04O	22	26	44020	Then the angel of the LORD went ahead and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left. 
04O	22	27	44030	When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam. And Balaam's anger was kindled, and he beat the donkey with his staff. 
04O	22	28	44040	Then the LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you have beaten me these three times?" 
04O	22	29	44050	And Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you have made a fool of me. I wish I had a sword in my hand, for then I would kill you." 
04O	22	30	44060	And the donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Is it my custom to treat you this way?" And he said, "No." 
04O	22	31	44070	Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his drawn sword in his hand. And he bowed down and fell on his face. 
04O	22	32	44080	And the angel of the LORD said to him, "Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you because your way is disobedient before me. 
04O	22	33	44090	The donkey saw me and turned aside before me these three times. If she had not turned aside from me, doubtless by now I would have killed you and let her live." 
04O	22	34	44100	Then Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, "I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood in the road against me. Now therefore, if it is evil in Your eyes, I will turn back." 
04O	22	35	44110	And the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, "Go with the men, but speak only the word that I command you." So Balaam went on with the rulers of Balak. 
04O	22	36	44120	When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him at the city of Moab, on the border formed by the Arnon, at the furtherest border. 
04O	22	37	44130	And Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not send to you to invite you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to truly honor you?" 
04O	22	38	44140	Balaam said to Balak, "Behold, I have come to you! Have I now the ability of my own to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that I must speak." 
04O	22	39	44150	Then Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth. 
04O	22	40	44160	And Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent for Balaam and for the rulers who were with him. 
04O	22	41	44170	And in the morning Balak took Balaam and led him up to Bamoth-baal, and from there he saw the border of the people. 
04O	23	1	44180	And Balaam said to Balak, "Build here for me seven altars, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams." 
04O	23	2	44190	Balak did as Balaam had said. And Balak and Balaam offered on each altar a bull and a ram. 
04O	23	3	44200	And Balaam said to Balak, "Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell you." And he went to a bare place, 
04O	23	4	44210	and God met Balaam. And Balaam said to him, "I have arranged the seven altars and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram." 
04O	23	5	44220	And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and this you will say." 
04O	23	6	44230	And he returned to him, and behold, he and all the rulers of Moab were standing beside his burnt offering. 
04O	23	7	44240	And Balaam took up his proverb and said, "From Aram Balak has led me, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: 'Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, have scorn for Israel!' 
04O	23	8	44250	How can I curse whom God has not cursed? How can I scorn whom the LORD has not scorned? 
04O	23	9	44260	For from the top of the crags I see him, from the hills I behold him; behold, a people dwelling alone, and not regarded as among the nations! 
04O	23	10	44270	Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let my posterity be like his!" 
04O	23	11	44280	And Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have done nothing but bless them." 
04O	23	12	44290	And he answered and said, "Must I not be sure to speak what the LORD told me to say?" 
04O	23	13	44300	And Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place, from which you may see them. You will see only a fraction of them and will not see them all. Then curse them for me from there." 
04O	23	14	44310	And he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. 
04O	23	15	44320	Balaam said to Balak, "Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I meet over there." 
04O	23	16	44330	And the LORD met Balaam and put words in his mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and this you will say." 
04O	23	17	44340	And he came to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the rulers of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, "What has the LORD spoken?" 
04O	23	18	44350	And Balaam took up his proverb and said, "Rise, Balak, and listen; and hear me, O son of Zippor: 
04O	23	19	44360	God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said it, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it? 
04O	23	20	44370	Behold, I received a command to bless: He has blessed, and I cannot revoke it. 
04O	23	21	44380	He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, nor has He seen trouble in Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the rejoicing of a king is among them. 
04O	23	22	44390	God led them out of Egypt and is for them like the strength of the wild ox. 
04O	23	23	44400	For there is no spell against Jacob, no divination against Israel; now it will be said of Jacob and Israel, 'See what has God done!' 
04O	23	24	44410	Behold, the people will rise as a lioness and as a lion it lifts itself; it does not lie down until it has devoured the prey and drunk the blood of the slain." 
04O	23	25	44420	And Balak said to Balaam, "Do not curse them at all, or do not bless them at all." 
04O	23	26	44430	But Balaam answered Balak, "Did I not tell you, 'All that the LORD says, that I must do'?" 
04O	23	27	44440	And Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there." 
04O	23	28	44450	So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the desert. 
04O	23	29	44460	And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me here seven altars and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams." 
04O	23	30	44470	And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. 
04O	24	1	44480	When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go, as at other times, to look for omens, but set his direction toward the wilderness. 
04O	24	2	44490	And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel camping by their tribes. And the Spirit of God came on him, 
04O	24	3	44500	and he took up his proverb and said, "Balaam the son of Beor, the man whose eyes have been opened, 
04O	24	4	44510	the sayings of him who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, yet with open eyes: 
04O	24	5	44520	How good are your tents, O Jacob, your habitations, O Israel! 
04O	24	6	44530	They are spread out like valleys, like gardens beside a river, like aloes that the LORD has planted, like cedar trees beside the waters. 
04O	24	7	44540	Water will flow from his buckets, and his seed will be in many waters; his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom will be magnified. 
04O	24	8	44550	God brings him out of Egypt and is with him like the strength of the wild ox; he will devour the nations, his adversaries, and will break their bones in pieces and pierce them through with his arrows. 
04O	24	9	44560	He crouched, he lay down like a lion and like a lioness; who will stir him up? Blessed are those who bless you, and cursed are those who curse you." 
04O	24	10	44570	And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he pounded his hands together. And Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them three times. 
04O	24	11	44580	Therefore now flee to your home. I said, 'I desired honor you,' but the LORD has denied you this honor." 
04O	24	12	44590	And Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not say to your messengers whom you sent to me, 
04O	24	13	44600	'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my own will. What the LORD says, that will I say'? 
04O	24	14	44610	And now, behold, I am going to my people. Come, I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the latter days." 
04O	24	15	44620	And he took up his proverb and said, "Balaam the son of Beor, the man whose eyes have been opened, 
04O	24	16	44630	He who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, yet with open eyes: 
04O	24	17	44640	I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: a star comes out of Jacob, and a scepter will rise out of Israel; it will crush the forehead of Moab and subdue all the sons of Sheth. 
04O	24	18	44650	Edom will be a possession; Seir also, his enemies, will be a possession. Israel is doing valiantly. 
04O	24	19	44660	And one from Jacob will exercise rule and destroy the survivors of cities!" 
04O	24	20	44670	Then he looked on Amalek and took up his proverb and said, "Amalek was the first among the nations, but its posterity is utter destruction." 
04O	24	21	44680	And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his proverb and said, "Your dwelling place is enduring, and your nest is set in the rock. 
04O	24	22	44690	But the Kenites will be consumed when Asshur takes you away captive." 
04O	24	23	44700	And he took up his proverb and said, "Alas, who will live when God determines this? 
04O	24	24	44710	But ships will come from Kittim and will afflict Asshur and Eber; and he also will come to lasting destruction." 
04O	24	25	44720	Then Balaam rose and went back to his home. And Balak also went his way. 
04O	25	1	44730	While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to commit adultery with the daughters of Moab. 
04O	25	2	44740	They invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. 
04O	25	3	44750	So Israel joined to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. 
04O	25	4	44760	And the LORD said to Moses, "Take all the rulers of the people and hang them in the sun before the LORD, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel." 
04O	25	5	44770	And Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each one of you kill those of the men who have joined themselves to Baal of Peor." 
04O	25	6	44780	And behold, one of the sons of Israel came and presented a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole assembly of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping in the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly. 
04O	25	7	44790	When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the assembly and took a spear in his hand 
04O	25	8	44800	and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the sons of Israel was stopped. 
04O	25	9	44810	And those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand. 
04O	25	10	44820	And the LORD said to Moses, 
04O	25	11	44830	"Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My anger from the sons of Israel, in that he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in My jealousy. 
04O	25	12	44840	Therefore say, 'Behold, I give to him My covenant of prosperity, 
04O	25	13	44850	and it will be to him and to his descendants after him the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was zealous for his God and atoned for the sons of Israel.'" 
04O	25	14	44860	The name of the slain man of Israel, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, ruler of a father's house belonging to the Simeonites. 
04O	25	15	44870	And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was the head of a father's house in Midian. 
04O	25	16	44880	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	25	17	44890	"Lay seige on the Midianites and beat them down, 
04O	25	18	44900	for they have distressed you with their deceit, with which they defrauded you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the ruler of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague on account of Peor." 
04O	26	1	44910	After the plague, the LORD said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest, 
04O	26	2	44920	"Take a sum of all the assembly of the sons of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all in Israel who are able to go to war." 
04O	26	3	44930	And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 
04O	26	4	44940	"Take a sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward," as the LORD commanded Moses. The sons of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt were: 
04O	26	5	44950	Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the tribe of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the tribe of the Palluites; 
04O	26	6	44960	of Hezron, the tribe of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the tribe of the Carmites. 
04O	26	7	44970	These are the tribes of the Reubenites, and those counted were 43 families and 730. 
04O	26	8	44980	And the sons of Pallu: Eliab. 
04O	26	9	44990	The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are the Dathan and Abiram, chosen from the assembly, who quarreled against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they quarreled against the LORD 
04O	26	10	45000	and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured 250 men, and they became a sign. 
04O	26	11	45010	But the sons of Korah did not die. 
04O	26	12	45020	The sons of Simeon according to their tribes: of Nemuel, the tribe of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the tribe of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the tribe of the Jachinites; 
04O	26	13	45030	of Zerah, the tribe of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the tribe of the Shaulites. 
04O	26	14	45040	These are the tribes of the Simeonites, 22 families and 200. 
04O	26	15	45050	The sons of Gad according to their tribes: of Zephon, the tribe of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the tribe of the Haggites; of Shuni, the tribe of the Shunites; 
04O	26	16	45060	of Ozni, the tribe of the Oznites; of Eri, the tribe of the Erites; 
04O	26	17	45070	of Arod, the tribe of the Arodites; of Areli, the tribe of the Arelites. 
04O	26	18	45080	These are the tribes of the sons of Gad as they were counted, 40 families and 500. 
04O	26	19	45090	The sons of Judah were Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. 
04O	26	20	45100	And the sons of Judah according to their tribes were: of Shelah, the tribe of the Shelanites; of Perez, the tribe of the Perezites; of Zerah, the tribe of the Zerahites. 
04O	26	21	45110	And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the tribe of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the tribe of the Hamulites. 
04O	26	22	45120	These are the tribes of Judah as they were counted, 76 families and 500. 
04O	26	23	45130	The sons of Issachar according to their tribes: of Tola, the tribe of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the tribe of the Punites; 
04O	26	24	45140	of Jashub, the tribe of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the tribe of the Shimronites. 
04O	26	25	45150	These are the tribes of Issachar as they were counted, 64 families and 300. 
04O	26	26	45160	The sons of Zebulun, according to their tribes: of Sered, the tribe of the Seredites; of Elon, the tribe of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the tribe of the Jahleelites. 
04O	26	27	45170	These are the tribes of the Zebulunites as they were counted, 60 families and 500. 
04O	26	28	45180	The sons of Joseph according to their tribes: Manasseh and Ephraim. 
04O	26	29	45190	The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the tribe of the Machirites; and Machir was the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the tribe of the Gileadites. 
04O	26	30	45200	These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the tribe of the Iezerites; of Helek, the tribe of the Helekites; 
04O	26	31	45210	and of Asriel, the tribe of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, the tribe of the Shechemites; 
04O	26	32	45220	and of Shemida, the tribe of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the tribe of the Hepherites. 
04O	26	33	45230	Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters. And the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 
04O	26	34	45240	These are the tribes of Manasseh, and those counted were 52 families and 700. 
04O	26	35	45250	These are the sons of Ephraim according to their tribes: of Shuthelah, the tribe of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the tribe of the Becherites; of Tahan, the tribe of the Tahanites. 
04O	26	36	45260	And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the tribe of the Eranites. 
04O	26	37	45270	These are the tribes of the sons of Ephraim as they were counted, 32 families and 500. These are the sons of Joseph according to their tribes. 
04O	26	38	45280	The sons of Benjamin according to their tribes: of Bela, the tribe of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the tribe of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the tribe of the Ahiramites; 
04O	26	39	45290	of Shephupham, the tribe of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the tribe of the Huphamites. 
04O	26	40	45300	And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the tribe of the Ardites; of Naaman, the tribe of the Naamites. 
04O	26	41	45310	These are the sons of Benjamin according to their tribes, and those counted were 45 families and 600. 
04O	26	42	45320	These are the sons of Dan according to their tribes: of Shuham, the tribe of the Shuhamites. These are the tribes of Dan according to their tribes. 
04O	26	43	45330	All the tribes of the Shuhamites, as they were counted, were 64 families and 400. 
04O	26	44	45340	The sons of Asher according to their tribes: of Imnah, the tribe of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the tribe of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the tribe of the Beriites. 
04O	26	45	45350	Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the tribe of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the tribe of the Malchielites. 
04O	26	46	45360	And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah. 
04O	26	47	45370	These are the tribes of the sons of Asher as they were counted, 53 families and 400. 
04O	26	48	45380	The sons of Naphtali according to their tribes: of Jahzeel, the tribe of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the tribe of the Gunites; 
04O	26	49	45390	of Jezer, the tribe of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the tribe of the Shillemites. 
04O	26	50	45400	These are the tribes of Naphtali according to their tribes, and those counted were 45 families and 400. 
04O	26	51	45410	This was the sum of the sons of Israel, 596 families and 5,730. 
04O	26	52	45420	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	26	53	45430	"Among these the land will be divided for inheritance according to the number of names. 
04O	26	54	45440	To a larger you will give a large inheritance, and to a smaller you will give a small inheritance; every tribe will be given its inheritance in proportion to its number. 
04O	26	55	45450	But the land will be divided by lot. They will inherit according to the names of the tribes of their fathers. 
04O	26	56	45460	According to lot their inheritance will be divided between the larger and the smaller." 
04O	26	57	45470	This was the count of the Levites according to their tribes: of Gershon, the tribe of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the tribe of the Kohathites; of Merari, the tribe of the Merarites. 
04O	26	58	45480	These are the tribes of Levi: the tribe of the Libnites, the tribe of the Hebronites, the tribe of the Mahlites, the tribe of the Mushites, the tribe of the Korahites. And Kohath was the father of Amram. 
04O	26	59	45490	The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. And she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister. 
04O	26	60	45500	And to Aaron were born Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 
04O	26	61	45510	But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered profane fire before the LORD. 
04O	26	62	45520	And those counted were 22 families and 1,000, every male from a month old and upward. For they were not counted among the sons of Israel, because there was no inheritance given to them among the sons of Israel. 
04O	26	63	45530	These were those counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. 
04O	26	64	45540	But among these there was not one of those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had counted the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. 
04O	26	65	45550	For the LORD had said of them, "They will die in the wilderness." Not one of them was left, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. 
04O	27	1	45560	Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph. The names of his daughters were: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 
04O	27	2	45570	And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the rulers and all the assembly, at the entrance of the tabernacle of assembly, saying, 
04O	27	3	45580	"Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah, but died for his own sin. And he had no sons. 
04O	27	4	45590	Why would the name of our father be taken away from his tribe because he had no son? Give to us a possession among our father's brothers." 
04O	27	5	45600	Moses took their case before the LORD. 
04O	27	6	45610	And the LORD said to Moses, 
04O	27	7	45620	"The daughters of Zelophehad speak justly. You will give them possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers and transfer the inheritance of their father to them. 
04O	27	8	45630	And you will speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'If a man dies and has no son, then you will transfer his inheritance to his daughter. 
04O	27	9	45640	And if he has no daughter, then you will give his inheritance to his brothers. 
04O	27	10	45650	And if he has no brothers, then you will give his inheritance to his father's brothers. 
04O	27	11	45660	And if his father has no brothers, then you will give his inheritance to the nearest kinsman of his tribe, and he will possess it. And it will be for the sons of Israel a statute and rule, as the LORD commands Moses.'" 
04O	27	12	45670	The LORD said to Moses, "Go up into this mountain of Abarim and see the land that I have given to the sons of Israel. 
04O	27	13	45680	When you have seen it, you also will be taken away to your people, as your brother Aaron was taken, 
04O	27	14	45690	because you rebelled against My word in the wilderness of Zin when the assembled rebelled, failing to uphold Me as holy at the waters before their eyes." These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin. 
04O	27	15	45700	Moses spoke to the LORD, saying, 
04O	27	16	45710	"Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the assembly 
04O	27	17	45720	who will go out before them and come in before them, who will lead them out and bring them in, that the assembly of the LORD may not be as sheep that have no shepherd." 
04O	27	18	45730	So the LORD said to Moses, "Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him. 
04O	27	19	45740	Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and all the assembly, and you will commission him in their sight. 
04O	27	20	45750	You will bestow on him some of your authority, that all the assembly of the sons of Israel may obey. 
04O	27	21	45760	And he will stand before Eleazar the priest, who will inquire for him according to the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they will go out, and at his word they will come in, both he and all the sons of Israel with him, the whole assembly." 
04O	27	22	45770	And Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He took Joshua and had him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole assembly, 
04O	27	23	45780	and he laid his hands on him and commissioned him as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses. 
04O	28	1	45790	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	28	2	45800	"Command the sons of Israel and say to them, 'My offering, My food for My food offerings, My pleasing aroma, you will be sure to offer to Me at its appointed time.' 
04O	28	3	45810	And you will say to them, This is the food offering that you will offer to the LORD: two male lambs a year old without blemish, daily as a burnt offering. 
04O	28	4	45820	The one lamb you will offer in the dawn, and the other lamb you will offer at dusk; 
04O	28	5	45830	also a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a food offering, mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil. 
04O	28	6	45840	It is a daily burnt offering, which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD. 
04O	28	7	45850	Its drink offering will be a quarter of a hin for each lamb. In the sanctuary you will pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the LORD. 
04O	28	8	45860	The other lamb you will offer at dusk. Like the food offering of the dawn, and like its drink offering, you will offer it as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. 
04O	28	9	45870	On the Sabbath day, two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a food offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering: 
04O	28	10	45880	this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the daily burnt offering and its drink offering. 
04O	28	11	45890	At the beginnings of your months, you will offer a burnt offering to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; 
04O	28	12	45900	also three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a food offering, mixed with oil, for each bull, and two tenths of fine flour for a food offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram; 
04O	28	13	45910	and a tenth of fine flour mixed with oil as a food offering for every lamb; for a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD. 
04O	28	14	45920	Their drink offerings will be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering every month throughout the months of the year. 
04O	28	15	45930	Also one male goat for a sin offering to the LORD; it will be offered besides the daily burnt offering and its drink offering. 
04O	28	16	45940	On the fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD's Passover, 
04O	28	17	45950	and on the fifteenth day of this month is a feast. Seven days will unleavened bread be eaten. 
04O	28	18	45960	On the first day there will be a holy convocation. You will not do any ordinary work, 
04O	28	19	45970	but offer a food offering, a burnt offering to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; see that they are without blemish; 
04O	28	20	45980	also their food offering of fine flour mixed with oil; three tenths of an ephah will you offer for a bull, and two tenths for a ram; 
04O	28	21	45990	a tenth will you offer for each of the seven lambs; 
04O	28	22	46000	also one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you. 
04O	28	23	46010	You will offer these besides the burnt offering of the dawn, which is for a daily burnt offering. 
04O	28	24	46020	In the same way you will offer daily, for seven days, the food of a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It will be offered besides the daily burnt offering and its drink offering. 
04O	28	25	46030	And on the seventh day you will have a holy convocation. You will not do any ordinary work. 
04O	28	26	46040	On the day of the firstfruits, when you offer a food offering of new grain to the LORD at your Feast of Weeks, you will have a holy convocation. You will not do any ordinary work, 
04O	28	27	46050	but offer a burnt offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; 
04O	28	28	46060	also their food offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each bull, two tenths for one ram, 
04O	28	29	46070	a tenth for each of the seven lambs; 
04O	28	30	46080	with one male goat, to make atonement for you. 
04O	28	31	46090	Besides the daily burnt offering and its food offering, you will offer them and their drink offering. See that they are without blemish. 
04O	29	1	46100	On the first day of the seventh month you will have a holy convocation. You will not do any ordinary work. It is a day for you to blow the trumpets, 
04O	29	2	46110	and you will offer a burnt offering, for a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; 
04O	29	3	46120	also their food offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for the bull, two tenths for the ram, 
04O	29	4	46130	and one tenth for each of the seven lambs; 
04O	29	5	46140	with one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you; 
04O	29	6	46150	besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its food offering, and the daily burnt offering and its food offering, and their drink offering, according to the rule for them, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD. 
04O	29	7	46160	On the tenth day of this seventh month you will have a holy convocation and humble yourselves. You will do no work, 
04O	29	8	46170	but you will offer a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old: see that they are without blemish. 
04O	29	9	46180	And their food offering will be of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for the bull, two tenths for the one ram, 
04O	29	10	46190	a tenth for each of the seven lambs: 
04O	29	11	46200	also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the sin offering of atonement, and the daily burnt offering and its food offering, and their drink offerings. 
04O	29	12	46210	On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you will have a holy convocation. You will not do any ordinary work, and you will keep a feast to the LORD seven days. 
04O	29	13	46220	And you will offer a burnt offering, a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD, thirteen bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they will be without blemish; 
04O	29	14	46230	and their food offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each of the two rams, 
04O	29	15	46240	and a tenth for each of the fourteen lambs; 
04O	29	16	46250	also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the daily burnt offering, its food offering and its drink offering. 
04O	29	17	46260	On the second day twelve bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish, 
04O	29	18	46270	with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to the ordinance;
04O	29	19	46280	also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the daily burnt offering and its food offering, and their drink offerings. 
04O	29	20	46290	On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish, 
04O	29	21	46300	with the food offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to the ordinance; 
04O	29	22	46310	also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the daily burnt offering and its food offering and its drink offering. 
04O	29	23	46320	On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish, 
04O	29	24	46330	with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to the ordinance; 
04O	29	25	46340	also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the daily burnt offering, its food offering and its drink offering. 
04O	29	26	46350	On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish, 
04O	29	27	46360	with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to the ordinance; 
04O	29	28	46370	also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the daily burnt offering and its food offering and its drink offering. 
04O	29	29	46380	On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish, 
04O	29	30	46390	with the food offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to the ordinance;
04O	29	31	46400	also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the daily burnt offering, its food offering, and its drink offerings. 
04O	29	32	46410	On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish, 
04O	29	33	46420	with the food offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to the ordinance; 
04O	29	34	46430	also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the daily burnt offering, its food offering, and its drink offering. 
04O	29	35	46440	On the eighth day you will have a solemn assembly. You will not do any ordinary work, 
04O	29	36	46450	but you will offer a burnt offering, a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish, 
04O	29	37	46460	and the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, according to the ordinance; 
04O	29	38	46470	also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the daily burnt offering and its food offering and its drink offering. 
04O	29	39	46480	These you will offer to the LORD at your appointed feasts, in addition to your vow offerings and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your food offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings." 
04O	29	40	46490	So Moses told the sons of Israel everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses. 
04O	30	1	46500	Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the sons of Israel, saying, "This is what the LORD has commanded. 
04O	30	2	46510	If a man promises a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to commit himself by a pledge, he will not break his word. He will do according to all that he has spoken. 
04O	30	3	46520	If a woman promises a vow to the LORD and commit herself by a pledge, while within her father's house in her youth, 
04O	30	4	46530	and her father hears of her vow and of her pledge by which she has committed herself and says nothing to her, then all her vows will stand, and every pledge by which she has bound herself will stand. 
04O	30	5	46540	But if her father prohibited her on the day that he hears of it, no vow of hers or pledge by which she has committed herself will stand. And the LORD will forgive her, because her father prohibited her. 
04O	30	6	46550	If she marries a husband, while under her vows or any rash sayings of her lips by which she has committed herself, 
04O	30	7	46560	and her husband hears of it and says nothing to her on the day that he hears, then her vows will stand, and her pledges by which she has committed herself will stand. 
04O	30	8	46570	But if, on the day that her husband comes to hear of it, he prohibits her, then he makes void her vow that was on her, and the rash sayings of her lips by which she committed herself. And the LORD will forgive her. 
04O	30	9	46580	But any vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, anything by which she has committed herself, will remain with her. 
04O	30	10	46590	And if she vowed in her husband's house or committed herself by a pledge with an oath, 
04O	30	11	46600	and her husband heard of it and said nothing to her and did not prohibit her, then all her vows will stand, and every pledge by which she committed herself will stand. 
04O	30	12	46610	But if her husband makes them null and void on the day that he hears them, then whatever sayings concerning her vows or concerning her pledge of herself will not stand. Her husband has made them void, and the LORD will forgive her. 
04O	30	13	46620	Any vow and any binding oath to humble herself, her husband may establish, or her husband may make void. 
04O	30	14	46630	But if her husband says nothing to her from time to time, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges that are upon her. He has established them, because he said nothing to her at the time that he heard them. 
04O	30	15	46640	But if he makes them null and void after he has heard them, then he will accept her fault." 
04O	30	16	46650	These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses about a man and his wife and about a father and his daughter while she is in her youth within her father's house. 
04O	31	1	46660	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	31	2	46670	"Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you will be gathered to your people." 
04O	31	3	46680	So Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for war, that they may go against Midian to execute the LORD's vengeance on Midian. 
04O	31	4	46690	You will send a troop from each of the tribes of Israel to the war." 
04O	31	5	46700	So there were committed, out of the multitudes of Israel, a troop from each tribe, twelve troops armed for war. 
04O	31	6	46710	And Moses sent them to the war, a troop from each tribe, together with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for sounding in his hand. 
04O	31	7	46720	They battled against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses, and killed all the males. 
04O	31	8	46730	They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. And they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword. 
04O	31	9	46740	And the sons of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their children, and they took as plunder all their cattle, their flocks, and all their goods. 
04O	31	10	46750	And they burned all their cities with fire, their homes, and all their fortresses.  
04O	31	11	46760	and took all the spoil and all the plunder, among man and among beast. 
04O	31	12	46770	Then they took the captives and the plunder and the spoil to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the assembly of the sons of Israel, at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. 
04O	31	13	46780	Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the chiefs of the assembly went to meet them outside the camp. 
04O	31	14	46790	And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the war. 
04O	31	15	46800	Moses said to them, "Have you let all the women live? 
04O	31	16	46810	Behold, these, on Balaam's advice, caused the sons of Israel to transgress against the LORD in the incident of Peor, and so the plague came among the assembly of the LORD. 
04O	31	17	46820	Now therefore, kill every male among the children, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. 
04O	31	18	46830	But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves. 
04O	31	19	46840	Encamp outside the camp seven days. Whoever of you has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, cleanse yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day. 
04O	31	20	46850	You will cleanse all clothing, every article of skin, all work of goats' hair, and every article of wood." 
04O	31	21	46860	Then Eleazar the priest said to the men in the army who had gone to battle: "This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded Moses: 
04O	31	22	46870	only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead, 
04O	31	23	46880	everything that can stand the fire, you will pass through the fire, and it will be clean. However, it will also be purified with the water for impurity. And whatever cannot stand the fire, you will pass through the water. 
04O	31	24	46890	You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be clean. And afterward you may come into the camp." 
04O	31	25	46900	The LORD said to Moses, 
04O	31	26	46910	"Take the sum of the plunder that was taken, both of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers' houses of the assembly, 
04O	31	27	46920	and divide the plunder into two parts between the warriors who went out to battle and all the assembly. 
04O	31	28	46930	And take a tribute for the LORD from the men of war who went out to battle, one out of five hundred, of the people and of the oxen and of the donkeys and of the flocks. 
04O	31	29	46940	Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as a gift to the LORD. 
04O	31	30	46950	And from the sons of Israel's half you will take one drawn out of every fifty, of the people, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites who keep guard over the tabernacle of the LORD." 
04O	31	31	46960	And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses. 
04O	31	32	46970	Now the plunder remaining of the spoil that the army took was 675,000 sheep, 
04O	31	33	46980	72,000 cattle, 
04O	31	34	46990	61,000 donkeys, 
04O	31	35	47000	and 32,000 persons in all, women who had not known man by lying with him. 
04O	31	36	47010	And the half, the portion of those who had gone out in the army, numbered 337,500 sheep, 
04O	31	37	47020	and the LORD's tribute of sheep was 675. 
04O	31	38	47030	The cattle were 36,000, of which the LORD's tribute was 72. 
04O	31	39	47040	The donkeys were 30,500, of which the LORD's tribute was 61. 
04O	31	40	47050	The persons were 16,000, of which the LORD's tribute was 32 persons. 
04O	31	41	47060	And Moses gave the tribute, which was the gift for the LORD, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses. 
04O	31	42	47070	From the sons of Israel's half, which Moses separated from that of the men who had served in the army, 
04O	31	43	47080	now the assembly's half was 337,500 sheep, 
04O	31	44	47090	36,000 cattle, 
04O	31	45	47100	and 30,500 donkeys, 
04O	31	46	47110	and 16,000 persons, 
04O	31	47	47120	from the sons of Israel's half Moses took one of every 50, both of persons and of beasts, and gave them to the Levites who kept guard over the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses. 
04O	31	48	47130	Then the leaders who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, came near to Moses 
04O	31	49	47140	and said to Moses, "Your servants have counted the men of war who are under our command, and there is not a man missing from us. 
04O	31	50	47150	And we bring the LORD's offering, what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and beads, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD." 
04O	31	51	47160	And Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them the gold, all crafted articles. 
04O	31	52	47170	And all the gold of the gift that they presented to the LORD, from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, was 16,750 shekels. 
04O	31	53	47180	The men in the army had each taken plunder for himself. 
04O	31	54	47190	And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and took it into the tabernacle of assembly, as a memorial for the sons of Israel before the LORD. 
04O	32	1	47200	Now the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had a very large number of flocks. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the country was a place for flocks. 
04O	32	2	47210	So the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the assembly, 
04O	32	3	47220	"Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon, 
04O	32	4	47230	the land that the LORD punished before the assembly of Israel, is a land for flocks, and your servants have flocks." 
04O	32	5	47240	And they said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Do not bring us over the Jordan." 
04O	32	6	47250	But Moses said to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, "Will your brothers go to the battle while you remain here? 
04O	32	7	47260	Why will you discourage the hearts of the sons of Israel from going over into the land that the LORD has given them? 
04O	32	8	47270	Your fathers did this, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. 
04O	32	9	47280	For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the hearts of the sons of Israel from going into the land that the LORD had given them. 
04O	32	10	47290	And the LORD's anger was kindled on that day, and he vowed, saying, 
04O	32	11	47300	'Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, will see the land that I pledged to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not fully followed me, 
04O	32	12	47310	none except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have fully followed the LORD.' 
04O	32	13	47320	And the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was gone. 
04O	32	14	47330	And behold, you have risen in your fathers' place, a multiple of sinful men, to add to the fierce anger of the LORD against Israel! 
04O	32	15	47340	For if you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will punish all this people." 
04O	32	16	47350	Then they came near to him and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our flocks, and cities for our children, 
04O	32	17	47360	but we will take up arms, ready to go before the sons of Israel, until we have taken them to their place. And our children will live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. 
04O	32	18	47370	We will not return to our homes until each of the sons of Israel has gained his possession. 
04O	32	19	47380	For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our possession has come to us on this side of the Jordan to the east." 
04O	32	20	47390	So Moses said to them, "If you will do this, if you will take up arms to go before the LORD for the battle, 
04O	32	21	47400	and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him 
04O	32	22	47410	and the land is subdued before the LORD; then after that you will return and be free of obligation to the LORD and to Israel, and this land will be your possession before the LORD. 
04O	32	23	47420	But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out. 
04O	32	24	47430	Build cities for your children and folds for your sheep, and do what you have promised." 
04O	32	25	47440	And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben said to Moses, "Your servants will do as my lord commands. 
04O	32	26	47450	Our children, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle will remain there in the cities of Gilead, 
04O	32	27	47460	but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for battle, before the LORD to battle, as my lord orders." 
04O	32	28	47470	So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the sons of Israel. 
04O	32	29	47480	And Moses said to them, "If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben, every man who is armed to battle before the LORD, will pass with you over the Jordan and the land will be subdued before you, then you will give them the land of Gilead for a possession. 
04O	32	30	47490	However, if they will not pass over with you armed, they will have possessions among you in the land of Canaan." 
04O	32	31	47500	And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, "What the LORD has said to your servants, we will do. 
04O	32	32	47510	We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritances will remain with us beyond the Jordan." 
04O	32	33	47520	And Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorite and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country. 
04O	32	34	47530	And the people of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer, 
04O	32	35	47540	Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah, 
04O	32	36	47550	Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep. 
04O	32	37	47560	And the people of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim, 
04O	32	38	47570	Nebo, and Baal-meon, their names were changed, and Sibmah. And they gave other names to the cities that they built. 
04O	32	39	47580	And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were there. 
04O	32	40	47590	And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he dwell in it. 
04O	32	41	47600	And Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and called them Havvoth-jair. 
04O	32	42	47610	And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name. 
04O	33	1	47620	These are the stations of the sons of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their companies under the leadership of Moses and Aaron. 
04O	33	2	47630	Moses wrote down their starting places, as they journeyed, by command of the LORD, and these are their stations according to their starting places. 
04O	33	3	47640	They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover, the sons of Israel went out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians, 
04O	33	4	47650	while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck among them. On their gods also the LORD executed judgments. 
04O	33	5	47660	So the sons of Israel set out from Rameses and camped at Succoth. 
04O	33	6	47670	And they set out from Succoth and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness. 
04O	33	7	47680	And they set out from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which is east of Baal-zephon, and they camped before Migdol. 
04O	33	8	47690	And they set out from before Hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and they went a three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah. 
04O	33	9	47700	And they set out from Marah and came to Elim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there. 
04O	33	10	47710	And they set out from Elim and camped by the Sea of Reeds. 
04O	33	11	47720	And they set out from the Sea Reeds and camped in the wilderness of Sin. 
04O	33	12	47730	And they set out from the wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah. 
04O	33	13	47740	And they set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush. 
04O	33	14	47750	And they set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink. 
04O	33	15	47760	And they set out from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai. 
04O	33	16	47770	And they set out from the wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah. 
04O	33	17	47780	And they set out from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth. 
04O	33	18	47790	And they set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah. 
04O	33	19	47800	And they set out from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon-perez. 
04O	33	20	47810	And they set out from Rimmon-perez and camped at Libnah. 
04O	33	21	47820	And they set out from Libnah and camped at Rissah. 
04O	33	22	47830	And they set out from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah. 
04O	33	23	47840	And they set out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher. 
04O	33	24	47850	And they set out from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah. 
04O	33	25	47860	And they set out from Haradah and camped at Makheloth. 
04O	33	26	47870	And they set out from Makheloth and camped at Tahath. 
04O	33	27	47880	And they set out from Tahath and camped at Terah. 
04O	33	28	47890	And they set out from Terah and camped at Mithkah. 
04O	33	29	47900	And they set out from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah. 
04O	33	30	47910	And they set out from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth. 
04O	33	31	47920	And they set out from Moseroth and camped at Bene-jaakan. 
04O	33	32	47930	And they set out from Bene-jaakan and camped at Hor-haggidgad. 
04O	33	33	47940	And they set out from Hor-haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah. 
04O	33	34	47950	And they set out from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah. 
04O	33	35	47960	And they set out from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber. 
04O	33	36	47970	And they set out from Ezion-geber and camped in the wilderness of Zin, that is, Kadesh. 
04O	33	37	47980	And they set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom. 
04O	33	38	47990	And Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of the LORD and died there, in the fortieth year after the sons of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month. 
04O	33	39	48000	And Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor. 
04O	33	40	48010	And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the sons of Israel. 
04O	33	41	48020	And they set out from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah. 
04O	33	42	48030	And they set out from Zalmonah and camped at Punon. 
04O	33	43	48040	And they set out from Punon and camped at Oboth. 
04O	33	44	48050	And they set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the territory of Moab. 
04O	33	45	48060	And they set out from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad. 
04O	33	46	48070	And they set out from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim. 
04O	33	47	48080	And they set out from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. 
04O	33	48	48090	And they set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho; 
04O	33	49	48100	they camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab. 
04O	33	50	48110	And the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 
04O	33	51	48120	"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 
04O	33	52	48130	then you will drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their engraved images and destroy all their cast images and demolish all their high places. 
04O	33	53	48140	And you will take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to occupy it. 
04O	33	54	48150	You will inherit the land by lot according to your tribes. To a large tribe you will give a large possession, and to a small tribe you will give a small possession. Wherever the lot falls for anyone, that will be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you will inherit. 
04O	33	55	48160	But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain will be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land where you dwell. 
04O	33	56	48170	And I will do to you as I considered to do to them." 
04O	34	1	48180	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	34	2	48190	"Command the sons of Israel, and say to them, When you enter the land of Canaan, this is the land that will fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan as defined by its borders, 
04O	34	3	48200	your south side will be from the wilderness of Zin alongside Edom, and your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea on the east. 
04O	34	4	48210	And your border will turn south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and cross to Zin, and its limit will be south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it will go on to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon. 
04O	34	5	48220	And the border will turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and its limit will be at the sea. 
04O	34	6	48230	For the western border, you will have the Great Sea and its coast. This will be your western border. 
04O	34	7	48240	This will be your northern border: from the Great Sea you will draw a line to Mount Hor. 
04O	34	8	48250	From Mount Hor you will draw a line to Lebo-hamath, and the limit of the border will be at Zedad. 
04O	34	9	48260	Then the border will extend to Ziphron, and its limit will be at Hazar-enan. This will be your northern border. 
04O	34	10	48270	You will draw a line for your eastern border from Hazar-enan to Shepham. 
04O	34	11	48280	And the border will go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain. And the border will go down and reach to the shoulder of the Sea of Chinnereth on the east. 
04O	34	12	48290	And the border will go down to the Jordan, and its limit will be at the Salt Sea. This will be your land as defined by its borders all around." 
04O	34	13	48300	Moses commanded the sons of Israel, saying, "This is the land that you will inherit by lot, which the LORD has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half tribe. 
04O	34	14	48310	For the tribe of the sons of Reuben by fathers' houses and the tribe of the sons of Gad by their fathers' houses have received their inheritance, and also the half tribe of Manasseh. 
04O	34	15	48320	The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, toward the sunrise." 
04O	34	16	48330	The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	34	17	48340	"These are the names of the men who will divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun. 
04O	34	18	48350	You will take one chief from every tribe to divide the land for inheritance. 
04O	34	19	48360	These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 
04O	34	20	48370	Of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud. 
04O	34	21	48380	Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon. 
04O	34	22	48390	Of the tribe of the sons of Dan a chief, Bukki the son of Jogli. 
04O	34	23	48400	Of the sons of Joseph: of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh a chief, Hanniel the son of Ephod. 
04O	34	24	48410	And of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim a chief, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan. 
04O	34	25	48420	Of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun a chief, Elizaphan the son of Parnach. 
04O	34	26	48430	Of the tribe of the sons of Issachar a chief, Paltiel the son of Azzan. 
04O	34	27	48440	And of the tribe of the sons of Asher a chief, Ahihud the son of Shelomi. 
04O	34	28	48450	Of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali a chief, Pedahel the son of Ammihud. 
04O	34	29	48460	These are the men whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance for the sons of Israel in the land of Canaan." 
04O	35	1	48470	The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 
04O	35	2	48480	"Command the sons of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance of their possession as cities for them to dwell in. And you will give to the Levites pasture lands around the cities. 
04O	35	3	48490	The cities will be theirs to dwell in, and their pasture lands will be for their cattle and for their flocks and for all their beasts. 
04O	35	4	48500	The pasture lands of the cities, which you will give to the Levites, will reach from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits all around. 
04O	35	5	48510	And you will measure, outside the city, on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This will belong to them as pasture land for their cities. 
04O	35	6	48520	The cities that you give to the Levites will be the six cities of refuge, where you will permit the manslayer to flee, and in addition to them you will give forty-two cities. 
04O	35	7	48530	All the cities that you give to the Levites will be forty-eight, with their pasture lands. 
04O	35	8	48540	And as for the cities that you will give from the possession of the sons of Israel, from the larger tribes you will take many, and from the smaller tribes you will take few; each, in proportion to the possessions that it inherits, will give of its cities to the Levites." 
04O	35	9	48550	And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 
04O	35	10	48560	"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 
04O	35	11	48570	then you will select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there. 
04O	35	12	48580	The cities will be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the assembly for judgment. 
04O	35	13	48590	And the cities that you give will be your six cities of refuge. 
04O	35	14	48600	You will give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge. 
04O	35	15	48610	These six cities will be for refuge for the sons of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, that anyone who kills any person without unwittingly may flee there. 
04O	35	16	48620	But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer will be put to death. 
04O	35	17	48630	And if he struck him down with a stone tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer will be put to death. 
04O	35	18	48640	Or if he struck him down with a wooden tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer will be put to death. 
04O	35	19	48650	The avenger of blood will himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he will put him to death. 
04O	35	20	48660	And if he pushed him out of hatred or threw something at him, lying in wait, so that he died, 
04O	35	21	48670	or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died, then he who struck the blow will be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood will put the murderer to death when he meets him. 
04O	35	22	48680	But if he pushed him suddenly without enmity, or threw anything on him without lying in wait 
04O	35	23	48690	or used a stone that could cause death, and without seeing him, so that he died, though he was not his enemy and not seek his harm, 
04O	35	24	48700	then the assembly will judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules. 
04O	35	25	48710	And the assembly will rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the assembly will restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled, and he will live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil. 
04O	35	26	48720	But if the manslayer will at any time go beyond the boundaries of his city of refuge to which he fled, 
04O	35	27	48730	and the avenger of blood finds him outside the boundaries of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the manslayer, he will not be guilty of blood. 
04O	35	28	48740	For he must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest, but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return to the land of his possession. 
04O	35	29	48750	And these things will be for a statute and rule for you throughout your generations in all your dwelling places. 
04O	35	30	48760	If anyone kills a person, the murderer will be put to death on the evidence of witnesses. But no person will be put to death on the testimony of one witness. 
04O	35	31	48770	Moreover, you will accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he will be put to death. 
04O	35	32	48780	And you will accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest. 
04O	35	33	48790	You will not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it. 
04O	35	34	48800	You will not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, for I the LORD dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel." 
04O	36	1	48810	The heads of the fathers' houses of the families of the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the tribes of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the rulers, the heads of the fathers' houses of the sons of Israel. 
04O	36	2	48820	They said, "The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel, and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. 
04O	36	3	48830	But if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the sons of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance. 
04O	36	4	48840	And when the jubilee of the sons of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers." 
04O	36	5	48850	And Moses commanded the sons of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, "The tribe of the sons of Joseph speak right. 
04O	36	6	48860	This is what the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, 'Let them marry whom they think best, only they will marry within the family of the tribe of their father. 
04O	36	7	48870	The inheritance of the sons of Israel will not be transferred from one tribe to another, for every one of the sons of Israel will hold on to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 
04O	36	8	48880	And every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the sons of Israel will be wife to one of the families of the tribe of her father, so that every one of the sons of Israel may possess the inheritance of his fathers. 
04O	36	9	48890	So no inheritance will be transferred from one tribe to another, for each of the tribes of the sons of Israel will hold on to its own inheritance.'" 
04O	36	10	48900	The daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD commanded Moses, 
04O	36	11	48910	for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to sons of their father's brothers. 
04O	36	12	48920	They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in that of their father's tribe. 
04O	36	13	48930	These are the commandments and the laws that the LORD commanded through Moses to the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. 
05O	1	1	48940	These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 
05O	1	2	48950	Eleven days from Horeb through the hills of Seir to Kadesh-barnea. 
05O	1	3	48960	In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the sons of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them, 
05O	1	4	48970	after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei. 
05O	1	5	48980	Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare to explain this law, saying, 
05O	1	6	48990	"The LORD our God said to us in Horeb, 'You have stayed long enough at this mountain. 
05O	1	7	49000	Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negeb and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. 
05O	1	8	49010	Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.' 
05O	1	9	49020	"At that time I said to you, 'I am not able to bear you by myself. 
05O	1	10	49030	The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as numerous as the stars of heaven. 
05O	1	11	49040	May the LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you! 
05O	1	12	49050	How can I bear by myself the weight and burden of you and your strife? 
05O	1	13	49060	Choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.' 
05O	1	14	49070	And you answered me, 'The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.' 
05O	1	15	49080	So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes. 
05O	1	16	49090	And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him. 
05O	1	17	49100	You will not be partial in judgment. You will hear the small and the great alike. You will not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you will bring to me, and I will hear it.' 
05O	1	18	49110	And I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do. 
05O	1	19	49120	Then we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terrifying wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us. And we came to Kadesh-barnea. 
05O	1	20	49130	And I said to you, 'You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us. 
05O	1	21	49140	Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not fear or be troubled.' 
05O	1	22	49150	Then all of you came near me and said, 'Let us send men before us, that they may explore the land for us and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we will come.' 
05O	1	23	49160	This seemed good to me, and I took twelve men from you, one man from each tribe. 
05O	1	24	49170	And they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied it out. 
05O	1	25	49180	And they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us, and brought us word again and said, 'It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.' 
05O	1	26	49190	Yet you refused to go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. 
05O	1	27	49200	And you murmured in your tents and said, 'Because the LORD hated us He has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 
05O	1	28	49210	Where are we going? Our brothers have discouraged our hearts, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there."' 
05O	1	29	49220	Then I said to you, 'Do not be in terrified or afraid of them. 
05O	1	30	49230	The LORD your God who goes before you will Himself battle for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, 
05O	1	31	49240	and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.' 
05O	1	32	49250	Yet in spite of this word you did not believe the LORD your God, 
05O	1	33	49260	who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night and in the cloud by day, to show you by what way you should go. 
05O	1	34	49270	And the LORD heard your words and was angered, and He swore, 
05O	1	35	49280	'Not one of these men of this evil generation will see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers, 
05O	1	36	49290	except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the LORD!' 
05O	1	37	49300	Even with me the LORD was angry on your account and said, 'You also will not go in there. 
05O	1	38	49310	Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he will enter. Encourage him, for he will cause Israel to inherit it. 
05O	1	39	49320	And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they will go in there. And to them I will give it, and they will possess it. 
05O	1	40	49330	But as for you, turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Sea of Reeds.' 
05O	1	41	49340	Then you answered me, 'We have sinned against the LORD. We ourselves will go up and fight, just as the LORD our God commanded us.' And when each one of you had buckled on his weapons of war, you were ready to go up into the hill country. 
05O	1	42	49350	And the LORD said to me, 'Say to them, Do not go up or fight, for I am not in your midst, otherwise you be defeated before your enemies.' 
05O	1	43	49360	So I spoke to you, and you would not listen; but you rebelled against the command of the LORD and in your pride went up into the hill country. 
05O	1	44	49370	Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do and struck you in Seir as far as Hormah. 
05O	1	45	49380	And you returned and wept before the LORD, but the LORD did not listen to your voice or give ear to you. 
05O	1	46	49390	So you remained at Kadesh a long time, the time that you dwell there.
05O	2	1	49400	Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Sea of Reeds, as the LORD told me. And for many days we traveled around Mount Seir. 
05O	2	2	49410	Then the LORD said to me, 
05O	2	3	49420	'You have been traveling around this mountain country long enough. Turn northward 
05O	2	4	49430	and command the people, "You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very cautious. 
05O	2	5	49440	Do not contend with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. 
05O	2	6	49450	You will purchase food from them for money, that you may eat, and you will also buy water of them for money, that you may drink. 
05O	2	7	49460	For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing."' 
05O	2	8	49470	So we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and Ezion-geber. "And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab. 
05O	2	9	49480	And the LORD said to me, 'Do not harass Moab or contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the people of Lot for a possession.' 
05O	2	10	49490	The Emim formerly lived there, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim. 
05O	2	11	49500	Like the Anakim they are also counted as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim. 
05O	2	12	49510	The Horites also lived in Seir formerly, but the people of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, as Israel did to the land of their possession, which the LORD gave to them.
05O	2	13	49520	'Now rise up and go over the brook Zered.' So we went over the brook Zered. 
05O	2	14	49530	And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them. 
05O	2	15	49540	For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they were consumed. 
05O	2	16	49550	So as soon as all the men of war had perished and were dead from among the people, 
05O	2	17	49560	the LORD said to me, 
05O	2	18	49570	'Today you are to cross the border of Moab at Ar. 
05O	2	19	49580	And when you approach the territory of the people of Ammon, do not assault them or anger them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.' 
05O	2	20	49590	It is also counted as a land of Rephaim. Rephaim formerly lived there--but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
05O	2	21	49600	a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them before the Ammonites, and they dispossessed them and settled in their place, 
05O	2	22	49610	as he did for the people of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites before them and they dispossessed them and settled in their place even to this day. 
05O	2	23	49620	As for the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and settled in their place. 
05O	2	24	49630	'Rise up, set out on your journey and go over the Valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession, and contend with him in battle. 
05O	2	25	49640	DThis day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who will hear the report of you and will tremble and be in anguish because of you.' 
05O	2	26	49650	So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon the king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying, 
05O	2	27	49660	'Let me pass through your land. I will go only by the road; I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left. 
05O	2	28	49670	You will sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink. Only let me pass through on foot, 
05O	2	29	49680	as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I go over the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving to us.' 
05O	2	30	49690	But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day. 
05O	2	31	49700	And the LORD said to me, 'Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to take possession, that you may occupy his land.' 
05O	2	32	49710	Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. 
05O	2	33	49720	And the LORD our God gave him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and all his people. 
05O	2	34	49730	And we captured all his cities at that time and completely destroyed every city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors. 
05O	2	35	49740	Only the livestock we took as spoil for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities that we captured. 
05O	2	36	49750	From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The LORD our God gave all into our hands. 
05O	2	37	49760	Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, whatever the LORD our God had forbidden us. 
05O	3	1	49770	Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. 
05O	3	2	49780	But the LORD said to me, 'Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand. And you will do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.' 
05O	3	3	49790	So the LORD our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people, and we attacked him until no one was left remaining with him.  
05O	3	4	49800	And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city that we did not take from them, sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 
05O	3	5	49810	All of these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, in addition very many unwalled villages. 
05O	3	6	49820	And we completely destroyed them, as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, destroying every city, men, women, and children. 
05O	3	7	49830	But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as our plunder. 
05O	3	8	49840	So we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount ,
05O	3	9	49850	Hermon is called Sirion by the people of Sidon, and it is called Senir by the Amorites, 
05O	3	10	49860	all the cities of the tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 
05O	3	11	49870	For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit. 
05O	3	12	49880	When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning at Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities. 
05O	3	13	49890	The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, that is, all the region of Argob, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh.  All that portion of Bashan is called the land of Rephaim. 
05O	3	14	49900	Jair the Manassite took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called the villages after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day. 
05O	3	15	49910	To Machir I gave Gilead, 
05O	3	16	49920	and to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the Valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a border, as far over as the river Jabbok, the border of the Ammonites; 
05O	3	17	49930	the Arabah also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east. 
05O	3	18	49940	And I commanded you at that time, saying, 'The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All your men of valor will cross over armed before your brothers, the sons of Israel. 
05O	3	19	49950	Only your wives, your little ones, and your livestock, I know that you have much livestock, they will remain in the cities that I have given you, 
05O	3	20	49960	until the LORD gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also occupy the land that the LORD your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession which I have given you.' 
05O	3	21	49970	And I commanded Joshua at that time, 'Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. So will the LORD do to all the kingdoms into which you are crossing. 
05O	3	22	49980	You will not fear them, for it is the LORD your God who battles for you.' 
05O	3	23	49990	And I pleaded with the LORD at that time, saying, 
05O	3	24	50000	'O Lord GOD, you have only begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours? 
05O	3	25	50010	Please let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and Lebanon.' 
05O	3	26	50020	But the LORD was angry with me because of you and would not listen to me. And the LORD said to me, 'Enough from you; do not speak to me of this topic again. 
05O	3	27	50030	Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and look at it with your eyes, for you will not go over this Jordan. 
05O	3	28	50040	But command Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he will go over at the head of this people, and he will put them in possession of the land that you will see.' 
05O	3	29	50050	So we remained in the valley opposite Beth-peor. 
05O	4	1	50060	And now, Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you. 
05O	4	2	50070	You will not add to the word that I command you, or take from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I give you. 
05O	4	3	50080	Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Baal of Peor. 
05O	4	4	50090	But you who joined to the LORD your God are all alive today. 
05O	4	5	50100	Behold, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 
05O	4	6	50110	Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.' 
05O	4	7	50120	For what great nation is there that has a God so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? 
05O	4	8	50130	And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all these laws that I set before you today? 
05O	4	9	50140	Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, otherwise you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and otherwise they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children,
05O	4	10	50150	remember the day that you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, 'Gather the people to Me, that I may let them hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.' 
05O	4	11	50160	And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the center of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom. 
05O	4	12	50170	Then the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice. 
05O	4	13	50180	And he declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to perform, that is, His covenant, and He wrote them on two tablets of stone. 
05O	4	14	50190	And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess. 
05O	4	15	50200	Therefore guard yourselves very carefully. Since you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, 
05O	4	16	50210	beware otherwise you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 
05O	4	17	50220	the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, 
05O	4	18	50230	the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth. 
05O	4	19	50240	And beware otherwise you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the LORD your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven. 
05O	4	20	50250	But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of His own inheritance, as you are this day. 
05O	4	21	50260	Furthermore, the LORD was angry with me because of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance. 
05O	4	22	50270	For I must die in this land; I must not go over the Jordan. But you will go over and take possession of that good land. 
05O	4	23	50280	Take care, otherwise you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make a carved image, the shape of anything that the LORD your God has forbidden you. 
05O	4	24	50290	For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. 
05O	4	25	50300	When you father sons and children of children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a carved image in the shape of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, so as to provoke Him to anger, 
05O	4	26	50310	I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed. 
05O	4	27	50320	And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you. 
05O	4	28	50330	And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, or hear, or eat, or smell. 
05O	4	29	50340	But if you will seek the LORD your God and you will find Him, if you search after Him with all your heart and with all your soul. 
05O	4	30	50350	When you are in trials, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and obey His voice. 
05O	4	31	50360	For the LORD your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that He swore to them. 
05O	4	32	50370	For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of. 
05O	4	33	50380	Did any people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live? 
05O	4	34	50390	Or has God ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 
05O	4	35	50400	To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him. 
05O	4	36	50410	Out of heaven He let you hear His voice, that He might discipline you. And on earth He let you see His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire. 
05O	4	37	50420	And because He loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with His own presence, by His great power, 
05O	4	38	50430	driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day, 
05O	4	39	50440	know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. 
05O	4	40	50450	Therefore you will keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time." 
05O	4	41	50460	Then Moses set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan, 
05O	4	42	50470	that the manslayer might flee there, anyone who kills his neighbor unwittenly, without being at enmity with him in time past; he may flee to one of these cities and save his life: 
05O	4	43	50480	Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites. 
05O	4	44	50490	This is the law that Moses set before the sons of Israel. 
05O	4	45	50500	These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules, which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel when they came out of Egypt, 
05O	4	46	50510	beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel defeated when they came out of Egypt. 
05O	4	47	50520	And they took possession of his land and the land of Og, the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who lived to the east beyond the Jordan; 
05O	4	48	50530	from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, as far as Mount Sirion, which is Hermon, 
05O	4	49	50540	together with all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah. 
05O	5	1	50550	And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you will learn them and be careful to do them. 
05O	5	2	50560	The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 
05O	5	3	50570	Not with our fathers did the LORD make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today. 
05O	5	4	50580	The LORD spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, 
05O	5	5	50590	while I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD. For you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up to the mountain. He said: 
05O	5	6	50600	"'I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 
05O	5	7	50610	You will have no other gods before me. 
05O	5	8	50620	You will not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water below the land. 
05O	5	9	50630	You will not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who despise me, 
05O	5	10	50640	but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. 
05O	5	11	50650	You will not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. 
05O	5	12	50660	Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. 
05O	5	13	50670	Six days you will labor and do all your work, 
05O	5	14	50680	but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you will not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 
05O	5	15	50690	You will remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. 
05O	5	16	50700	Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. 
05O	5	17	50710	You will not murder. 
05O	5	18	50720	And you will not commit adultery. 
05O	5	19	50730	And you will not steal. 
05O	5	20	50740	And you will not bear false witness against your neighbor. 
05O	5	21	50750	And you will not covet your neighbor's wife. And you will not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's' 
05O	5	22	50760	These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and He added no more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. 
05O	5	23	50770	And as soon as you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders. 
05O	5	24	50780	And you said, 'Behold, the LORD our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen God speak with man, and the man still lives. 
05O	5	25	50790	Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, we will die. 
05O	5	26	50800	For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have, and has still lived? 
05O	5	27	50810	Go near and hear all that the LORD our God will say and speak to us all that the LORD our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.' 
05O	5	28	50820	"And the LORD heard your words, when you spoke to me. And the LORD said to me, 'I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken. 
05O	5	29	50830	If only that they had such a mind as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever! 
05O	5	30	50840	Go and say to them, "Return to your tents." 
05O	5	31	50850	But you, stand here by Me, and I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you will teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess. 
05O	5	32	50860	You will be careful therefore to do as the LORD your God has commanded you. You will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 
05O	5	33	50870	You will walk totally in the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you will possess."
05O	6	1	50880	"Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess, 
05O	6	2	50890	that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. 
05O	6	3	50900	Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. 
05O	6	4	50910	Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 
05O	6	5	50920	You will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 
05O	6	6	50930	And these words that I command you today will be on your heart. 
05O	6	7	50940	You will teach them diligently to your children, and will talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 
05O	6	8	50950	You will keep them as a sign on your hand, and they will be as frontlets before your eyes. 
05O	6	9	50960	You will write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. 
05O	6	10	50970	And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, with great and good cities that you did not build, 
05O	6	11	50980	and houses full of good things that you did not furnish, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant, and when you eat and are full, 
05O	6	12	50990	then take care otherwise you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 
05O	6	13	51000	It is the LORD your God you will fear. Him you will serve and by His name you will swear. 
05O	6	14	51010	You will not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you, 
05O	6	15	51020	for the LORD your God in your midst is a jealous God, otherwise the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth. 
05O	6	16	51030	You will not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah. 
05O	6	17	51040	You will diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you. 
05O	6	18	51050	And you will do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land that the LORD promised to give to your fathers 
05O	6	19	51060	by thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken. 
05O	6	20	51070	When your son asks you in time to come, 'What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?' 
05O	6	21	51080	then you will say to your son, 'We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt. And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 
05O	6	22	51090	And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and terrible, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes. 
05O	6	23	51100	And He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in and give us the land that He promised to give to our fathers. 
05O	6	24	51110	And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as we are this day. 
05O	6	25	51120	And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us.' 
05O	7	1	51130	When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves, 
05O	7	2	51140	and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, you will crush them, completely destroy them.. You will make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. 
05O	7	3	51150	You will not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, 
05O	7	4	51160	for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and He could destroy you quickly. 
05O	7	5	51170	But this is how will you deal with them: you will break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire. 
05O	7	6	51180	For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 
05O	7	7	51190	It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 
05O	7	8	51200	but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he promised to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 
05O	7	9	51210	Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love Him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations, 
05O	7	10	51220	And He repays those who despise Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slow to repay him who hates Him. He will repay him to his face. 
05O	7	11	51230	You will therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today. 
05O	7	12	51240	And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he promised to your fathers. 
05O	7	13	51250	He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he promised to your fathers to give you. 
05O	7	14	51260	You will be blessed above all peoples. There will not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock. 
05O	7	15	51270	And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will He inflict on you, but He will lay them on all who hate you. 
05O	7	16	51280	And you will destroy all the peoples that the LORD your God will give over to you. Your eye will not pity them, neither will you serve their gods, for that would be a trap to you. 
05O	7	17	51290	If you say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I. How can I drive them out?' 
05O	7	18	51300	you will not be afraid of them but you will remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt, 
05O	7	19	51310	the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out. So will the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. 
05O	7	20	51320	Moreover, the LORD your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed. 
05O	7	21	51330	You will not fear them, for the LORD your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God. 
05O	7	22	51340	The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You will not make an end of them at once, otherwise the wild beasts grow too numerous for you. 
05O	7	23	51350	But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed. 
05O	7	24	51360	And he will give their kings into your hand, and you will make their name perish from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them. 
05O	7	25	51370	The carved images of their gods you will burn with fire. You will not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, otherwise you be trapped by it, for it is an abomination to the LORD your God. 
05O	7	26	51380	And you will not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction like it. You will utterly detest and abhor it, for it is to be destroyed.
05O	8	1	51390	The whole commandment that I gibe to you today you will be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the LORD promised to give to your fathers. 
05O	8	2	51400	And you will remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that He might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. 
05O	8	3	51410	And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. 
05O	8	4	51420	Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years. 
05O	8	5	51430	Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you. 
05O	8	6	51440	So you will keep the commandments of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and respecting him. 
05O	8	7	51450	For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, 
05O	8	8	51460	a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, 
05O	8	9	51470	a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper. 
05O	8	10	51480	And you will eat and be full, and you will bless the LORD your God for the good land He has given you. 
05O	8	11	51490	Take care otherwise you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I give to you today, 
05O	8	12	51500	otherwise, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them, 
05O	8	13	51510	and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, 
05O	8	14	51520	then your heart be swelled up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, 
05O	8	15	51530	who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock, 
05O	8	16	51540	who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end. 
05O	8	17	51550	Beware otherwise you say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.' 
05O	8	18	51560	You will remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may confirm His covenant that he promised to your fathers, as it is this day. 
05O	8	19	51570	And if you forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you will surely perish. 
05O	8	20	51580	Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so will you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God. 
05O	9	1	51590	Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and fortified up to heaven, 
05O	9	2	51600	a people great and tall, the sons of the giants, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, 'Who can stand before the sons of Anak?' 
05O	9	3	51610	Know therefore today that He who goes over before you as a consuming fire is the LORD your God. He will destroy them and subdue them before you. So you will drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the LORD has promised you. 
05O	9	4	51620	Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,' instead it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you. 
05O	9	5	51630	Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that He may confirm the word that the LORD promised to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 
05O	9	6	51640	Know, therefore, that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people. 
05O	9	7	51650	Recall and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD. 
05O	9	8	51660	Even at Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was so angry with you that He was ready to destroy you. 
05O	9	9	51670	When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. 
05O	9	10	51680	And the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words that the LORD had spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. 
05O	9	11	51690	And at the end of forty days and forty nights the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. 
05O	9	12	51700	Then the LORD said to me, 'Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them; they have made themselves a metal image.' 
05O	9	13	51710	Furthermore, the LORD said to me, 'I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stubborn people. 
05O	9	14	51720	Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.' 
05O	9	15	51730	So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. 
05O	9	16	51740	And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had made yourselves a golden calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you. 
05O	9	17	51750	So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes. 
05O	9	18	51760	Then I lay prostrate before the LORD as before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger. 
05O	9	19	51770	For I was afraid of the anger and hot wrath that the LORD bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also. 
05O	9	20	51780	And the LORD was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him. And I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. 
05O	9	21	51790	Then I took the sinful thing, the calf that you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. And I threw the dust of it into the brook that ran down from the mountain. 
05O	9	22	51800	At Taberah also, and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked the LORD to wrath. 
05O	9	23	51810	And when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, 'Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,' then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God and did not believe Him or obey His voice. 
05O	9	24	51820	You have been rebellious against the LORD for as long as I have known you. 
05O	9	25	51830	So I lay prostrate before the LORD for these forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He could destroy you. 
05O	9	26	51840	And I prayed to the LORD, 'O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people and Your heritage, whom You have redeemed through your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 
05O	9	27	51850	Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not look at the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness or their sin, 
05O	9	28	51860	otherwise the nation from which you brought us will say, "Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land that He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness." 
05O	9	29	51870	For they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.' 
05O	10	1	51880	At that time the LORD said to me, 'Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain and make an ark of wood. 
05O	10	2	51890	And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and you will put them in the ark.' 
05O	10	3	51900	So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand. 
05O	10	4	51910	And He wrote on the tablets, in the same writing as before, the Ten Commandments that the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me. 
05O	10	5	51920	Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark that I had made. And there they are, as the LORD commanded me." 
05O	10	6	51930	The sons of Israel journeyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried. And his son Eleazar ministered as priest in his place. 
05O	10	7	51940	From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with brooks of water. 
05O	10	8	51950	At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD to stand before the LORD to minister to him and to bless in his name, until today. 
05O	10	9	51960	Therefore Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers. The LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God said to him.
05O	10	10	51970	I myself stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, and the LORD listened to me that time also. The LORD would not destroy you. 
05O	10	11	51980	And the LORD said to me, 'Arise, go on your journey at the head of the people, so that they may go in and possess the land, which I promised to their fathers to give them.' 
05O	10	12	51990	"And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 
05O	10	13	52000	and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I am commanding you today for your welfare? 
05O	10	14	52010	Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it. 
05O	10	15	52020	Only, the LORD has delighted in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their offspring after them, on you out of all the peoples, as it is today. 
05O	10	16	52030	Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn. 
05O	10	17	52040	For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, He who is not partial and takes no bribe. 
05O	10	18	52050	He provides justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. 
05O	10	19	52060	Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 
05O	10	20	52070	You will revere the LORD your God. You will serve Him and follow close to Him, and by His name you will swear. 
05O	10	21	52080	He is your praise. He is your God, who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen. 
05O	10	22	52090	Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven. 
05O	11	1	52100	You will therefore love the LORD your God and keep His charge, His statutes, his rules, and His commandments always. 
05O	11	2	52110	And be aware today, since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it, consider the discipline of the LORD your God, His greatness, His mighty hand and His outstretched arm, 
05O	11	3	52120	His signs and His deeds that He did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land, 
05O	11	4	52130	and what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, how He made the water of the Sea of Reeds to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day, 
05O	11	5	52140	and what He did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place, 
05O	11	6	52150	and what He did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, before all Israel. 
05O	11	7	52160	For your eyes have seen all the great work of the LORD which He has done. 
05O	11	8	52170	You will therefore keep the whole commandment that I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land that you are going over to possess, 
05O	11	9	52180	and that you may live long in the land that the LORD promised to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey. 
05O	11	10	52190	For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it, like a garden of vegetables. 
05O	11	11	52200	But the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, 
05O	11	12	52210	a land that the LORD your God cares for. The eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. 
05O	11	13	52220	And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, 
05O	11	14	52230	He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. 
05O	11	15	52240	And He will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be full. 
05O	11	16	52250	Take care otherwise your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them; 
05O	11	17	52260	then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that the LORD is giving you. 
05O	11	18	52270	You will therefore store up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you will hold them as a sign on your hand, and they will be as frontlets before your eyes. 
05O	11	19	52280	You will teach them to your sons, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 
05O	11	20	52290	You will write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 
05O	11	21	52300	that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD promised to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth. 
05O	11	22	52310	For if you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the LORD your God, walking in all His ways, and following close to Him, 
05O	11	23	52320	then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will destroy nations greater and mightier than yourselves. 
05O	11	24	52330	Every place on which the sole of your foot steps will be yours. Your territory will be from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea. 
05O	11	25	52340	No one will be able to stand against you. The LORD your God will lay the fear of you and the terror of you on all the land that you will step, as he promised you. 
05O	11	26	52350	Behold, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: 
05O	11	27	52360	the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, 
05O	11	28	52370	and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known. 
05O	11	29	52380	And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, you will proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. 
05O	11	30	52390	Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oak of Moreh? 
05O	11	31	52400	For you are to cross over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving you. And when you possess it and live in it, 
05O	11	32	52410	you will be careful to do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today. 
05O	12	1	52420	These are the statutes and rules that you will be careful to do in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the time that you live on the earth. 
05O	12	2	52430	You will surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you will dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. 
05O	12	3	52440	You will tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You will chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name from that place. 
05O	12	4	52450	You will not worship the LORD your God in their way. 
05O	12	5	52460	But you will seek the place that the LORD your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you will go, 
05O	12	6	52470	and there you will bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you provide, your vow offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock. 
05O	12	7	52480	And there you will eat before the LORD your God, and you will rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the LORD your God has blessed you. 
05O	12	8	52490	You will not do according to all that we are doing here today, everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes, 
05O	12	9	52500	for you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you. 
05O	12	10	52510	But when you go over the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies around, so that you live in safety, 
05O	12	11	52520	then to the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make His name dwell there, there you will bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you provide, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the LORD. 
05O	12	12	52530	And you will rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male servants and your female servants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since he has no portion or inheritance with you. 
05O	12	13	52540	Take care that you do not offer your burnt offerings at any place that you see, 
05O	12	14	52550	but at the place that the LORD will choose in one of your tribes, there you will offer your burnt offerings, and there you will do all that I am commanding you. 
05O	12	15	52560	However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer. 
05O	12	16	52570	Only you will not eat the blood; you will pour it out on the earth like water. 
05O	12	17	52580	You may not eat within your towns the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vow offerings that you vow, or your freewill offerings or the contribution that you provide, 
05O	12	18	52590	but you will eat them before the LORD your God in the place that the LORD your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your towns. And you will rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you undertake. 
05O	12	19	52600	Take care that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land. 
05O	12	20	52610	When the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, 'I will eat meat,' because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire. 
05O	12	21	52620	If the place that the LORD your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, then you may kill any of your herd or your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your towns whenever you desire. 
05O	12	22	52630	Just as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike may eat of it. 
05O	12	23	52640	Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you will not eat the life with the flesh. 
05O	12	24	52650	You will not eat it; you will pour it out on the earth like water. 
05O	12	25	52660	You will not eat it, that all may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD. 
05O	12	26	52670	But the holy things that are due from you, and your vow offerings, you will take, and you will go to the place that the LORD will choose, 
05O	12	27	52680	and offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your sacrifices will be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, but the flesh you may eat. 
05O	12	28	52690	Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God. 
05O	12	29	52700	When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to possess them, and you take their place and dwell in their land, 
05O	12	30	52710	take care that you be not entrapped into following them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods? That I also may do the likewise.' 
05O	12	31	52720	You will not worship the LORD your God in their way, for every abominable thing that the LORD hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods. 
05O	12	32	52730	Everything that I command you, you will be careful to do. You will not add to it or take from it. 
05O	13	1	52740	If a prophet or a dreamer of visions arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, 
05O	13	2	52750	and the sign or wonder that he tells you happens, and if he says, 'Let us go after other gods,' which you have not known, 'and let us serve them,' 
05O	13	3	52760	you will not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of visions. For the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 
05O	13	4	52770	You will follow after the LORD your God and revere him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you will serve him and follow close to him. 
05O	13	5	52780	But that prophet or that dreamer of visions will be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to draw you out of the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to follow. That you will purge the evil from your midst. 
05O	13	6	52790	If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers have known, 
05O	13	7	52800	some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, 
05O	13	8	52810	you will not yield to him or listen to him, nor will you look on him with pity, nor will you spare him, nor will you conceal him. 
05O	13	9	52820	But you will kill him. Your hand will be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. 
05O	13	10	52830	You will stone him to death with stones, because he tried to draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 
05O	13	11	52840	And all Israel will hear and fear and never again do any such wickedness as this among you. 
05O	13	12	52850	If you hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you to dwell there, 
05O	13	13	52860	that certain worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which you have not known, 
05O	13	14	52870	then you will investigate and examine and ask skilfully. And behold, if it be right and sure that such an abomination has been done among you, 
05O	13	15	52880	you will surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, destroying it completely, all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword. 
05O	13	16	52890	You will gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It will be a ruin forever. It will not be built again. 
05O	13	17	52900	None of the cursed things be in to your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of His anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, as He swore to your fathers, 
05O	13	18	52910	if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping all his commandments that I am commanding you today, and do what is right in the sight of the LORD your God. 
05O	14	1	52920	You are the sons of the LORD your God. You will not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. 
05O	14	2	52930	For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a special nation to Him, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 
05O	14	3	52940	You will not eat any idolatrous thing. 
05O	14	4	52950	These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 
05O	14	5	52960	the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. 
05O	14	6	52970	Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, from these animals you may eat. 
05O	14	7	52980	Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you will not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof and are unclean for you. 
05O	14	8	52990	And the pig, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you will not eat, and their carcasses you will not touch. 
05O	14	9	53000	Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat. 
05O	14	10	53010	And whatever does not have fins and scales you will not eat; it is unclean for you. 
05O	14	11	53020	You may eat all clean birds. 
05O	14	12	53030	But these are the ones that you will not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, 
05O	14	13	53040	the kite, the falcon of any kind; 
05O	14	14	53050	every raven of any kind; 
05O	14	15	53060	the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind; 
05O	14	16	53070	the little owl and the short-eared owl, the barn owl 
05O	14	17	53080	and the tawny owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant, 
05O	14	18	53090	the stork, the heron of any kind; the grouse and the bat. 
05O	14	19	53100	And all winged insects are unclean for you; they will not be eaten. 
05O	14	20	53110	All clean winged things you may eat. 
05O	14	21	53120	You will not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. You will not boil a young goat in its mother's milk. 
05O	14	22	53130	You will tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year. 
05O	14	23	53140	And before the LORD your God, in the place that he will choose, to make His name dwell there, you will eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to revere the LORD your God always. 
05O	14	24	53150	And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the LORD your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God chooses, to set his name there, 
05O	14	25	53160	then you will turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the LORD your God chooses 
05O	14	26	53170	and spend the money for whatever you desire--oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you will eat there before the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household. 
05O	14	27	53180	And you will not neglect the Levite who is within your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance with you. 
05O	14	28	53190	At the end of every three years you will bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns. 
05O	14	29	53200	And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, will come and eat and be filled, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the labor of your hands that you provide. 
05O	15	1	53210	At the end of every seven years you will grant a release. 
05O	15	2	53220	And this is the manner of the release: every creditor will release what he has lent to his neighbor. He will not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the LORD's release has been proclaimed. 
05O	15	3	53230	Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand will release. 
05O	15	4	53240	But there will be no poor among you; for the LORD will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, 
05O	15	5	53250	only if you will strictly obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all this commandment that I command you today. 
05O	15	6	53260	For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow, and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you. 
05O	15	7	53270	If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the LORD your God is giving you, you will not harden your heart or close your hand against your poor brother, 
05O	15	8	53280	but you will open your hand to him and lend him enough for his need, whatever it may be. 
05O	15	9	53290	Take care lest there be an evil thought in your heart and you say, 'The seventh year, the year of release is near,' and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the LORD against you, and you be guilty of sin. 
05O	15	10	53300	You will give to him freely, and your heart will not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you do. 
05O	15	11	53310	For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, 'You will open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.' 
05O	15	12	53320	If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he will serve you six years, and in the seventh year you will let him go free from you. 
05O	15	13	53330	And when you let him go free from you, you will not let him go empty-handed. 
05O	15	14	53340	You will furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress. As the LORD your God has blessed you, you will give to him. 
05O	15	15	53350	You will remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today. 
05O	15	16	53360	But if he says to you, 'I will not go out from you,' because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you, 
05O	15	17	53370	then you will take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he will be your slave forever. And to your female slave you will do the same. 
05O	15	18	53380	It will not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for at half the cost of a hired servant he has served you six years. So the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do. 
05O	15	19	53390	All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and flock you will dedicate to the LORD your God. You will do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock. 
05O	15	20	53400	You will eat it, you and your household, before the LORD your God year by year at the place that the LORD will choose. 
05O	15	21	53410	But if it has any blemish, if it is lame or blind or has any serious blemish whatever, you will not sacrifice it to the LORD your God. 
05O	15	22	53420	You will eat it within your towns. The unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or a deer. 
05O	15	23	53430	Only you will not eat its blood; you will pour it out on the ground like water.
05O	16	1	53440	Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night. 
05O	16	2	53450	And you will offer the Passover sacrifice to the LORD your God, from the flock or the herd, at the place that the LORD will choose, to make His name dwell there. 
05O	16	3	53460	You will eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you will eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste, that all the time of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt. 
05O	16	4	53470	No leaven will be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, nor will any of the flesh that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning. 
05O	16	5	53480	You will not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, 
05O	16	6	53490	but at the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make His name dwell in it, there you will offer the Passover sacrifice, in the evening at sunset, at the time you came out of Egypt. 
05O	16	7	53500	And you will cook it and eat it at the place that the LORD your God will choose. And in the morning you will turn and go to your tents. 
05O	16	8	53510	For six days you will eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there will be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God. You will do no work on it. 
05O	16	9	53520	You will count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain. 
05O	16	10	53530	Then you will keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you will give as the LORD your God blesses you. 
05O	16	11	53540	And you will rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make His name dwell there. 
05O	16	12	53550	You will remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you will be careful to observe these statutes. 
05O	16	13	53560	You will keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress. 
05O	16	14	53570	You will rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns. 
05O	16	15	53580	For seven days you will keep the feast to the LORD your God at the place that the LORD will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be very joyful. 
05O	16	16	53590	Three times a year all your males will appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. They will not appear before the LORD empty-handed. 
05O	16	17	53600	Every man will give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that He has given you. 
05O	16	18	53610	You will appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they will judge the people with righteous judgment. 
05O	16	19	53620	You will not pervert justice. You will not show partiality, and you will not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous. 
05O	16	20	53630	Justice, and only justice, you will follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the LORD your God is giving you. 
05O	16	21	53640	You will not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the LORD your God that you will make. 
05O	16	22	53650	And you will not set up a pillar, which the LORD your God detests. 
05O	17	1	53660	You will not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever, for that is disgusting to the LORD your God. 
05O	17	2	53670	If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, in breaking his covenant, 
05O	17	3	53680	and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the things of heaven, which I have forbidden, 
05O	17	4	53690	and it is told you and you hear of it, then you will investigate sincerely, and if it is true and established that such an disgusting thing has been done in Israel, 
05O	17	5	53700	then you will bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this disgusting thing, and you will stone that man or woman to death with stones. 
05O	17	6	53710	On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die will be put to death; a person will not be put to death on the evidence of one witness. 
05O	17	7	53720	The hand of the witnesses will be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. That you will purge the evil from your midst. 
05O	17	8	53730	If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you will arise and go up to the place that the LORD your God will choose. 
05O	17	9	53740	And you will come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you will consult them, and they will declare to you the judgment. 
05O	17	10	53750	Then you will do according to what they tell you from that place that the LORD will choose. And you will be careful to do according to all that they direct you. 
05O	17	11	53760	According to the instructions that they give you, and according to the judgment which they declare to you, you will do. You will not turn aside from the verdict that they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left. 
05O	17	12	53770	The man that acts proudly and will not listen to the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man will die. That you will purge the evil from Israel. 
05O	17	13	53780	And all the people will hear and reverence and not act proudly again. 
05O	17	14	53790	When you come to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,' 
05O	17	15	53800	you may indeed set a king over you whom the LORD your God will choose. One from among your brothers you will set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. 
05O	17	16	53810	Only he must not obtain many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the LORD has said to you, 'You will never return that way again.' 
05O	17	17	53820	And he will not take many wives for himself, otherwise his heart turn away, nor will he take for himself excessive silver and gold. 
05O	17	18	53830	And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he will write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests. 
05O	17	19	53840	And it will be with him, and he will read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to reverence the LORD his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them, 
05O	17	20	53850	that his thoughts may not be exalted over his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel. 
05O	18	1	53860	The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, will have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They will eat the LORD's food offerings as their inheritance. 
05O	18	2	53870	They will have no inheritance among their brothers; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them. 
05O	18	3	53880	And this will be the priests' provision from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they will give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach. 
05O	18	4	53890	The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you will give him. 
05O	18	5	53900	For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for all time. 
05O	18	6	53910	And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he lives, and he may come when he desires, to the place that the LORD will choose, 
05O	18	7	53920	and ministers in the name of the LORD his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the LORD, 
05O	18	8	53930	then he may have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his father's belongings. 
05O	18	9	53940	When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you will not learn to follow the detestable practices of those nations. 
05O	18	10	53950	There will not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer 
05O	18	11	53960	or a charmer or a medium or a wizard or one who inquires of the dead, 
05O	18	12	53970	for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these abominations the LORD your God is driving them out before you. 
05O	18	13	53980	You will be undefiled before the LORD your God, 
05O	18	14	53990	for these nations, which you are about to drive out, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do this. 
05O	18	15	54000	The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers, it is to him you will listen,
05O	18	16	54010	just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, 'Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, otherwise I die.' 
05O	18	17	54020	And the LORD said to me, 'They are right in what they have spoken. 
05O	18	18	54030	I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he will speak to them all that I command him. 
05O	18	19	54040	And whoever will not listen to my words that he will speak in my name, I myself will demand it of him. 
05O	18	20	54050	But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet will die.' 
05O	18	21	54060	And if you say in your thoughts, 'How may we know the word that the LORD has not spoken?'
05O	18	22	54070	when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not happen or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it with pride. You need not be afraid of him. 
05O	19	1	54080	When the LORD your God destroys the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you drive them out and dwell in their cities and in their houses, 
05O	19	2	54090	you will set apart three cities for yourselves in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess. 
05O	19	3	54100	You will measure the distances and divide into three parts the area of the land that the LORD your God gives you as a possession, so that any manslayer can flee to them. 
05O	19	4	54110	This is the provision for the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If anyone kills his neighbor unwittingly without having hated him in the past,
05O	19	5	54120	as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, he may flee to one of these cities and live, 
05O	19	6	54130	otherwise the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him fatally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past. 
05O	19	7	54140	Therefore I command you, You will set apart three cities. 
05O	19	8	54150	And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land that he promised to give to your fathers, 
05O	19	9	54160	provided you are careful to keep all this commandment, which I command you today, by loving the LORD your God and by walking ever in his ways, then you will add three other cities to these three, 
05O	19	10	54170	otherwise innocent blood be shed in your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you. 
05O	19	11	54180	But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities, 
05O	19	12	54190	then the elders of his city will send and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die. 
05O	19	13	54200	Your look will not show pity him, but you will purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may be well with you. 
05O	19	14	54210	You will not move your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess. 
05O	19	15	54220	A single witness will not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses will a sentence be established. 
05O	19	16	54230	If a false witness arises to accuse a person of a wrongdoing, 
05O	19	17	54240	then both parties to the dispute will appear before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days. 
05O	19	18	54250	The judges will investigate sincerely, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely, 
05O	19	19	54260	then you will do to him as he had desired to do to his brother. That you will purge the evil from your midst. 
05O	19	20	54270	And the rest will hear and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you. 
05O	19	21	54280	Your will not look on them with compassion. It will be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. 
05O	20	1	54290	When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you will not be frightened of them, for the LORD your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 
05O	20	2	54300	And when you draw near to the battle, the priest will come forward and speak to the people 
05O	20	3	54310	and will say to them, 'Hear, O Israel, today you are drawing near to battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint. Do not fear or panic or be terrified of them, 
05O	20	4	54320	for the LORD your God is He who goes with you to battle for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.' 
05O	20	5	54330	Then the officers will speak to the people, saying, 'Is there any man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go back to his house, otherwise he die in the battle and another man dedicate it. 
05O	20	6	54340	And is there any man who has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go back to his house, otherwise he die in the battle and another man enjoy its fruit. 
05O	20	7	54350	And is there any man who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go back to his house, otherwise he die in the battle and another man take her.' 
05O	20	8	54360	And the officers will speak further to the people, and say, 'Is there any man who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go back to his house, lest he make the heart of his fellows melt like his own.' 
05O	20	9	54370	And when the officers have finished speaking to the people, then commanders will be appointed at the head of the people. 
05O	20	10	54380	When you draw near to a city to battle against it, offer terms of peace to it. 
05O	20	11	54390	And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it will do forced labor for you and will serve you. 
05O	20	12	54400	But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you will besiege it. 
05O	20	13	54410	And when the LORD your God gives it into your hand, you will put all its males to the sword, 
05O	20	14	54420	but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you will take as plunder for yourselves. And you will enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you. 
05O	20	15	54430	This you will do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here. 
05O	20	16	54440	But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, you will save alive nothing that breathes, 
05O	20	17	54450	but you will totally destroy them, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the LORD your God has commanded, 
05O	20	18	54460	that they may not teach you to do according to all their detestable practices that they have done for their gods, and that you sin against the LORD your God. 
05O	20	19	54470	When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you will not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. You may eat from them, but you will not cut them down. Are the trees in the field human, that they would be besieged by you? 
05O	20	20	54480	Only the trees that you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, that you may build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls. 
05O	21	1	54490	If in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess someone is found slain, lying in the open country, and it is not known who killed him, 
05O	21	2	54500	then your elders and your judges will come out, and they will measure the distance to the surrounding cities. 
05O	21	3	54510	And the elders of the city that is nearest to the slain man will take a heifer that has never been worked and that has not pulled in a yoke. 
05O	21	4	54520	And the elders of that city will bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and will break the heifer's neck there in the valley. 
05O	21	5	54530	Then the priests, the sons of Levi, will come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister to Him and to bless in the name of the LORD, and by their word every dispute and every assault will be settled. 
05O	21	6	54540	And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man will wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley, 
05O	21	7	54550	and they will testify, 'Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it shed. 
05O	21	8	54560	Accept atonement, O LORD, for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and do not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel, so that their blood guilt be atoned for.' 
05O	21	9	54570	That you will purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD. 
05O	21	10	54580	When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive, 
05O	21	11	54590	and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife, 
05O	21	12	54600	and you bring her home to your house, she will shave her head and pare her nails. 
05O	21	13	54610	And she will take off the clothes in which she was captured and will remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she will be your wife. 
05O	21	14	54620	But if you have no desire for her, you will let her go where she wants. But you will not sell her for money, nor will you treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her. 
05O	21	15	54630	If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved, 
05O	21	16	54640	then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn, 
05O	21	17	54650	but he will acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his. 
05O	21	18	54660	If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, 
05O	21	19	54670	then his father and his mother will take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, 
05O	21	20	54680	and they will say to the elders of his city, 'This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.' 
05O	21	21	54690	Then all the men of the city will stone him to death with stones. That you will purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear, and fear. 
05O	21	22	54700	And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, 
05O	21	23	54710	his body will not remain all night on the tree, but you will bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You will not defile your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance. 
05O	22	1	54720	You will not see your brother's ox or his sheep going astray and ignore them. You will take them back to your brother. 
05O	22	2	54730	And if he does not live near you and you do not know who he is, you will bring it home to your house, and it will stay with you until your brother seeks it. Then you will return it to him. 
05O	22	3	54740	And you will do the same with his donkey or with his garment, or with anything lost of your brother's, which he loses and you find; you will not ignore it. 
05O	22	4	54750	You will not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way and ignore them. You will help him to lift them up again. 
05O	22	5	54760	A woman will not wear a man's garment, nor will a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God. 
05O	22	6	54770	If you come across a bird's nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you will not take the mother with the young. 
05O	22	7	54780	You will let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long. 
05O	22	8	54790	When you build a new house, you will make a guard rail for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if anyone should fall from it. 
05O	22	9	54800	You will not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, otherwise the whole yield be forfeited, the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard. 
05O	22	10	54810	You will not plow with an ox and a donkey together. 
05O	22	11	54820	You will not wear cloth of wool and linen mixed together. 
05O	22	12	54830	You will make yourself tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself. 
05O	22	13	54840	If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then hates her 
05O	22	14	54850	and accuses her of misconduct and brings a bad name upon her, saying, 'I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her evidence of virginity,' 
05O	22	15	54860	then the father of the young woman and her mother will take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate. 
05O	22	16	54870	And the father of the young woman will say to the elders, 'I gave my daughter to this man to marry, and he hates her; 
05O	22	17	54880	and behold, he has accused her of misconduct, saying, "I did not find in your daughter evidence of virginity." And yet this is the evidence of my daughter's virginity.' And they will spread the cloak before the elders of the city. 
05O	22	18	54890	Then the elders of that city will take the man and punish him, 
05O	22	19	54900	and they will fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a wrong name upon a virgin of Israel. And she will be his wife. He may not divorce her all his days. 
05O	22	20	54910	But if it is true, that evidence of virginity was not found in the young woman, 
05O	22	21	54920	then they will bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city will stone her to death with stones, because she has done a vile thing in Israel by whoring in her father's house. That you will purge the evil from your midst. 
05O	22	22	54930	If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them will die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. That you will purge the evil from Israel. 
05O	22	23	54940	If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her, 
05O	22	24	54950	then you will bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you will stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife. That you will purge the evil from your midst. 
05O	22	25	54960	But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her will die. 
05O	22	26	54970	But you will do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no offense punishable by death. For this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor, 
05O	22	27	54980	because he met her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her. 
05O	22	28	54990	If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, 
05O	22	29	55000	then the man who lay with her will give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she will be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days. 
05O	22	30	55010	A man will not take his father's wife, so that he does not uncover his father's nakedness. 
05O	23	1	55020	No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off will enter the assembly of the LORD. 
05O	23	2	55030	No one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD. 
05O	23	3	55040	No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the LORD forever, 
05O	23	4	55050	because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. 
05O	23	5	55060	But the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam; instead the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loved you. 
05O	23	6	55070	You will not seek their peace or their prosperity all your time, forever. 
05O	23	7	55080	You will not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. You will not despise an Egyptian, because you were a sojourner in his land. 
05O	23	8	55090	Children born to them in the third generation may enter the assembly of the LORD. 
05O	23	9	55100	When you are encamped against your enemies, then you will keep yourself from every evil thing. 
05O	23	10	55110	If any man among you becomes unclean because of an accident at night,  then he will go outside the camp. He will not come inside the camp, 
05O	23	11	55120	but when evening comes, he will bathe himself in water, and as the sun sets, he may come inside the camp. 
05O	23	12	55130	You will have a place outside the camp, and you will go out to it. 
05O	23	13	55140	And you will have a tool with your staff, and when you sit down outside, you will dig a hole with it and turn back and cover up your excrement. 
05O	23	14	55150	Because the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that He may not see anything disgraceful among you and turn away from you. 
05O	23	15	55160	You will not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you. 
05O	23	16	55170	He will dwell with you, in your midst, in the place that he will choose within one of your towns, wherever it suits him. You will not wrong him. 
05O	23	17	55180	None of the daughters of Israel will be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel will be a cult prostitute. 
05O	23	18	55190	You will not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the LORD your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are detestable to the LORD your God. 
05O	23	19	55200	You will not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest. 
05O	23	20	55210	You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 
05O	23	21	55220	If you make a vow to the LORD your God, you will not delay paying it, for the LORD your God will  certainly require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin. 
05O	23	22	55230	But if you do not make vows, you will not be guilty of sin. 
05O	23	23	55240	You will be careful to do what you have spoken, for you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth. 
05O	23	24	55250	If you go into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you wish, but you will not put any in your bag. 
05O	23	25	55260	If you go into your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you will not put a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain. 
05O	24	1	55270	When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, 
05O	24	2	55280	and if she goes and becomes another man's wife, 
05O	24	3	55290	and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, 
05O	24	4	55300	then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is detestable before the LORD. And you will not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance. 
05O	24	5	55310	When a man is newly married, he will not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He will be free at home one year to be happy with his wife that he has taken. 
05O	24	6	55320	No one will take in pledge the lower or the upper millstone, for that would be taking a life in pledge. 
05O	24	7	55330	If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the sons of Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief will die. That you will purge the evil from your midst. 
05O	24	8	55340	Take care, in a case of leprous disease, to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priests will direct you. As I commanded them, so you will be very careful to do. 
05O	24	9	55350	Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the way as you came out of Egypt. 
05O	24	10	55360	When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you will not go into his house to collect his pledge. 
05O	24	11	55370	You will stand outside, and the man to whom you make the loan will bring the pledge out to you. 
05O	24	12	55380	And if he is a poor man, you will not sleep with his pledge. 
05O	24	13	55390	You will restore to him the pledge as the sun sets, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you. And it will be right for you before the LORD your God. 
05O	24	14	55400	You will not defraud a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns. 
05O	24	15	55410	You will give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets, for he is poor and counts on it, otherwise he cry against you to the LORD, and you be guilty of sin. 
05O	24	16	55420	Fathers will not be put to death because of their children, nor will children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one will be put to death for his own sin. 
05O	24	17	55430	You will not pervert justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge, 
05O	24	18	55440	but you will remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you from there; this I command you to do. 
05O	24	19	55450	When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you will not go back to get it. It will be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 
05O	24	20	55460	When you beat your olive trees, you will not go over them again. It will be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. 
05O	24	21	55470	When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you will not strip it afterward. It will be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. 
05O	24	22	55480	You will remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; this I command you to do. 
05O	25	1	55490	If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty, 
05O	25	2	55500	then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge will cause him to lie down and be beaten before him with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense. 
05O	25	3	55510	Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, otherwise, if one would go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother would be degraded in your sight. 
05O	25	4	55520	You will not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain. 
05O	25	5	55530	If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man will not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband's brother will go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of the husband's brother to her. 
05O	25	6	55540	And the first son whom she bears will succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel. 
05O	25	7	55550	And if the man does not desire to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife will go up to the gate to the elders and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to continue his brother's name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of the husband's brother to me.' 
05O	25	8	55560	Then the elders of his city will call him and speak to him, and if he persists, saying, 'I do not want to take her,' 
05O	25	9	55570	then his brother's wife will go up to him in the presence of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face. And she will answer and say, 'So will it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.' 
05O	25	10	55580	And the name of his house will be called out in Israel, 'The house of him who had his sandal pulled off.' 
05O	25	11	55590	When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, 
05O	25	12	55600	then you will cut off her hand. Your will not look on her with compassion. 
05O	25	13	55610	You will not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small. 
05O	25	14	55620	You will not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small. 
05O	25	15	55630	A full and fair weight you will have, a full and fair measure you will have, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. 
05O	25	16	55640	For all who do such things, all who act dishonestly, are detestable to the LORD your God. 
05O	25	17	55650	Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt, 
05O	25	18	55660	how he attacked you on the way when you were tired and weary, and cut off those trailing, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God. 
05O	25	19	55670	Therefore when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you will blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you will not forget. 
05O	26	1	55680	When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and dwell there, 
05O	26	2	55690	you will take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you will put it in a basket, and you will go to the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make His name to dwell there. 
05O	26	3	55700	And you will go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, 'I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come into the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.' 
05O	26	4	55710	Then the priest will take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God. 
05O	26	5	55720	And you will make shout before the LORD your God, 'A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and abundant. 
05O	26	6	55730	And the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and forced on us hard labor. 
05O	26	7	55740	Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our misery, our toil, and our distress. 
05O	26	8	55750	And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with mighty fearful deeds, with signs and wonders. 
05O	26	9	55760	And He brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. 
05O	26	10	55770	And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O LORD, have given me.' And you will set it down before the LORD your God and worship before the LORD your God. 
05O	26	11	55780	And you will rejoice in all the good that the LORD your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you. 
05O	26	12	55790	When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year, which is the year of tithing, giving it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your towns and be filled, 
05O	26	13	55800	then you will say before the LORD your God, 'I have removed the sacred portion out of my house, and moreover, I have given it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all your commandment that you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your laws, nor have I forgotten them. 
05O	26	14	55810	I have not eaten of the tithe while I was mourning, or removed any of it while I was unclean, or offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the LORD my God. I have done according to all that You have commanded me. 
05O	26	15	55820	Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the ground that you have given us, as you promised to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.' 
05O	26	16	55830	This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You will therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul. 
05O	26	17	55840	You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey His voice. 
05O	26	18	55850	And the LORD has declared today that you are a people for His special possession, as He has promised you, and that you are to keep all His commandments, 
05O	26	19	55860	and that He will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that He has made, and that you will be a people holy to the LORD your God, as He promised." 
05O	27	1	55870	Now Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, "Keep the whole commandment that I command you today. 
05O	27	2	55880	And on the day you cross over the Jordan to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you will set up large stones and plaster them with plaster. 
05O	27	3	55890	And you will write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you. 
05O	27	4	55900	And when you have crossed over the Jordan, you will set up these stones, concerning which I command you today, on Mount Ebal, and you will plaster them with plaster. 
05O	27	5	55910	And there you will build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You will use no iron tool on them; 
05O	27	6	55920	you will build an altar to the LORD your God of uncut stones. And you will offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God, 
05O	27	7	55930	and you will sacrifice peace offerings and will eat there, and you will rejoice before the LORD your God. 
05O	27	8	55940	And you will write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly." 
05O	27	9	55950	Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, "Keep silence and hear, O Israel: this day you have become the people of the LORD your God. 
05O	27	10	55960	You will therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today." 
05O	27	11	55970	That day Moses charged the people, saying, 
05O	27	12	55980	"When you have crossed over the Jordan, these will stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin. 
05O	27	13	55990	And these will stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. 
05O	27	14	56000	And the Levites will declare to all the men of Israel in a loud voice: 
05O	27	15	56010	'Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, detestable to the LORD, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' And all the people will answer and say, 'Amen.' 
05O	27	16	56020	'Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.' 
05O	27	17	56030	'Cursed be anyone who moves his neighbor's landmark.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.' 
05O	27	18	56040	'Cursed be anyone who misleads a blind man on the road.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.' 
05O	27	19	56050	'Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.' 
05O	27	20	56060	'Cursed be anyone who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's nakedness.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.' 
05O	27	21	56070	'Cursed be anyone who lies with any kind of animal.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.' 
05O	27	22	56080	'Cursed be anyone who lies with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.' 
05O	27	23	56090	'Cursed be anyone who lies with his mother-in-law.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.' 
05O	27	24	56100	'Cursed be anyone who strikes down his neighbor in secret.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.' 
05O	27	25	56110	'Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.' "
05O	27	26	56120	'Cursed be anyone who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.' And all the people will say, 'Amen.' 
05O	28	1	56130	And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. 
05O	28	2	56140	And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God. 
05O	28	3	56150	Blessed will you be in the city, and blessed will you be in the field. 
05O	28	4	56160	Blessed will be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. 
05O	28	5	56170	Blessed will be your basket and your kneading bowl. 
05O	28	6	56180	Blessed will you be when you come in, and blessed will you be when you go out. 
05O	28	7	56190	The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They will come out against you one way and vanish before you seven ways. 
05O	28	8	56200	The LORD will command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you do. And He will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. 
05O	28	9	56210	The LORD will establish you as a people holy to Himself, as He has promised to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways. 
05O	28	10	56220	And all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will be afraid of you. 
05O	28	11	56230	And the LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, within the land that the LORD promised to your fathers to give you. 
05O	28	12	56240	The LORD will open to you His good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. 
05O	28	13	56250	And the LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you will only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them, 
05O	28	14	56260	and if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. 
05O	28	15	56270	But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all His commandments and His statutes that I command you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overtake you. 
05O	28	16	56280	Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the field. 
05O	28	17	56290	Cursed will be your basket and your kneading bowl. 
05O	28	18	56300	Cursed will be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the that which comes from your herds and the young of your flock. 
05O	28	19	56310	Cursed will you be when you come in, and cursed will you be when you go out. 
05O	28	20	56320	The LORD will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me. 
05O	28	21	56330	The LORD will make the pestilence join to you until He has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 
05O	28	22	56340	The LORD will strike you with infectious disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought and with blight and with mildew. They will pursue you until you perish. 
05O	28	23	56350	And the heavens over your head will be bronze, and the earth under you will be iron. 
05O	28	24	56360	The LORD will make the rain of your land be dust and ashes. It will come down on you from the heavens until you are destroyed. 
05O	28	25	56370	The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will go out one way against them and vanish seven ways before them. And you will be a trouble before all the kingdoms of the earth. 
05O	28	26	56380	And your dead body will be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away. 
05O	28	27	56390	The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed. 
05O	28	28	56400	The LORD will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind, 
05O	28	29	56410	and you will grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways. And you will be defrauded and robbed continually, and there will be no one to help you. 
05O	28	30	56420	You will betroth a wife, but another man will ravish her. You will build a house, but you will not dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not enjoy its fruit. 
05O	28	31	56430	Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be seized before your face, but will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, but there will be no one to help you. 
05O	28	32	56440	Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and not find them all day long, but you will be helpless. 
05O	28	33	56450	A nation that you have not known will eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you will be defrauded and broken continually, 
05O	28	34	56460	so that you are driven mad by the sights that your eyes see. 
05O	28	35	56470	The LORD will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head. 
05O	28	36	56480	The LORD will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you will serve other gods of wood and stone. 
05O	28	37	56490	And you will become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away. 
05O	28	38	56500	You will plant many seeds into the field and will harvest little, for the locust will devour it. 
05O	28	39	56510	You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm will eat them. 
05O	28	40	56520	You will have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off. 
05O	28	41	56530	You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity. 
05O	28	42	56540	The cricket will possess all your trees and the reward of your ground. 
05O	28	43	56550	The sojourner who is among you will rise higher and higher above you, and you will come down lower and lower. 
05O	28	44	56560	He will loan to you, and you will not loan to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail. 
05O	28	45	56570	All these curses will come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and his statutes that He commanded you. 
05O	28	46	56580	They will be a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. 
05O	28	47	56590	Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, 
05O	28	48	56600	therefore you will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. 
05O	28	49	56610	The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand, 
05O	28	50	56620	a fierce looking nation who will not respect the old or show mercy to the young. 
05O	28	51	56630	It will eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also will not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish. 
05O	28	52	56640	They will attack you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they will attack you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you. 
05O	28	53	56650	And you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the anguish with which your enemies will distress you. 
05O	28	54	56660	The man who is the most tender and refined among you will look wickedly at his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left, 
05O	28	55	56670	so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the anguish with which your enemy will distress you in all your towns. 
05O	28	56	56680	The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, look wickedly at the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter, 
05O	28	57	56690	her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the anguish with which your enemy will distress you in your towns. 
05O	28	58	56700	If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, the LORD your God, 
05O	28	59	56710	then the LORD will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary plagues, plagues severe and lasting, and long lasting calamity. 
05O	28	60	56720	And He will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they will adhere to you. 
05O	28	61	56730	Every sickness also and every plague that is not recorded in the book of this law, the LORD will bring upon you, until you are destroyed. 
05O	28	62	56740	Whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, you will be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God. 
05O	28	63	56750	And as the LORD took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the LORD will be glad in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you will be torn off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 
05O	28	64	56760	And the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. 
05O	28	65	56770	And among these nations you will find no respite, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul. 
05O	28	66	56780	Your life will hang in doubt before you. Night and day you will be in fear and have no assurance of your life. 
05O	28	67	56790	In the morning you will say, 'If only it were evening!' and at evening you will say, 'If only it were morning!' because of the fear that your heart will feel, and the sights that your eyes will see. 
05O	28	68	56800	And the LORD will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that you would never make again; and there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer." 
05O	29	1	56810	These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that he had made with them at Horeb. 
05O	29	2	56820	And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: "You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, 
05O	29	3	56830	the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders. 
05O	29	4	56840	But to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear. 
05O	29	5	56850	I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet. 
05O	29	6	56860	You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the LORD your God. 
05O	29	7	56870	And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, but we defeated them. 
05O	29	8	56880	We took their land and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites. 
05O	29	9	56890	Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do. 
05O	29	10	56900	You are standing today all of you before the LORD your God: the heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel, 
05O	29	11	56910	your children, your wives, and the sojourner who is in your camp, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water, 
05O	29	12	56920	so that you may enter into the sworn covenant of the LORD your God, which the LORD your God is making with you today, 
05O	29	13	56930	that he may establish you today as his people, and that He may be your God, as He promised you, and as He promised to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 
05O	29	14	56940	It is not with you alone that I am making this sworn covenant, 
05O	29	15	56950	but with whoever is standing here with us today before the LORD our God, and with whoever is not here with us today. 
05O	29	16	56960	You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed. 
05O	29	17	56970	And you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them. 
05O	29	18	56980	Beware otherwise there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware otherwise there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit, 
05O	29	19	56990	one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, praises himself in his heart, saying, 'I will have peace, as I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' , to add the drunken with the thirsty. 
05O	29	20	57000	The LORD will not be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the LORD and His jealousy will be angry against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven. 
05O	29	21	57010	And the LORD will separate him out from all the tribes of Israel for misery, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law. 
05O	29	22	57020	And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, will say, when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses with which the LORD has made it sick, 
05O	29	23	57030	the whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and wrath,
05O	29	24	57040	all the nations will say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What caused the burning of this great anger?' 
05O	29	25	57050	Then people will say, 'It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt, 
05O	29	26	57060	and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not given to them. 
05O	29	27	57070	Therefore the anger of the LORD was grieved by this land, bringing upon it all the curses written in this book, 
05O	29	28	57080	and the LORD uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as they are this day.' 
05O	29	29	57090	The hidden things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. 
05O	30	1	57100	And when all these things happen to you, the blessing and the curse, which I have given to you, and you recall them among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you, 
05O	30	2	57110	and return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, 
05O	30	3	57120	then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you, and He will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you. 
05O	30	4	57130	If you are cast out to the end of the heavens, the LORD your God will gather you from there, and He will take you from there. 
05O	30	5	57140	And the LORD your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, that you may possess it. And He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers. 
05O	30	6	57150	And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. 
05O	30	7	57160	And the LORD your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you. 
05O	30	8	57170	And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and keep all his commandments that I command you today. 
05O	30	9	57180	The LORD your God will make you greatly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the LORD will again take delight in prospering you, as He took delight in your fathers, 
05O	30	10	57190	when you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, when you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 
05O	30	11	57200	For this commandment that I command you today is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. 
05O	30	12	57210	It is not in heaven, that you should say, 'Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?' 
05O	30	13	57220	Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, 'Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?' 
05O	30	14	57230	But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it. 
05O	30	15	57240	See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. 
05O	30	16	57250	If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you will live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 
05O	30	17	57260	But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, 
05O	30	18	57270	I declare to you today, that you will certainly perish. You will not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. 
05O	30	19	57280	I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, 
05O	30	20	57290	loving the LORD your God, obeying His voice and follow close to Him, for He is your life and longevity, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD promised to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them." 
05O	31	1	57300	So Moses continued to speak these words to all Israel. 
05O	31	2	57310	And he said to them, "I am 120 years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. The LORD has said to me, 'You will not go over this Jordan.' 
05O	31	3	57320	The LORD your God Himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you will drive them out, and Joshua will go over before you, as the LORD has said. 
05O	31	4	57330	And the LORD will do to them as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when He destroyed them. 
05O	31	5	57340	And the LORD will give them over to you, and you will do to them according to the whole commandment that I have commanded you. 
05O	31	6	57350	Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be terrified of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you." 
05O	31	7	57360	Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him before all Israel, "Be strong and courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that the LORD has promised to their fathers to give them, and you will put them in possession of it. 
05O	31	8	57370	It is the LORD who goes before you. He will be with you; He will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be discouraged." 
05O	31	9	57380	Then Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel. 
05O	31	10	57390	And Moses commanded them, "At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at the Feast of Booths, 
05O	31	11	57400	when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose, you will read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 
05O	31	12	57410	Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law, 
05O	31	13	57420	and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess." 
05O	31	14	57430	And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, the days approach when you must die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may commission him." And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting. 
05O	31	15	57440	And the LORD appeared in the tent in a plume of clouds. And the plume of clouds stood over the entrance of the tent. 
05O	31	16	57450	And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rebel and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake Me and break my covenant that I have made with them. 
05O	31	17	57460	Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and look away from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, 'Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not with us?' 
05O	31	18	57470	And I will surely look away in that day because of all the evil that they have done, because they have turned to other gods. 
05O	31	19	57480	Now therefore write this song and teach it to the people of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for Me against the people of Israel. 
05O	31	20	57490	For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I promised to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant. 
05O	31	21	57500	And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song will confront them as a witness, for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring. For I know what they are inclined to do even today, before I have brought them into the land that I promised to give them." 
05O	31	22	57510	So Moses wrote this song the same day and taught it to the sons of Israel. 
05O	31	23	57520	And the LORD commissioned Joshua the son of Nun and said, "Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the sons of Israel into the land that I promised to give them. I will be with you." 
05O	31	24	57530	When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book to the very end, 
05O	31	25	57540	Moses commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, 
05O	31	26	57550	Take this Book of the Law and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against you. 
05O	31	27	57560	For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are. Behold, even today while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the LORD. How much more after my death! 
05O	31	28	57570	Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears and call heaven and earth to witness against them. 
05O	31	29	57580	For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you. And in the days to come evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger through the work of your hands." 
05O	31	30	57590	Then Moses spoke the words of this song until they were finished, in the ears of all the assembly of Israel: 
05O	32	1	57600	"Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak.  And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 
05O	32	2	57610	May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, like gentle rain upon the tender sprout, and like showers upon the herb. 
05O	32	3	57620	For I will proclaim the name of the LORD; ascribe greatness to our God! 
05O	32	4	57630	The Rock, His work is perfect, for all His ways are just.  A God of truth and without evil, just and upright is he. 
05O	32	5	57640	They are corrupted; they are blemished and not His sons; they are a crooked and twisted generation. 
05O	32	6	57650	Do you this way repay the LORD, O  foolish and unwise people? Is He not your father, who created you?  He made you and established you? 
05O	32	7	57660	Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you. 
05O	32	8	57670	When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when He separated the sons of Adam, He set up the bounds of the peoples, according to the number of the sons of Israel. 
05O	32	9	57680	But the LORD's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage. 
05O	32	10	57690	He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; He encircled him and cared for him, He kept him as the apple of His eye. 
05O	32	11	57700	Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, lifting them, bearing them on its wings, 
05O	32	12	57710	the LORD alone guided him, no foreign god was with him. 
05O	32	13	57720	He made him ride on the high places of the land, and he ate the produce of the field, and He suckled him with honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock. 
05O	32	14	57730	Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan and goats, with the very finest of the wheat,  and you drank the pure blood of the grape.
05O	32	15	57740	But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and despised the Rock of his salvation. 
05O	32	16	57750	They provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods; with idols they provoked Him to anger. 
05O	32	17	57760	They sacrificed to demons that were not God, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded. 
05O	32	18	57770	You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God that formed you. 
05O	32	19	57780	The LORD saw it and despised them, because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters. 
05O	32	20	57790	And he said, 'I will look away from them; I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, sons in whom there is no faithfulness. 
05O	32	21	57800	They have made me jealous with what is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 
05O	32	22	57810	For a fire is kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its produce, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains. 
05O	32	23	57820	'And I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows on them; 
05O	32	24	57830	they will be wasted with hunger, and devoured by fever and poisonous destruction; I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with the venom of things that crawl in the dust. 
05O	32	25	57840	The sword outside, and terror inside, for young man and virgin alike, the nursing child with the man of old age. 
05O	32	26	57850	I would have said, "I will cut them to pieces; I will wipe them from human memory," 
05O	32	27	57860	had I not feared provocation by the enemy, otherwise their adversaries should misunderstand, otherwise they should say, "Our hand is triumphant, it was not the LORD who did all this."' 
05O	32	28	57870	For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them. 
05O	32	29	57880	If they were wise, they would understand this; they would consider their later end! 
05O	32	30	57890	How could one have chased a thousand, and two have put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had surrendered them, and the LORD had delivered them up? 
05O	32	31	57900	For their rock is not as our Rock; even our enemies themselves being judges. 
05O	32	32	57910	For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are fruits of poison; their clusters are bitter; 
05O	32	33	57920	their wine is the poison of serpents and the cruel venom of asps. 
05O	32	34	57930	'Is this not laid up in store with me, sealed up among My treasuries? 
05O	32	35	57940	 Vengeance and retribution belong to Me; in due time their foot will slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the future comes swiftly.' 
05O	32	36	57950	For the LORD will bring justice to His people; and have compassion on His servants, when He sees that their power is gone, and only the imprisoned and abandoned remain. 
05O	32	37	57960	Then He will say, 'Where are their gods, the rock in which they trusted? 
05O	32	38	57970	Who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you; let them be your protection! 
05O	32	39	57980	'See now that I, even I, am He, and there is no god beside Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of My hand. 
05O	32	40	57990	For I lift up my hand to heaven and proclaim, I live forever!
05O	32	41	58000	If I sharpen My flashing sword and My hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on My enemies and will repay those who hate Me. 
05O	32	42	58010	I will make My arrows drunk with blood, and My sword will devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the hairy scalp of the enemy.' 
05O	32	43	58020	Rejoice, O nations, of His people; for He will avenge the blood of His servants, and will render vengeance to His foes, and will have mercy on His land and His people. " 
05O	32	44	58030	Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun. 
05O	32	45	58040	And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel, 
05O	32	46	58050	he said to them, "Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your sons, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law. 
05O	32	47	58060	For it is not empty words for you, but your very life, and by this word you will live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess." 
05O	32	48	58070	That very day the LORD spoke to Moses, 
05O	32	49	58080	"Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession. 
05O	32	50	58090	And die on the mountain which you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people, 
05O	32	51	58100	because you broke faith with Me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, and because you did not treat Me as holy before the sons of Israel. 
05O	32	52	58110	For you will see the land before you, but you will not go there, into the land that I am giving to the sons of Israel." 
05O	33	1	58120	This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death. 
05O	33	2	58130	He said, "The LORD came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; He shone forth from Mount Paran; He came from the myriads of holy ones. From His right went a fiery law for them. 
05O	33	3	58140	Yes, He loved His people, all His holy ones were in His hand; and they sit down at Your feet. Everyone will receive of Your words.
05O	33	4	58150	Moses commanded us a law, as a possession for the assembly of Jacob. 
05O	33	5	58160	And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered. 
05O	33	6	58170	"Let Reuben live, and not die, but let his men be few." 
05O	33	7	58180	And this he said of Judah: "Hear, O LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him in to his people. With your hands sufficient for him, and be a help against his adversaries." 
05O	33	8	58190	And of Levi he said, Let Your Thummim and Your Urim be with Your holy one whom You proved at Massah; You strove with him at the Waters of Strife, 
05O	33	9	58200	who said to his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; and he has not acknowledged his brothers, nor knew his own son, for they have observed Your Word and kept Your covenant. 
05O	33	10	58210	They will teach Jacob your rules and Israel your law; they will put incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar. 
05O	33	11	58220	Bless, O LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands; smite the loins of his adversaries, of those who hate him, that they rise not again." 
05O	33	12	58230	Of Benjamin he said, "The beloved of the LORD dwells in safety beside Him. The High God covers him all day long, and he dwells between His shoulders." 
05O	33	13	58240	And of Joseph he said, "Blessed by the LORD be his land, with the precious gifts of heaven above, and of the deep that crouches beneath, 
05O	33	14	58250	with the choicest fruits of the sun and the rich yield of the seasons, 
05O	33	15	58260	with the finest produce of the ancient mountains and the abundance of the everlasting hills, 
05O	33	16	58270	with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of Him who dwelt in the bush. May these rest on the head of Joseph, on the top of the head of him who was separate from his brothers. 
05O	33	17	58280	His glory is like the first-born of his bull, and his horns are the horns of a wild bull; with them he will push the people together, to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh." 
05O	33	18	58290	And of Zebulun he said, "Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and Issachar, in your tents. 
05O	33	19	58300	They will call the people to the mountain; there they offer right sacrifices; for they will draw from the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures in the sand." 
05O	33	20	58310	And of Gad he said, "Blessed be he who enlarges Gad! Gad crouches like a lion; he tears off arm and scalp. 
05O	33	21	58320	He chose the best of the land for himself, for there a lawgiver portion was reserved; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and His judgments for Israel." 
05O	33	22	58330	And of Dan he said, "Dan is a lion's cub that leaps from Bashan." 
05O	33	23	58340	And of Naphtali he said, "O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, and full of the blessing of the LORD, possess the lake and the south." 
05O	33	24	58350	And of Asher he said, "Asher will be blessed with sons, let him be pleasing to his brothers, and let him dip his foot in oil. 
05O	33	25	58360	Your bars will be iron and bronze, and as your days, so will your strength be. 
05O	33	26	58370	There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in His majesty. 
05O	33	27	58380	The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And He will drive out the enemy before you and will say, Destroy!
05O	33	28	58390	And Israel will dwell in safety alone; the fountain of Jacob in a land of grain and wine; and his heavens will drop down dew. 
05O	33	29	58400	Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, and the sword of your majesty! Your enemies will be found liars before you, and you will tread upon their high places." 
05O	34	1	58410	Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land, Gilead, to Dan, 
05O	34	2	58420	all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, 
05O	34	3	58430	the Negeb, and the plain of the Valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, to Zoar. 
05O	34	4	58440	And the LORD said to him, "This is the land of which I promised to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, I will give it to your offspring. I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not go over there." 
05O	34	5	58450	So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD, 
05O	34	6	58460	and he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor; but no one knows the place of his burial to this day. 
05O	34	7	58470	Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated. 
05O	34	8	58480	And the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended. 
05O	34	9	58490	And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the sons of Israel obeyed him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses. 
05O	34	10	58500	And never since has a prophet like Moses arisen in Israel, whom the LORD knew face to face, 
05O	34	11	58510	in all the signs and the wonders which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
05O	34	12	58520	and for all the mighty power and all the great and terrifying things that Moses did in the sight of all Israel. 
06O	1	1	58530	 After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant,   {start of ESV Translation}
06O	1	2	58540	 "Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel. 
06O	1	3	58550	 Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses. 
06O	1	4	58560	 From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory. 
06O	1	5	58570	 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you. 
06O	1	6	58580	 Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them. 
06O	1	7	58590	 Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. 
06O	1	8	58600	 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. 
06O	1	9	58610	 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go." 
06O	1	10	58620	 And Joshua commanded the officers of the people, 
06O	1	11	58630	 "Pass through the midst of the camp and command the people, 'Prepare your provisions, for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.'" 
06O	1	12	58640	 And to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh Joshua said, 
06O	1	13	58650	 "Remember the word that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, 'The LORD your God is providing you a place of rest and will give you this land.' 
06O	1	14	58660	 Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall remain in the land that Moses gave you beyond the Jordan, but all the men of valor among you shall pass over armed before your brothers and shall help them, 
06O	1	15	58670	 until the LORD gives rest to your brothers as he has to you, and they also take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and shall possess it, the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise." 
06O	1	16	58680	 And they answered Joshua, "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. 
06O	1	17	58690	 Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. Only may the LORD your God be with you, as he was with Moses! 
06O	1	18	58700	 Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous." 
06O	2	1	58710	 And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, especially Jericho." And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there. 
06O	2	2	58720	 And it was told to the king of Jericho, "Behold, men of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land." 
06O	2	3	58730	 Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, "Bring out the men who have come to you, who entered your house, for they have come to search out all the land." 
06O	2	4	58740	 But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. And she said, "True, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from. 
06O	2	5	58750	 And when the gate was about to be closed at dark, the men went out. I do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them." 
06O	2	6	58760	 But she had brought them up to the roof and hid them with the stalks of flax that she had laid in order on the roof. 
06O	2	7	58770	 So the men pursued after them on the way to the Jordan as far as the fords. And the gate was shut as soon as the pursuers had gone out. 
06O	2	8	58780	 Before the men lay down, she came up to them on the roof 
06O	2	9	58790	 and said to the men, "I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. 
06O	2	10	58800	 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction. 
06O	2	11	58810	 And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the LORD your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath. 
06O	2	12	58820	 Now then, please swear to me by the LORD that, as I have dealt kindly with you, you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a sure sign 
06O	2	13	58830	 that you will save alive my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death." 
06O	2	14	58840	 And the men said to her, "Our life for yours even to death! If you do not tell this business of ours, then when the LORD gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you." 
06O	2	15	58850	 Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall, so that she lived in the wall. 
06O	2	16	58860	 And she said to them, "Go into the hills, or the pursuers will encounter you, and hide there three days until the pursuers have returned. Then afterward you may go your way." 
06O	2	17	58870	 The men said to her, "We will be guiltless with respect to this oath of yours that you have made us swear. 
06O	2	18	58880	 Behold, when we come into the land, you shall tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father's household. 
06O	2	19	58890	 Then if anyone goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we shall be guiltless. But if a hand is laid on anyone who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head. 
06O	2	20	58900	 But if you tell this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless with respect to your oath that you have made us swear." 
06O	2	21	58910	 And she said, "According to your words, so be it." Then she sent them away, and they departed. And she tied the scarlet cord in the window. 
06O	2	22	58920	 They departed and went into the hills and remained there three days until the pursuers returned, and the pursuers searched all along the way and found nothing. 
06O	2	23	58930	 Then the two men returned. They came down from the hills and passed over and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and they told him all that had happened to them. 
06O	2	24	58940	 And they said to Joshua, "Truly the LORD has given all the land into our hands. And also, all the inhabitants of the land melt away because of us." 
06O	3	1	58950	 Then Joshua rose early in the morning and they set out from Shittim. And they came to the Jordan, he and all the people of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over. 
06O	3	2	58960	 At the end of three days the officers went through the camp 
06O	3	3	58970	 and commanded the people, "As soon as you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it. 
06O	3	4	58980	 Yet there shall be a distance between you and it, about 2,000 cubits in length. Do not come near it, in order that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before." 
06O	3	5	58990	 Then Joshua said to the people, "Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you." 
06O	3	6	59000	 And Joshua said to the priests, "Take up the ark of the covenant and pass on before the people." So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people. 
06O	3	7	59010	 The LORD said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. 
06O	3	8	59020	 And as for you, command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, 'When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.'" 
06O	3	9	59030	 And Joshua said to the people of Israel, "Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God." 
06O	3	10	59040	 And Joshua said, "Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites. 
06O	3	11	59050	 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is passing over before you into the Jordan. 
06O	3	12	59060	 Now therefore take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, from each tribe a man. 
06O	3	13	59070	 And when the soles of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off from flowing, and the waters coming down from above shall stand in one heap." 
06O	3	14	59080	 So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people, 
06O	3	15	59090	 and as soon as those bearing the ark had come as far as the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest), 
06O	3	16	59100	 the waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho. 
06O	3	17	59110	 Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan. 
06O	4	1	59120	 When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua, 
06O	4	2	59130	 "Take twelve men from the people, from each tribe a man, 
06O	4	3	59140	 and command them, saying, 'Take twelve stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests' feet stood firmly, and bring them over with you and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight.'" 
06O	4	4	59150	 Then Joshua called the twelve men from the people of Israel, whom he had appointed, a man from each tribe. 
06O	4	5	59160	 And Joshua said to them, "Pass on before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, 
06O	4	6	59170	 that this may be a sign among you. When your children ask in time to come, 'What do those stones mean to you?' 
06O	4	7	59180	 then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial forever." 
06O	4	8	59190	 And the people of Israel did just as Joshua commanded and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, just as the LORD told Joshua. And they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged and laid them down there. 
06O	4	9	59200	 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are there to this day. 
06O	4	10	59210	 For the priests bearing the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan until everything was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to tell the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people passed over in haste. 
06O	4	11	59220	 And when all the people had finished passing over, the ark of the LORD and the priests passed over before the people. 
06O	4	12	59230	 The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh passed over armed before the people of Israel, as Moses had told them. 
06O	4	13	59240	 About 40,000 ready for war passed over before the LORD for battle, to the plains of Jericho. 
06O	4	14	59250	 On that day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they stood in awe of him just as they had stood in awe of Moses, all the days of his life. 
06O	4	15	59260	 And the LORD said to Joshua, 
06O	4	16	59270	 "Command the priests bearing the ark of the testimony to come up out of the Jordan." 
06O	4	17	59280	 So Joshua commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan." 
06O	4	18	59290	 And when the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up on dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks, as before. 
06O	4	19	59300	 The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped at Gilgal on the east border of Jericho. 
06O	4	20	59310	 And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal. 
06O	4	21	59320	 And he said to the people of Israel, "When your children ask their fathers in times to come, 'What do these stones mean?' 
06O	4	22	59330	 then you shall let your children know, 'Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.' 
06O	4	23	59340	 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over, 
06O	4	24	59350	 so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, that you may fear the LORD your God forever." 
06O	5	1	59360	 As soon as all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and there was no longer any spirit in them because of the people of Israel. 
06O	5	2	59370	 At that time the LORD said to Joshua, "Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time." 
06O	5	3	59380	 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth. 
06O	5	4	59390	 And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way after they had come out of Egypt. 
06O	5	5	59400	 Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people who were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised. 
06O	5	6	59410	 For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey. 
06O	5	7	59420	 So it was their children, whom he raised up in their place, that Joshua circumcised. For they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way. 
06O	5	8	59430	 When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed. 
06O	5	9	59440	 And the LORD said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day. 
06O	5	10	59450	 While the people of Israel were encamped at Gilgal, they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho. 
06O	5	11	59460	 And the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain. 
06O	5	12	59470	 And the manna ceased the day after they ate of the produce of the land. And there was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. 
06O	5	13	59480	 When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?" 
06O	5	14	59490	 And he said, "No; but I am the commander of the army of the LORD. Now I have come." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, "What does my lord say to his servant?" 
06O	5	15	59500	 And the commander of the LORD's army said to Joshua, "Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy." And Joshua did so. 
06O	6	1	59510	 Now Jericho was shut up inside and outside because of the people of Israel. None went out, and none came in. 
06O	6	2	59520	 And the LORD said to Joshua, "See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and mighty men of valor. 
06O	6	3	59530	 You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once. Thus shall you do for six days. 
06O	6	4	59540	 Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. On the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. 
06O	6	5	59550	 And when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people shall shout with a great shout, and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people shall go up, everyone straight before him." 
06O	6	6	59560	 So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD." 
06O	6	7	59570	 And he said to the people, "Go forward. March around the city and let the armed men pass on before the ark of the LORD." 
06O	6	8	59580	 And just as Joshua had commanded the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the LORD went forward, blowing the trumpets, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD following them. 
06O	6	9	59590	 The armed men were walking before the priests who were blowing the trumpets, and the rear guard was walking after the ark, while the trumpets blew continually. 
06O	6	10	59600	 But Joshua commanded the people, "You shall not shout or make your voice heard, neither shall any word go out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout." 
06O	6	11	59610	 So he caused the ark of the LORD to circle the city, going about it once. And they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp. 
06O	6	12	59620	 Then Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD. 
06O	6	13	59630	 And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD walked on, and they blew the trumpets continually. And the armed men were walking before them, and the rear guard was walking after the ark of the LORD, while the trumpets blew continually. 
06O	6	14	59640	 And the second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did for six days. 
06O	6	15	59650	 On the seventh day they rose early, at the dawn of day, and marched around the city in the same manner seven times. It was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times. 
06O	6	16	59660	 And at the seventh time, when the priests had blown the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout, for the LORD has given you the city. 
06O	6	17	59670	 And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent. 
06O	6	18	59680	 But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction and bring trouble upon it. 
06O	6	19	59690	 But all silver and gold, and every vessel of bronze and iron, are holy to the LORD; they shall go into the treasury of the LORD." 
06O	6	20	59700	 So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city. 
06O	6	21	59710	 Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword. 
06O	6	22	59720	 But to the two men who had spied out the land, Joshua said, "Go into the prostitute's house and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her, as you swore to her." 
06O	6	23	59730	 So the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her. And they brought all her relatives and put them outside the camp of Israel. 
06O	6	24	59740	 And they burned the city with fire, and everything in it. Only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD. 
06O	6	25	59750	 But Rahab the prostitute and her father's household and all who belonged to her, Joshua saved alive. And she has lived in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. 
06O	6	26	59760	 Joshua laid an oath on them at that time, saying, "Cursed before the LORD be the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho. "At the cost of his firstborn shall he lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest son shall he set up its gates." 
06O	6	27	59770	 So the LORD was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the land. 
06O	7	1	59780	 But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things, for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. And the anger of the LORD burned against the people of Israel. 
06O	7	2	59790	 Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, "Go up and spy out the land." And the men went up and spied out Ai. 
06O	7	3	59800	 And they returned to Joshua and said to him, "Do not have all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are few." 
06O	7	4	59810	 So about 3,000 men went up there from the people. And they fled before the men of Ai, 
06O	7	5	59820	 and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six of their men and chased them before the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted and became as water. 
06O	7	6	59830	 Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads. 
06O	7	7	59840	 And Joshua said, "Alas, O Lord GOD, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan! 
06O	7	8	59850	 O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! 
06O	7	9	59860	 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?" 
06O	7	10	59870	 The LORD said to Joshua, "Get up! Why have you fallen on your face? 
06O	7	11	59880	 Israel has sinned; they have transgressed my covenant that I commanded them; they have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen and lied and put them among their own belongings. 
06O	7	12	59890	 Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you. 
06O	7	13	59900	 Get up! Consecrate the people and say, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says the LORD, God of Israel, "There are devoted things in your midst, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted things from among you." 
06O	7	14	59910	 In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. And the tribe that the LORD takes by lot shall come near by clans. And the clan that the LORD takes shall come near by households. And the household that the LORD takes shall come near man by man. 
06O	7	15	59920	 And he who is taken with the devoted things shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he has done an outrageous thing in Israel.'" 
06O	7	16	59930	 So Joshua rose early in the morning and brought Israel near tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was taken. 
06O	7	17	59940	 And he brought near the clans of Judah, and the clan of the Zerahites was taken. And he brought near the clan of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was taken. 
06O	7	18	59950	 And he brought near his household man by man, and Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken. 
06O	7	19	59960	 Then Joshua said to Achan, "My son, give glory to the LORD God of Israel and give praise to him. And tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me." 
06O	7	20	59970	 And Achan answered Joshua, "Truly I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and this is what I did: 
06O	7	21	59980	 when I saw among the spoil a beautiful cloak from Shinar, and 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels, then I coveted them and took them. And see, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath." 
06O	7	22	59990	 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and behold, it was hidden in his tent with the silver underneath. 
06O	7	23	60000	 And they took them out of the tent and brought them to Joshua and to all the people of Israel. And they laid them down before the LORD. 
06O	7	24	60010	 And Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver and the cloak and the bar of gold, and his sons and daughters and his oxen and donkeys and sheep and his tent and all that he had. And they brought them up to the Valley of Achor. 
06O	7	25	60020	 And Joshua said, "Why did you bring trouble on us? The LORD brings trouble on you today." And all Israel stoned him with stones. They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones. 
06O	7	26	60030	 And they raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Then the LORD turned from his burning anger. Therefore, to this day the name of that place is called the Valley of Achor. 
06O	8	1	60040	 And the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not fear and do not be dismayed. Take all the fighting men with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, his city, and his land. 
06O	8	2	60050	 And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its livestock you shall take as plunder for yourselves. Lay an ambush against the city, behind it." 
06O	8	3	60060	 So Joshua and all the fighting men arose to go up to Ai. And Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out by night. 
06O	8	4	60070	 And he commanded them, "Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you remain ready. 
06O	8	5	60080	 And I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out against us just as before, we shall flee before them. 
06O	8	6	60090	 And they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city. For they will say, 'They are fleeing from us, just as before.' So we will flee before them. 
06O	8	7	60100	 Then you shall rise up from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will give it into your hand. 
06O	8	8	60110	 And as soon as you have taken the city, you shall set the city on fire. You shall do according to the word of the LORD. See, I have commanded you." 
06O	8	9	60120	 So Joshua sent them out. And they went to the place of ambush and lay between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai, but Joshua spent that night among the people. 
06O	8	10	60130	 Joshua arose early in the morning and mustered the people and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. 
06O	8	11	60140	 And all the fighting men who were with him went up and drew near before the city and encamped on the north side of Ai, with a ravine between them and Ai. 
06O	8	12	60150	 He took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city. 
06O	8	13	60160	 So they stationed the forces, the main encampment that was north of the city and its rear guard west of the city. But Joshua spent that night in the valley. 
06O	8	14	60170	 And as soon as the king of Ai saw this, he and all his people, the men of the city, hurried and went out early to the appointed place toward the Arabah to meet Israel in battle. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city. 
06O	8	15	60180	 And Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten before them and fled in the direction of the wilderness. 
06O	8	16	60190	 So all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and as they pursued Joshua they were drawn away from the city. 
06O	8	17	60200	 Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. They left the city open and pursued Israel. 
06O	8	18	60210	 Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand." And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city. 
06O	8	19	60220	 And the men in the ambush rose quickly out of their place, and as soon as he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it. And they hurried to set the city on fire. 
06O	8	20	60230	 So when the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that, for the people who fled to the wilderness turned back against the pursuers. 
06O	8	21	60240	 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had captured the city, and that the smoke of the city went up, then they turned back and struck down the men of Ai. 
06O	8	22	60250	 And the others came out from the city against them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. And Israel struck them down, until there was left none that survived or escaped. 
06O	8	23	60260	 But the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him near to Joshua. 
06O	8	24	60270	 When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the edge of the sword. 
06O	8	25	60280	 And all who fell that day, both men and women, were 12,000, all the people of Ai. 
06O	8	26	60290	 But Joshua did not draw back his hand with which he stretched out the javelin until he had devoted all the inhabitants of Ai to destruction. 
06O	8	27	60300	 Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as their plunder, according to the word of the LORD that he commanded Joshua. 
06O	8	28	60310	 So Joshua burned Ai and made it forever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day. 
06O	8	29	60320	 And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. And at sunset Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day. 
06O	8	30	60330	 At that time Joshua built an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal, 
06O	8	31	60340	 just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the people of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, "an altar of uncut stones, upon which no man has wielded an iron tool." And they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings. 
06O	8	32	60350	 And there, in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written. 
06O	8	33	60360	 And all Israel, sojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel. 
06O	8	34	60370	 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law. 
06O	8	35	60380	 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who lived among them. 
06O	9	1	60390	 As soon as all the kings who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, heard of this, 
06O	9	2	60400	 they gathered together as one to fight against Joshua and Israel. 
06O	9	3	60410	 But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai, 
06O	9	4	60420	 they on their part acted with cunning and went and made ready provisions and took worn-out sacks for their donkeys, and wineskins, worn-out and torn and mended, 
06O	9	5	60430	 with worn-out, patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out clothes. And all their provisions were dry and crumbly. 
06O	9	6	60440	 And they went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, "We have come from a distant country, so now make a covenant with us." 
06O	9	7	60450	 But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, "Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a covenant with you?" 
06O	9	8	60460	 They said to Joshua, "We are your servants." And Joshua said to them, "Who are you? And where do you come from?" 
06O	9	9	60470	 They said to him, "From a very distant country your servants have come, because of the name of the LORD your God. For we have heard a report of him, and all that he did in Egypt, 
06O	9	10	60480	 and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon the king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth. 
06O	9	11	60490	 So our elders and all the inhabitants of our country said to us, 'Take provisions in your hand for the journey and go to meet them and say to them, "We are your servants. Come now, make a covenant with us."' 
06O	9	12	60500	 Here is our bread. It was still warm when we took it from our houses as our food for the journey on the day we set out to come to you, but now, behold, it is dry and crumbly. 
06O	9	13	60510	 These wineskins were new when we filled them, and behold, they have burst. And these garments and sandals of ours are worn out from the very long journey." 
06O	9	14	60520	 So the men took some of their provisions, but did not ask counsel from the LORD. 
06O	9	15	60530	 And Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore to them. 
06O	9	16	60540	 At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors and that they lived among them. 
06O	9	17	60550	 And the people of Israel set out and reached their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim. 
06O	9	18	60560	 But the people of Israel did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. Then all the congregation murmured against the leaders. 
06O	9	19	60570	 But all the leaders said to all the congregation, "We have sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we may not touch them. 
06O	9	20	60580	 This we will do to them: let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath that we swore to them." 
06O	9	21	60590	 And the leaders said to them, "Let them live." So they became cutters of wood and drawers of water for all the congregation, just as the leaders had said of them. 
06O	9	22	60600	 Joshua summoned them, and he said to them, "Why did you deceive us, saying, 'We are very far from you,' when you dwell among us? 
06O	9	23	60610	 Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall never be anything but servants, cutters of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God." 
06O	9	24	60620	 They answered Joshua, "Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the LORD your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you--so we feared greatly for our lives because of you and did this thing. 
06O	9	25	60630	 And now, behold, we are in your hand. Whatever seems good and right in your sight to do to us, do it." 
06O	9	26	60640	 So he did this to them and delivered them out of the hand of the people of Israel, and they did not kill them. 
06O	9	27	60650	 But Joshua made them that day cutters of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the LORD, to this day, in the place that he should choose. 
06O	10	1	60660	 As soon as Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, heard how Joshua had captured Ai and had devoted it to destruction, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them, 
06O	10	2	60670	 he feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were warriors. 
06O	10	3	60680	 So Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying, 
06O	10	4	60690	 "Come up to me and help me, and let us strike Gibeon. For it has made peace with Joshua and with the people of Israel." 
06O	10	5	60700	 Then the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered their forces and went up with all their armies and encamped against Gibeon and made war against it. 
06O	10	6	60710	 And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, saying, "Do not relax your hand from your servants. Come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the hill country are gathered against us." 
06O	10	7	60720	 So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor. 
06O	10	8	60730	 And the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not fear them, for I have given them into your hands. Not a man of them shall stand before you." 
06O	10	9	60740	 So Joshua came upon them suddenly, having marched up all night from Gilgal. 
06O	10	10	60750	 And the LORD threw them into a panic before Israel, who struck them with a great blow at Gibeon and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah. 
06O	10	11	60760	 And as they fled before Israel, while they were going down the ascent of Beth-horon, the LORD threw down large stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died because of the hailstones than the sons of Israel killed with the sword. 
06O	10	12	60770	 At that time Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD gave the Amorites over to the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, be at rest over Gibeon, and moon, be at rest over the Valley of Aijalon." {not ESV trans.}
06O	10	13	60780	 And the sun was at rest (over Gibeon), and the moon in place (over the valley of Aijalon), until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun was in place in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a full time. {not ESV trans.}
06O	10	14	60790	 There has been no day like it before or since, when the LORD heeded the voice of a man, for the LORD fought for Israel. 
06O	10	15	60800	 So Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal. 
06O	10	16	60810	 These five kings fled and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah. 
06O	10	17	60820	 And it was told to Joshua, "The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah." 
06O	10	18	60830	 And Joshua said, "Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave and set men by it to guard them, 
06O	10	19	60840	 but do not stay there yourselves. Pursue your enemies; attack their rear guard. Do not let them enter their cities, for the LORD your God has given them into your hand." 
06O	10	20	60850	 When Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them with a great blow until they were wiped out, and when the remnant that remained of them had entered into the fortified cities, 
06O	10	21	60860	 then all the people returned safe to Joshua in the camp at Makkedah. Not a man moved his tongue against any of the people of Israel. 
06O	10	22	60870	 Then Joshua said, "Open the mouth of the cave and bring those five kings out to me from the cave." 
06O	10	23	60880	 And they did so, and brought those five kings out to him from the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon. 
06O	10	24	60890	 And when they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua summoned all the men of Israel and said to the chiefs of the men of war who had gone with him, "Come near; put your feet on the necks of these kings." Then they came near and put their feet on their necks. 
06O	10	25	60900	 And Joshua said to them, "Do not be afraid or dismayed; be strong and courageous. For thus the LORD will do to all your enemies against whom you fight." 
06O	10	26	60910	 And afterward Joshua struck them and put them to death, and he hanged them on five trees. And they hung on the trees until evening. 
06O	10	27	60920	 But at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they set large stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day. 
06O	10	28	60930	 As for Makkedah, Joshua captured it on that day and struck it, and its king, with the edge of the sword. He devoted to destruction every person in it; he left none remaining. And he did to the king of Makkedah just as he had done to the king of Jericho. 
06O	10	29	60940	 Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against Libnah. 
06O	10	30	60950	 And the LORD gave it also and its king into the hand of Israel. And he struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it; he left none remaining in it. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho. 
06O	10	31	60960	 Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Libnah to Lachish and laid siege to it and fought against it. 
06O	10	32	60970	 And the LORD gave Lachish into the hand of Israel, and he captured it on the second day and struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it, as he had done to Libnah. 
06O	10	33	60980	 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish. And Joshua struck him and his people, until he left none remaining. 
06O	10	34	60990	 Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Lachish to Eglon. And they laid siege to it and fought against it. 
06O	10	35	61000	 And they captured it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. And he devoted every person in it to destruction that day, as he had done to Lachish. 
06O	10	36	61010	 Then Joshua and all Israel with him went up from Eglon to Hebron. And they fought against it 
06O	10	37	61020	 and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword, and its king and its towns, and every person in it. He left none remaining, as he had done to Eglon, and devoted it to destruction and every person in it. 
06O	10	38	61030	 Then Joshua and all Israel with him turned back to Debir and fought against it 
06O	10	39	61040	 and he captured it with its king and all its towns. And they struck them with the edge of the sword and devoted to destruction every person in it; he left none remaining. Just as he had done to Hebron and to Libnah and its king, so he did to Debir and to its king. 
06O	10	40	61050	 So Joshua struck the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but devoted to destruction all that breathed, just as the LORD God of Israel commanded. 
06O	10	41	61060	 And Joshua struck them from Kadesh-barnea as far as Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, as far as Gibeon. 
06O	10	42	61070	 And Joshua captured all these kings and their land at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel. 
06O	10	43	61080	 Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal. 
06O	11	1	61090	 When Jabin, king of Hazor, heard of this, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph, 
06O	11	2	61100	 and to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in Naphoth-dor on the west, 
06O	11	3	61110	 to the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah. 
06O	11	4	61120	 And they came out with all their troops, a great horde, in number like the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots. 
06O	11	5	61130	 And all these kings joined their forces and came and encamped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel. 
06O	11	6	61140	 And the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time I will give over all of them, slain, to Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire." 
06O	11	7	61150	 So Joshua and all his warriors came suddenly against them by the waters of Merom and fell upon them. 
06O	11	8	61160	 And the LORD gave them into the hand of Israel, who struck them and chased them as far as Great Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. And they struck them until he left none remaining. 
06O	11	9	61170	 And Joshua did to them just as the LORD said to him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire. 
06O	11	10	61180	 And Joshua turned back at that time and captured Hazor and struck its king with the sword, for Hazor formerly was the head of all those kingdoms. 
06O	11	11	61190	 And they struck with the sword all who were in it, devoting them to destruction; there was none left that breathed. And he burned Hazor with fire. 
06O	11	12	61200	 And all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua captured, and struck them with the edge of the sword, devoting them to destruction, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded. 
06O	11	13	61210	 But none of the cities that stood on mounds did Israel burn, except Hazor alone; that Joshua burned. 
06O	11	14	61220	 And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock, the people of Israel took for their plunder. But every man they struck with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave any who breathed. 
06O	11	15	61230	 Just as the LORD had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that the LORD had commanded Moses. 
06O	11	16	61240	 So Joshua took all that land, the hill country and all the Negeb and all the land of Goshen and the lowland and the Arabah and the hill country of Israel and its lowland 
06O	11	17	61250	 from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. And he captured all their kings and struck them and put them to death. 
06O	11	18	61260	 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings. 
06O	11	19	61270	 There was not a city that made peace with the people of Israel except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took them all in battle. 
06O	11	20	61280	 For it was the LORD's doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no mercy but be destroyed, just as the LORD commanded Moses. 
06O	11	21	61290	 And Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction with their cities. 
06O	11	22	61300	 There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain. 
06O	11	23	61310	 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war. 
06O	12	1	61320	 Now these are the kings of the land whom the people of Israel defeated and took possession of their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, with all the Arabah eastward: 
06O	12	2	61330	 Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the middle of the valley as far as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead, 
06O	12	3	61340	 and the Arabah to the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jeshimoth, to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, southward to the foot of the slopes of Pisgah; 
06O	12	4	61350	 and Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei 
06O	12	5	61360	 and ruled over Mount Hermon and Salecah and all Bashan to the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and over half of Gilead to the boundary of Sihon king of Heshbon. 
06O	12	6	61370	 Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the people of Israel defeated them. And Moses the servant of the LORD gave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh. 
06O	12	7	61380	 And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotments, 
06O	12	8	61390	 in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites): 
06O	12	9	61400	 the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one; 
06O	12	10	61410	 the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one; 
06O	12	11	61420	 the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one; 
06O	12	12	61430	 the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; 
06O	12	13	61440	 the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; 
06O	12	14	61450	 the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; 
06O	12	15	61460	 the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one; 
06O	12	16	61470	 the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one; 
06O	12	17	61480	 the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one; 
06O	12	18	61490	 the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one; 
06O	12	19	61500	 the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; 
06O	12	20	61510	 the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one; 
06O	12	21	61520	 the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one; 
06O	12	22	61530	 the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one; 
06O	12	23	61540	 the king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Galilee, one; 
06O	12	24	61550	 the king of Tirzah, one: in all, thirty-one kings. 
06O	13	1	61560	 Now Joshua was old and advanced in years, and the LORD said to him, "You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to possess. 
06O	13	2	61570	 This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites 
06O	13	3	61580	 (from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of the Avvim, 
06O	13	4	61590	 in the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of the Amorites, 
06O	13	5	61600	 and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath, 
06O	13	6	61610	 all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians. I myself will drive them out from before the people of Israel. Only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you. 
06O	13	7	61620	 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh." 
06O	13	8	61630	 With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them: 
06O	13	9	61640	 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon; 
06O	13	10	61650	 and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites; 
06O	13	11	61660	 and Gilead, and the region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah; 
06O	13	12	61670	 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); these Moses had struck and driven out. 
06O	13	13	61680	 Yet the people of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day. 
06O	13	14	61690	 To the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance. The offerings by fire to the LORD God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him. 
06O	13	15	61700	 And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the people of Reuben according to their clans. 
06O	13	16	61710	 So their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba; 
06O	13	17	61720	 with Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the tableland; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon, 
06O	13	18	61730	 and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath, 
06O	13	19	61740	 and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley, 
06O	13	20	61750	 and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth, 
06O	13	21	61760	 that is, all the cities of the tableland, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses defeated with the leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land. 
06O	13	22	61770	 Balaam also, the son of Beor, the one who practiced divination, was killed with the sword by the people of Israel among the rest of their slain. 
06O	13	23	61780	 And the border of the people of Reuben was the Jordan as a boundary. This was the inheritance of the people of Reuben, according to their clans with their cities and villages. 
06O	13	24	61790	 Moses gave an inheritance also to the tribe of Gad, to the people of Gad, according to their clans. 
06O	13	25	61800	 Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is east of Rabbah, 
06O	13	26	61810	 and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir, 
06O	13	27	61820	 and in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of Chinnereth, eastward beyond the Jordan. 
06O	13	28	61830	 This is the inheritance of the people of Gad according to their clans, with their cities and villages. 
06O	13	29	61840	 And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was allotted to the half-tribe of the people of Manasseh according to their clans. 
06O	13	30	61850	 Their region extended from Mahanaim, through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities, 
06O	13	31	61860	 and half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. These were allotted to the people of Machir the son of Manasseh for the half of the people of Machir according to their clans. 
06O	13	32	61870	 These are the inheritances that Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho. 
06O	13	33	61880	 But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the LORD God of Israel is their inheritance, just as he said to them. 
06O	14	1	61890	 These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit. 
06O	14	2	61900	 Their inheritance was by lot, just as the LORD had commanded by the hand of Moses for the nine and one-half tribes. 
06O	14	3	61910	 For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them. 
06O	14	4	61920	 For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and their substance. 
06O	14	5	61930	 The people of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses; they allotted the land. 
06O	14	6	61940	 Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me. 
06O	14	7	61950	 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. 
06O	14	8	61960	 But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the LORD my God. 
06O	14	9	61970	 And Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.' 
06O	14	10	61980	 And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old. 
06O	14	11	61990	 I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming. 
06O	14	12	62000	 So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said." 
06O	14	13	62010	 Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. 
06O	14	14	62020	 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel. 
06O	14	15	62030	 Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba. (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war. 
06O	15	1	62040	 The allotment for the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans reached southward to the boundary of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin at the farthest south. 
06O	15	2	62050	 And their south boundary ran from the end of the Salt Sea, from the bay that faces southward. 
06O	15	3	62060	 It goes out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, passes along to Zin, and goes up south of Kadesh-barnea, along by Hezron, up to Addar, turns about to Karka, 
06O	15	4	62070	 passes along to Azmon, goes out by the Brook of Egypt, and comes to its end at the sea. This shall be your south boundary. 
06O	15	5	62080	 And the east boundary is the Salt Sea, to the mouth of the Jordan. And the boundary on the north side runs from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan. 
06O	15	6	62090	 And the boundary goes up to Beth-hoglah and passes along north of Beth-arabah. And the boundary goes up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben. 
06O	15	7	62100	 And the boundary goes up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and so northward, turning toward Gilgal, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the valley. And the boundary passes along to the waters of En-shemesh and ends at En-rogel. 
06O	15	8	62110	 Then the boundary goes up by the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the southern shoulder of the Jebusite (that is, Jerusalem). And the boundary goes up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Hinnom, on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim. 
06O	15	9	62120	 Then the boundary extends from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and from there to the cities of Mount Ephron. Then the boundary bends around to Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim). 
06O	15	10	62130	 And the boundary circles west of Baalah to Mount Seir, passes along to the northern shoulder of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), and goes down to Beth-shemesh and passes along by Timnah. 
06O	15	11	62140	 The boundary goes out to the shoulder of the hill north of Ekron, then the boundary bends around to Shikkeron and passes along to Mount Baalah and goes out to Jabneel. Then the boundary comes to an end at the sea. 
06O	15	12	62150	 And the west boundary was the Great Sea with its coastline. This is the boundary around the people of Judah according to their clans. 
06O	15	13	62160	 According to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the people of Judah, Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak). 
06O	15	14	62170	 And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the descendants of Anak. 
06O	15	15	62180	 And he went up from there against the inhabitants of Debir. Now the name of Debir formerly was Kiriath-sepher. 
06O	15	16	62190	 And Caleb said, "Whoever strikes Kiriath-sepher and captures it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife." 
06O	15	17	62200	 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife. 
06O	15	18	62210	 When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she got off her donkey, and Caleb said to her, "What do you want?" 
06O	15	19	62220	 She said to him, "Give me a blessing. Since you have given me the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water." And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs. 
06O	15	20	62230	 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans. 
06O	15	21	62240	 The cities belonging to the tribe of the people of Judah in the extreme south, toward the boundary of Edom, were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur, 
06O	15	22	62250	 Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah, 
06O	15	23	62260	 Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan, 
06O	15	24	62270	 Ziph, Telem, Bealoth, 
06O	15	25	62280	 Hazor-hadattah, Kerioth-hezron (that is, Hazor), 
06O	15	26	62290	 Amam, Shema, Moladah, 
06O	15	27	62300	 Hazar-gaddah, Heshmon, Beth-pelet, 
06O	15	28	62310	 Hazar-shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah, 
06O	15	29	62320	 Baalah, Iim, Ezem, 
06O	15	30	62330	 Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah, 
06O	15	31	62340	 Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah, 
06O	15	32	62350	 Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon: in all, twenty-nine cities with their villages. 
06O	15	33	62360	 And in the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah, 
06O	15	34	62370	 Zanoah, En-gannim, Tappuah, Enam, 
06O	15	35	62380	 Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah, 
06O	15	36	62390	 Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, Gederothaim: fourteen cities with their villages. 
06O	15	37	62400	 Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal-gad, 
06O	15	38	62410	 Dilean, Mizpeh, Joktheel, 
06O	15	39	62420	 Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon, 
06O	15	40	62430	 Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish, 
06O	15	41	62440	 Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteen cities with their villages. 
06O	15	42	62450	 Libnah, Ether, Ashan, 
06O	15	43	62460	 Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib, 
06O	15	44	62470	 Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages. 
06O	15	45	62480	 Ekron, with its towns and its villages; 
06O	15	46	62490	 from Ekron to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages. 
06O	15	47	62500	 Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the Brook of Egypt, and the Great Sea with its coastline. 
06O	15	48	62510	 And in the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh, 
06O	15	49	62520	 Dannah, Kiriath-sannah (that is, Debir), 
06O	15	50	62530	 Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim, 
06O	15	51	62540	 Goshen, Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their villages. 
06O	15	52	62550	 Arab, Dumah, Eshan, 
06O	15	53	62560	 Janim, Beth-tappuah, Aphekah, 
06O	15	54	62570	 Humtah, Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior: nine cities with their villages. 
06O	15	55	62580	 Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah, 
06O	15	56	62590	 Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah, 
06O	15	57	62600	 Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah: ten cities with their villages. 
06O	15	58	62610	 Halhul, Beth-zur, Gedor, 
06O	15	59	62620	 Maarath, Beth-anoth, and Eltekon: six cities with their villages. 
06O	15	60	62630	 Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah: two cities with their villages. 
06O	15	61	62640	 In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, Secacah, 
06O	15	62	62650	 Nibshan, the City of Salt, and Engedi: six cities with their villages. 
06O	15	63	62660	 But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out, so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day. 
06O	16	1	62670	 The allotment of the people of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel. 
06O	16	2	62680	 Then going from Bethel to Luz, it passes along to Ataroth, the territory of the Archites. 
06O	16	3	62690	 Then it goes down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the territory of Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer, and it ends at the sea. 
06O	16	4	62700	 The people of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance. 
06O	16	5	62710	 The territory of the people of Ephraim by their clans was as follows: the boundary of their inheritance on the east was Ataroth-addar as far as Upper Beth-horon, 
06O	16	6	62720	 and the boundary goes from there to the sea. On the north is Michmethath. Then on the east the boundary turns around toward Taanath-shiloh and passes along beyond it on the east to Janoah, 
06O	16	7	62730	 then it goes down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah, and touches Jericho, ending at the Jordan. 
06O	16	8	62740	 From Tappuah the boundary goes westward to the brook Kanah and ends at the sea. Such is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Ephraim by their clans, 
06O	16	9	62750	 together with the towns that were set apart for the people of Ephraim within the inheritance of the Manassites, all those towns with their villages. 
06O	16	10	62760	 However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor. 
06O	17	1	62770	 Then allotment was made to the people of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. To Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a man of war. 
06O	17	2	62780	 And allotments were made to the rest of the people of Manasseh by their clans, Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These were the male descendants of Manasseh the son of Joseph, by their clans. 
06O	17	3	62790	 Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, had no sons, but only daughters, and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 
06O	17	4	62800	 They approached Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the leaders and said, "The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance along with our brothers." So according to the mouth of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father. 
06O	17	5	62810	 Thus there fell to Manasseh ten portions, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the other side of the Jordan, 
06O	17	6	62820	 because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance along with his sons. The land of Gilead was allotted to the rest of the people of Manasseh. 
06O	17	7	62830	 The territory of Manasseh reached from Asher to Michmethath, which is east of Shechem. Then the boundary goes along southward to the inhabitants of En-tappuah. 
06O	17	8	62840	 The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but the town of Tappuah on the boundary of Manasseh belonged to the people of Ephraim. 
06O	17	9	62850	 Then the boundary went down to the brook Kanah. These cities, to the south of the brook, among the cities of Manasseh, belong to Ephraim. Then the boundary of Manasseh goes on the north side of the brook and ends at the sea, 
06O	17	10	62860	 the land to the south being Ephraim's and that to the north being Manasseh's, with the sea forming its boundary. On the north Asher is reached, and on the east Issachar. 
06O	17	11	62870	 Also in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Naphath. 
06O	17	12	62880	 Yet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land. 
06O	17	13	62890	 Now when the people of Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out. 
06O	17	14	62900	 Then the people of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, "Why have you given me but one lot and one portion as an inheritance, although I am a numerous people, since all along the LORD has blessed me?" 
06O	17	15	62910	 And Joshua said to them, "If you are a numerous people, go up by yourselves to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you." 
06O	17	16	62920	 The people of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel." 
06O	17	17	62930	 Then Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, "You are a numerous people and have great power. You shall not have one allotment only, 
06O	17	18	62940	 but the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong." 
06O	18	1	62950	 Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them. 
06O	18	2	62960	 There remained among the people of Israel seven tribes whose inheritance had not yet been apportioned. 
06O	18	3	62970	 So Joshua said to the people of Israel, "How long will you put off going in to take possession of the land, which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you? 
06O	18	4	62980	 Provide three men from each tribe, and I will send them out that they may set out and go up and down the land. They shall write a description of it with a view to their inheritances, and then come to me. 
06O	18	5	62990	 They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall continue in his territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall continue in their territory on the north. 
06O	18	6	63000	 And you shall describe the land in seven divisions and bring the description here to me. And I will cast lots for you here before the LORD our God. 
06O	18	7	63010	 The Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of the LORD is their heritage. And Gad and Reuben and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them." 
06O	18	8	63020	 So the men arose and went, and Joshua charged those who went to write the description of the land, saying, "Go up and down in the land and write a description and return to me. And I will cast lots for you here before the LORD in Shiloh." 
06O	18	9	63030	 So the men went and passed up and down in the land and wrote in a book a description of it by towns in seven divisions. Then they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh, 
06O	18	10	63040	 and Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD. And there Joshua apportioned the land to the people of Israel, to each his portion. 
06O	18	11	63050	 The lot of the tribe of the people of Benjamin according to its clans came up, and the territory allotted to it fell between the people of Judah and the people of Joseph. 
06O	18	12	63060	 On the north side their boundary began at the Jordan. Then the boundary goes up to the shoulder north of Jericho, then up through the hill country westward, and it ends at the wilderness of Beth-aven. 
06O	18	13	63070	 From there the boundary passes along southward in the direction of Luz, to the shoulder of Luz (that is, Bethel), then the boundary goes down to Ataroth-addar, on the mountain that lies south of Lower Beth-horon. 
06O	18	14	63080	 Then the boundary goes in another direction, turning on the western side southward from the mountain that lies to the south, opposite Beth-horon, and it ends at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city belonging to the people of Judah. This forms the western side. 
06O	18	15	63090	 And the southern side begins at the outskirts of Kiriath-jearim. And the boundary goes from there to Ephron, to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah. 
06O	18	16	63100	 Then the boundary goes down to the border of the mountain that overlooks the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is at the north end of the Valley of Rephaim. And it then goes down the Valley of Hinnom, south of the shoulder of the Jebusites, and downward to En-rogel. 
06O	18	17	63110	 Then it bends in a northerly direction going on to En-shemesh, and from there goes to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim. Then it goes down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben, 
06O	18	18	63120	 and passing on to the north of the shoulder of Beth-arabah it goes down to the Arabah. 
06O	18	19	63130	 Then the boundary passes on to the north of the shoulder of Beth-hoglah. And the boundary ends at the northern bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan: this is the southern border. 
06O	18	20	63140	 The Jordan forms its boundary on the eastern side. This is the inheritance of the people of Benjamin, according to their clans, boundary by boundary all around. 
06O	18	21	63150	 Now the cities of the tribe of the people of Benjamin according to their clans were Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz, 
06O	18	22	63160	 Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel, 
06O	18	23	63170	 Avvim, Parah, Ophrah, 
06O	18	24	63180	 Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, Geba--twelve cities with their villages: 
06O	18	25	63190	 Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth, 
06O	18	26	63200	 Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah, 
06O	18	27	63210	 Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah, 
06O	18	28	63220	 Zela, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah and Kiriath-jearim--fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the people of Benjamin according to its clans. 
06O	19	1	63230	 The second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the people of Simeon, according to their clans, and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the people of Judah. 
06O	19	2	63240	 And they had for their inheritance Beersheba, Sheba, Moladah, 
06O	19	3	63250	 Hazar-shual, Balah, Ezem, 
06O	19	4	63260	 Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah, 
06O	19	5	63270	 Ziklag, Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susah, 
06O	19	6	63280	 Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen--thirteen cities with their villages; 
06O	19	7	63290	 Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan--four cities with their villages, 
06O	19	8	63300	 together with all the villages around these cities as far as Baalath-beer, Ramah of the Negeb. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Simeon according to their clans. 
06O	19	9	63310	 The inheritance of the people of Simeon formed part of the territory of the people of Judah. Because the portion of the people of Judah was too large for them, the people of Simeon obtained an inheritance in the midst of their inheritance. 
06O	19	10	63320	 The third lot came up for the people of Zebulun, according to their clans. And the territory of their inheritance reached as far as Sarid. 
06O	19	11	63330	 Then their boundary goes up westward and on to Mareal and touches Dabbesheth, then the brook that is east of Jokneam. 
06O	19	12	63340	 From Sarid it goes in the other direction eastward toward the sunrise to the boundary of Chisloth-tabor. From there it goes to Daberath, then up to Japhia. 
06O	19	13	63350	 From there it passes along on the east toward the sunrise to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin, and going on to Rimmon it bends toward Neah, 
06O	19	14	63360	 then on the north the boundary turns about to Hannathon, and it ends at the Valley of Iphtahel; 
06O	19	15	63370	 and Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem--twelve cities with their villages. 
06O	19	16	63380	 This is the inheritance of the people of Zebulun, according to their clans--these cities with their villages. 
06O	19	17	63390	 The fourth lot came out for Issachar, for the people of Issachar, according to their clans. 
06O	19	18	63400	 Their territory included Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem, 
06O	19	19	63410	 Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath, 
06O	19	20	63420	 Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez, 
06O	19	21	63430	 Remeth, En-gannim, En-haddah, Beth-pazzez. 
06O	19	22	63440	 The boundary also touches Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh, and its boundary ends at the Jordan--sixteen cities with their villages. 
06O	19	23	63450	 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Issachar, according to their clans--the cities with their villages. 
06O	19	24	63460	 The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the people of Asher according to their clans. 
06O	19	25	63470	 Their territory included Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achshaph, 
06O	19	26	63480	 Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. On the west it touches Carmel and Shihor-libnath, 
06O	19	27	63490	 then it turns eastward, it goes to Beth-dagon, and touches Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtahel northward to Beth-emek and Neiel. Then it continues in the north to Cabul, 
06O	19	28	63500	 Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, Kanah, as far as Sidon the Great. 
06O	19	29	63510	 Then the boundary turns to Ramah, reaching to the fortified city of Tyre. Then the boundary turns to Hosah, and it ends at the sea; Mahalab, Achzib, 
06O	19	30	63520	 Ummah, Aphek and Rehob--twenty-two cities with their villages. 
06O	19	31	63530	 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Asher according to their clans--these cities with their villages. 
06O	19	32	63540	 The sixth lot came out for the people of Naphtali, for the people of Naphtali, according to their clans. 
06O	19	33	63550	 And their boundary ran from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, and Adami-nekeb, and Jabneel, as far as Lakkum, and it ended at the Jordan. 
06O	19	34	63560	 Then the boundary turns westward to Aznoth-tabor and goes from there to Hukkok, touching Zebulun at the south and Asher on the west and Judah on the east at the Jordan. 
06O	19	35	63570	 The fortified cities are Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth, 
06O	19	36	63580	 Adamah, Ramah, Hazor, 
06O	19	37	63590	 Kedesh, Edrei, En-hazor, 
06O	19	38	63600	 Yiron, Migdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh--nineteen cities with their villages. 
06O	19	39	63610	 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Naphtali according to their clans--the cities with their villages. 
06O	19	40	63620	 The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the people of Dan, according to their clans. 
06O	19	41	63630	 And the territory of its inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh, 
06O	19	42	63640	 Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah, 
06O	19	43	63650	 Elon, Timnah, Ekron, 
06O	19	44	63660	 Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath, 
06O	19	45	63670	 Jehud, Bene-berak, Gath-rimmon, 
06O	19	46	63680	 and Me-jarkon and Rakkon with the territory over against Joppa. 
06O	19	47	63690	 When the territory of the people of Dan was lost to them, the people of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and after capturing it and striking it with the sword they took possession of it and settled in it, calling Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor. 
06O	19	48	63700	 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Dan, according to their clans--these cities with their villages. 
06O	19	49	63710	 When they had finished distributing the several territories of the land as inheritances, the people of Israel gave an inheritance among them to Joshua the son of Nun. 
06O	19	50	63720	 By command of the LORD they gave him the city that he asked, Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. And he rebuilt the city and settled in it. 
06O	19	51	63730	 These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel distributed by lot at Shiloh before the LORD, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. So they finished dividing the land. 
06O	20	1	63740	 Then the LORD said to Joshua, 
06O	20	2	63750	 "Say to the people of Israel, 'Appoint the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses, 
06O	20	3	63760	 that the manslayer who strikes any person without intent or unknowingly may flee there. They shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood. 
06O	20	4	63770	 He shall flee to one of these cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and explain his case to the elders of that city. Then they shall take him into the city and give him a place, and he shall remain with them. 
06O	20	5	63780	 And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not give up the manslayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor unknowingly, and did not hate him in the past. 
06O	20	6	63790	 And he shall remain in that city until he has stood before the congregation for judgment, until the death of him who is high priest at the time. Then the manslayer may return to his own town and his own home, to the town from which he fled.'" 
06O	20	7	63800	 So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. 
06O	20	8	63810	 And beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they appointed Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland, from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh. 
06O	20	9	63820	 These were the cities designated for all the people of Israel and for the stranger sojourning among them, that anyone who killed a person without intent could flee there, so that he might not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, till he stood before the congregation. 
06O	21	1	63830	 Then the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel. 
06O	21	2	63840	 And they said to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, "The LORD commanded through Moses that we be given cities to dwell in, along with their pasturelands for our livestock." 
06O	21	3	63850	 So by command of the LORD the people of Israel gave to the Levites the following cities and pasturelands out of their inheritance. 
06O	21	4	63860	 The lot came out for the clans of the Kohathites. So those Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest received by lot from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin, thirteen cities. 
06O	21	5	63870	 And the rest of the Kohathites received by lot from the clans of the tribe of Ephraim, from the tribe of Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities. 
06O	21	6	63880	 The Gershonites received by lot from the clans of the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. 
06O	21	7	63890	 The Merarites according to their clans received from the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities. 
06O	21	8	63900	 These cities and their pasturelands the people of Israel gave by lot to the Levites, as the LORD had commanded through Moses. 
06O	21	9	63910	 Out of the tribe of the people of Judah and the tribe of the people of Simeon they gave the following cities mentioned by name, 
06O	21	10	63920	 which went to the descendants of Aaron, one of the clans of the Kohathites who belonged to the people of Levi; since the lot fell to them first. 
06O	21	11	63930	 They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasturelands around it. 
06O	21	12	63940	 But the fields of the city and its villages had been given to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession. 
06O	21	13	63950	 And to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, Libnah with its pasturelands, 
06O	21	14	63960	 Jattir with its pasturelands, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands, 
06O	21	15	63970	 Holon with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands, 
06O	21	16	63980	 Ain with its pasturelands, Juttah with its pasturelands, Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands--nine cities out of these two tribes; 
06O	21	17	63990	 then out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its pasturelands, Geba with its pasturelands, 
06O	21	18	64000	 Anathoth with its pasturelands, and Almon with its pasturelands--four cities. 
06O	21	19	64010	 The cities of the descendants of Aaron, the priests, were in all thirteen cities with their pasturelands. 
06O	21	20	64020	 As to the rest of the Kohathites belonging to the Kohathite clans of the Levites, the cities allotted to them were out of the tribe of Ephraim. 
06O	21	21	64030	 To them were given Shechem, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands, 
06O	21	22	64040	 Kibzaim with its pasturelands, Beth-horon with its pasturelands--four cities; 
06O	21	23	64050	 and out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its pasturelands, Gibbethon with its pasturelands, 
06O	21	24	64060	 Aijalon with its pasturelands, Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands--four cities; 
06O	21	25	64070	 and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its pasturelands, and Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands--two cities. 
06O	21	26	64080	 The cities of the clans of the rest of the Kohathites were ten in all with their pasturelands. 
06O	21	27	64090	 And to the Gershonites, one of the clans of the Levites, were given out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Beeshterah with its pasturelands--two cities; 
06O	21	28	64100	 and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with its pasturelands, Daberath with its pasturelands, 
06O	21	29	64110	 Jarmuth with its pasturelands, En-gannim with its pasturelands--four cities; 
06O	21	30	64120	 and out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its pasturelands, Abdon with its pasturelands, 
06O	21	31	64130	 Helkath with its pasturelands, and Rehob with its pasturelands--four cities; 
06O	21	32	64140	 and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Hammoth-dor with its pasturelands, and Kartan with its pasturelands--three cities. 
06O	21	33	64150	 The cities of the several clans of the Gershonites were in all thirteen cities with their pasturelands. 
06O	21	34	64160	 And to the rest of the Levites, the Merarite clans, were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its pasturelands, Kartah with its pasturelands, 
06O	21	35	64170	 Dimnah with its pasturelands, Nahalal with its pasturelands--four cities; 
06O	21	36	64180	 and out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its pasturelands, Jahaz with its pasturelands, 
06O	21	37	64190	 Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands--four cities; 
06O	21	38	64200	 and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Mahanaim with its pasturelands, 
06O	21	39	64210	 Heshbon with its pasturelands, Jazer with its pasturelands--four cities in all. 
06O	21	40	64220	 As for the cities of the several Merarite clans, that is, the remainder of the clans of the Levites, those allotted to them were in all twelve cities. 
06O	21	41	64230	 The cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the people of Israel were in all forty-eight cities with their pasturelands. 
06O	21	42	64240	 These cities each had its pasturelands around it. So it was with all these cities. 
06O	21	43	64250	 Thus the LORD gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their fathers. And they took possession of it, and they settled there. 
06O	21	44	64260	 And the LORD gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers. Not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for the LORD had given all their enemies into their hands. 
06O	21	45	64270	 Not one word of all the good promises that the LORD had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass. 
06O	22	1	64280	 At that time Joshua summoned the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, 
06O	22	2	64290	 and said to them, "You have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you and have obeyed my voice in all that I have commanded you. 
06O	22	3	64300	 You have not forsaken your brothers these many days, down to this day, but have been careful to keep the charge of the LORD your God. 
06O	22	4	64310	 And now the LORD your God has given rest to your brothers, as he promised them. Therefore turn and go to your tents in the land where your possession lies, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side of the Jordan. 
06O	22	5	64320	 Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul." 
06O	22	6	64330	 So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents. 
06O	22	7	64340	 Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan, but to the other half Joshua had given a possession beside their brothers in the land west of the Jordan. And when Joshua sent them away to their homes and blessed them, 
06O	22	8	64350	 he said to them, "Go back to your tents with much wealth and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and with much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers." 
06O	22	9	64360	 So the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home, parting from the people of Israel at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, their own land of which they had possessed themselves by command of the LORD through Moses. 
06O	22	10	64370	 And when they came to the region of the Jordan that is in the land of Canaan, the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, an altar of imposing size. 
06O	22	11	64380	 And the people of Israel heard it said, "Behold, the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built the altar at the frontier of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that belongs to the people of Israel." 
06O	22	12	64390	 And when the people of Israel heard of it, the whole assembly of the people of Israel gathered at Shiloh to make war against them. 
06O	22	13	64400	 Then the people of Israel sent to the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, 
06O	22	14	64410	 and with him ten chiefs, one from each of the tribal families of Israel, every one of them the head of a family among the clans of Israel. 
06O	22	15	64420	 And they came to the people of Reuben, the people of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and they said to them, 
06O	22	16	64430	 "Thus says the whole congregation of the LORD, 'What is this breach of faith that you have committed against the God of Israel in turning away this day from following the LORD by building yourselves an altar this day in rebellion against the LORD? 
06O	22	17	64440	 Have we not had enough of the sin at Peor from which even yet we have not cleansed ourselves, and for which there came a plague upon the congregation of the LORD, 
06O	22	18	64450	 that you too must turn away this day from following the LORD? And if you too rebel against the LORD today then tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel. 
06O	22	19	64460	 But now, if the land of your possession is unclean, pass over into the LORD's land where the LORD's tabernacle stands, and take for yourselves a possession among us. Only do not rebel against the LORD or make us as rebels by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of the LORD our God. 
06O	22	20	64470	 Did not Achan the son of Zerah break faith in the matter of the devoted things, and wrath fell upon all the congregation of Israel? And he did not perish alone for his iniquity.'" 
06O	22	21	64480	 Then the people of Reuben, the people of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh said in answer to the heads of the families of Israel, 
06O	22	22	64490	 "The Mighty One, God, the LORD! The Mighty One, God, the LORD! He knows; and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith against the LORD, do not spare us today 
06O	22	23	64500	 for building an altar to turn away from following the LORD. Or if we did so to offer burnt offerings or grain offerings or peace offerings on it, may the LORD himself take vengeance. 
06O	22	24	64510	 No, but we did it from fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, 'What have you to do with the LORD, the God of Israel? 
06O	22	25	64520	 For the LORD has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you, you people of Reuben and people of Gad. You have no portion in the LORD.' So your children might make our children cease to worship the LORD. 
06O	22	26	64530	 Therefore we said, 'Let us now build an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice, 
06O	22	27	64540	 but to be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we do perform the service of the LORD in his presence with our burnt offerings and sacrifices and peace offerings, so your children will not say to our children in time to come, "You have no portion in the LORD."' 
06O	22	28	64550	 And we thought, If this should be said to us or to our descendants in time to come, we should say, 'Behold, the copy of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifice, but to be a witness between us and you.' 
06O	22	29	64560	 Far be it from us that we should rebel against the LORD and turn away this day from following the LORD by building an altar for burnt offering, grain offering, or sacrifice, other than the altar of the LORD our God that stands before his tabernacle!" 
06O	22	30	64570	 When Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation, the heads of the families of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the people of Manasseh spoke, it was good in their eyes. 
06O	22	31	64580	 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the people of Manasseh, "Today we know that the LORD is in our midst, because you have not committed this breach of faith against the LORD. Now you have delivered the people of Israel from the hand of the LORD." 
06O	22	32	64590	 Then Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the chiefs, returned from the people of Reuben and the people of Gad in the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the people of Israel, and brought back word to them. 
06O	22	33	64600	 And the report was good in the eyes of the people of Israel. And the people of Israel blessed God and spoke no more of making war against them to destroy the land where the people of Reuben and the people of Gad were settled. 
06O	22	34	64610	 The people of Reuben and the people of Gad called the altar Witness, "For," they said, "it is a witness between us that the LORD is God." 
06O	23	1	64620	 A long time afterward, when the LORD had given rest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years, 
06O	23	2	64630	 Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, "I am now old and well advanced in years. 
06O	23	3	64640	 And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you. 
06O	23	4	64650	 Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west. 
06O	23	5	64660	 The LORD your God will push them back before you and drive them out of your sight. And you shall possess their land, just as the LORD your God promised you. 
06O	23	6	64670	 Therefore, be very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left, 
06O	23	7	64680	 that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them, 
06O	23	8	64690	 but you shall cling to the LORD your God just as you have done to this day. 
06O	23	9	64700	 For the LORD has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day. 
06O	23	10	64710	 One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the LORD your God who fights for you, just as he promised you. 
06O	23	11	64720	 Be very careful, therefore, to love the LORD your God. 
06O	23	12	64730	 For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you, 
06O	23	13	64740	 know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the LORD your God has given you. 
06O	23	14	64750	 "And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the LORD your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed. 
06O	23	15	64760	 But just as all the good things that the LORD your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the LORD will bring upon you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land that the LORD your God has given you, 
06O	23	16	64770	 if you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land that he has given to you." 
06O	24	1	64780	 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God. 
06O	24	2	64790	 And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Long ago, your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods. 
06O	24	3	64800	 Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac. 
06O	24	4	64810	 And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. And I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt. 
06O	24	5	64820	 And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt with what I did in the midst of it, and afterward I brought you out. 
06O	24	6	64830	 "'Then I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea. And the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. 
06O	24	7	64840	 And when they cried to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians and made the sea come upon them and cover them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness a long time. 
06O	24	8	64850	 Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of the Jordan. They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you. 
06O	24	9	64860	 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. And he sent and invited Balaam the son of Beor to curse you, 
06O	24	10	64870	 but I would not listen to Balaam. Indeed, he blessed you. So I delivered you out of his hand. 
06O	24	11	64880	 And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho, and the leaders of Jericho fought against you, and also the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And I gave them into your hand. 
06O	24	12	64890	 And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow. 
06O	24	13	64900	 I gave you a land on which you had not labored and cities that you had not built, and you dwell in them. You eat the fruit of vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant.' 
06O	24	14	64910	 "Now therefore fear the LORD and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. 
06O	24	15	64920	 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." 
06O	24	16	64930	 Then the people answered, "Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD to serve other gods, 
06O	24	17	64940	 for it is the LORD our God who brought us and our fathers up from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and who did those great signs in our sight and preserved us in all the way that we went, and among all the peoples through whom we passed. 
06O	24	18	64950	 And the LORD drove out before us all the peoples, the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the LORD, for he is our God." 
06O	24	19	64960	 But Joshua said to the people, "You are not able to serve the LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins. 
06O	24	20	64970	 If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good." 
06O	24	21	64980	 And the people said to Joshua, "No, but we will serve the LORD." 
06O	24	22	64990	 Then Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD, to serve him." And they said, "We are witnesses." 
06O	24	23	65000	 He said, "Then put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the LORD, the God of Israel." 
06O	24	24	65010	 And the people said to Joshua, "The LORD our God we will serve, and his voice we will obey." 
06O	24	25	65020	 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and put in place statutes and rules for them at Shechem. 
06O	24	26	65030	 And Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And he took a large stone and set it up there under the terebinth that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. 
06O	24	27	65040	 And Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of the LORD that he spoke to us. Therefore it shall be a witness against you, lest you deal falsely with your God." 
06O	24	28	65050	 So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance. 
06O	24	29	65060	 After these things Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being 110 years old. 
06O	24	30	65070	 And they buried him in his own inheritance at Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash. 
06O	24	31	65080	 Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua and had known all the work that the LORD did for Israel. 
06O	24	32	65090	 As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph. 
06O	24	33	65100	 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim. 
07O	1	1	65110	 After the death of Joshua, the people of Israel inquired of the LORD, "Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?" 
07O	1	2	65120	 The LORD said, "Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand." 
07O	1	3	65130	 And Judah said to Simeon his brother, "Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites. And I likewise will go with you into the territory allotted to you." So Simeon went with him. 
07O	1	4	65140	 Then Judah went up and the LORD gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they defeated 10,000 of them at Bezek. 
07O	1	5	65150	 They found Adoni-bezek at Bezek and fought against him and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites. 
07O	1	6	65160	 Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his big toes. 
07O	1	7	65170	 And Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me." And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there. 
07O	1	8	65180	 And the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire. 
07O	1	9	65190	 And afterward the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, in the Negeb, and in the lowland. 
07O	1	10	65200	 And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai. 
07O	1	11	65210	 From there they went against the inhabitants of Debir. The name of Debir was formerly Kiriath-sepher. 
07O	1	12	65220	 And Caleb said, "He who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give him Achsah my daughter for a wife." 
07O	1	13	65230	 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife. 
07O	1	14	65240	 When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, "What do you want?" 
07O	1	15	65250	 She said to him, "Give me a blessing. Since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water." And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs. 
07O	1	16	65260	 And the descendants of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad, and they went and settled with the people. 
07O	1	17	65270	 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called Hormah. 
07O	1	18	65280	 Judah also captured Gaza with its territory, and Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory. 
07O	1	19	65290	 And the LORD was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had chariots of iron. 
07O	1	20	65300	 And Hebron was given to Caleb, as Moses had said. And he drove out from it the three sons of Anak. 
07O	1	21	65310	 But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites have lived with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day. 
07O	1	22	65320	 The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the LORD was with them. 
07O	1	23	65330	 And the house of Joseph scouted out Bethel. (Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.) 
07O	1	24	65340	 And the spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, "Please show us the way into the city, and we will deal kindly with you." 
07O	1	25	65350	 And he showed them the way into the city. And they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go. 
07O	1	26	65360	 And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city and called its name Luz. That is its name to this day. 
07O	1	27	65370	 Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages, for the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land. 
07O	1	28	65380	 When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not drive them out completely. 
07O	1	29	65390	 And Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them. 
07O	1	30	65400	 Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of Nahalol, so the Canaanites lived among them, but became subject to forced labor. 
07O	1	31	65410	 Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, or the inhabitants of Sidon or of Ahlab or of Achzib or of Helbah or of Aphik or of Rehob, 
07O	1	32	65420	 so the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they did not drive them out. 
07O	1	33	65430	 Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, so they lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them. 
07O	1	34	65440	 The Amorites pressed the people of Dan back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain. 
07O	1	35	65450	 The Amorites persisted in dwelling in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, but the hand of the house of Joseph rested heavily on them, and they became subject to forced labor. 
07O	1	36	65460	 And the border of the Amorites ran from the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela and upward. 
07O	2	1	65470	 Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, "I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, 'I will never break my covenant with you, 
07O	2	2	65480	 and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done? 
07O	2	3	65490	 So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you." 
07O	2	4	65500	 As soon as the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept. 
07O	2	5	65510	 And they called the name of that place Bochim. And they sacrificed there to the LORD. 
07O	2	6	65520	 When Joshua dismissed the people, the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land. 
07O	2	7	65530	 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the LORD had done for Israel. 
07O	2	8	65540	 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110 years. 
07O	2	9	65550	 And they buried him within the boundaries of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash. 
07O	2	10	65560	 And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work that he had done for Israel. 
07O	2	11	65570	 And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals. 
07O	2	12	65580	 And they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the LORD to anger. 
07O	2	13	65590	 They abandoned the LORD and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. 
07O	2	14	65600	 So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies. 
07O	2	15	65610	 Whenever they marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them for harm, as the LORD had warned, and as the LORD had sworn to them. And they were in terrible distress. 
07O	2	16	65620	 Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. 
07O	2	17	65630	 Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD, and they did not do so. 
07O	2	18	65640	 Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them. 
07O	2	19	65650	 But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways. 
07O	2	20	65660	 So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he said, "Because this people has transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice, 
07O	2	21	65670	 I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died, 
07O	2	22	65680	 in order to test Israel by them, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the LORD as their fathers did, or not." 
07O	2	23	65690	 So the LORD left those nations, not driving them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua. 
07O	3	1	65700	 Now these are the nations that the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan. 
07O	3	2	65710	 It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before. 
07O	3	3	65720	 These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath. 
07O	3	4	65730	 They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses. 
07O	3	5	65740	 So the people of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 
07O	3	6	65750	 And their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods. 
07O	3	7	65760	 And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. They forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth. 
07O	3	8	65770	 Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years. 
07O	3	9	65780	 But when the people of Israel cried out to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. 
07O	3	10	65790	 The Spirit of the LORD was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the LORD gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim. 
07O	3	11	65800	 So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died. 
07O	3	12	65810	 And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the LORD. 
07O	3	13	65820	 He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the Amalekites, and went and defeated Israel. And they took possession of the city of palms. 
07O	3	14	65830	 And the people of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. 
07O	3	15	65840	 Then the people of Israel cried out to the LORD, and the LORD raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab. 
07O	3	16	65850	 And Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length, and he bound it on his right thigh under his clothes. 
07O	3	17	65860	 And he presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man. 
07O	3	18	65870	 And when Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute. 
07O	3	19	65880	 But he himself turned back at the idols near Gilgal and said, "I have a secret message for you, O king." And he commanded, "Silence." And all his attendants went out from his presence. 
07O	3	20	65890	 And Ehud came to him as he was sitting alone in his cool roof chamber. And Ehud said, "I have a message from God for you." And he arose from his seat. 
07O	3	21	65900	 And Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly. 
07O	3	22	65910	 And the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly; and the dung came out. 
07O	3	23	65920	 Then Ehud went out into the porch and closed the doors of the roof chamber behind him and locked them. 
07O	3	24	65930	 When he had gone, the servants came, and when they saw that the doors of the roof chamber were locked, they thought, "Surely he is relieving himself in the closet of the cool chamber." 
07O	3	25	65940	 And they waited till they were embarrassed. But when he still did not open the doors of the roof chamber, they took the key and opened them, and there lay their lord dead on the floor. 
07O	3	26	65950	 Ehud escaped while they delayed, and he passed beyond the idols and escaped to Seirah. 
07O	3	27	65960	 When he arrived, he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim. Then the people of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was their leader. 
07O	3	28	65970	 And he said to them, "Follow after me, for the LORD has given your enemies the Moabites into your hand." So they went down after him and seized the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites and did not allow anyone to pass over. 
07O	3	29	65980	 And they killed at that time about 10,000 of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men; not a man escaped. 
07O	3	30	65990	 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years. 
07O	3	31	66000	 After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel. 
07O	4	1	66010	 And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD after Ehud died. 
07O	4	2	66020	 And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim. 
07O	4	3	66030	 Then the people of Israel cried out to the LORD for help, for he had 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years. 
07O	4	4	66040	 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. 
07O	4	5	66050	 She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment. 
07O	4	6	66060	 She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, "Has not the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded you, 'Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun. 
07O	4	7	66070	 And I will draw out Sisera, the general of Jabin's army, to meet you by the river Kishon with his chariots and his troops, and I will give him into your hand'?" 
07O	4	8	66080	 Barak said to her, "If you will go with me, I will go, but if you will not go with me, I will not go." 
07O	4	9	66090	 And she said, "I will surely go with you. Nevertheless, the road on which you are going will not lead to your glory, for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman." Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh. 
07O	4	10	66100	 And Barak called out Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. And 10,000 men went up at his heels, and Deborah went up with him. 
07O	4	11	66110	 Now Heber the Kenite had separated from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far away as the oak in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh. 
07O	4	12	66120	 When Sisera was told that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor, 
07O	4	13	66130	 Sisera called out all his chariots, 900 chariots of iron, and all the men who were with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the river Kishon. 
07O	4	14	66140	 And Deborah said to Barak, "Up! For this is the day in which the LORD has given Sisera into your hand. Does not the LORD go out before you?" So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with 10,000 men following him. 
07O	4	15	66150	 And the LORD routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army before Barak by the edge of the sword. And Sisera got down from his chariot and fled away on foot. 
07O	4	16	66160	 And Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth-hagoyim, and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not a man was left. 
07O	4	17	66170	 But Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. 
07O	4	18	66180	 And Jael came out to meet Sisera and said to him, "Turn aside, my lord; turn aside to me; do not be afraid." So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug. 
07O	4	19	66190	 And he said to her, "Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty." So she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him. 
07O	4	20	66200	 And he said to her, "Stand at the opening of the tent, and if any man comes and asks you, 'Is anyone here?' say, 'No.'" 
07O	4	21	66210	 But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand. Then she went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple until it went down into the ground while he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died. 
07O	4	22	66220	 And behold, as Barak was pursuing Sisera, Jael went out to meet him and said to him, "Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking." So he went in to her tent, and there lay Sisera dead, with the tent peg in his temple. 
07O	4	23	66230	 So on that day God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the people of Israel. 
07O	4	24	66240	 And the hand of the people of Israel pressed harder and harder against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they destroyed Jabin king of Canaan. 
07O	5	1	66250	 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day: 
07O	5	2	66260	 "That the leaders took the lead in Israel, that the people offered themselves willingly, bless the LORD! 
07O	5	3	66270	 "Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; to the LORD I will sing; I will make melody to the LORD, the God of Israel. 
07O	5	4	66280	 "LORD, when you went out from Seir, when you marched from the region of Edom, the earth trembled and the heavens dropped, yes, the clouds dropped water. 
07O	5	5	66290	 The mountains quaked before the LORD, even Sinai before the LORD, the God of Israel. 
07O	5	6	66300	 "In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned, and travelers kept to the byways. 
07O	5	7	66310	 The villagers ceased in Israel; they ceased to be until I arose; I, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel. 
07O	5	8	66320	 When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel? 
07O	5	9	66330	 My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless the LORD. 
07O	5	10	66340	 "Tell of it, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets and you who walk by the way. 
07O	5	11	66350	 To the sound of musicians at the watering places, there they repeat the righteous triumphs of the LORD, the righteous triumphs of his villagers in Israel. "Then down to the gates marched the people of the LORD. 
07O	5	12	66360	 "Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, break out in a song! Arise, Barak, lead away your captives, O son of Abinoam. 
07O	5	13	66370	 Then down marched the remnant of the noble; the people of the LORD marched down for me against the mighty. 
07O	5	14	66380	 From Ephraim their root they marched down into the valley, following you, Benjamin, with your kinsmen; from Machir marched down the commanders, and from Zebulun those who bear the lieutenant's staff; 
07O	5	15	66390	 the princes of Issachar came with Deborah, and Issachar faithful to Barak; into the valley they rushed at his heels. Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart. 
07O	5	16	66400	 Why did you sit still among the sheepfolds, to hear the whistling for the flocks? Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart. 
07O	5	17	66410	 Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why did he stay with the ships? Asher sat still at the coast of the sea, staying by his landings. 
07O	5	18	66420	 Zebulun is a people who risked their lives to the death; Naphtali, too, on the heights of the field. 
07O	5	19	66430	 "The kings came, they fought; then fought the kings of Canaan, at Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo; they got no spoils of silver. 
07O	5	20	66440	 From heaven the stars fought, from their courses they fought against Sisera. 
07O	5	21	66450	 The torrent Kishon swept them away, the ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. March on, my soul, with might! 
07O	5	22	66460	 "Then loud beat the horses' hoofs with the galloping, galloping of his steeds. 
07O	5	23	66470	 "Curse Meroz, says the angel of the LORD, curse its inhabitants thoroughly, because they did not come to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty. 
07O	5	24	66480	 "Most blessed of women be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, of tent-dwelling women most blessed. 
07O	5	25	66490	 He asked water and she gave him milk; she brought him curds in a noble's bowl. 
07O	5	26	66500	 She sent her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workmen's mallet; she struck Sisera; she crushed his head; she shattered and pierced his temple. 
07O	5	27	66510	 Between her feet he sank, he fell, he lay still; between her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell--dead. 
07O	5	28	66520	 "Out of the window she peered, the mother of Sisera wailed through the lattice: 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?' 
07O	5	29	66530	 Her wisest princesses answer, indeed, she answers herself, 
07O	5	30	66540	 'Have they not found and divided the spoil?-- A womb or two for every man; spoil of dyed materials for Sisera, spoil of dyed materials embroidered, two pieces of dyed work embroidered for the neck as spoil?' 
07O	5	31	66550	 "So may all your enemies perish, O LORD! But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might." And the land had rest for forty years. 
07O	6	1	66560	 The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD gave them into the hand of Midian seven years. 
07O	6	2	66570	 And the hand of Midian overpowered Israel, and because of Midian the people of Israel made for themselves the dens that are in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds. 
07O	6	3	66580	 For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them. 
07O	6	4	66590	 They would encamp against them and devour the produce of the land, as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel and no sheep or ox or donkey. 
07O	6	5	66600	 For they would come up with their livestock and their tents; they would come like locusts in number--both they and their camels could not be counted--so that they laid waste the land as they came in. 
07O	6	6	66610	 And Israel was brought very low because of Midian. And the people of Israel cried out for help to the LORD. 
07O	6	7	66620	 When the people of Israel cried out to the LORD on account of the Midianites, 
07O	6	8	66630	 the LORD sent a prophet to the people of Israel. And he said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I led you up from Egypt and brought you out of the house of bondage. 
07O	6	9	66640	 And I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out before you and gave you their land. 
07O	6	10	66650	 And I said to you, 'I am the LORD your God; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell.' But you have not obeyed my voice." 
07O	6	11	66660	 Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites. 
07O	6	12	66670	 And the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, "The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor." 
07O	6	13	66680	 And Gideon said to him, "Please, sir, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, 'Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian." 
07O	6	14	66690	 And the LORD turned to him and said, "Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?" 
07O	6	15	66700	 And he said to him, "Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house." 
07O	6	16	66710	 And the LORD said to him, "But I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man." 
07O	6	17	66720	 And he said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me. 
07O	6	18	66730	 Please do not depart from here until I come to you and bring out my present and set it before you." And he said, "I will stay till you return." 
07O	6	19	66740	 So Gideon went into his house and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the terebinth and presented them. 
07O	6	20	66750	 And the angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and put them on this rock, and pour the broth over them." And he did so. 
07O	6	21	66760	 Then the angel of the LORD reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes. And fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight. 
07O	6	22	66770	 Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the LORD. And Gideon said, "Alas, O Lord GOD! For now I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face." 
07O	6	23	66780	 But the LORD said to him, "Peace be to you. Do not fear; you shall not die." 
07O	6	24	66790	 Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD and called it, The LORD Is Peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites. 
07O	6	25	66800	 That night the LORD said to him, "Take your father's bull, and the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it 
07O	6	26	66810	 and build an altar to the LORD your God on the top of the stronghold here, with stones laid in due order. Then take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah that you shall cut down." 
07O	6	27	66820	 So Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his family and the men of the town to do it by day, he did it by night. 
07O	6	28	66830	 When the men of the town rose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar that had been built. 
07O	6	29	66840	 And they said to one another, "Who has done this thing?" And after they had searched and inquired, they said, "Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing." 
07O	6	30	66850	 Then the men of the town said to Joash, "Bring out your son, that he may die, for he has broken down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah beside it." 
07O	6	31	66860	 But Joash said to all who stood against him, "Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? Whoever contends for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because his altar has been broken down." 
07O	6	32	66870	 Therefore on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, "Let Baal contend against him," because he broke down his altar. 
07O	6	33	66880	 Now all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East came together, and they crossed the Jordan and encamped in the Valley of Jezreel. 
07O	6	34	66890	 But the Spirit of the LORD clothed Gideon, and he sounded the trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called out to follow him. 
07O	6	35	66900	 And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they too were called out to follow him. And he sent messengers to Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they went up to meet them. 
07O	6	36	66910	 Then Gideon said to God, "If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said, 
07O	6	37	66920	 behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said." 
07O	6	38	66930	 And it was so. When he rose early next morning and squeezed the fleece, he wrung enough dew from the fleece to fill a bowl with water. 
07O	6	39	66940	 Then Gideon said to God, "Let not your anger burn against me; let me speak just once more. Please let me test just once more with the fleece. Please let it be dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground let there be dew." 
07O	6	40	66950	 And God did so that night; and it was dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew. 
07O	7	1	66960	 Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. 
07O	7	2	66970	 The LORD said to Gideon, "The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel boast over me, saying, 'My own hand has saved me.' 
07O	7	3	66980	 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, 'Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home and hurry away from Mount Gilead.'" Then 22,000 of the people returned, and 10,000 remained. 
07O	7	4	66990	 And the LORD said to Gideon, "The people are still too many. Take them down to the water, and I will test them for you there, and anyone of whom I say to you, 'This one shall go with you,' shall go with you, and anyone of whom I say to you, 'This one shall not go with you,' shall not go." 
07O	7	5	67000	 So he brought the people down to the water. And the LORD said to Gideon, "Every one who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself. Likewise, every one who kneels down to drink." 
07O	7	6	67010	 And the number of those who lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was 300 men, but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water. 
07O	7	7	67020	 And the LORD said to Gideon, "With the 300 men who lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hand, and let all the others go every man to his home." 
07O	7	8	67030	 So the people took provisions in their hands, and their trumpets. And he sent all the rest of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the 300 men. And the camp of Midian was below him in the valley. 
07O	7	9	67040	 That same night the LORD said to him, "Arise, go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hand. 
07O	7	10	67050	 But if you are afraid to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your servant. 
07O	7	11	67060	 And you shall hear what they say, and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp." Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outposts of the armed men who were in the camp. 
07O	7	12	67070	 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance. 
07O	7	13	67080	 When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, "Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat." 
07O	7	14	67090	 And his comrade answered, "This is no other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given into his hand Midian and all the camp." 
07O	7	15	67100	 As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped. And he returned to the camp of Israel and said, "Arise, for the LORD has given the host of Midian into your hand." 
07O	7	16	67110	 And he divided the 300 men into three companies and put trumpets into the hands of all of them and empty jars, with torches inside the jars. 
07O	7	17	67120	 And he said to them, "Look at me, and do likewise. When I come to the outskirts of the camp, do as I do. 
07O	7	18	67130	 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp and shout, 'For the LORD and for Gideon.'" 
07O	7	19	67140	 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch. And they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands. 
07O	7	20	67150	 Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars. They held in their left hands the torches, and in their right hands the trumpets to blow. And they cried out, "A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!" 
07O	7	21	67160	 Every man stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran. They cried out and fled. 
07O	7	22	67170	 When they blew the 300 trumpets, the LORD set every man's sword against his comrade and against all the army. And the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath. 
07O	7	23	67180	 And the men of Israel were called out from Naphtali and from Asher and from all Manasseh, and they pursued after Midian. 
07O	7	24	67190	 Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down against the Midianites and capture the waters against them, as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan." So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan. 
07O	7	25	67200	 And they captured the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb. Then they pursued Midian, and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon across the Jordan. 
07O	8	1	67210	 Then the men of Ephraim said to him, "What is this that you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight against Midian?" And they accused him fiercely. 
07O	8	2	67220	 And he said to them, "What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer? 
07O	8	3	67230	 God has given into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. What have I been able to do in comparison with you?" Then their anger against him subsided when he said this. 
07O	8	4	67240	 And Gideon came to the Jordan and crossed over, he and the 300 men who were with him, exhausted yet pursuing. 
07O	8	5	67250	 So he said to the men of Succoth, "Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian." 
07O	8	6	67260	 And the officials of Succoth said, "Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?" 
07O	8	7	67270	 So Gideon said, "Well then, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers." 
07O	8	8	67280	 And from there he went up to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way, and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered. 
07O	8	9	67290	 And he said to the men of Penuel, "When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower." 
07O	8	10	67300	 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about 15,000 men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the East, for there had fallen 120,000 men who drew the sword. 
07O	8	11	67310	 And Gideon went up by the way of the tent dwellers east of Nobah and Jogbehah and attacked the army, for the army felt secure. 
07O	8	12	67320	 And Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and he pursued them and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and he threw all the army into a panic. 
07O	8	13	67330	 Then Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle by the ascent of Heres. 
07O	8	14	67340	 And he captured a young man of Succoth and questioned him. And he wrote down for him the officials and elders of Succoth, seventy-seven men. 
07O	8	15	67350	 And he came to the men of Succoth and said, "Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, 'Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are exhausted?'" 
07O	8	16	67360	 And he took the elders of the city, and he took thorns of the wilderness and briers and with them taught the men of Succoth a lesson. 
07O	8	17	67370	 And he broke down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city. 
07O	8	18	67380	 Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, "Where are the men whom you killed at Tabor?" They answered, "As you are, so were they. Every one of them resembled the son of a king." 
07O	8	19	67390	 And he said, "They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the LORD lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you." 
07O	8	20	67400	 So he said to Jether his firstborn, "Rise and kill them!" But the young man did not draw his sword, for he was afraid, because he was still a young man. 
07O	8	21	67410	 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Rise yourself and fall upon us, for as the man is, so is his strength." And Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments that were on the necks of their camels. 
07O	8	22	67420	 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also, for you have saved us from the hand of Midian." 
07O	8	23	67430	 Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the LORD will rule over you." 
07O	8	24	67440	 And Gideon said to them, "Let me make a request of you: every one of you give me the earrings from his spoil." (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.) 
07O	8	25	67450	 And they answered, "We will willingly give them." And they spread a cloak, and every man threw in it the earrings of his spoil. 
07O	8	26	67460	 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were around the necks of their camels. 
07O	8	27	67470	 And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family. 
07O	8	28	67480	 So Midian was subdued before the people of Israel, and they raised their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon. 
07O	8	29	67490	 Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house. 
07O	8	30	67500	 Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives. 
07O	8	31	67510	 And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech. 
07O	8	32	67520	 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, at Ophrah of the Abiezrites. 
07O	8	33	67530	 As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and whored after the Baals and made Baal-berith their god. 
07O	8	34	67540	 And the people of Israel did not remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them from the hand of all their enemies on every side, 
07O	8	35	67550	 and they did not show steadfast love to the family of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) in return for all the good that he had done to Israel. 
07O	9	1	67560	 Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family, 
07O	9	2	67570	 "Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, 'Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you?' Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh." 
07O	9	3	67580	 And his mother's relatives spoke all these words on his behalf in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, "He is our brother." 
07O	9	4	67590	 And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him. 
07O	9	5	67600	 And he went to his father's house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself. 
07O	9	6	67610	 And all the leaders of Shechem came together, and all Beth-millo, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem. 
07O	9	7	67620	 When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on top of Mount Gerizim and cried aloud and said to them, "Listen to me, you leaders of Shechem, that God may listen to you. 
07O	9	8	67630	 The trees once went out to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.' 
07O	9	9	67640	 But the olive tree said to them, 'Shall I leave my abundance, by which gods and men are honored, and go hold sway over the trees?' 
07O	9	10	67650	 And the trees said to the fig tree, 'You come and reign over us.' 
07O	9	11	67660	 But the fig tree said to them, 'Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit and go hold sway over the trees?' 
07O	9	12	67670	 And the trees said to the vine, 'You come and reign over us.' 
07O	9	13	67680	 But the vine said to them, 'Shall I leave my wine that cheers God and men and go hold sway over the trees?' 
07O	9	14	67690	 Then all the trees said to the bramble, 'You come and reign over us.' 
07O	9	15	67700	 And the bramble said to the trees, 'If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade, but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.' 
07O	9	16	67710	 "Now therefore, if you acted in good faith and integrity when you made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house and have done to him as his deeds deserved-- 
07O	9	17	67720	 for my father fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian, 
07O	9	18	67730	 and you have risen up against my father's house this day and have killed his sons, seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the leaders of Shechem, because he is your relative-- 
07O	9	19	67740	 if you then have acted in good faith and integrity with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you. 
07O	9	20	67750	 But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the leaders of Shechem and from Beth-millo and devour Abimelech." 
07O	9	21	67760	 And Jotham ran away and fled and went to Beer and lived there, because of Abimelech his brother. 
07O	9	22	67770	 Abimelech ruled over Israel three years. 
07O	9	23	67780	 And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem, and the leaders of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech, 
07O	9	24	67790	 that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers. 
07O	9	25	67800	 And the leaders of Shechem put men in ambush against him on the mountaintops, and they robbed all who passed by them along that way. And it was told to Abimelech. 
07O	9	26	67810	 And Gaal the son of Ebed moved into Shechem with his relatives, and the leaders of Shechem put confidence in him. 
07O	9	27	67820	 And they went out into the field and gathered the grapes from their vineyards and trod them and held a festival; and they went into the house of their god and ate and drank and reviled Abimelech. 
07O	9	28	67830	 And Gaal the son of Ebed said, "Who is Abimelech, and who are we of Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem; but why should we serve him? 
07O	9	29	67840	 Would that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech. I would say to Abimelech, 'Increase your army, and come out.'" 
07O	9	30	67850	 When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled. 
07O	9	31	67860	 And he sent messengers to Abimelech secretly, saying, "Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his relatives have come to Shechem, and they are stirring up the city against you. 
07O	9	32	67870	 Now therefore, go by night, you and the people who are with you, and set an ambush in the field. 
07O	9	33	67880	 Then in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, rise early and rush upon the city. And when he and the people who are with him come out against you, you may do to them as your hand finds to do." 
07O	9	34	67890	 So Abimelech and all the men who were with him rose up by night and set an ambush against Shechem in four companies. 
07O	9	35	67900	 And Gaal the son of Ebed went out and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city, and Abimelech and the people who were with him rose from the ambush. 
07O	9	36	67910	 And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, "Look, people are coming down from the mountaintops!" And Zebul said to him, "You mistake the shadow of the mountains for men." 
07O	9	37	67920	 Gaal spoke again and said, "Look, people are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming from the direction of the Diviners' Oak." 
07O	9	38	67930	 Then Zebul said to him, "Where is your mouth now, you who said, 'Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?' Are not these the people whom you despised? Go out now and fight with them." 
07O	9	39	67940	 And Gaal went out at the head of the leaders of Shechem and fought with Abimelech. 
07O	9	40	67950	 And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him. And many fell wounded, up to the entrance of the gate. 
07O	9	41	67960	 And Abimelech lived at Arumah, and Zebul drove out Gaal and his relatives, so that they could not dwell at Shechem. 
07O	9	42	67970	 On the following day, the people went out into the field, and Abimelech was told. 
07O	9	43	67980	 He took his people and divided them into three companies and set an ambush in the fields. And he looked and saw the people coming out of the city. So he rose against them and killed them. 
07O	9	44	67990	 Abimelech and the company that was with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the gate of the city, while the two companies rushed upon all who were in the field and killed them. 
07O	9	45	68000	 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed the people who were in it, and he razed the city and sowed it with salt. 
07O	9	46	68010	 When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered the stronghold of the house of El-berith. 
07O	9	47	68020	 Abimelech was told that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem were gathered together. 
07O	9	48	68030	 And Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him. And Abimelech took an axe in his hand and cut down a bundle of brushwood and took it up and laid it on his shoulder. And he said to the men who were with him, "What you have seen me do, hurry and do as I have done." 
07O	9	49	68040	 So every one of the people cut down his bundle and following Abimelech put it against the stronghold, and they set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the Tower of Shechem also died, about 1,000 men and women. 
07O	9	50	68050	 Then Abimelech went to Thebez and encamped against Thebez and captured it. 
07O	9	51	68060	 But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women and all the leaders of the city fled to it and shut themselves in, and they went up to the roof of the tower. 
07O	9	52	68070	 And Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire. 
07O	9	53	68080	 And a certain woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelech's head and crushed his skull. 
07O	9	54	68090	 Then he called quickly to the young man his armor-bearer and said to him, "Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, 'A woman killed him.'" And his young man thrust him through, and he died. 
07O	9	55	68100	 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, everyone departed to his home. 
07O	9	56	68110	 Thus God returned the evil of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers. 
07O	9	57	68120	 And God also made all the evil of the men of Shechem return on their heads, and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal. 
07O	10	1	68130	 After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, and he lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim. 
07O	10	2	68140	 And he judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried at Shamir. 
07O	10	3	68150	 After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years. 
07O	10	4	68160	 And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities, called Havvoth-jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead. 
07O	10	5	68170	 And Jair died and was buried in Kamon. 
07O	10	6	68180	 The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the LORD and did not serve him. 
07O	10	7	68190	 So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites, 
07O	10	8	68200	 and they crushed and oppressed the people of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. 
07O	10	9	68210	 And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was severely distressed. 
07O	10	10	68220	 And the people of Israel cried out to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against you, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals." 
07O	10	11	68230	 And the LORD said to the people of Israel, "Did I not save you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites, from the Ammonites and from the Philistines? 
07O	10	12	68240	 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to me, and I saved you out of their hand. 
07O	10	13	68250	 Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will save you no more. 
07O	10	14	68260	 Go and cry out to the gods whom you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress." 
07O	10	15	68270	 And the people of Israel said to the LORD, "We have sinned; do to us whatever seems good to you. Only please deliver us this day." 
07O	10	16	68280	 So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and he became impatient over the misery of Israel. 
07O	10	17	68290	 Then the Ammonites were called to arms, and they encamped in Gilead. And the people of Israel came together, and they encamped at Mizpah. 
07O	10	18	68300	 And the people, the leaders of Gilead, said one to another, "Who is the man who will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead." 
07O	11	1	68310	 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was the father of Jephthah. 
07O	11	2	68320	 And Gilead's wife also bore him sons. And when his wife's sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, "You shall not have an inheritance in our father's house, for you are the son of another woman." 
07O	11	3	68330	 Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob, and worthless fellows collected around Jephthah and went out with him. 
07O	11	4	68340	 After a time the Ammonites made war against Israel. 
07O	11	5	68350	 And when the Ammonites made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob. 
07O	11	6	68360	 And they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our leader, that we may fight against the Ammonites." 
07O	11	7	68370	 But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "Did you not hate me and drive me out of my father's house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?" 
07O	11	8	68380	 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "That is why we have turned to you now, that you may go with us and fight against the Ammonites and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead." 
07O	11	9	68390	 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me home again to fight against the Ammonites, and the LORD gives them over to me, I will be your head." 
07O	11	10	68400	 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "The LORD will be witness between us, if we do not do as you say." 
07O	11	11	68410	 So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before the LORD at Mizpah. 
07O	11	12	68420	 Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, "What do you have against me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?" 
07O	11	13	68430	 And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, "Because Israel on coming up from Egypt took away my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably." 
07O	11	14	68440	 Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites 
07O	11	15	68450	 and said to him, "Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites, 
07O	11	16	68460	 but when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh. 
07O	11	17	68470	 Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, 'Please let us pass through your land,' but the king of Edom would not listen. And they sent also to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh. 
07O	11	18	68480	 "Then they journeyed through the wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab and arrived on the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab. 
07O	11	19	68490	 Israel then sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, 'Please let us pass through your land to our country,' 
07O	11	20	68500	 but Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory, so Sihon gathered all his people together and encamped at Jahaz and fought with Israel. 
07O	11	21	68510	 And the LORD, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited that country. 
07O	11	22	68520	 And they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan. 
07O	11	23	68530	 So then the LORD, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to take possession of them? 
07O	11	24	68540	 Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And all that the LORD our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess. 
07O	11	25	68550	 Now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend against Israel, or did he ever go to war with them? 
07O	11	26	68560	 While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, 300 years, why did you not deliver them within that time? 
07O	11	27	68570	 I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me. The LORD, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon." 
07O	11	28	68580	 But the king of the Ammonites did not listen to the words of Jephthah that he sent to him. 
07O	11	29	68590	 Then the Spirit of the LORD was upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites. 
07O	11	30	68600	 And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD and said, "If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, 
07O	11	31	68610	 then whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the LORD's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering." 
07O	11	32	68620	 So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the LORD gave them into his hand. 
07O	11	33	68630	 And he struck them from Aroer to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a great blow. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people of Israel. 
07O	11	34	68640	 Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter. 
07O	11	35	68650	 And as soon as he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, "Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you have become the cause of great trouble to me. For I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I cannot take back my vow." 
07O	11	36	68660	 And she said to him, "My father, you have opened your mouth to the LORD; do to me according to what has gone out of your mouth, now that the LORD has avenged you on your enemies, on the Ammonites." 
07O	11	37	68670	 So she said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me: leave me alone two months, that I may go up and down on the mountains and weep for my virginity, I and my companions." 
07O	11	38	68680	 So he said, "Go." Then he sent her away for two months, and she departed, she and her companions, and wept for her virginity on the mountains. 
07O	11	39	68690	 And at the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow that he had made. She had never known a man, and it became a custom in Israel 
07O	11	40	68700	 that the daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year. 
07O	12	1	68710	 The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, "Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire." 
07O	12	2	68720	 And Jephthah said to them, "I and my people had a great dispute with the Ammonites, and when I called you, you did not save me from their hand. 
07O	12	3	68730	 And when I saw that you would not save me, I took my life in my hand and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the LORD gave them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?" 
07O	12	4	68740	 Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, "You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and Manasseh." 
07O	12	5	68750	 And the Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, "Let me go over," the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" When he said, "No," 
07O	12	6	68760	 they said to him, "Then say Shibboleth," and he said, "Sibboleth," for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 of the Ephraimites fell. 
07O	12	7	68770	 Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in his city in Gilead. 
07O	12	8	68780	 After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. 
07O	12	9	68790	 He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years. 
07O	12	10	68800	 Then Ibzan died and was buried at Bethlehem. 
07O	12	11	68810	 After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel, and he judged Israel ten years. 
07O	12	12	68820	 Then Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried at Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. 
07O	12	13	68830	 After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel. 
07O	12	14	68840	 He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys, and he judged Israel eight years. 
07O	12	15	68850	 Then Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried at Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites. 
07O	13	1	68860	 And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, so the LORD gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years. 
07O	13	2	68870	 There was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and had no children. 
07O	13	3	68880	 And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, "Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son. 
07O	13	4	68890	 Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, 
07O	13	5	68900	 for behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines." 
07O	13	6	68910	 Then the woman came and told her husband, "A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name, 
07O	13	7	68920	 but he said to me, 'Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.'" 
07O	13	8	68930	 Then Manoah prayed to the LORD and said, "O Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us and teach us what we are to do with the child who will be born." 
07O	13	9	68940	 And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field. But Manoah her husband was not with her. 
07O	13	10	68950	 So the woman ran quickly and told her husband, "Behold, the man who came to me the other day has appeared to me." 
07O	13	11	68960	 And Manoah arose and went after his wife and came to the man and said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to this woman?" And he said, "I am." 
07O	13	12	68970	 And Manoah said, "Now when your words come true, what is to be the child's manner of life, and what is his mission?" 
07O	13	13	68980	 And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, "Of all that I said to the woman let her be careful. 
07O	13	14	68990	 She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing. All that I commanded her let her observe." 
07O	13	15	69000	 Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, "Please let us detain you and prepare a young goat for you." 
07O	13	16	69010	 And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, "If you detain me, I will not eat of your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, then offer it to the LORD." (For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the LORD.) 
07O	13	17	69020	 And Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, "What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?" 
07O	13	18	69030	 And the angel of the LORD said to him, "Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?" 
07O	13	19	69040	 So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering, and offered it on the rock to the LORD, to the one who works wonders, and Manoah and his wife were watching. 
07O	13	20	69050	 And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the LORD went up in the flame of the altar. Now Manoah and his wife were watching, and they fell on their faces to the ground. 
07O	13	21	69060	 The angel of the LORD appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the LORD. 
07O	13	22	69070	 And Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, for we have seen God." 
07O	13	23	69080	 But his wife said to him, "If the LORD had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these." 
07O	13	24	69090	 And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson. And the young man grew, and the LORD blessed him. 
07O	13	25	69100	 And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol. 
07O	14	1	69110	 Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines. 
07O	14	2	69120	 Then he came up and told his father and mother, "I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife." 
07O	14	3	69130	 But his father and mother said to him, "Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?" But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes." 
07O	14	4	69140	 His father and mother did not know that it was from the LORD, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines. At that time the Philistines ruled over Israel. 
07O	14	5	69150	 Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion came toward him roaring. 
07O	14	6	69160	 Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young goat. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done. 
07O	14	7	69170	 Then he went down and talked with the woman, and she was right in Samson's eyes. 
07O	14	8	69180	 After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey. 
07O	14	9	69190	 He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. And he came to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the carcass of the lion. 
07O	14	10	69200	 His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, for so the young men used to do. 
07O	14	11	69210	 As soon as the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him. 
07O	14	12	69220	 And Samson said to them, "Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes, 
07O	14	13	69230	 but if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes." And they said to him, "Put your riddle, that we may hear it." 
07O	14	14	69240	 And he said to them, "Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet." And in three days they could not solve the riddle. 
07O	14	15	69250	 On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?" 
07O	14	16	69260	 And Samson's wife wept over him and said, "You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is." And he said to her, "Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?" 
07O	14	17	69270	 She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her people. 
07O	14	18	69280	 And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" And he said to them, "If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle." 
07O	14	19	69290	 And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil and gave the garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father's house. 
07O	14	20	69300	 And Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man. 
07O	15	1	69310	 After some days, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with a young goat. And he said, "I will go in to my wife in the chamber." But her father would not allow him to go in. 
07O	15	2	69320	 And her father said, "I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead." 
07O	15	3	69330	 And Samson said to them, "This time I shall be innocent in regard to the Philistines, when I do them harm." 
07O	15	4	69340	 So Samson went and caught 300 foxes and took torches. And he turned them tail to tail and put a torch between each pair of tails. 
07O	15	5	69350	 And when he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines and set fire to the stacked grain and the standing grain, as well as the olive orchards. 
07O	15	6	69360	 Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" And they said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion." And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire. 
07O	15	7	69370	 And Samson said to them, "If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged on you, and after that I will quit." 
07O	15	8	69380	 And he struck them hip and thigh with a great blow, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam. 
07O	15	9	69390	 Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah and made a raid on Lehi. 
07O	15	10	69400	 And the men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" They said, "We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he did to us." 
07O	15	11	69410	 Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" And he said to them, "As they did to me, so have I done to them." 
07O	15	12	69420	 And they said to him, "We have come down to bind you, that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines." And Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves." 
07O	15	13	69430	 They said to him, "No; we will only bind you and give you into their hands. We will surely not kill you." So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock. 
07O	15	14	69440	 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands. 
07O	15	15	69450	 And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand and took it, and with it he struck 1,000 men. 
07O	15	16	69460	 And Samson said, "With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of a donkey have I struck down a thousand men." 
07O	15	17	69470	 As soon as he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place was called Ramath-lehi. 
07O	15	18	69480	 And he was very thirsty, and he called upon the LORD and said, "You have granted this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and shall I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?" 
07O	15	19	69490	 And God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out from it. And when he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore; it is at Lehi to this day. 
07O	15	20	69500	 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years. 
07O	16	1	69510	 Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a prostitute, and he went in to her. 
07O	16	2	69520	 The Gazites were told, "Samson has come here." And they surrounded the place and set an ambush for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, "Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him." 
07O	16	3	69530	 But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is in front of Hebron. 
07O	16	4	69540	 After this he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. 
07O	16	5	69550	 And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, "Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver." 
07O	16	6	69560	 So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you." 
07O	16	7	69570	 Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, then I shall become weak and be like any other man." 
07O	16	8	69580	 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she bound him with them. 
07O	16	9	69590	 Now she had men lying in ambush in an inner chamber. And she said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he snapped the bowstrings, as a thread of flax snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known. 
07O	16	10	69600	 Then Delilah said to Samson, "Behold, you have mocked me and told me lies. Please tell me how you might be bound." 
07O	16	11	69610	 And he said to her, "If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak and be like any other man." 
07O	16	12	69620	 So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And the men lying in ambush were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread. 
07O	16	13	69630	 Then Delilah said to Samson, "Until now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me how you might be bound." And he said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and fasten it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak and be like any other man." 
07O	16	14	69640	 So while he slept, Delilah took the seven locks of his head and wove them into the web. And she made them tight with the pin and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he awoke from his sleep and pulled away the pin, the loom, and the web. 
07O	16	15	69650	 And she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me where your great strength lies." 
07O	16	16	69660	 And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death. 
07O	16	17	69670	 And he told her all his heart, and said to her, "A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man." 
07O	16	18	69680	 When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called the lords of the Philistines, saying, "Come up again, for he has told me all his heart." Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hands. 
07O	16	19	69690	 She made him sleep on her knees. And she called a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him. 
07O	16	20	69700	 And she said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And he awoke from his sleep and said, "I will go out as at other times and shake myself free." But he did not know that the LORD had left him. 
07O	16	21	69710	 And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison. 
07O	16	22	69720	 But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved. 
07O	16	23	69730	 Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to rejoice, and they said, "Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand." 
07O	16	24	69740	 And when the people saw him, they praised their god. For they said, "Our god has given our enemy into our hand, the ravager of our country, who has killed many of us." 
07O	16	25	69750	 And when their hearts were merry, they said, "Call Samson, that he may entertain us." So they called Samson out of the prison, and he entertained them. They made him stand between the pillars. 
07O	16	26	69760	 And Samson said to the young man who held him by the hand, "Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them." 
07O	16	27	69770	 Now the house was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there, and on the roof there were about 3,000 men and women, who looked on while Samson entertained. 
07O	16	28	69780	 Then Samson called to the LORD and said, "O Lord GOD, please remember me and please strengthen me only this once, O God, that I may be avenged on the Philistines for my two eyes." 
07O	16	29	69790	 And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and he leaned his weight against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other. 
07O	16	30	69800	 And Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines." Then he bowed with all his strength, and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he had killed during his life. 
07O	16	31	69810	 Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years. 
07O	17	1	69820	 There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. 
07O	17	2	69830	 And he said to his mother, "The 1,100 pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it." And his mother said, "Blessed be my son by the LORD." 
07O	17	3	69840	 And he restored the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother. And his mother said, "I dedicate the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a metal image. Now therefore I will restore it to you." 
07O	17	4	69850	 So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took 200 pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a carved image and a metal image. And it was in the house of Micah. 
07O	17	5	69860	 And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods, and ordained one of his sons, who became his priest. 
07O	17	6	69870	 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. 
07O	17	7	69880	 Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there. 
07O	17	8	69890	 And the man departed from the town of Bethlehem in Judah to sojourn where he could find a place. And as he journeyed, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah. 
07O	17	9	69900	 And Micah said to him, "Where do you come from?" And he said to him, "I am a Levite of Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to sojourn where I may find a place." 
07O	17	10	69910	 And Micah said to him, "Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year and a suit of clothes and your living." And the Levite went in. 
07O	17	11	69920	 And the Levite was content to dwell with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons. 
07O	17	12	69930	 And Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah. 
07O	17	13	69940	 Then Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest." 
07O	18	1	69950	 In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the people of Dan was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in, for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them. 
07O	18	2	69960	 So the people of Dan sent five able men from the whole number of their tribe, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, "Go and explore the land." And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there. 
07O	18	3	69970	 When they were by the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite. And they turned aside and said to him, "Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?" 
07O	18	4	69980	 And he said to them, "This is how Micah dealt with me: he has hired me, and I have become his priest." 
07O	18	5	69990	 And they said to him, "Inquire of God, please, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed." 
07O	18	6	70000	 And the priest said to them, "Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD." 
07O	18	7	70010	 Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone. 
07O	18	8	70020	 And when they came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers said to them, "What do you report?" 
07O	18	9	70030	 They said, "Arise, and let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. And will you do nothing? Do not be slow to go, to enter in and possess the land. 
07O	18	10	70040	 As soon as you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people. The land is spacious, for God has given it into your hands, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth." 
07O	18	11	70050	 So 600 men of the tribe of Dan, armed with weapons of war, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol, 
07O	18	12	70060	 and went up and encamped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. On this account that place is called Mahaneh-dan to this day; behold, it is west of Kiriath-jearim. 
07O	18	13	70070	 And they passed on from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah. 
07O	18	14	70080	 Then the five men who had gone to scout out the country of Laish said to their brothers, "Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, household gods, a carved image, and a metal image? Now therefore consider what you will do." 
07O	18	15	70090	 And they turned aside there and came to the house of the young Levite, at the home of Micah, and asked him about his welfare. 
07O	18	16	70100	 Now the 600 men of the Danites, armed with their weapons of war, stood by the entrance of the gate. 
07O	18	17	70110	 And the five men who had gone to scout out the land went up and entered and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the metal image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the 600 men armed with weapons of war. 
07O	18	18	70120	 And when these went into Micah's house and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the metal image, the priest said to them, "What are you doing?" 
07O	18	19	70130	 And they said to him, "Keep quiet; put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and clan in Israel?" 
07O	18	20	70140	 And the priest's heart was glad. He took the ephod and the household gods and the carved image and went along with the people. 
07O	18	21	70150	 So they turned and departed, putting the little ones and the livestock and the goods in front of them. 
07O	18	22	70160	 When they had gone a distance from the home of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah's house were called out, and they overtook the people of Dan. 
07O	18	23	70170	 And they shouted to the people of Dan, who turned around and said to Micah, "What is the matter with you, that you come with such a company?" 
07O	18	24	70180	 And he said, "You take my gods that I made and the priest, and go away, and what have I left? How then do you ask me, 'What is the matter with you?'" 
07O	18	25	70190	 And the people of Dan said to him, "Do not let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall upon you, and you lose your life with the lives of your household." 
07O	18	26	70200	 Then the people of Dan went their way. And when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his home. 
07O	18	27	70210	 But the people of Dan took what Micah had made, and the priest who belonged to him, and they came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire. 
07O	18	28	70220	 And there was no deliverer because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to Beth-rehob. Then they rebuilt the city and lived in it. 
07O	18	29	70230	 And they named the city Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor, who was born to Israel; but the name of the city was Laish at the first. 
07O	18	30	70240	 And the people of Dan set up the carved image for themselves, and Jonathan the son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land. 
07O	18	31	70250	 So they set up Micah's carved image that he made, as long as the house of God was at Shiloh. 
07O	19	1	70260	 In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. 
07O	19	2	70270	 And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months. 
07O	19	3	70280	 Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. And she brought him into her father's house. And when the girl's father saw him, he came with joy to meet him. 
07O	19	4	70290	 And his father-in-law, the girl's father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days. So they ate and drank and spent the night there. 
07O	19	5	70300	 And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, "Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go." 
07O	19	6	70310	 So the two of them sat and ate and drank together. And the girl's father said to the man, "Be pleased to spend the night, and let your heart be merry." 
07O	19	7	70320	 And when the man rose up to go, his father-in-law pressed him, till he spent the night there again. 
07O	19	8	70330	 And on the fifth day he arose early in the morning to depart. And the girl's father said, "Strengthen your heart and wait until the day declines." So they ate, both of them. 
07O	19	9	70340	 And when the man and his concubine and his servant rose up to depart, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, "Behold, now the day has waned toward evening. Please, spend the night. Behold, the day draws to its close. Lodge here and let your heart be merry, and tomorrow you shall arise early in the morning for your journey, and go home." 
07O	19	10	70350	 But the man would not spend the night. He rose up and departed and arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). He had with him a couple of saddled donkeys, and his concubine was with him. 
07O	19	11	70360	 When they were near Jebus, the day was nearly over, and the servant said to his master, "Come now, let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusites and spend the night in it." 
07O	19	12	70370	 And his master said to him, "We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners, who do not belong to the people of Israel, but we will pass on to Gibeah." 
07O	19	13	70380	 And he said to his young man, "Come and let us draw near to one of these places and spend the night at Gibeah or at Ramah." 
07O	19	14	70390	 So they passed on and went their way. And the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin, 
07O	19	15	70400	 and they turned aside there, to go in and spend the night at Gibeah. And he went in and sat down in the open square of the city, for no one took them into his house to spend the night. 
07O	19	16	70410	 And behold, an old man was coming from his work in the field at evening. The man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was sojourning in Gibeah. The men of the place were Benjaminites. 
07O	19	17	70420	 And he lifted up his eyes and saw the traveler in the open square of the city. And the old man said, "Where are you going? And where do you come from?" 
07O	19	18	70430	 And he said to him, "We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, from which I come. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to the house of the Lord, but no one has taken me into his house. 
07O	19	19	70440	 We have straw and feed for our donkeys, with bread and wine for me and your female servant and the young man with your servants. There is no lack of anything." 
07O	19	20	70450	 And the old man said, "Peace be to you; I will care for all your wants. Only, do not spend the night in the square." 
07O	19	21	70460	 So he brought him into his house and gave the donkeys feed. And they washed their feet, and ate and drank. 
07O	19	22	70470	 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him." 
07O	19	23	70480	 And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, "No, my brothers, do not act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, do not do this vile thing. 
07O	19	24	70490	 Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out now. Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing." 
07O	19	25	70500	 But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and made her go out to them. And they knew her and abused her all night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go. 
07O	19	26	70510	 And as morning appeared, the woman came and fell down at the door of the man's house where her master was, until it was light. 
07O	19	27	70520	 And her master rose up in the morning, and when he opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, behold, there was his concubine lying at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold. 
07O	19	28	70530	 He said to her, "Get up, let us be going." But there was no answer. Then he put her on the donkey, and the man rose up and went away to his home. 
07O	19	29	70540	 And when he entered his house, he took a knife, and taking hold of his concubine he divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel. 
07O	19	30	70550	 And all who saw it said, "Such a thing has never happened or been seen from the day that the people of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt until this day; consider it, take counsel, and speak." 
07O	20	1	70560	 Then all the people of Israel came out, from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled as one man to the LORD at Mizpah. 
07O	20	2	70570	 And the chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, 400,000 men on foot that drew the sword. 
07O	20	3	70580	 (Now the people of Benjamin heard that the people of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the people of Israel said, "Tell us, how did this evil happen?" 
07O	20	4	70590	 And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, "I came to Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night. 
07O	20	5	70600	 And the leaders of Gibeah rose against me and surrounded the house against me by night. They meant to kill me, and they violated my concubine, and she is dead. 
07O	20	6	70610	 So I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed abomination and outrage in Israel. 
07O	20	7	70620	 Behold, you people of Israel, all of you, give your advice and counsel here." 
07O	20	8	70630	 And all the people arose as one man, saying, "None of us will go to his tent, and none of us will return to his house. 
07O	20	9	70640	 But now this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot, 
07O	20	10	70650	 and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand, to bring provisions for the people, that when they come they may repay Gibeah of Benjamin, for all the outrage that they have committed in Israel." 
07O	20	11	70660	 So all the men of Israel gathered against the city, united as one man. 
07O	20	12	70670	 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What evil is this that has taken place among you? 
07O	20	13	70680	 Now therefore give up the men, the worthless fellows in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and purge evil from Israel." But the Benjaminites would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the people of Israel. 
07O	20	14	70690	 Then the people of Benjamin came together out of the cities to Gibeah to go out to battle against the people of Israel. 
07O	20	15	70700	 And the people of Benjamin mustered out of their cities on that day 26,000 men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who mustered 700 chosen men. 
07O	20	16	70710	 Among all these were 700 chosen men who were left-handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss. 
07O	20	17	70720	 And the men of Israel, apart from Benjamin, mustered 400,000 men who drew the sword; all these were men of war. 
07O	20	18	70730	 The people of Israel arose and went up to Bethel and inquired of God, "Who shall go up first for us to fight against the people of Benjamin?" And the LORD said, "Judah shall go up first." 
07O	20	19	70740	 Then the people of Israel rose in the morning and encamped against Gibeah. 
07O	20	20	70750	 And the men of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin, and the men of Israel drew up the battle line against them at Gibeah. 
07O	20	21	70760	 The people of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and destroyed on that day 22,000 men of the Israelites. 
07O	20	22	70770	 But the people, the men of Israel, took courage, and again formed the battle line in the same place where they had formed it on the first day. 
07O	20	23	70780	 And the people of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until the evening. And they inquired of the LORD, "Shall we again draw near to fight against our brothers, the people of Benjamin?" And the LORD said, "Go up against them." 
07O	20	24	70790	 So the people of Israel came near against the people of Benjamin the second day. 
07O	20	25	70800	 And Benjamin went against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed 18,000 men of the people of Israel. All these were men who drew the sword. 
07O	20	26	70810	 Then all the people of Israel, the whole army, went up and came to Bethel and wept. They sat there before the LORD and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD. 
07O	20	27	70820	 And the people of Israel inquired of the LORD (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days, 
07O	20	28	70830	 and Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, ministered before it in those days), saying, "Shall we go out once more to battle against our brothers, the people of Benjamin, or shall we cease?" And the LORD said, "Go up, for tomorrow I will give them into your hand." 
07O	20	29	70840	 So Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah. 
07O	20	30	70850	 And the people of Israel went up against the people of Benjamin on the third day and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times. 
07O	20	31	70860	 And the people of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city. And as at other times they began to strike and kill some of the people in the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel. 
07O	20	32	70870	 And the people of Benjamin said, "They are routed before us, as at the first." But the people of Israel said, "Let us flee and draw them away from the city to the highways." 
07O	20	33	70880	 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place and set themselves in array at Baal-tamar, and the men of Israel who were in ambush rushed out of their place from Maareh-geba. 
07O	20	34	70890	 And there came against Gibeah 10,000 chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was hard, but the Benjaminites did not know that disaster was close upon them. 
07O	20	35	70900	 And the LORD defeated Benjamin before Israel, and the people of Israel destroyed 25,100 men of Benjamin that day. All these were men who drew the sword. 
07O	20	36	70910	 So the people of Benjamin saw that they were defeated. The men of Israel gave ground to Benjamin, because they trusted the men in ambush whom they had set against Gibeah. 
07O	20	37	70920	 Then the men in ambush hurried and rushed against Gibeah; the men in ambush moved out and struck all the city with the edge of the sword. 
07O	20	38	70930	 Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in the main ambush was that when they made a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city 
07O	20	39	70940	 the men of Israel should turn in battle. Now Benjamin had begun to strike and kill about thirty men of Israel. They said, "Surely they are defeated before us, as in the first battle." 
07O	20	40	70950	 But when the signal began to rise out of the city in a column of smoke, the Benjaminites looked behind them, and behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to heaven. 
07O	20	41	70960	 Then the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed, for they saw that disaster was close upon them. 
07O	20	42	70970	 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel in the direction of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them. And those who came out of the cities were destroying them in their midst. 
07O	20	43	70980	 Surrounding the Benjaminites, they pursued them and trod them down from Nohah as far as opposite Gibeah on the east. 
07O	20	44	70990	 Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell, all of them men of valor. 
07O	20	45	71000	 And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. Five thousand men of them were cut down in the highways. And they were pursued hard to Gidom, and 2,000 men of them were struck down. 
07O	20	46	71010	 So all who fell that day of Benjamin were 25,000 men who drew the sword, all of them men of valor. 
07O	20	47	71020	 But 600 men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon and remained at the rock of Rimmon four months. 
07O	20	48	71030	 And the men of Israel turned back against the people of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, the city, men and beasts and all that they found. And all the towns that they found they set on fire. 
07O	21	1	71040	 Now the men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, "No one of us shall give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin." 
07O	21	2	71050	 And the people came to Bethel and sat there till evening before God, and they lifted up their voices and wept bitterly. 
07O	21	3	71060	 And they said, "O LORD, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that today there should be one tribe lacking in Israel?" 
07O	21	4	71070	 And the next day the people rose early and built there an altar and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. 
07O	21	5	71080	 And the people of Israel said, "Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the LORD?" For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah, saying, "He shall surely be put to death." 
07O	21	6	71090	 And the people of Israel had compassion for Benjamin their brother and said, "One tribe is cut off from Israel this day. 
07O	21	7	71100	 What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?" 
07O	21	8	71110	 And they said, "What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah?" And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead, to the assembly. 
07O	21	9	71120	 For when the people were mustered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there. 
07O	21	10	71130	 So the congregation sent 12,000 of their bravest men there and commanded them, "Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones. 
07O	21	11	71140	 This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction." 
07O	21	12	71150	 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. 
07O	21	13	71160	 Then the whole congregation sent word to the people of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon and proclaimed peace to them. 
07O	21	14	71170	 And Benjamin returned at that time. And they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead, but they were not enough for them. 
07O	21	15	71180	 And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel. 
07O	21	16	71190	 Then the elders of the congregation said, "What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?" 
07O	21	17	71200	 And they said, "There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel. 
07O	21	18	71210	 Yet we cannot give them wives from our daughters." For the people of Israel had sworn, "Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin." 
07O	21	19	71220	 So they said, "Behold, there is the yearly feast of the LORD at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah." 
07O	21	20	71230	 And they commanded the people of Benjamin, saying, "Go and lie in ambush in the vineyards 
07O	21	21	71240	 and watch. If the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and snatch each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. 
07O	21	22	71250	 And when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, 'Grant them graciously to us, because we did not take for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.'" 
07O	21	23	71260	 And the people of Benjamin did so and took their wives, according to their number, from the dancers whom they carried off. Then they went and returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the towns and lived in them. 
07O	21	24	71270	 And the people of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance. 
07O	21	25	71280	 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. 
08O	1	1	71290	 In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. 
08O	1	2	71300	 The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there. 
08O	1	3	71310	 But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. 
08O	1	4	71320	 These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years, 
08O	1	5	71330	 and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband. 
08O	1	6	71340	 Then she arose with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that the LORD had visited his people and given them food. 
08O	1	7	71350	 So she set out from the place where she was with her two daughters-in-law, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah. 
08O	1	8	71360	 But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, return each of you to her mother's house. May the LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me. 
08O	1	9	71370	 The LORD grant that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband!" Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept. 
08O	1	10	71380	 And they said to her, "No, we will return with you to your people." 
08O	1	11	71390	 But Naomi said, "Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb that they may become your husbands? 
08O	1	12	71400	 Turn back, my daughters; go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, even if I should have a husband this night and should bear sons, 
08O	1	13	71410	 would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me." 
08O	1	14	71420	 Then they lifted up their voices and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her. 
08O	1	15	71430	 And she said, "See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law." 
08O	1	16	71440	 But Ruth said, "Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. 
08O	1	17	71450	 Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the LORD do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you." 
08O	1	18	71460	 And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more. 
08O	1	19	71470	 So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. And when they came to Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them. And the women said, "Is this Naomi?" 
08O	1	20	71480	 She said to them, "Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. 
08O	1	21	71490	 I went away full, and the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi, when the LORD has testified against me and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?" 
08O	1	22	71500	 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest. 
08O	2	1	71510	 Now Naomi had a relative of her husband's, a worthy man of the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz. 
08O	2	2	71520	 And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, "Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor." And she said to her, "Go, my daughter." 
08O	2	3	71530	 So she set out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the clan of Elimelech. 
08O	2	4	71540	 And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem. And he said to the reapers, "The LORD be with you!" And they answered, "The LORD bless you." 
08O	2	5	71550	 Then Boaz said to his young man who was in charge of the reapers, "Whose young woman is this?" 
08O	2	6	71560	 And the servant who was in charge of the reapers answered, "She is the young Moabite woman, who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab. 
08O	2	7	71570	 She said, 'Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers.' So she came, and she has continued from early morning until now, except for a short rest." 
08O	2	8	71580	 Then Boaz said to Ruth, "Now, listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my young women. 
08O	2	9	71590	 Let your eyes be on the field that they are reaping, and go after them. Have I not charged the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink what the young men have drawn." 
08O	2	10	71600	 Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, "Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?" 
08O	2	11	71610	 But Boaz answered her, "All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before. 
08O	2	12	71620	 The LORD repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!" 
08O	2	13	71630	 Then she said, "I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not one of your servants." 
08O	2	14	71640	 And at mealtime Boaz said to her, "Come here and eat some bread and dip your morsel in the wine." So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed to her roasted grain. And she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over. 
08O	2	15	71650	 When she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young men, saying, "Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her. 
08O	2	16	71660	 And also pull out some from the bundles for her and leave it for her to glean, and do not rebuke her." 
08O	2	17	71670	 So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley. 
08O	2	18	71680	 And she took it up and went into the city. Her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She also brought out and gave her what food she had left over after being satisfied. 
08O	2	19	71690	 And her mother-in-law said to her, "Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? Blessed be the man who took notice of you." So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, "The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz." 
08O	2	20	71700	 And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "May he be blessed by the LORD, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!" Naomi also said to her, "The man is a close relative of ours, one of our redeemers." 
08O	2	21	71710	 And Ruth the Moabite said, "Besides, he said to me, 'You shall keep close by my young men until they have finished all my harvest.'" 
08O	2	22	71720	 And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, "It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, lest in another field you be assaulted." 
08O	2	23	71730	 So she kept close to the young women of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests. And she lived with her mother-in-law. 
08O	3	1	71740	 Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, should I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you? 
08O	3	2	71750	 Is not Boaz our relative, with whose young women you were? See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor. 
08O	3	3	71760	 Wash therefore and anoint yourself, and put on your cloak and go down to the threshing floor, but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking. 
08O	3	4	71770	 But when he lies down, observe the place where he lies. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down, and he will tell you what to do." 
08O	3	5	71780	 And she replied, "All that you say I will do." 
08O	3	6	71790	 So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had commanded her. 
08O	3	7	71800	 And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then she came softly and uncovered his feet and lay down. 
08O	3	8	71810	 At midnight the man was startled and turned over, and behold, a woman lay at his feet! 
08O	3	9	71820	 He said, "Who are you?" And she answered, "I am Ruth, your servant. Spread your wings over your servant, for you are a redeemer." 
08O	3	10	71830	 And he said, "May you be blessed by the LORD, my daughter. You have made this last kindness greater than the first in that you have not gone after young men, whether poor or rich. 
08O	3	11	71840	 And now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you all that you ask, for all my fellow townsmen know that you are a worthy woman. 
08O	3	12	71850	 And now it is true that I am a redeemer. Yet there is a redeemer nearer than I. 
08O	3	13	71860	 Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the LORD lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning." 
08O	3	14	71870	 So she lay at his feet until the morning, but arose before one could recognize another. And he said, "Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor." 
08O	3	15	71880	 And he said, "Bring the garment you are wearing and hold it out." So she held it, and he measured out six measures of barley and put it on her. Then she went into the city. 
08O	3	16	71890	 And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, "How did you fare, my daughter?" Then she told her all that the man had done for her, 
08O	3	17	71900	 saying, "These six measures of barley he gave to me, for he said to me, 'You must not go back empty-handed to your mother-in-law.'" 
08O	3	18	71910	 She replied, "Wait, my daughter, until you learn how the matter turns out, for the man will not rest but will settle the matter today." 
08O	4	1	71920	 Now Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the redeemer, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. So Boaz said, "Turn aside, friend; sit down here." And he turned aside and sat down. 
08O	4	2	71930	 And he took ten men of the elders of the city and said, "Sit down here." So they sat down. 
08O	4	3	71940	 Then he said to the redeemer, "Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land that belonged to our relative Elimelech. 
08O	4	4	71950	 So I thought I would tell you of it and say, 'Buy it in the presence of those sitting here and in the presence of the elders of my people.' If you will redeem it, redeem it. But if you will not, tell me, that I may know, for there is no one besides you to redeem it, and I come after you." And he said, "I will redeem it." 
08O	4	5	71960	 Then Boaz said, "The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the widow of the dead, in order to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance." 
08O	4	6	71970	 Then the redeemer said, "I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I impair my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption yourself, for I cannot redeem it." 
08O	4	7	71980	 Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging: to confirm a transaction, the one drew off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was the manner of attesting in Israel. 
08O	4	8	71990	 So when the redeemer said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself," he drew off his sandal. 
08O	4	9	72000	 Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, "You are witnesses this day that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and to Mahlon. 
08O	4	10	72010	 Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day." 
08O	4	11	72020	 Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, "We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem, 
08O	4	12	72030	 and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring that the LORD will give you by this young woman." 
08O	4	13	72040	 So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son. 
08O	4	14	72050	 Then the women said to Naomi, "Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a redeemer, and may his name be renowned in Israel! 
08O	4	15	72060	 He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him." 
08O	4	16	72070	 Then Naomi took the child and laid him on her lap and became his nurse. 
08O	4	17	72080	 And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, "A son has been born to Naomi." They named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David. 
08O	4	18	72090	 Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez fathered Hezron, 
08O	4	19	72100	 Hezron fathered Ram, Ram fathered Amminadab, 
08O	4	20	72110	 Amminadab fathered Nahshon, Nahshon fathered Salmon, 
08O	4	21	72120	 Salmon fathered Boaz, Boaz fathered Obed, 
08O	4	22	72130	 Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David. 
09O	1	1	72140	 There was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephrathite. 
09O	1	2	72150	 He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. 
09O	1	3	72160	 Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the LORD. 
09O	1	4	72170	 On the day when Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters. 
09O	1	5	72180	 But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the LORD had closed her womb. 
09O	1	6	72190	 And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the LORD had closed her womb. 
09O	1	7	72200	 So it went on year by year. As often as she went up to the house of the LORD, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat. 
09O	1	8	72210	 And Elkanah, her husband, said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? And why do you not eat? And why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?" 
09O	1	9	72220	 After they had eaten and drunk in Shiloh, Hannah rose. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat beside the doorpost of the temple of the LORD. 
09O	1	10	72230	 She was deeply distressed and prayed to the LORD and wept bitterly. 
09O	1	11	72240	 And she vowed a vow and said, "O LORD of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head." 
09O	1	12	72250	 As she continued praying before the LORD, Eli observed her mouth. 
09O	1	13	72260	 Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips moved, and her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli took her to be a drunken woman. 
09O	1	14	72270	 And Eli said to her, "How long will you go on being drunk? Put your wine away from you." 
09O	1	15	72280	 But Hannah answered, "No, my lord, I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the LORD. 
09O	1	16	72290	 Do not regard your servant as a worthless woman, for all along I have been speaking out of my great anxiety and vexation." 
09O	1	17	72300	 Then Eli answered, "Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have made to him." 
09O	1	18	72310	 And she said, "Let your servant find favor in your eyes." Then the woman went her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad. 
09O	1	19	72320	 They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the LORD; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the LORD remembered her. 
09O	1	20	72330	 And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, "I have asked for him from the LORD." 
09O	1	21	72340	 The man Elkanah and all his house went up to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice and to pay his vow. 
09O	1	22	72350	 But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, "As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear in the presence of the LORD and dwell there forever." 
09O	1	23	72360	 Elkanah her husband said to her, "Do what seems best to you; wait until you have weaned him; only, may the LORD establish his word." So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him. 
09O	1	24	72370	 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh. And the child was young. 
09O	1	25	72380	 Then they slaughtered the bull, and they brought the child to Eli. 
09O	1	26	72390	 And she said, "Oh, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the LORD. 
09O	1	27	72400	 For this child I prayed, and the LORD has granted me my petition that I made to him. 
09O	1	28	72410	 Therefore I have lent him to the LORD. As long as he lives, he is lent to the LORD." And he worshiped the LORD there. 
09O	2	1	72420	 And Hannah prayed and said, "My heart exults in the LORD; my strength is exalted in the LORD. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation. 
09O	2	2	72430	 "There is none holy like the LORD; there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God. 
09O	2	3	72440	 Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. 
09O	2	4	72450	 The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble bind on strength. 
09O	2	5	72460	 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn. 
09O	2	6	72470	 The LORD kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up. 
09O	2	7	72480	 The LORD makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and he exalts. 
09O	2	8	72490	 He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and on them he has set the world. 
09O	2	9	72500	 "He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness, for not by might shall a man prevail. 
09O	2	10	72510	 The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the power of his anointed." 
09O	2	11	72520	 Then Elkanah went home to Ramah. And the boy ministered to the LORD in the presence of Eli the priest. 
09O	2	12	72530	 Now the sons of Eli were worthless men. They did not know the LORD. 
09O	2	13	72540	 The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant would come, while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand, 
09O	2	14	72550	 and he would thrust it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or pot. All that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is what they did at Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. 
09O	2	15	72560	 Moreover, before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, "Give meat for the priest to roast, for he will not accept boiled meat from you but only raw." 
09O	2	16	72570	 And if the man said to him, "Let them burn the fat first, and then take as much as you wish," he would say, "No, you must give it now, and if not, I will take it by force." 
09O	2	17	72580	 Thus the sin of the young men was very great in the sight of the LORD, for the men treated the offering of the LORD with contempt. 
09O	2	18	72590	 Samuel was ministering before the LORD, a boy clothed with a linen ephod. 
09O	2	19	72600	 And his mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. 
09O	2	20	72610	 Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say, "May the LORD give you children by this woman for the petition she asked of the LORD." So then they would return to their home. 
09O	2	21	72620	 Indeed the LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the young man Samuel grew in the presence of the LORD. 
09O	2	22	72630	 Now Eli was very old, and he kept hearing all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who were serving at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 
09O	2	23	72640	 And he said to them, "Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all the people. 
09O	2	24	72650	 No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the LORD spreading abroad. 
09O	2	25	72660	 If someone sins against a man, God will mediate for him, but if someone sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?" But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the LORD to put them to death. 
09O	2	26	72670	 Now the young man Samuel continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the LORD and also with man. 
09O	2	27	72680	 And there came a man of God to Eli and said to him, "Thus the LORD has said, 'Did I indeed reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt subject to the house of Pharaoh? 
09O	2	28	72690	 Did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? I gave to the house of your father all my offerings by fire from the people of Israel. 
09O	2	29	72700	 Why then do you scorn my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?' 
09O	2	30	72710	 Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: 'I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,' but now the LORD declares: 'Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed. 
09O	2	31	72720	 Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father's house, so that there will not be an old man in your house. 
09O	2	32	72730	 Then in distress you will look with envious eye on all the prosperity that shall be bestowed on Israel, and there shall not be an old man in your house forever. 
09O	2	33	72740	 The only one of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep his eyes out to grieve his heart, and all the descendants of your house shall die by the sword of men. 
09O	2	34	72750	 And this that shall come upon your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die on the same day. 
09O	2	35	72760	 And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. And I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed forever. 
09O	2	36	72770	 And everyone who is left in your house shall come to implore him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and shall say, "Please put me in one of the priests' places, that I may eat a morsel of bread."'" 
09O	3	1	72780	 Now the young man Samuel was ministering to the LORD under Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision. 
09O	3	2	72790	 At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his own place. 
09O	3	3	72800	 The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was. 
09O	3	4	72810	 Then the LORD called Samuel, and he said, "Here I am!" 
09O	3	5	72820	 and ran to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But he said, "I did not call; lie down again." So he went and lay down. 
09O	3	6	72830	 And the LORD called again, "Samuel!" and Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But he said, "I did not call, my son; lie down again." 
09O	3	7	72840	 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, and the word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him. 
09O	3	8	72850	 And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me." Then Eli perceived that the LORD was calling the young man. 
09O	3	9	72860	 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, "Go, lie down, and if he calls you, you shall say, 'Speak, LORD, for your servant hears.'" So Samuel went and lay down in his place. 
09O	3	10	72870	 And the LORD came and stood, calling as at other times, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel said, "Speak, for your servant hears." 
09O	3	11	72880	 Then the LORD said to Samuel, "Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which the two ears of everyone who hears it will tingle. 
09O	3	12	72890	 On that day I will fulfill against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end. 
09O	3	13	72900	 And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them. 
09O	3	14	72910	 Therefore I swear to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever." 
09O	3	15	72920	 Samuel lay until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli. 
09O	3	16	72930	 But Eli called Samuel and said, "Samuel, my son." And he said, "Here I am." 
09O	3	17	72940	 And Eli said, "What was it that he told you? Do not hide it from me. May God do so to you and more also if you hide anything from me of all that he told you." 
09O	3	18	72950	 So Samuel told him everything and hid nothing from him. And he said, "It is the LORD. Let him do what seems good to him." 
09O	3	19	72960	 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground. 
09O	3	20	72970	 And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established as a prophet of the LORD. 
09O	3	21	72980	 And the LORD appeared again at Shiloh, for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of the LORD. 
09O	4	1	72990	 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to battle against the Philistines. They encamped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines encamped at Aphek. 
09O	4	2	73000	 The Philistines drew up in line against Israel, and when the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men on the field of battle. 
09O	4	3	73010	 And when the troops came to the camp, the elders of Israel said, "Why has the LORD defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD here from Shiloh, that it may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies." 
09O	4	4	73020	 So the people sent to Shiloh and brought from there the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, who is enthroned on the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. 
09O	4	5	73030	 As soon as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel gave a mighty shout, so that the earth resounded. 
09O	4	6	73040	 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shouting, they said, "What does this great shouting in the camp of the Hebrews mean?" And when they learned that the ark of the LORD had come to the camp, 
09O	4	7	73050	 the Philistines were afraid, for they said, "A god has come into the camp." And they said, "Woe to us! For nothing like this has happened before. 
09O	4	8	73060	 Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness. 
09O	4	9	73070	 Take courage, and be men, O Philistines, lest you become slaves to the Hebrews as they have been to you; be men and fight." 
09O	4	10	73080	 So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home. And there was a very great slaughter, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers. 
09O	4	11	73090	 And the ark of God was captured, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died. 
09O	4	12	73100	 A man of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head. 
09O	4	13	73110	 When he arrived, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city and told the news, all the city cried out. 
09O	4	14	73120	 When Eli heard the sound of the outcry, he said, "What is this uproar?" Then the man hurried and came and told Eli. 
09O	4	15	73130	 Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes were set so that he could not see. 
09O	4	16	73140	 And the man said to Eli, "I am he who has come from the battle; I fled from the battle today." And he said, "How did it go, my son?" 
09O	4	17	73150	 He who brought the news answered and said, "Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has also been a great defeat among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured." 
09O	4	18	73160	 As soon as he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward from his seat by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years. 
09O	4	19	73170	 Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, about to give birth. And when she heard the news that the ark of God was captured, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed and gave birth, for her pains came upon her. 
09O	4	20	73180	 And about the time of her death the women attending her said to her, "Do not be afraid, for you have borne a son." But she did not answer or pay attention. 
09O	4	21	73190	 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel!" because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband. 
09O	4	22	73200	 And she said, "The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured." 
09O	5	1	73210	 When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. 
09O	5	2	73220	 Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon. 
09O	5	3	73230	 And when the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and put him back in his place. 
09O	5	4	73240	 But when they rose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the LORD, and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off on the threshold. Only the trunk of Dagon was left to him. 
09O	5	5	73250	 This is why the priests of Dagon and all who enter the house of Dagon do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day. 
09O	5	6	73260	 The hand of the LORD was heavy against the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and afflicted them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory. 
09O	5	7	73270	 And when the men of Ashdod saw how things were, they said, "The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us, for his hand is hard against us and against Dagon our god." 
09O	5	8	73280	 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, "What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?" They answered, "Let the ark of the God of Israel be brought around to Gath." So they brought the ark of the God of Israel there. 
09O	5	9	73290	 But after they had brought it around, the hand of the LORD was against the city, causing a very great panic, and he afflicted the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out on them. 
09O	5	10	73300	 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. But as soon as the ark of God came to Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, "They have brought around to us the ark of the God of Israel to kill us and our people." 
09O	5	11	73310	 They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, "Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not kill us and our people." For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. The hand of God was very heavy there. 
09O	5	12	73320	 The men who did not die were struck with tumors, and the cry of the city went up to heaven. 
09O	6	1	73330	 The ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months. 
09O	6	2	73340	 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, "What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? Tell us with what we shall send it to its place." 
09O	6	3	73350	 They said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty, but by all means return him a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand does not turn away from you." 
09O	6	4	73360	 And they said, "What is the guilt offering that we shall return to him?" They answered, "Five golden tumors and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for the same plague was on all of you and on your lords. 
09O	6	5	73370	 So you must make images of your tumors and images of your mice that ravage the land, and give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you and your gods and your land. 
09O	6	6	73380	 Why should you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had dealt severely with them, did they not send the people away, and they departed? 
09O	6	7	73390	 Now then, take and prepare a new cart and two milk cows on which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them. 
09O	6	8	73400	 And take the ark of the LORD and place it on the cart and put in a box at its side the figures of gold, which you are returning to him as a guilt offering. Then send it off and let it go its way 
09O	6	9	73410	 and watch. If it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm, but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it happened to us by coincidence." 
09O	6	10	73420	 The men did so, and took two milk cows and yoked them to the cart and shut up their calves at home. 
09O	6	11	73430	 And they put the ark of the LORD on the cart and the box with the golden mice and the images of their tumors. 
09O	6	12	73440	 And the cows went straight in the direction of Beth-shemesh along one highway, lowing as they went. They turned neither to the right nor to the left, and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the border of Beth-shemesh. 
09O	6	13	73450	 Now the people of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley. And when they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, they rejoiced to see it. 
09O	6	14	73460	 The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there. A great stone was there. And they split up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD. 
09O	6	15	73470	 And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD and the box that was beside it, in which were the golden figures, and set them upon the great stone. And the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices on that day to the LORD. 
09O	6	16	73480	 And when the five lords of the Philistines saw it, they returned that day to Ekron. 
09O	6	17	73490	 These are the golden tumors that the Philistines returned as a guilt offering to the LORD: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron, 
09O	6	18	73500	 and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both fortified cities and unwalled villages. The great stone beside which they set down the ark of the LORD is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh. 
09O	6	19	73510	 And he struck some of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked upon the ark of the LORD. He struck seventy men of them, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck the people with a great blow. 
09O	6	20	73520	 Then the men of Beth-shemesh said, "Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? And to whom shall he go up away from us?" 
09O	6	21	73530	 So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying, "The Philistines have returned the ark of the LORD. Come down and take it up to you." 
09O	7	1	73540	 And the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took up the ark of the LORD and brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill. And they consecrated his son Eleazar to have charge of the ark of the LORD. 
09O	7	2	73550	 From the day that the ark was lodged at Kiriath-jearim, a long time passed, some twenty years, and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD. 
09O	7	3	73560	 And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, "If you are returning to the LORD with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the LORD and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines." 
09O	7	4	73570	 So the people of Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and they served the LORD only. 
09O	7	5	73580	 Then Samuel said, "Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD for you." 
09O	7	6	73590	 So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the LORD and fasted on that day and said there, "We have sinned against the LORD." And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah. 
09O	7	7	73600	 Now when the Philistines heard that the people of Israel had gathered at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the people of Israel heard of it, they were afraid of the Philistines. 
09O	7	8	73610	 And the people of Israel said to Samuel, "Do not cease to cry out to the LORD our God for us, that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines." 
09O	7	9	73620	 So Samuel took a nursing lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the LORD. And Samuel cried out to the LORD for Israel, and the LORD answered him. 
09O	7	10	73630	 As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to attack Israel. But the LORD thundered with a mighty sound that day against the Philistines and threw them into confusion, and they were routed before Israel. 
09O	7	11	73640	 And the men of Israel went out from Mizpah and pursued the Philistines and struck them, as far as below Beth-car. 
09O	7	12	73650	 Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen and called its name Ebenezer; for he said, "Till now the LORD has helped us." 
09O	7	13	73660	 So the Philistines were subdued and did not again enter the territory of Israel. And the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel. 
09O	7	14	73670	 The cities that the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron to Gath, and Israel delivered their territory from the hand of the Philistines. There was peace also between Israel and the Amorites. 
09O	7	15	73680	 Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. 
09O	7	16	73690	 And he went on a circuit year by year to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah. And he judged Israel in all these places. 
09O	7	17	73700	 Then he would return to Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he judged Israel. And he built there an altar to the LORD. 
09O	8	1	73710	 When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel. 
09O	8	2	73720	 The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba. 
09O	8	3	73730	 Yet his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after gain. They took bribes and perverted justice. 
09O	8	4	73740	 Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah 
09O	8	5	73750	 and said to him, "Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations." 
09O	8	6	73760	 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." And Samuel prayed to the LORD. 
09O	8	7	73770	 And the LORD said to Samuel, "Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. 
09O	8	8	73780	 According to all the deeds that they have done, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you. 
09O	8	9	73790	 Now then, obey their voice; only you shall solemnly warn them and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them." 
09O	8	10	73800	 So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking for a king from him. 
09O	8	11	73810	 He said, "These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots. 
09O	8	12	73820	 And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. 
09O	8	13	73830	 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 
09O	8	14	73840	 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants. 
09O	8	15	73850	 He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants. 
09O	8	16	73860	 He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men and your donkeys, and put them to his work. 
09O	8	17	73870	 He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. 
09O	8	18	73880	 And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day." 
09O	8	19	73890	 But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, "No! But there shall be a king over us, 
09O	8	20	73900	 that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles." 
09O	8	21	73910	 And when Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the LORD. 
09O	8	22	73920	 And the LORD said to Samuel, "Obey their voice and make them a king." Samuel then said to the men of Israel, "Go every man to his city." 
09O	9	1	73930	 There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah, a Benjaminite, a man of wealth. 
09O	9	2	73940	 And he had a son whose name was Saul, a handsome young man. There was not a man among the people of Israel more handsome than he. From his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people. 
09O	9	3	73950	 Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. So Kish said to Saul his son, "Take one of the young men with you, and arise, go and look for the donkeys." 
09O	9	4	73960	 And he passed through the hill country of Ephraim and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they did not find them. And they passed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then they passed through the land of Benjamin, but did not find them. 
09O	9	5	73970	 When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, "Come, let us go back, lest my father cease to care about the donkeys and become anxious about us." 
09O	9	6	73980	 But he said to him, "Behold, there is a man of God in this city, and he is a man who is held in honor; all that he says comes true. So now let us go there. Perhaps he can tell us the way we should go." 
09O	9	7	73990	 Then Saul said to his servant, "But if we go, what can we bring the man? For the bread in our sacks is gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?" 
09O	9	8	74000	 The servant answered Saul again, "Here, I have with me a quarter of a shekel of silver, and I will give it to the man of God to tell us our way." 
09O	9	9	74010	 (Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, "Come, let us go to the seer," for today's "prophet" was formerly called a seer.) 
09O	9	10	74020	 And Saul said to his servant, "Well said; come, let us go." So they went to the city where the man of God was. 
09O	9	11	74030	 As they went up the hill to the city, they met young women coming out to draw water and said to them, "Is the seer here?" 
09O	9	12	74040	 They answered, "He is; behold, he is just ahead of you. Hurry. He has come just now to the city, because the people have a sacrifice today on the high place. 
09O	9	13	74050	 As soon as you enter the city you will find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat till he comes, since he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those who are invited will eat. Now go up, for you will meet him immediately." 
09O	9	14	74060	 So they went up to the city. As they were entering the city, they saw Samuel coming out toward them on his way up to the high place. 
09O	9	15	74070	 Now the day before Saul came, the LORD had revealed to Samuel: 
09O	9	16	74080	 "Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen my people, because their cry has come to me." 
09O	9	17	74090	 When Samuel saw Saul, the LORD told him, "Here is the man of whom I spoke to you! He it is who shall restrain my people." 
09O	9	18	74100	 Then Saul approached Samuel in the gate and said, "Tell me where is the house of the seer?" 
09O	9	19	74110	 Samuel answered Saul, "I am the seer. Go up before me to the high place, for today you shall eat with me, and in the morning I will let you go and will tell you all that is on your mind. 
09O	9	20	74120	 As for your donkeys that were lost three days ago, do not set your mind on them, for they have been found. And for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you and for all your father's house?" 
09O	9	21	74130	 Saul answered, "Am I not a Benjaminite, from the least of the tribes of Israel? And is not my clan the humblest of all the clans of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then have you spoken to me in this way?" 
09O	9	22	74140	 Then Samuel took Saul and his young man and brought them into the hall and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited, who were about thirty persons. 
09O	9	23	74150	 And Samuel said to the cook, "Bring the portion I gave you, of which I said to you, 'Put it aside.'" 
09O	9	24	74160	 So the cook took up the leg and what was on it and set them before Saul. And Samuel said, "See, what was kept is set before you. Eat, because it was kept for you until the hour appointed, that you might eat with the guests." So Saul ate with Samuel that day. 
09O	9	25	74170	 And when they came down from the high place into the city, a bed was spread for Saul on the roof, and he lay down to sleep. 
09O	9	26	74180	 Then at the break of dawn Samuel called to Saul on the roof, "Up, that I may send you on your way." So Saul arose, and both he and Samuel went out into the street. 
09O	9	27	74190	 As they were going down to the outskirts of the city, Samuel said to Saul, "Tell the servant to pass on before us, and when he has passed on, stop here yourself for a while, that I may make known to you the word of God." 
09O	10	1	74200	 Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, "Has not the LORD anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the LORD and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the LORD has anointed you to be prince over his heritage. 
09O	10	2	74210	 When you depart from me today, you will meet two men by Rachel's tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, 'The donkeys that you went to seek are found, and now your father has ceased to care about the donkeys and is anxious about you, saying, "What shall I do about my son?"' 
09O	10	3	74220	 Then you shall go on from there farther and come to the oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine. 
09O	10	4	74230	 And they will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall accept from their hand. 
09O	10	5	74240	 After that you shall come to Gibeath-elohim, where there is a garrison of the Philistines. And there, as soon as you come to the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying. 
09O	10	6	74250	 Then the Spirit of the LORD will rush upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man. 
09O	10	7	74260	 Now when these signs meet you, do what your hand finds to do, for God is with you. 
09O	10	8	74270	 Then go down before me to Gilgal. And behold, I am coming to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice peace offerings. Seven days you shall wait, until I come to you and show you what you shall do." 
09O	10	9	74280	 When he turned his back to leave Samuel, God gave him another heart. And all these signs came to pass that day. 
09O	10	10	74290	 When they came to Gibeah, behold, a group of prophets met him, and the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied among them. 
09O	10	11	74300	 And when all who knew him previously saw how he prophesied with the prophets, the people said to one another, "What has come over the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?" 
09O	10	12	74310	 And a man of the place answered, "And who is their father?" Therefore it became a proverb, "Is Saul also among the prophets?" 
09O	10	13	74320	 When he had finished prophesying, he came to the high place. 
09O	10	14	74330	 Saul's uncle said to him and to his servant, "Where did you go?" And he said, "To seek the donkeys. And when we saw they were not to be found, we went to Samuel." 
09O	10	15	74340	 And Saul's uncle said, "Please tell me what Samuel said to you." 
09O	10	16	74350	 And Saul said to his uncle, "He told us plainly that the donkeys had been found." But about the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel had spoken, he did not tell him anything. 
09O	10	17	74360	 Now Samuel called the people together to the LORD at Mizpah. 
09O	10	18	74370	 And he said to the people of Israel, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.' 
09O	10	19	74380	 But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, 'Set a king over us.' Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and by your thousands." 
09O	10	20	74390	 Then Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot. 
09O	10	21	74400	 He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its clans, and the clan of the Matrites was taken by lot; and Saul the son of Kish was taken by lot. But when they sought him, he could not be found. 
09O	10	22	74410	 So they inquired again of the LORD, "Is there a man still to come?" and the LORD said, "Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage." 
09O	10	23	74420	 Then they ran and took him from there. And when he stood among the people, he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward. 
09O	10	24	74430	 And Samuel said to all the people, "Do you see him whom the LORD has chosen? There is none like him among all the people." And all the people shouted, "Long live the king!" 
09O	10	25	74440	 Then Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship, and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the LORD. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his home. 
09O	10	26	74450	 Saul also went to his home at Gibeah, and with him went men of valor whose hearts God had touched. 
09O	10	27	74460	 But some worthless fellows said, "How can this man save us?" And they despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace. 
09O	11	1	74470	 Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you." 
09O	11	2	74480	 But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "On this condition I will make a treaty with you, that I gouge out all your right eyes, and thus bring disgrace on all Israel." 
09O	11	3	74490	 The elders of Jabesh said to him, "Give us seven days' respite that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you." 
09O	11	4	74500	 When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, they reported the matter in the ears of the people, and all the people wept aloud. 
09O	11	5	74510	 Now, behold, Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen. And Saul said, "What is wrong with the people, that they are weeping?" So they told him the news of the men of Jabesh. 
09O	11	6	74520	 And the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled. 
09O	11	7	74530	 He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, "Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!" Then the dread of the LORD fell upon the people, and they came out as one man. 
09O	11	8	74540	 When he mustered them at Bezek, the people of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. 
09O	11	9	74550	 And they said to the messengers who had come, "Thus shall you say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: 'Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have deliverance.'" When the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, they were glad. 
09O	11	10	74560	 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, "Tomorrow we will give ourselves up to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you." 
09O	11	11	74570	 And the next day Saul put the people in three companies. And they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together. 
09O	11	12	74580	 Then the people said to Samuel, "Who is it that said, 'Shall Saul reign over us?' Bring the men, that we may put them to death." 
09O	11	13	74590	 But Saul said, "Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the LORD has worked salvation in Israel." 
09O	11	14	74600	 Then Samuel said to the people, "Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingdom." 
09O	11	15	74610	 So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal. There they sacrificed peace offerings before the LORD, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly. 
09O	12	1	74620	 And Samuel said to all Israel, "Behold, I have obeyed your voice in all that you have said to me and have made a king over you. 
09O	12	2	74630	 And now, behold, the king walks before you, and I am old and gray; and behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day. 
09O	12	3	74640	 Here I am; testify against me before the LORD and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you." 
09O	12	4	74650	 They said, "You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from any man's hand." 
09O	12	5	74660	 And he said to them, "The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand." And they said, "He is witness." 
09O	12	6	74670	 And Samuel said to the people, "The LORD is witness, who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. 
09O	12	7	74680	 Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you before the LORD concerning all the righteous deeds of the LORD that he performed for you and for your fathers. 
09O	12	8	74690	 When Jacob went into Egypt, and the Egyptians oppressed them, then your fathers cried out to the LORD and the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place. 
09O	12	9	74700	 But they forgot the LORD their God. And he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them. 
09O	12	10	74710	 And they cried out to the LORD and said, 'We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. But now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, that we may serve you.' 
09O	12	11	74720	 And the LORD sent Jerubbaal and Barak and Jephthah and Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in safety. 
09O	12	12	74730	 And when you saw that Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, 'No, but a king shall reign over us,' when the LORD your God was your king. 
09O	12	13	74740	 And now behold the king whom you have chosen, for whom you have asked; behold, the LORD has set a king over you. 
09O	12	14	74750	 If you will fear the LORD and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the LORD your God, it will be well. 
09O	12	15	74760	 But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then the hand of the LORD will be against you and your king. 
09O	12	16	74770	 Now therefore stand still and see this great thing that the LORD will do before your eyes. 
09O	12	17	74780	 Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call upon the LORD, that he may send thunder and rain. And you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking for yourselves a king." 
09O	12	18	74790	 So Samuel called upon the LORD, and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel. 
09O	12	19	74800	 And all the people said to Samuel, "Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king." 
09O	12	20	74810	 And Samuel said to the people, "Do not be afraid; you have done all this evil. Yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart. 
09O	12	21	74820	 And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty. 
09O	12	22	74830	 For the LORD will not forsake his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself. 
09O	12	23	74840	 Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way. 
09O	12	24	74850	 Only fear the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you. 
09O	12	25	74860	 But if you still do wickedly, you shall be swept away, both you and your king." 
09O	13	1	74870	 Saul was … years old when he began to reign, and he reigned … and two years over Israel. 
09O	13	2	74880	 Saul chose three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent. 
09O	13	3	74890	 Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines that was at Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews hear." 
09O	13	4	74900	 And all Israel heard it said that Saul had defeated the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel had become a stench to the Philistines. And the people were called out to join Saul at Gilgal. 
09O	13	5	74910	 And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven. 
09O	13	6	74920	 When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns, 
09O	13	7	74930	 and some Hebrews crossed the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. 
09O	13	8	74940	 He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him. 
09O	13	9	74950	 So Saul said, "Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings." And he offered the burnt offering. 
09O	13	10	74960	 As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and greet him. 
09O	13	11	74970	 Samuel said, "What have you done?" And Saul said, "When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash, 
09O	13	12	74980	 I said, 'Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the LORD.' So I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering." 
09O	13	13	74990	 And Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the LORD your God, with which he commanded you. For then the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 
09O	13	14	75000	 But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought out a man after his own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you." 
09O	13	15	75010	 And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal. The rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the army; they went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men. 
09O	13	16	75020	 And Saul and Jonathan his son and the people who were present with them stayed in Geba of Benjamin, but the Philistines encamped in Michmash. 
09O	13	17	75030	 And raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies. One company turned toward Ophrah, to the land of Shual; 
09O	13	18	75040	 another company turned toward Beth-horon; and another company turned toward the border that looks down on the Valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. 
09O	13	19	75050	 Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears." 
09O	13	20	75060	 But every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle, 
09O	13	21	75070	 and the charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads. 
09O	13	22	75080	 So on the day of the battle there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and Jonathan his son had them. 
09O	13	23	75090	 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash. 
09O	14	1	75100	 One day Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who carried his armor, "Come, let us go over to the Philistine garrison on the other side." But he did not tell his father. 
09O	14	2	75110	 Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibeah in the pomegranate cave at Migron. The people who were with him were about six hundred men, 
09O	14	3	75120	 including Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, the priest of the LORD in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone. 
09O	14	4	75130	 Within the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistine garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side. The name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. 
09O	14	5	75140	 The one crag rose on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba. 
09O	14	6	75150	 Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, "Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that the LORD will work for us, for nothing can hinder the LORD from saving by many or by few." 
09O	14	7	75160	 And his armor-bearer said to him, "Do all that is in your heart. Do as you wish. Behold, I am with you heart and soul." 
09O	14	8	75170	 Then Jonathan said, "Behold, we will cross over to the men, and we will show ourselves to them. 
09O	14	9	75180	 If they say to us, 'Wait until we come to you,' then we will stand still in our place, and we will not go up to them. 
09O	14	10	75190	 But if they say, 'Come up to us,' then we will go up, for the LORD has given them into our hand. And this shall be the sign to us." 
09O	14	11	75200	 So both of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, "Look, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hidden themselves." 
09O	14	12	75210	 And the men of the garrison hailed Jonathan and his armor-bearer and said, "Come up to us, and we will show you a thing." And Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, "Come up after me, for the LORD has given them into the hand of Israel." 
09O	14	13	75220	 Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, and his armor-bearer after him. And they fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer killed them after him. 
09O	14	14	75230	 And that first strike, which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made, killed about twenty men within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land. 
09O	14	15	75240	 And there was a panic in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. The garrison and even the raiders trembled, the earth quaked, and it became a very great panic. 
09O	14	16	75250	 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude was dispersing here and there. 
09O	14	17	75260	 Then Saul said to the people who were with him, "Count and see who has gone from us." And when they had counted, behold, Jonathan and his armor-bearer were not there. 
09O	14	18	75270	 So Saul said to Ahijah, "Bring the ark of God here." For the ark of God went at that time with the people of Israel. 
09O	14	19	75280	 Now while Saul was talking to the priest, the tumult in the camp of the Philistines increased more and more. So Saul said to the priest, "Withdraw your hand." 
09O	14	20	75290	 Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and went into the battle. And behold, every Philistine's sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion. 
09O	14	21	75300	 Now the Hebrews who had been with the Philistines before that time and who had gone up with them into the camp, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan. 
09O	14	22	75310	 Likewise, when all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they too followed hard after them in the battle. 
09O	14	23	75320	 So the LORD saved Israel that day. And the battle passed beyond Beth-aven. 
09O	14	24	75330	 And the men of Israel had been hard pressed that day, so Saul had laid an oath on the people, saying, "Cursed be the man who eats food until it is evening and I am avenged on my enemies." So none of the people had tasted food. 
09O	14	25	75340	 Now when all the people came to the forest, behold, there was honey on the ground. 
09O	14	26	75350	 And when the people entered the forest, behold, the honey was dropping, but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath. 
09O	14	27	75360	 But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath, so he put out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes became bright. 
09O	14	28	75370	 Then one of the people said, "Your father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, 'Cursed be the man who eats food this day.'" And the people were faint. 
09O	14	29	75380	 Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land. See how my eyes have become bright because I tasted a little of this honey. 
09O	14	30	75390	 How much better if the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies that they found. For now the defeat among the Philistines has not been great." 
09O	14	31	75400	 They struck down the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very faint. 
09O	14	32	75410	 The people pounced on the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground. And the people ate them with the blood. 
09O	14	33	75420	 Then they told Saul, "Behold, the people are sinning against the LORD by eating with the blood." And he said, "You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here." 
09O	14	34	75430	 And Saul said, "Disperse yourselves among the people and say to them, 'Let every man bring his ox or his sheep and slaughter them here and eat, and do not sin against the LORD by eating with the blood.'" So every one of the people brought his ox with him that night and they slaughtered them there. 
09O	14	35	75440	 And Saul built an altar to the LORD; it was the first altar that he built to the LORD. 
09O	14	36	75450	 Then Saul said, "Let us go down after the Philistines by night and plunder them until the morning light; let us not leave a man of them." And they said, "Do whatever seems good to you." But the priest said, "Let us draw near to God here." 
09O	14	37	75460	 And Saul inquired of God, "Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you give them into the hand of Israel?" But he did not answer him that day. 
09O	14	38	75470	 And Saul said, "Come here, all you leaders of the people, and know and see how this sin has arisen today. 
09O	14	39	75480	 For as the LORD lives who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die." But there was not a man among all the people who answered him. 
09O	14	40	75490	 Then he said to all Israel, "You shall be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side." And the people said to Saul, "Do what seems good to you." 
09O	14	41	75500	 Therefore Saul said, "O LORD God of Israel, why have you not answered your servant this day? If this guilt is in me or in Jonathan my son, O LORD, God of Israel, give Urim. But if this guilt is in your people Israel, give Thummim." And Jonathan and Saul were taken, but the people escaped. 
09O	14	42	75510	 Then Saul said, "Cast the lot between me and my son Jonathan." And Jonathan was taken. 
09O	14	43	75520	 Then Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done." And Jonathan told him, "I tasted a little honey with the tip of the staff that was in my hand. Here I am; I will die." 
09O	14	44	75530	 And Saul said, "God do so to me and more also; you shall surely die, Jonathan." 
09O	14	45	75540	 Then the people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As the LORD lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day." So the people ransomed Jonathan, so that he did not die. 
09O	14	46	75550	 Then Saul went up from pursuing the Philistines, and the Philistines went to their own place. 
09O	14	47	75560	 When Saul had taken the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, against the Ammonites, against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned he routed them. 
09O	14	48	75570	 And he did valiantly and struck the Amalekites and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them. 
09O	14	49	75580	 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchi-shua. And the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn was Merab, and the name of the younger Michal. 
09O	14	50	75590	 And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. And the name of the commander of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul's uncle. 
09O	14	51	75600	 Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel. 
09O	14	52	75610	 There was hard fighting against the Philistines all the days of Saul. And when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he attached him to himself. 
09O	15	1	75620	 And Samuel said to Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the LORD. 
09O	15	2	75630	 Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. 
09O	15	3	75640	 Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'" 
09O	15	4	75650	 So Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand men on foot, and ten thousand men of Judah. 
09O	15	5	75660	 And Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley. 
09O	15	6	75670	 Then Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, depart; go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. For you showed kindness to all the people of Israel when they came up out of Egypt." So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. 
09O	15	7	75680	 And Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt. 
09O	15	8	75690	 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive and devoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword. 
09O	15	9	75700	 But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction. 
09O	15	10	75710	 The word of the LORD came to Samuel: 
09O	15	11	75720	 "I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments." And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the LORD all night. 
09O	15	12	75730	 And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, "Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal." 
09O	15	13	75740	 And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, "Blessed be you to the LORD. I have performed the commandment of the LORD." 
09O	15	14	75750	 And Samuel said, "What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?" 
09O	15	15	75760	 Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the LORD your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction." 
09O	15	16	75770	 Then Samuel said to Saul, "Stop! I will tell you what the LORD said to me this night." And he said to him, "Speak." 
09O	15	17	75780	 And Samuel said, "Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel. 
09O	15	18	75790	 And the LORD sent you on a mission and said, 'Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.' 
09O	15	19	75800	 Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD? Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the LORD?" 
09O	15	20	75810	 And Saul said to Samuel, "I have obeyed the voice of the LORD. I have gone on the mission on which the LORD sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction. 
09O	15	21	75820	 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal." 
09O	15	22	75830	 And Samuel said, "Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. 
09O	15	23	75840	 For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king." 
09O	15	24	75850	 Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. 
09O	15	25	75860	 Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me that I may worship the LORD." 
09O	15	26	75870	 And Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you. For you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel." 
09O	15	27	75880	 As Samuel turned to go away, Saul seized the skirt of his robe, and it tore. 
09O	15	28	75890	 And Samuel said to him, "The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you. 
09O	15	29	75900	 And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret." 
09O	15	30	75910	 Then he said, "I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may bow before the LORD your God." 
09O	15	31	75920	 So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul bowed before the LORD. 
09O	15	32	75930	 Then Samuel said, "Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites." And Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, "Surely the bitterness of death is past." 
09O	15	33	75940	 And Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women." And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD in Gilgal. 
09O	15	34	75950	 Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul. 
09O	15	35	75960	 And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the LORD regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel. 
09O	16	1	75970	 The LORD said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons." 
09O	16	2	75980	 And Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me." And the LORD said, "Take a heifer with you and say, 'I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.' 
09O	16	3	75990	 And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. And you shall anoint for me him whom I declare to you." 
09O	16	4	76000	 Samuel did what the LORD commanded and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling and said, "Do you come peaceably?" 
09O	16	5	76010	 And he said, "Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice." And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice. 
09O	16	6	76020	 When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, "Surely the LORD's anointed is before him." 
09O	16	7	76030	 But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart." 
09O	16	8	76040	 Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, "Neither has the LORD chosen this one." 
09O	16	9	76050	 Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, "Neither has the LORD chosen this one." 
09O	16	10	76060	 And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, "The LORD has not chosen these." 
09O	16	11	76070	 Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your sons here?" And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here." 
09O	16	12	76080	 And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the LORD said, "Arise, anoint him, for this is he." 
09O	16	13	76090	 Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah. 
09O	16	14	76100	 Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the LORD tormented him. 
09O	16	15	76110	 And Saul's servants said to him, "Behold now, a harmful spirit from God is tormenting you. 
09O	16	16	76120	 Let our lord now command your servants who are before you to seek out a man who is skillful in playing the lyre, and when the harmful spirit from God is upon you, he will play it, and you will be well." 
09O	16	17	76130	 So Saul said to his servants, "Provide for me a man who can play well and bring him to me." 
09O	16	18	76140	 One of the young men answered, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, and the LORD is with him." 
09O	16	19	76150	 Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me David your son, who is with the sheep." 
09O	16	20	76160	 And Jesse took a donkey laden with bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them by David his son to Saul. 
09O	16	21	76170	 And David came to Saul and entered his service. And Saul loved him greatly, and he became his armor-bearer. 
09O	16	22	76180	 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, "Let David remain in my service, for he has found favor in my sight." 
09O	16	23	76190	 And whenever the harmful spirit from God was upon Saul, David took the lyre and played it with his hand. So Saul was refreshed and was well, and the harmful spirit departed from him. 
09O	17	1	76200	 Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle. And they were gathered at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim. 
09O	17	2	76210	 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered, and encamped in the Valley of Elah, and drew up in line of battle against the Philistines. 
09O	17	3	76220	 And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with a valley between them. 
09O	17	4	76230	 And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. 
09O	17	5	76240	 He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze. 
09O	17	6	76250	 And he had bronze armor on his legs, and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders. 
09O	17	7	76260	 The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. And his shield-bearer went before him. 
09O	17	8	76270	 He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, "Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me. 
09O	17	9	76280	 If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us." 
09O	17	10	76290	 And the Philistine said, "I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man, that we may fight together." 
09O	17	11	76300	 When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. 
09O	17	12	76310	 Now David was the son of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, named Jesse, who had eight sons. In the days of Saul the man was already old and advanced in years. 
09O	17	13	76320	 The three oldest sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle. And the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. 
09O	17	14	76330	 David was the youngest. The three eldest followed Saul, 
09O	17	15	76340	 but David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem. 
09O	17	16	76350	 For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening. 
09O	17	17	76360	 And Jesse said to David his son, "Take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers. 
09O	17	18	76370	 Also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand. See if your brothers are well, and bring some token from them." 
09O	17	19	76380	 Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines. 
09O	17	20	76390	 And David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took the provisions and went, as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the encampment as the host was going out to the battle line, shouting the war cry. 
09O	17	21	76400	 And Israel and the Philistines drew up for battle, army against army. 
09O	17	22	76410	 And David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the ranks and went and greeted his brothers. 
09O	17	23	76420	 As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines and spoke the same words as before. And David heard him. 
09O	17	24	76430	 All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were much afraid. 
09O	17	25	76440	 And the men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. And the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel." 
09O	17	26	76450	 And David said to the men who stood by him, "What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?" 
09O	17	27	76460	 And the people answered him in the same way, "So shall it be done to the man who kills him." 
09O	17	28	76470	 Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, "Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle." 
09O	17	29	76480	 And David said, "What have I done now? Was it not but a word?" 
09O	17	30	76490	 And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke in the same way, and the people answered him again as before. 
09O	17	31	76500	 When the words that David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul, and he sent for him. 
09O	17	32	76510	 And David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine." 
09O	17	33	76520	 And Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth." 
09O	17	34	76530	 But David said to Saul, "Your servant used to keep sheep for his father. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock, 
09O	17	35	76540	 I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him. 
09O	17	36	76550	 Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God." 
09O	17	37	76560	 And David said, "The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine." And Saul said to David, "Go, and the LORD be with you!" 
09O	17	38	76570	 Then Saul clothed David with his armor. He put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail, 
09O	17	39	76580	 and David strapped his sword over his armor. And he tried in vain to go, for he had not tested them. Then David said to Saul, "I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them." So David put them off. 
09O	17	40	76590	 Then he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones from the brook and put them in his shepherd's pouch. His sling was in his hand, and he approached the Philistine. 
09O	17	41	76600	 And the Philistine moved forward and came near to David, with his shield-bearer in front of him. 
09O	17	42	76610	 And when the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth, ruddy and handsome in appearance. 
09O	17	43	76620	 And the Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 
09O	17	44	76630	 The Philistine said to David, "Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field." 
09O	17	45	76640	 Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 
09O	17	46	76650	 This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, 
09O	17	47	76660	 and that all this assembly may know that the LORD saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the LORD's, and he will give you into our hand." 
09O	17	48	76670	 When the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine. 
09O	17	49	76680	 And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and slung it and struck the Philistine on his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground. 
09O	17	50	76690	 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. There was no sword in the hand of David. 
09O	17	51	76700	 Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled. 
09O	17	52	76710	 And the men of Israel and Judah rose with a shout and pursued the Philistines as far as Gath and the gates of Ekron, so that the wounded Philistines fell on the way from Shaaraim as far as Gath and Ekron. 
09O	17	53	76720	 And the people of Israel came back from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their camp. 
09O	17	54	76730	 And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent. 
09O	17	55	76740	 As soon as Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, "Abner, whose son is this youth?" And Abner said, "As your soul lives, O king, I do not know." 
09O	17	56	76750	 And the king said, "Inquire whose son the boy is." 
09O	17	57	76760	 And as soon as David returned from the striking down of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand. 
09O	17	58	76770	 And Saul said to him, "Whose son are you, young man?" And David answered, "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite." 
09O	18	1	76780	 As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. 
09O	18	2	76790	 And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father's house. 
09O	18	3	76800	 Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul. 
09O	18	4	76810	 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt. 
09O	18	5	76820	 And David went out and was successful wherever Saul sent him, so that Saul set him over the men of war. And this was good in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's servants. 
09O	18	6	76830	 As they were coming home, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments. 
09O	18	7	76840	 And the women sang to one another as they celebrated, "Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands." 
09O	18	8	76850	 And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, "They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands, and what more can he have but the kingdom?" 
09O	18	9	76860	 And Saul eyed David from that day on. 
09O	18	10	76870	 The next day a harmful spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he raved within his house while David was playing the lyre, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand. 
09O	18	11	76880	 And Saul hurled the spear, for he thought, "I will pin David to the wall." But David evaded him twice. 
09O	18	12	76890	 Saul was afraid of David because the LORD was with him but had departed from Saul. 
09O	18	13	76900	 So Saul removed him from his presence and made him a commander of a thousand. And he went out and came in before the people. 
09O	18	14	76910	 And David had success in all his undertakings, for the LORD was with him. 
09O	18	15	76920	 And when Saul saw that he had great success, he stood in fearful awe of him. 
09O	18	16	76930	 But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he went out and came in before them. 
09O	18	17	76940	 Then Saul said to David, "Here is my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD's battles." For Saul thought, "Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him." 
09O	18	18	76950	 And David said to Saul, "Who am I, and who are my relatives, my father's clan in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?" 
09O	18	19	76960	 But at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife. 
09O	18	20	76970	 Now Saul's daughter Michal loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. 
09O	18	21	76980	 Saul thought, "Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him." Therefore Saul said to David a second time, "You shall now be my son-in-law." 
09O	18	22	76990	 And Saul commanded his servants, "Speak to David in private and say, 'Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now then become the king's son-in-law.'" 
09O	18	23	77000	 And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, "Does it seem to you a little thing to become the king's son-in-law, since I am a poor man and have no reputation?" 
09O	18	24	77010	 And the servants of Saul told him, "Thus and so did David speak." 
09O	18	25	77020	 Then Saul said, "Thus shall you say to David, 'The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king's enemies.'" Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. 
09O	18	26	77030	 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. Before the time had expired, 
09O	18	27	77040	 David arose and went, along with his men, and killed two hundred of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife. 
09O	18	28	77050	 But when Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him, 
09O	18	29	77060	 Saul was even more afraid of David. So Saul was David's enemy continually. 
09O	18	30	77070	 Then the princes of the Philistines came out to battle, and as often as they came out David had more success than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed. 
09O	19	1	77080	 And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David. 
09O	19	2	77090	 And Jonathan told David, "Saul my father seeks to kill you. Therefore be on your guard in the morning. Stay in a secret place and hide yourself. 
09O	19	3	77100	 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak to my father about you. And if I learn anything I will tell you." 
09O	19	4	77110	 And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, "Let not the king sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have brought good to you. 
09O	19	5	77120	 For he took his life in his hand and he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?" 
09O	19	6	77130	 And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan. Saul swore, "As the LORD lives, he shall not be put to death." 
09O	19	7	77140	 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan reported to him all these things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as before. 
09O	19	8	77150	 And there was war again. And David went out and fought with the Philistines and struck them with a great blow, so that they fled before him. 
09O	19	9	77160	 Then a harmful spirit from the LORD came upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand. And David was playing the lyre. 
09O	19	10	77170	 And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night. 
09O	19	11	77180	 Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, "If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed." 
09O	19	12	77190	 So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped. 
09O	19	13	77200	 Michal took an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats' hair at its head and covered it with the clothes. 
09O	19	14	77210	 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick." 
09O	19	15	77220	 Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him." 
09O	19	16	77230	 And when the messengers came in, behold, the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' hair at its head. 
09O	19	17	77240	 Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me thus and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?" And Michal answered Saul, "He said to me, 'Let me go. Why should I kill you?'" 
09O	19	18	77250	 Now David fled and escaped, and he came to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and lived at Naioth. 
09O	19	19	77260	 And it was told Saul, "Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah." 
09O	19	20	77270	 Then Saul sent messengers to take David, and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. 
09O	19	21	77280	 When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied. 
09O	19	22	77290	 Then he himself went to Ramah and came to the great well that is in Secu. And he asked, "Where are Samuel and David?" And one said, "Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah." 
09O	19	23	77300	 And he went there to Naioth in Ramah. And the Spirit of God came upon him also, and as he went he prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah. 
09O	19	24	77310	 And he too stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and lay naked all that day and all that night. Thus it is said, "Is Saul also among the prophets?" 
09O	20	1	77320	 Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my guilt? And what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?" 
09O	20	2	77330	 And he said to him, "Far from it! You shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me. And why should my father hide this from me? It is not so." 
09O	20	3	77340	 But David vowed again, saying, "Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thinks, 'Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.' But truly, as the LORD lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death." 
09O	20	4	77350	 Then Jonathan said to David, "Whatever you say, I will do for you." 
09O	20	5	77360	 David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit at table with the king. But let me go, that I may hide myself in the field till the third day at evening. 
09O	20	6	77370	 If your father misses me at all, then say, 'David earnestly asked leave of me to run to Bethlehem his city, for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the clan.' 
09O	20	7	77380	 If he says, 'Good!' it will be well with your servant, but if he is angry, then know that harm is determined by him. 
09O	20	8	77390	 Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the LORD with you. But if there is guilt in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?" 
09O	20	9	77400	 And Jonathan said, "Far be it from you! If I knew that it was determined by my father that harm should come to you, would I not tell you?" 
09O	20	10	77410	 Then David said to Jonathan, "Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?" 
09O	20	11	77420	 And Jonathan said to David, "Come, let us go out into the field." So they both went out into the field. 
09O	20	12	77430	 And Jonathan said to David, "The LORD, the God of Israel, be witness! When I have sounded out my father, about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if he is well disposed toward David, shall I not then send and disclose it to you? 
09O	20	13	77440	 But should it please my father to do you harm, the LORD do so to Jonathan and more also if I do not disclose it to you and send you away, that you may go in safety. May the LORD be with you, as he has been with my father. 
09O	20	14	77450	 If I am still alive, show me the steadfast love of the LORD, that I may not die; 
09O	20	15	77460	 and do not cut off your steadfast love from my house forever, when the LORD cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth." 
09O	20	16	77470	 And Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, "May the LORD take vengeance on David's enemies." 
09O	20	17	77480	 And Jonathan made David swear again by his love for him, for he loved him as he loved his own soul. 
09O	20	18	77490	 Then Jonathan said to him, "Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty. 
09O	20	19	77500	 On the third day go down quickly to the place where you hid yourself when the matter was in hand, and remain beside the stone heap. 
09O	20	20	77510	 And I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as though I shot at a mark. 
09O	20	21	77520	 And behold, I will send the young man, saying, 'Go, find the arrows.' If I say to the young man, 'Look, the arrows are on this side of you, take them,' then you are to come, for, as the LORD lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger. 
09O	20	22	77530	 But if I say to the youth, 'Look, the arrows are beyond you,' then go, for the LORD has sent you away. 
09O	20	23	77540	 And as for the matter of which you and I have spoken, behold, the LORD is between you and me forever." 
09O	20	24	77550	 So David hid himself in the field. And when the new moon came, the king sat down to eat food. 
09O	20	25	77560	 The king sat on his seat, as at other times, on the seat by the wall. Jonathan sat opposite, and Abner sat by Saul's side, but David's place was empty. 
09O	20	26	77570	 Yet Saul did not say anything that day, for he thought, "Something has happened to him. He is not clean; surely he is not clean." 
09O	20	27	77580	 But on the second day, the day after the new moon, David's place was empty. And Saul said to Jonathan his son, "Why has not the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?" 
09O	20	28	77590	 Jonathan answered Saul, "David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem. 
09O	20	29	77600	 He said, 'Let me go, for our clan holds a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away and see my brothers.' For this reason he has not come to the king's table." 
09O	20	30	77610	 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, "You son of a perverse, rebellious woman, do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness? 
09O	20	31	77620	 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom shall be established. Therefore send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die." 
09O	20	32	77630	 Then Jonathan answered Saul his father, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?" 
09O	20	33	77640	 But Saul hurled his spear at him to strike him. So Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death. 
09O	20	34	77650	 And Jonathan rose from the table in fierce anger and ate no food the second day of the month, for he was grieved for David, because his father had disgraced him. 
09O	20	35	77660	 In the morning Jonathan went out into the field to the appointment with David, and with him a little boy. 
09O	20	36	77670	 And he said to his boy, "Run and find the arrows that I shoot." As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him. 
09O	20	37	77680	 And when the boy came to the place of the arrow that Jonathan had shot, Jonathan called after the boy and said, "Is not the arrow beyond you?" 
09O	20	38	77690	 And Jonathan called after the boy, "Hurry! Be quick! Do not stay!" So Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows and came to his master. 
09O	20	39	77700	 But the boy knew nothing. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter. 
09O	20	40	77710	 And Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy and said to him, "Go and carry them to the city." 
09O	20	41	77720	 And as soon as the boy had gone, David rose from beside the stone heap and fell on his face to the ground and bowed three times. And they kissed one another and wept with one another, David weeping the most. 
09O	20	42	77730	 Then Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, 'The LORD shall be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.'" And he rose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city. 
09O	21	1	77740	 Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David trembling and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no one with you?" 
09O	21	2	77750	 And David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, 'Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.' I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place. 
09O	21	3	77760	 Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here." 
09O	21	4	77770	 And the priest answered David, "I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread--if the young men have kept themselves from women." 
09O	21	5	77780	 And David answered the priest, "Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?" 
09O	21	6	77790	 So the priest gave him the holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the LORD, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away. 
09O	21	7	77800	 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD. His name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul's herdsmen. 
09O	21	8	77810	 Then David said to Ahimelech, "Then have you not here a spear or a sword at hand? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste." 
09O	21	9	77820	 And the priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here." And David said, "There is none like that; give it to me." 
09O	21	10	77830	 And David rose and fled that day from Saul and went to Achish the king of Gath. 
09O	21	11	77840	 And the servants of Achish said to him, "Is not this David the king of the land? Did they not sing to one another of him in dances, 'Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands'?" 
09O	21	12	77850	 And David took these words to heart and was much afraid of Achish the king of Gath. 
09O	21	13	77860	 So he changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands and made marks on the doors of the gate and let his spittle run down his beard. 
09O	21	14	77870	 Then Achish said to his servants, "Behold, you see the man is mad. Why then have you brought him to me? 
09O	21	15	77880	 Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to behave as a madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?" 
09O	22	1	77890	 David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him. 
09O	22	2	77900	 And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became captain over them. And there were with him about four hundred men. 
09O	22	3	77910	 And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother stay with you, till I know what God will do for me." 
09O	22	4	77920	 And he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold. 
09O	22	5	77930	 Then the prophet Gad said to David, "Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah." So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth. 
09O	22	6	77940	 Now Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him. Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him. 
09O	22	7	77950	 And Saul said to his servants who stood about him, "Hear now, people of Benjamin; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, 
09O	22	8	77960	 that all of you have conspired against me? No one discloses to me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day." 
09O	22	9	77970	 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, 
09O	22	10	77980	 and he inquired of the LORD for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine." 
09O	22	11	77990	 Then the king sent to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who were at Nob, and all of them came to the king. 
09O	22	12	78000	 And Saul said, "Hear now, son of Ahitub." And he answered, "Here I am, my lord." 
09O	22	13	78010	 And Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword and have inquired of God for him, so that he has risen against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?" 
09O	22	14	78020	 Then Ahimelech answered the king, "And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and captain over your bodyguard, and honored in your house? 
09O	22	15	78030	 Is today the first time that I have inquired of God for him? No! Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father, for your servant has known nothing of all this, much or little." 
09O	22	16	78040	 And the king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father's house." 
09O	22	17	78050	 And the king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because their hand also is with David, and they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me." But the servants of the king would not put out their hand to strike the priests of the LORD. 
09O	22	18	78060	 Then the king said to Doeg, "You turn and strike the priests." And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod. 
09O	22	19	78070	 And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; both man and woman, child and infant, ox, donkey and sheep, he put to the sword. 
09O	22	20	78080	 But one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David. 
09O	22	21	78090	 And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD. 
09O	22	22	78100	 And David said to Abiathar, "I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father's house. 
09O	22	23	78110	 Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. With me you shall be in safekeeping." 
09O	23	1	78120	 Now they told David, "Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are robbing the threshing floors." 
09O	23	2	78130	 Therefore David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I go and attack these Philistines?" And the LORD said to David, "Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah." 
09O	23	3	78140	 But David's men said to him, "Behold, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?" 
09O	23	4	78150	 Then David inquired of the LORD again. And the LORD answered him, "Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand." 
09O	23	5	78160	 And David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines and brought away their livestock and struck them with a great blow. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah. 
09O	23	6	78170	 When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech had fled to David to Keilah, he had come down with an ephod in his hand. 
09O	23	7	78180	 Now it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, "God has given him into my hand, for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars." 
09O	23	8	78190	 And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men. 
09O	23	9	78200	 David knew that Saul was plotting harm against him. And he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here." 
09O	23	10	78210	 Then said David, "O LORD, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city on my account. 
09O	23	11	78220	 Will the men of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? O LORD, the God of Israel, please tell your servant." And the LORD said, "He will come down." 
09O	23	12	78230	 Then David said, "Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?" And the LORD said, "They will surrender you." 
09O	23	13	78240	 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the expedition. 
09O	23	14	78250	 And David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand. 
09O	23	15	78260	 David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh. 
09O	23	16	78270	 And Jonathan, Saul's son, rose and went to David at Horesh, and strengthened his hand in God. 
09O	23	17	78280	 And he said to him, "Do not fear, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you. You shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you. Saul my father also knows this." 
09O	23	18	78290	 And the two of them made a covenant before the LORD. David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went home. 
09O	23	19	78300	 Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is south of Jeshimon? 
09O	23	20	78310	 Now come down, O king, according to all your heart's desire to come down, and our part shall be to surrender him into the king's hand." 
09O	23	21	78320	 And Saul said, "May you be blessed by the LORD, for you have had compassion on me. 
09O	23	22	78330	 Go, make yet more sure. Know and see the place where his foot is, and who has seen him there, for it is told me that he is very cunning. 
09O	23	23	78340	 See therefore and take note of all the lurking places where he hides, and come back to me with sure information. Then I will go with you. And if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah." 
09O	23	24	78350	 And they arose and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon. 
09O	23	25	78360	 And Saul and his men went to seek him. And David was told, so he went down to the rock and lived in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon. 
09O	23	26	78370	 Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain. And David was hurrying to get away from Saul. As Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them, 
09O	23	27	78380	 a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid against the land." 
09O	23	28	78390	 So Saul returned from pursuing after David and went against the Philistines. Therefore that place was called the Rock of Escape. 
09O	23	29	78400	 And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of Engedi. 
09O	24	1	78410	 When Saul returned from following the Philistines, he was told, "Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi." 
09O	24	2	78420	 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel and went to seek David and his men in front of the Wildgoats' Rocks. 
09O	24	3	78430	 And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave, and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave. 
09O	24	4	78440	 And the men of David said to him, "Here is the day of which the LORD said to you, 'Behold, I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.'" Then David arose and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul's robe. 
09O	24	5	78450	 And afterward David's heart struck him, because he had cut off a corner of Saul's robe. 
09O	24	6	78460	 He said to his men, "The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the LORD's anointed." 
09O	24	7	78470	 So David persuaded his men with these words and did not permit them to attack Saul. And Saul rose up and left the cave and went on his way. 
09O	24	8	78480	 Afterward David also arose and went out of the cave, and called after Saul, "My lord the king!" And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth and paid homage. 
09O	24	9	78490	 And David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to the words of men who say, 'Behold, David seeks your harm'? 
09O	24	10	78500	 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD gave you today into my hand in the cave. And some told me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, 'I will not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the LORD's anointed.' 
09O	24	11	78510	 See, my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand. For by the fact that I cut off the corner of your robe and did not kill you, you may know and see that there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt my life to take it. 
09O	24	12	78520	 May the LORD judge between me and you, may the LORD avenge me against you, but my hand shall not be against you. 
09O	24	13	78530	 As the proverb of the ancients says, 'Out of the wicked comes wickedness.' But my hand shall not be against you. 
09O	24	14	78540	 After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog! After a flea! 
09O	24	15	78550	 May the LORD therefore be judge and give sentence between me and you, and see to it and plead my cause and deliver me from your hand." 
09O	24	16	78560	 As soon as David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" And Saul lifted up his voice and wept. 
09O	24	17	78570	 He said to David, "You are more righteous than I, for you have repaid me good, whereas I have repaid you evil. 
09O	24	18	78580	 And you have declared this day how you have dealt well with me, in that you did not kill me when the LORD put me into your hands. 
09O	24	19	78590	 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away safe? So may the LORD reward you with good for what you have done to me this day. 
09O	24	20	78600	 And now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand. 
09O	24	21	78610	 Swear to me therefore by the LORD that you will not cut off my offspring after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father's house." 
09O	24	22	78620	 And David swore this to Saul. Then Saul went home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold. 
09O	25	1	78630	 Now Samuel died. And all Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. 
09O	25	2	78640	 And there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel. 
09O	25	3	78650	 Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was discerning and beautiful, but the man was harsh and badly behaved; he was a Calebite. 
09O	25	4	78660	 David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. 
09O	25	5	78670	 So David sent ten young men. And David said to the young men, "Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal and greet him in my name. 
09O	25	6	78680	 And thus you shall greet him: 'Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have. 
09O	25	7	78690	 I hear that you have shearers. Now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, and they missed nothing all the time they were in Carmel. 
09O	25	8	78700	 Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we come on a feast day. Please give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David.'" 
09O	25	9	78710	 When David's young men came, they said all this to Nabal in the name of David, and then they waited. 
09O	25	10	78720	 And Nabal answered David's servants, "Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants these days who are breaking away from their masters. 
09O	25	11	78730	 Shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers and give it to men who come from I do not know where?" 
09O	25	12	78740	 So David's young men turned away and came back and told him all this. 
09O	25	13	78750	 And David said to his men, "Every man strap on his sword!" And every man of them strapped on his sword. David also strapped on his sword. And about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage. 
09O	25	14	78760	 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, "Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master, and he railed at them. 
09O	25	15	78770	 Yet the men were very good to us, and we suffered no harm, and we did not miss anything when we were in the fields, as long as we went with them. 
09O	25	16	78780	 They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. 
09O	25	17	78790	 Now therefore know this and consider what you should do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is such a worthless man that one cannot speak to him." 
09O	25	18	78800	 Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys. 
09O	25	19	78810	 And she said to her young men, "Go on before me; behold, I come after you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal. 
09O	25	20	78820	 And as she rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them. 
09O	25	21	78830	 Now David had said, "Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him, and he has returned me evil for good. 
09O	25	22	78840	 God do so to the enemies of David and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him." 
09O	25	23	78850	 When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got down from the donkey and fell before David on her face and bowed to the ground. 
09O	25	24	78860	 She fell at his feet and said, "On me alone, my lord, be the guilt. Please let your servant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your servant. 
09O	25	25	78870	 Let not my lord regard this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I your servant did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent. 
09O	25	26	78880	 Now then, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, because the LORD has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal. 
09O	25	27	78890	 And now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord. 
09O	25	28	78900	 Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the LORD, and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live. 
09O	25	29	78910	 If men rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living in the care of the LORD your God. And the lives of your enemies he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling. 
09O	25	30	78920	 And when the LORD has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you and has appointed you prince over Israel, 
09O	25	31	78930	 my lord shall have no cause of grief or pangs of conscience for having shed blood without cause or for my lord taking vengeance himself. And when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant." 
09O	25	32	78940	 And David said to Abigail, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! 
09O	25	33	78950	 Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from avenging myself with my own hand! 
09O	25	34	78960	 For as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male." 
09O	25	35	78970	 Then David received from her hand what she had brought him. And he said to her, "Go up in peace to your house. See, I have obeyed your voice, and I have granted your petition." 
09O	25	36	78980	 And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until the morning light. 
09O	25	37	78990	 In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. 
09O	25	38	79000	 And about ten days later the LORD struck Nabal, and he died. 
09O	25	39	79010	 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed be the LORD who has avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from wrongdoing. The LORD has returned the evil of Nabal on his own head." Then David sent and spoke to Abigail, to take her as his wife. 
09O	25	40	79020	 When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, "David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife." 
09O	25	41	79030	 And she rose and bowed with her face to the ground and said, "Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord." 
09O	25	42	79040	 And Abigail hurried and rose and mounted a donkey, and her five young women attended her. She followed the messengers of David and became his wife. 
09O	25	43	79050	 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel, and both of them became his wives. 
09O	25	44	79060	 Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim. 
09O	26	1	79070	 Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "Is not David hiding himself on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the east of Jeshimon?" 
09O	26	2	79080	 So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph with three thousand chosen men of Israel to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. 
09O	26	3	79090	 And Saul encamped on the hill of Hachilah, which is beside the road on the east of Jeshimon. But David remained in the wilderness. When he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness, 
09O	26	4	79100	 David sent out spies and learned that Saul had come. 
09O	26	5	79110	 Then David rose and came to the place where Saul had encamped. And David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner the son of Ner, the commander of his army. Saul was lying within the encampment, while the army was encamped around him. 
09O	26	6	79120	 Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Joab's brother Abishai the son of Zeruiah, "Who will go down with me into the camp to Saul?" And Abishai said, "I will go down with you." 
09O	26	7	79130	 So David and Abishai went to the army by night. And there lay Saul sleeping within the encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head, and Abner and the army lay around him. 
09O	26	8	79140	 Then said Abishai to David, "God has given your enemy into your hand this day. Now please let me pin him to the earth with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice." 
09O	26	9	79150	 But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the LORD's anointed and be guiltless?" 
09O	26	10	79160	 And David said, "As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish. 
09O	26	11	79170	 The LORD forbid that I should put out my hand against the LORD's anointed. But take now the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go." 
09O	26	12	79180	 So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head, and they went away. No man saw it or knew it, nor did any awake, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen upon them. 
09O	26	13	79190	 Then David went over to the other side and stood far off on the top of the hill, with a great space between them. 
09O	26	14	79200	 And David called to the army, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, "Will you not answer, Abner?" Then Abner answered, "Who are you who calls to the king?" 
09O	26	15	79210	 And David said to Abner, "Are you not a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord. 
09O	26	16	79220	 This thing that you have done is not good. As the LORD lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is and the jar of water that was at his head." 
09O	26	17	79230	 Saul recognized David's voice and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" And David said, "It is my voice, my lord, O king." 
09O	26	18	79240	 And he said, "Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? What evil is on my hands? 
09O	26	19	79250	 Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the LORD who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering, but if it is men, may they be cursed before the LORD, for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in the heritage of the LORD, saying, 'Go, serve other gods.' 
09O	26	20	79260	 Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD, for the king of Israel has come out to seek a single flea like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains." 
09O	26	21	79270	 Then Saul said, "I have sinned. Return, my son David, for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have acted foolishly, and have made a great mistake." 
09O	26	22	79280	 And David answered and said, "Here is the spear, O king! Let one of the young men come over and take it. 
09O	26	23	79290	 The LORD rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness, for the LORD gave you into my hand today, and I would not put out my hand against the LORD's anointed. 
09O	26	24	79300	 Behold, as your life was precious this day in my sight, so may my life be precious in the sight of the LORD, and may he deliver me out of all tribulation." 
09O	26	25	79310	 Then Saul said to David, "Blessed be you, my son David! You will do many things and will succeed in them." So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place. 
09O	27	1	79320	 Then David said in his heart, "Now I shall perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand." 
09O	27	2	79330	 So David arose and went over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath. 
09O	27	3	79340	 And David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, and David with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, Nabal's widow. 
09O	27	4	79350	 And when it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath, he no longer sought him. 
09O	27	5	79360	 Then David said to Achish, "If I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be given me in one of the country towns, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?" 
09O	27	6	79370	 So that day Achish gave him Ziklag. Therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day. 
09O	27	7	79380	 And the number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months. 
09O	27	8	79390	 Now David and his men went up and made raids against the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites, for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt. 
09O	27	9	79400	 And David would strike the land and would leave neither man nor woman alive, but would take away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the garments, and come back to Achish. 
09O	27	10	79410	 When Achish asked, "Where have you made a raid today?" David would say, "Against the Negeb of Judah," or, "Against the Negeb of the Jerahmeelites," or, "Against the Negeb of the Kenites." 
09O	27	11	79420	 And David would leave neither man nor woman alive to bring news to Gath, thinking, "lest they should tell about us and say, 'So David has done.'" Such was his custom all the while he lived in the country of the Philistines. 
09O	27	12	79430	 And Achish trusted David, thinking, "He has made himself an utter stench to his people Israel; therefore he shall always be my servant." 
09O	28	1	79440	 In those days the Philistines gathered their forces for war, to fight against Israel. And Achish said to David, "Understand that you and your men are to go out with me in the army." 
09O	28	2	79450	 David said to Achish, "Very well, you shall know what your servant can do." And Achish said to David, "Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life." 
09O	28	3	79460	 Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the necromancers out of the land. 
09O	28	4	79470	 The Philistines assembled and came and encamped at Shunem. And Saul gathered all Israel, and they encamped at Gilboa. 
09O	28	5	79480	 When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly. 
09O	28	6	79490	 And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets. 
09O	28	7	79500	 Then Saul said to his servants, "Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her." And his servants said to him, "Behold, there is a medium at En-dor." 
09O	28	8	79510	 So Saul disguised himself and put on other garments and went, he and two men with him. And they came to the woman by night. And he said, "Divine for me by a spirit and bring up for me whomever I shall name to you." 
09O	28	9	79520	 The woman said to him, "Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the necromancers from the land. Why then are you laying a trap for my life to bring about my death?" 
09O	28	10	79530	 But Saul swore to her by the LORD, "As the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing." 
09O	28	11	79540	 Then the woman said, "Whom shall I bring up for you?" He said, "Bring up Samuel for me." 
09O	28	12	79550	 When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice. And the woman said to Saul, "Why have you deceived me? You are Saul." 
09O	28	13	79560	 The king said to her, "Do not be afraid. What do you see?" And the woman said to Saul, "I see a god coming up out of the earth." 
09O	28	14	79570	 He said to her, "What is his appearance?" And she said, "An old man is coming up, and he is wrapped in a robe." And Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground and paid homage. 
09O	28	15	79580	 Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" Saul answered, "I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do." 
09O	28	16	79590	 And Samuel said, "Why then do you ask me, since the LORD has turned from you and become your enemy? 
09O	28	17	79600	 The LORD has done to you as he spoke by me, for the LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, David. 
09O	28	18	79610	 Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD and did not carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek, therefore the LORD has done this thing to you this day. 
09O	28	19	79620	 Moreover, the LORD will give Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines, and tomorrow you and your sons shall be with me. The LORD will give the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines." 
09O	28	20	79630	 Then Saul fell at once full length on the ground, filled with fear because of the words of Samuel. And there was no strength in him, for he had eaten nothing all day and all night. 
09O	28	21	79640	 And the woman came to Saul, and when she saw that he was terrified, she said to him, "Behold, your servant has obeyed you. I have taken my life in my hand and have listened to what you have said to me. 
09O	28	22	79650	 Now therefore, you also obey your servant. Let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength when you go on your way." 
09O	28	23	79660	 He refused and said, "I will not eat." But his servants, together with the woman, urged him, and he listened to their words. So he arose from the earth and sat on the bed. 
09O	28	24	79670	 Now the woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she quickly killed it, and she took flour and kneaded it and baked unleavened bread of it, 
09O	28	25	79680	 and she put it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they rose and went away that night. 
09O	29	1	79690	 Now the Philistines had gathered all their forces at Aphek. And the Israelites were encamped by the spring that is in Jezreel. 
09O	29	2	79700	 As the lords of the Philistines were passing on by hundreds and by thousands, and David and his men were passing on in the rear with Achish, 
09O	29	3	79710	 the commanders of the Philistines said, "What are these Hebrews doing here?" And Achish said to the commanders of the Philistines, "Is this not David, the servant of Saul, king of Israel, who has been with me now for days and years, and since he deserted to me I have found no fault in him to this day." 
09O	29	4	79720	 But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him. And the commanders of the Philistines said to him, "Send the man back, that he may return to the place to which you have assigned him. He shall not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For how could this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Would it not be with the heads of the men here? 
09O	29	5	79730	 Is not this David, of whom they sing to one another in dances, 'Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands'?" 
09O	29	6	79740	 Then Achish called David and said to him, "As the LORD lives, you have been honest, and to me it seems right that you should march out and in with me in the campaign. For I have found nothing wrong in you from the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords do not approve of you. 
09O	29	7	79750	 So go back now; and go peaceably, that you may not displease the lords of the Philistines." 
09O	29	8	79760	 And David said to Achish, "But what have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day I entered your service until now, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?" 
09O	29	9	79770	 And Achish answered David and said, "I know that you are as blameless in my sight as an angel of God. Nevertheless, the commanders of the Philistines have said, 'He shall not go up with us to the battle.' 
09O	29	10	79780	 Now then rise early in the morning with the servants of your lord who came with you, and start early in the morning, and depart as soon as you have light." 
09O	29	11	79790	 So David set out with his men early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. But the Philistines went up to Jezreel. 
09O	30	1	79800	 Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid against the Negeb and against Ziklag. They had overcome Ziklag and burned it with fire 
09O	30	2	79810	 and taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They killed no one, but carried them off and went their way. 
09O	30	3	79820	 And when David and his men came to the city, they found it burned with fire, and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive. 
09O	30	4	79830	 Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept until they had no more strength to weep. 
09O	30	5	79840	 David's two wives also had been taken captive, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel. 
09O	30	6	79850	 And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the LORD his God. 
09O	30	7	79860	 And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Bring me the ephod." So Abiathar brought the ephod to David. 
09O	30	8	79870	 And David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I pursue after this band? Shall I overtake them?" He answered him, "Pursue, for you shall surely overtake and shall surely rescue." 
09O	30	9	79880	 So David set out, and the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed. 
09O	30	10	79890	 But David pursued, he and four hundred men. Two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor. 
09O	30	11	79900	 They found an Egyptian in the open country and brought him to David. And they gave him bread and he ate. They gave him water to drink, 
09O	30	12	79910	 and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. And when he had eaten, his spirit revived, for he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights. 
09O	30	13	79920	 And David said to him, "To whom do you belong? And where are you from?" He said, "I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite, and my master left me behind because I fell sick three days ago. 
09O	30	14	79930	 We had made a raid against the Negeb of the Cherethites and against that which belongs to Judah and against the Negeb of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire." 
09O	30	15	79940	 And David said to him, "Will you take me down to this band?" And he said, "Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will take you down to this band." 
09O	30	16	79950	 And when he had taken him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah. 
09O	30	17	79960	 And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day, and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled. 
09O	30	18	79970	 David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives. 
09O	30	19	79980	 Nothing was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that had been taken. David brought back all. 
09O	30	20	79990	 David also captured all the flocks and herds, and the people drove the livestock before him, and said, "This is David's spoil." 
09O	30	21	80000	 Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow David, and who had been left at the brook Besor. And they went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him. And when David came near to the people he greeted them. 
09O	30	22	80010	 Then all the wicked and worthless fellows among the men who had gone with David said, "Because they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except that each man may lead away his wife and children, and depart." 
09O	30	23	80020	 But David said, "You shall not do so, my brothers, with what the LORD has given us. He has preserved us and given into our hand the band that came against us. 
09O	30	24	80030	 Who would listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down into the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage. They shall share alike." 
09O	30	25	80040	 And he made it a statute and a rule for Israel from that day forward to this day. 
09O	30	26	80050	 When David came to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, "Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the LORD." 
09O	30	27	80060	 It was for those in Bethel, in Ramoth of the Negeb, in Jattir, 
09O	30	28	80070	 in Aroer, in Siphmoth, in Eshtemoa, 
09O	30	29	80080	 in Racal, in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, in the cities of the Kenites, 
09O	30	30	80090	 in Hormah, in Bor-ashan, in Athach, 
09O	30	31	80100	 in Hebron, for all the places where David and his men had roamed. 
09O	31	1	80110	 Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa. 
09O	31	2	80120	 And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines struck down Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul. 
09O	31	3	80130	 The battle pressed hard against Saul, and the archers found him, and he was badly wounded by the archers. 
09O	31	4	80140	 Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me." But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it. 
09O	31	5	80150	 And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died with him. 
09O	31	6	80160	 Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, on the same day together. 
09O	31	7	80170	 And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. And the Philistines came and lived in them. 
09O	31	8	80180	 The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. 
09O	31	9	80190	 So they cut off his head and stripped off his armor and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to the house of their idols and to the people. 
09O	31	10	80200	 They put his armor in the temple of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. 
09O	31	11	80210	 But when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, 
09O	31	12	80220	 all the valiant men arose and went all night and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there. 
09O	31	13	80230	 And they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and fasted seven days. 
10O	1	1	80240	 After the death of Saul, when David had returned from striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag. 
10O	1	2	80250	 And on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul's camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage. 
10O	1	3	80260	 David said to him, "Where do you come from?" And he said to him, "I have escaped from the camp of Israel." 
10O	1	4	80270	 And David said to him, "How did it go? Tell me." And he answered, "The people fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead." 
10O	1	5	80280	 Then David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?" 
10O	1	6	80290	 And the young man who told him said, "By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and there was Saul leaning on his spear, and behold, the chariots and the horsemen were close upon him. 
10O	1	7	80300	 And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. And I answered, 'Here I am.' 
10O	1	8	80310	 And he said to me, 'Who are you?' I answered him, 'I am an Amalekite.' 
10O	1	9	80320	 And he said to me 'Stand beside me and kill me, for anguish has seized me, and yet my life still lingers.' 
10O	1	10	80330	 So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. And I took the crown that was on his head and the armlet that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord." 
10O	1	11	80340	 Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and so did all the men who were with him. 
10O	1	12	80350	 And they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the LORD and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword. 
10O	1	13	80360	 And David said to the young man who told him, "Where do you come from?" And he answered, "I am the son of a sojourner, an Amalekite." 
10O	1	14	80370	 David said to him, "How is it you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?" 
10O	1	15	80380	 Then David called one of the young men and said, "Go, execute him." And he struck him down so that he died. 
10O	1	16	80390	 And David said to him, "Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have killed the LORD's anointed.'" 
10O	1	17	80400	 And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son, 
10O	1	18	80410	 and he said it should be taught to the people of Judah; behold, it is written in the Book of Jashar. He said: 
10O	1	19	80420	 "Your glory, O Israel, is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen! 
10O	1	20	80430	 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult. 
10O	1	21	80440	 "You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you, nor fields of offerings! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil. 
10O	1	22	80450	 "From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty. 
10O	1	23	80460	 "Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely! In life and in death they were not divided; they were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than lions. 
10O	1	24	80470	 "You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you luxuriously in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold on your apparel. 
10O	1	25	80480	 "How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! "Jonathan lies slain on your high places. 
10O	1	26	80490	 I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women. 
10O	1	27	80500	 "How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war perished!" 
10O	2	1	80510	 After this David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?" And the LORD said to him, "Go up." David said, "To which shall I go up?" And he said, "To Hebron." 
10O	2	2	80520	 So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel. 
10O	2	3	80530	 And David brought up his men who were with him, everyone with his household, and they lived in the towns of Hebron. 
10O	2	4	80540	 And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, "It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul," 
10O	2	5	80550	 David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead and said to them, "May you be blessed by the LORD, because you showed this loyalty to Saul your lord and buried him. 
10O	2	6	80560	 Now may the LORD show steadfast love and faithfulness to you. And I will do good to you because you have done this thing. 
10O	2	7	80570	 Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant, for Saul your lord is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them." 
10O	2	8	80580	 But Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim, 
10O	2	9	80590	 and he made him king over Gilead and the Ashurites and Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin and all Israel. 
10O	2	10	80600	 Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David. 
10O	2	11	80610	 And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months. 
10O	2	12	80620	 Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon. 
10O	2	13	80630	 And Joab the son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out and met them at the pool of Gibeon. And they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool. 
10O	2	14	80640	 And Abner said to Joab, "Let the young men arise and compete before us." And Joab said, "Let them arise." 
10O	2	15	80650	 Then they arose and passed over by number, twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David. 
10O	2	16	80660	 And each caught his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his opponent's side, so they fell down together. Therefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is at Gibeon. 
10O	2	17	80670	 And the battle was very fierce that day. And Abner and the men of Israel were beaten before the servants of David. 
10O	2	18	80680	 And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was as swift of foot as a wild gazelle. 
10O	2	19	80690	 And Asahel pursued Abner, and as he went, he turned neither to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner. 
10O	2	20	80700	 Then Abner looked behind him and said, "Is it you, Asahel?" And he answered, "It is I." 
10O	2	21	80710	 Abner said to him, "Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and seize one of the young men and take his spoil." But Asahel would not turn aside from following him. 
10O	2	22	80720	 And Abner said again to Asahel, "Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I lift up my face to your brother Joab?" 
10O	2	23	80730	 But he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner struck him in the stomach with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back. And he fell there and died where he was. And all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died, stood still. 
10O	2	24	80740	 But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. And as the sun was going down they came to the hill of Ammah, which lies before Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon. 
10O	2	25	80750	 And the people of Benjamin gathered themselves together behind Abner and became one group and took their stand on the top of a hill. 
10O	2	26	80760	 Then Abner called to Joab, "Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you tell your people to turn from the pursuit of their brothers?" 
10O	2	27	80770	 And Joab said, "As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely the men would not have given up the pursuit of their brothers until the morning." 
10O	2	28	80780	 So Joab blew the trumpet, and all the men stopped and pursued Israel no more, nor did they fight anymore. 
10O	2	29	80790	 And Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah. They crossed the Jordan, and marching the whole morning, they came to Mahanaim. 
10O	2	30	80800	 Joab returned from the pursuit of Abner. And when he had gathered all the people together, there were missing from David's servants nineteen men besides Asahel. 
10O	2	31	80810	 But the servants of David had struck down of Benjamin 360 of Abner's men. 
10O	2	32	80820	 And they took up Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was at Bethlehem. And Joab and his men marched all night, and the day broke upon them at Hebron. 
10O	3	1	80830	 There was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David. And David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul became weaker and weaker. 
10O	3	2	80840	 And sons were born to David at Hebron: his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam of Jezreel; 
10O	3	3	80850	 and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; 
10O	3	4	80860	 and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital; 
10O	3	5	80870	 and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron. 
10O	3	6	80880	 While there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner was making himself strong in the house of Saul. 
10O	3	7	80890	 Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And Ish-bosheth said to Abner, "Why have you gone in to my father's concubine?" 
10O	3	8	80900	 Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, "Am I a dog's head of Judah? To this day I keep showing steadfast love to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David. And yet you charge me today with a fault concerning a woman. 
10O	3	9	80910	 God do so to Abner and more also, if I do not accomplish for David what the LORD has sworn to him, 
10O	3	10	80920	 to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba." 
10O	3	11	80930	 And Ish-bosheth could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him. 
10O	3	12	80940	 And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, "To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you to bring over all Israel to you." 
10O	3	13	80950	 And he said, "Good; I will make a covenant with you. But one thing I require of you; that is, you shall not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come to see my face." 
10O	3	14	80960	 Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, saying, "Give me my wife Michal, for whom I paid the bridal price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines." 
10O	3	15	80970	 And Ish-bosheth sent and took her from her husband Paltiel the son of Laish. 
10O	3	16	80980	 But her husband went with her, weeping after her all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, "Go, return." And he returned. 
10O	3	17	80990	 And Abner conferred with the elders of Israel, saying, "For some time past you have been seeking David as king over you. 
10O	3	18	81000	 Now then bring it about, for the LORD has promised David, saying, 'By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines, and from the hand of all their enemies.'" 
10O	3	19	81010	 Abner also spoke to Benjamin. And then Abner went to tell David at Hebron all that Israel and the whole house of Benjamin thought good to do. 
10O	3	20	81020	 When Abner came with twenty men to David at Hebron, David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him. 
10O	3	21	81030	 And Abner said to David, "I will arise and go and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your heart desires." So David sent Abner away, and he went in peace. 
10O	3	22	81040	 Just then the servants of David arrived with Joab from a raid, bringing much spoil with them. But Abner was not with David at Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace. 
10O	3	23	81050	 When Joab and all the army that was with him came, it was told Joab, "Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has let him go, and he has gone in peace." 
10O	3	24	81060	 Then Joab went to the king and said, "What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, so that he is gone? 
10O	3	25	81070	 You know that Abner the son of Ner came to deceive you and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you are doing." 
10O	3	26	81080	 When Joab came out from David's presence, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the cistern of Sirah. But David did not know about it. 
10O	3	27	81090	 And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the stomach, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother. 
10O	3	28	81100	 Afterward, when David heard of it, he said, "I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the LORD for the blood of Abner the son of Ner. 
10O	3	29	81110	 May it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father's house, and may the house of Joab never be without one who has a discharge or who is leprous or who holds a spindle or who falls by the sword or who lacks bread!" 
10O	3	30	81120	 So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon. 
10O	3	31	81130	 Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, "Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." And King David followed the bier. 
10O	3	32	81140	 They buried Abner at Hebron. And the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner, and all the people wept. 
10O	3	33	81150	 And the king lamented for Abner, saying, "Should Abner die as a fool dies? 
10O	3	34	81160	 Your hands were not bound; your feet were not fettered; as one falls before the wicked you have fallen." And all the people wept again over him. 
10O	3	35	81170	 Then all the people came to persuade David to eat bread while it was yet day. But David swore, saying, "God do so to me and more also, if I taste bread or anything else till the sun goes down!" 
10O	3	36	81180	 And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them, as everything that the king did pleased all the people. 
10O	3	37	81190	 So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king's will to put to death Abner the son of Ner. 
10O	3	38	81200	 And the king said to his servants, "Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel? 
10O	3	39	81210	 And I was gentle today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are more severe than I. The LORD repay the evildoer according to his wickedness!" 
10O	4	1	81220	 When Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, heard that Abner had died at Hebron, his courage failed, and all Israel was dismayed. 
10O	4	2	81230	 Now Saul's son had two men who were captains of raiding bands; the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon a man of Benjamin from Beeroth (for Beeroth also is counted part of Benjamin; 
10O	4	3	81240	 the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourners there to this day). 
10O	4	4	81250	 Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled, and as she fled in her haste, he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth. 
10O	4	5	81260	 Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ish-bosheth as he was taking his noonday rest. 
10O	4	6	81270	 And they came into the midst of the house as if to get wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. 
10O	4	7	81280	 When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him and put him to death and beheaded him. They took his head and went by the way of the Arabah all night, 
10O	4	8	81290	 and brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron. And they said to the king, "Here is the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life. The LORD has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring." 
10O	4	9	81300	 But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, "As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity, 
10O	4	10	81310	 when one told me, 'Behold, Saul is dead,' and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news. 
10O	4	11	81320	 How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?" 
10O	4	12	81330	 And David commanded his young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner at Hebron. 
10O	5	1	81340	 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, "Behold, we are your bone and flesh. 
10O	5	2	81350	 In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the LORD said to you, 'You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'" 
10O	5	3	81360	 So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel. 
10O	5	4	81370	 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. 
10O	5	5	81380	 At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and at Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years. 
10O	5	6	81390	 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, "You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off"--thinking, "David cannot come in here." 
10O	5	7	81400	 Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David. 
10O	5	8	81410	 And David said on that day, "Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft to attack 'the lame and the blind,' who are hated by David's soul." Therefore it is said, "The blind and the lame shall not come into the house." 
10O	5	9	81420	 And David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built the city all around from the Millo inward. 
10O	5	10	81430	 And David became greater and greater, for the LORD, the God of hosts, was with him. 
10O	5	11	81440	 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house. 
10O	5	12	81450	 And David knew that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel. 
10O	5	13	81460	 And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David. 
10O	5	14	81470	 And these are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, 
10O	5	15	81480	 Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, 
10O	5	16	81490	 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet. 
10O	5	17	81500	 When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went down to the stronghold. 
10O	5	18	81510	 Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim. 
10O	5	19	81520	 And David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you give them into my hand?" And the LORD said to David, "Go up, for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hand." 
10O	5	20	81530	 And David came to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there. And he said, "The LORD has burst through my enemies before me like a bursting flood." Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim. 
10O	5	21	81540	 And the Philistines left their idols there, and David and his men carried them away. 
10O	5	22	81550	 And the Philistines came up yet again and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim. 
10O	5	23	81560	 And when David inquired of the LORD, he said, "You shall not go up; go around to their rear, and come against them opposite the balsam trees. 
10O	5	24	81570	 And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then rouse yourself, for then the LORD has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines." 
10O	5	25	81580	 And David did as the LORD commanded him, and struck down the Philistines from Geba to Gezer. 
10O	6	1	81590	 David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. 
10O	6	2	81600	 And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale-judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the LORD of hosts who sits enthroned on the cherubim. 
10O	6	3	81610	 And they carried the ark of God on a new cart and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. And Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new cart, 
10O	6	4	81620	 with the ark of God, and Ahio went before the ark. 
10O	6	5	81630	 And David and all the house of Israel were making merry before the LORD, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals. 
10O	6	6	81640	 And when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. 
10O	6	7	81650	 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and God struck him down there because of his error, and he died there beside the ark of God. 
10O	6	8	81660	 And David was angry because the LORD had burst forth against Uzzah. And that place is called Perez-uzzah, to this day. 
10O	6	9	81670	 And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and he said, "How can the ark of the LORD come to me?" 
10O	6	10	81680	 So David was not willing to take the ark of the LORD into the city of David. But David took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. 
10O	6	11	81690	 And the ark of the LORD remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months, and the LORD blessed Obed-edom and all his household. 
10O	6	12	81700	 And it was told King David, "The LORD has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God." So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with rejoicing. 
10O	6	13	81710	 And when those who bore the ark of the LORD had gone six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal. 
10O	6	14	81720	 And David danced before the LORD with all his might. And David was wearing a linen ephod. 
10O	6	15	81730	 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting and with the sound of the horn. 
10O	6	16	81740	 As the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart. 
10O	6	17	81750	 And they brought in the ark of the LORD and set it in its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD. 
10O	6	18	81760	 And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts 
10O	6	19	81770	 and distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, a cake of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins to each one. Then all the people departed, each to his house. 
10O	6	20	81780	 And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, "How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' female servants, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!" 
10O	6	21	81790	 And David said to Michal, "It was before the LORD, who chose me above your father and above all his house, to appoint me as prince over Israel, the people of the LORD--and I will make merry before the LORD. 
10O	6	22	81800	 I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your eyes. But by the female servants of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor." 
10O	6	23	81810	 And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death. 
10O	7	1	81820	 Now when the king lived in his house and the LORD had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies, 
10O	7	2	81830	 the king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent." 
10O	7	3	81840	 And Nathan said to the king, "Go, do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you." 
10O	7	4	81850	 But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, 
10O	7	5	81860	 "Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says the LORD: Would you build me a house to dwell in? 
10O	7	6	81870	 I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling. 
10O	7	7	81880	 In all places where I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"' 
10O	7	8	81890	 Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel. 
10O	7	9	81900	 And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth. 
10O	7	10	81910	 And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly, 
10O	7	11	81920	 from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, the LORD declares to you that the LORD will make you a house. 
10O	7	12	81930	 When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. 
10O	7	13	81940	 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. 
10O	7	14	81950	 I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, 
10O	7	15	81960	 but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. 
10O	7	16	81970	 And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.'" 
10O	7	17	81980	 In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David. 
10O	7	18	81990	 Then King David went in and sat before the LORD and said, "Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? 
10O	7	19	82000	 And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord GOD. You have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord GOD! 
10O	7	20	82010	 And what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord GOD! 
10O	7	21	82020	 Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it. 
10O	7	22	82030	 Therefore you are great, O LORD God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 
10O	7	23	82040	 And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods? 
10O	7	24	82050	 And you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever. And you, O LORD, became their God. 
10O	7	25	82060	 And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, and do as you have spoken. 
10O	7	26	82070	 And your name will be magnified forever, saying, 'The LORD of hosts is God over Israel,' and the house of your servant David will be established before you. 
10O	7	27	82080	 For you, O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have made this revelation to your servant, saying, 'I will build you a house.' Therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you. 
10O	7	28	82090	 And now, O Lord GOD, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant. 
10O	7	29	82100	 Now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you. For you, O Lord GOD, have spoken, and with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed forever." 
10O	8	1	82110	 After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines. 
10O	8	2	82120	 And he defeated Moab and he measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground. Two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute. 
10O	8	3	82130	 David also defeated Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphrates. 
10O	8	4	82140	 And David took from him 1,700 horsemen, and 20,000 foot soldiers. And David hamstrung all the chariot horses but left enough for 100 chariots. 
10O	8	5	82150	 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down 22,000 men of the Syrians. 
10O	8	6	82160	 Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Syrians became servants to David and brought tribute. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went. 
10O	8	7	82170	 And David took the shields of gold that were carried by the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem. 
10O	8	8	82180	 And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took very much bronze. 
10O	8	9	82190	 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadadezer, 
10O	8	10	82200	 Toi sent his son Joram to King David, to ask about his health and to bless him because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer had often been at war with Toi. And Joram brought with him articles of silver, of gold, and of bronze. 
10O	8	11	82210	 These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he dedicated from all the nations he subdued, 
10O	8	12	82220	 from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, Amalek, and from the spoil of Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah. 
10O	8	13	82230	 And David made a name for himself when he returned from striking down 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. 
10O	8	14	82240	 Then he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David's servants. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went. 
10O	8	15	82250	 So David reigned over all Israel. And David administered justice and equity to all his people. 
10O	8	16	82260	 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder, 
10O	8	17	82270	 and Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, and Seraiah was secretary, 
10O	8	18	82280	 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and David's sons were priests. 
10O	9	1	82290	 And David said, "Is there still anyone left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?" 
10O	9	2	82300	 Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David. And the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?" And he said, "I am your servant." 
10O	9	3	82310	 And the king said, "Is there not still someone of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God to him?" Ziba said to the king, "There is still a son of Jonathan; he is crippled in his feet." 
10O	9	4	82320	 The king said to him, "Where is he?" And Ziba said to the king, "He is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar." 
10O	9	5	82330	 Then King David sent and brought him from the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar. 
10O	9	6	82340	 And Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David and fell on his face and paid homage. And David said, "Mephibosheth!" And he answered, "Behold, I am your servant." 
10O	9	7	82350	 And David said to him, "Do not fear, for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father, and you shall eat at my table always." 
10O	9	8	82360	 And he paid homage and said, "What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog such as I?" 
10O	9	9	82370	 Then the king called Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, "All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master's grandson. 
10O	9	10	82380	 And you and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him and shall bring in the produce, that your master's grandson may have bread to eat. But Mephibosheth your master's grandson shall always eat at my table." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants. 
10O	9	11	82390	 Then Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so will your servant do." So Mephibosheth ate at David's table, like one of the king's sons. 
10O	9	12	82400	 And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. And all who lived in Ziba's house became Mephibosheth's servants. 
10O	9	13	82410	 So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he ate always at the king's table. Now he was lame in both his feet. 
10O	10	1	82420	 After this the king of the Ammonites died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place. 
10O	10	2	82430	 And David said, "I will deal loyally with Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father dealt loyally with me." So David sent by his servants to console him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the Ammonites. 
10O	10	3	82440	 But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow it?" 
10O	10	4	82450	 So Hanun took David's servants and shaved off half the beard of each and cut off their garments in the middle, at their hips, and sent them away. 
10O	10	5	82460	 When it was told David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, "Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown and then return." 
10O	10	6	82470	 When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, the Ammonites sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob, 12,000 men. 
10O	10	7	82480	 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the host of the mighty men. 
10O	10	8	82490	 And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the gate, and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country. 
10O	10	9	82500	 When Joab saw that the battle was set against him both in front and in the rear, he chose some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Syrians. 
10O	10	10	82510	 The rest of his men he put in the charge of Abishai his brother, and he arrayed them against the Ammonites. 
10O	10	11	82520	 And he said, "If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me, but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come and help you. 
10O	10	12	82530	 Be of good courage, and let us be courageous for our people, and for the cities of our God, and may the LORD do what seems good to him." 
10O	10	13	82540	 So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him. 
10O	10	14	82550	 And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem. 
10O	10	15	82560	 But when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together. 
10O	10	16	82570	 And Hadadezer sent and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the Euphrates. They came to Helam, with Shobach the commander of the army of Hadadezer at their head. 
10O	10	17	82580	 And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together and crossed the Jordan and came to Helam. The Syrians arrayed themselves against David and fought with him. 
10O	10	18	82590	 And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David killed of the Syrians the men of 700 chariots, and 40,000 horsemen, and wounded Shobach the commander of their army, so that he died there. 
10O	10	19	82600	 And when all the kings who were servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subject to them. So the Syrians were afraid to save the Ammonites anymore. 
10O	11	1	82610	 In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. 
10O	11	2	82620	 It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. 
10O	11	3	82630	 And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, "Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" 
10O	11	4	82640	 So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house. 
10O	11	5	82650	 And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, "I am pregnant." 
10O	11	6	82660	 So David sent word to Joab, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab sent Uriah to David. 
10O	11	7	82670	 When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was doing and how the people were doing and how the war was going. 
10O	11	8	82680	 Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet." And Uriah went out of the king's house, and there followed him a present from the king. 
10O	11	9	82690	 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. 
10O	11	10	82700	 When they told David, "Uriah did not go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?" 
10O	11	11	82710	 Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing." 
10O	11	12	82720	 Then David said to Uriah, "Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 
10O	11	13	82730	 And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, so that he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house. 
10O	11	14	82740	 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 
10O	11	15	82750	 In the letter he wrote, "Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die." 
10O	11	16	82760	 And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men. 
10O	11	17	82770	 And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite also died. 
10O	11	18	82780	 Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting. 
10O	11	19	82790	 And he instructed the messenger, "When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king, 
10O	11	20	82800	 then, if the king's anger rises, and if he says to you, 'Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? 
10O	11	21	82810	 Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then you shall say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'" 
10O	11	22	82820	 So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell. 
10O	11	23	82830	 The messenger said to David, "The men gained an advantage over us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate. 
10O	11	24	82840	 Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall. Some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also." 
10O	11	25	82850	 David said to the messenger, "Thus shall you say to Joab, 'Do not let this matter trouble you, for the sword devours now one and now another. Strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow it.' And encourage him." 
10O	11	26	82860	 When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented over her husband. 
10O	11	27	82870	 And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD. 
10O	12	1	82880	 And the LORD sent Nathan to David. He came to him and said to him, "There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor. 
10O	12	2	82890	 The rich man had very many flocks and herds, 
10O	12	3	82900	 but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him. 
10O	12	4	82910	 Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the guest who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him." 
10O	12	5	82920	 Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As the LORD lives, the man who has done this deserves to die, 
10O	12	6	82930	 and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity." 
10O	12	7	82940	 Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. 
10O	12	8	82950	 And I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more. 
10O	12	9	82960	 Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 
10O	12	10	82970	 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.' 
10O	12	11	82980	 Thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 
10O	12	12	82990	 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.'" 
10O	12	13	83000	 David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD." And Nathan said to David, "The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die. 
10O	12	14	83010	 Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the LORD, the child who is born to you shall die." 
10O	12	15	83020	 Then Nathan went to his house. And the LORD afflicted the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and he became sick. 
10O	12	16	83030	 David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground. 
10O	12	17	83040	 And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them. 
10O	12	18	83050	 On the seventh day the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, "Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to us. How then can we say to him the child is dead? He may do himself some harm." 
10O	12	19	83060	 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David understood that the child was dead. And David said to his servants, "Is the child dead?" They said, "He is dead." 
10O	12	20	83070	 Then David arose from the earth and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothes. And he went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. He then went to his own house. And when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate. 
10O	12	21	83080	 Then his servants said to him, "What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food." 
10O	12	22	83090	 He said, "While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, 'Who knows whether the LORD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?' 
10O	12	23	83100	 But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me." 
10O	12	24	83110	 Then David comforted his wife, Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her, and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. And the LORD loved him 
10O	12	25	83120	 and sent a message by Nathan the prophet. So he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD. 
10O	12	26	83130	 Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city. 
10O	12	27	83140	 And Joab sent messengers to David and said, "I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the city of waters. 
10O	12	28	83150	 Now then gather the rest of the people together and encamp against the city and take it, lest I take the city and it be called by my name." 
10O	12	29	83160	 So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah and fought against it and took it. 
10O	12	30	83170	 And he took the crown of their king from his head. The weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone, and it was placed on David's head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount. 
10O	12	31	83180	 And he brought out the people who were in it and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes and made them toil at the brick kilns. And thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. 
10O	13	1	83190	 Now Absalom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar. And after a time Amnon, David's son, loved her. 
10O	13	2	83200	 And Amnon was so tormented that he made himself ill because of his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her. 
10O	13	3	83210	 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother. And Jonadab was a very crafty man. 
10O	13	4	83220	 And he said to him, "O son of the king, why are you so haggard morning after morning? Will you not tell me?" Amnon said to him, "I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister." 
10O	13	5	83230	 Jonadab said to him, "Lie down on your bed and pretend to be ill. And when your father comes to see you, say to him, 'Let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it and eat it from her hand.'" 
10O	13	6	83240	 So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill. And when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, "Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand." 
10O	13	7	83250	 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, "Go to your brother Amnon's house and prepare food for him." 
10O	13	8	83260	 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house, where he was lying down. And she took dough and kneaded it and made cakes in his sight and baked the cakes. 
10O	13	9	83270	 And she took the pan and emptied it out before him, but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, "Send out everyone from me." So everyone went out from him. 
10O	13	10	83280	 Then Amnon said to Tamar, "Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from your hand." And Tamar took the cakes she had made and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother. 
10O	13	11	83290	 But when she brought them near him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, "Come, lie with me, my sister." 
10O	13	12	83300	 She answered him, "No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this outrageous thing. 
10O	13	13	83310	 As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the outrageous fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you." 
10O	13	14	83320	 But he would not listen to her, and being stronger than she, he violated her and lay with her. 
10O	13	15	83330	 Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred, so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, "Get up! Go!" 
10O	13	16	83340	 But she said to him, "No, my brother, for this wrong in sending me away is greater than the other that you did to me." But he would not listen to her. 
10O	13	17	83350	 He called the young man who served him and said, "Put this woman out of my presence and bolt the door after her." 
10O	13	18	83360	 Now she was wearing a long robe with sleeves, for thus were the virgin daughters of the king dressed. So his servant put her out and bolted the door after her. 
10O	13	19	83370	 And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe that she wore. And she laid her hand on her head and went away, crying aloud as she went. 
10O	13	20	83380	 And her brother Absalom said to her, "Has Amnon your brother been with you? Now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother; do not take this to heart." So Tamar lived, a desolate woman, in her brother Absalom's house. 
10O	13	21	83390	 When King David heard of all these things, he was very angry. 
10O	13	22	83400	 But Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad, for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had violated his sister Tamar. 
10O	13	23	83410	 After two full years Absalom had sheepshearers at Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king's sons. 
10O	13	24	83420	 And Absalom came to the king and said, "Behold, your servant has sheepshearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant." 
10O	13	25	83430	 But the king said to Absalom, "No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you." He pressed him, but he would not go but gave him his blessing. 
10O	13	26	83440	 Then Absalom said, "If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us." And the king said to him, "Why should he go with you?" 
10O	13	27	83450	 But Absalom pressed him until he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him. 
10O	13	28	83460	 Then Absalom commanded his servants, "Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, 'Strike Amnon,' then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant." 
10O	13	29	83470	 So the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and each mounted his mule and fled. 
10O	13	30	83480	 While they were on the way, news came to David, "Absalom has struck down all the king's sons, and not one of them is left." 
10O	13	31	83490	 Then the king arose and tore his garments and lay on the earth. And all his servants who were standing by tore their garments. 
10O	13	32	83500	 But Jonadab the son of Shimeah, David's brother, said, "Let not my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men, the king's sons, for Amnon alone is dead. For by the command of Absalom this has been determined from the day he violated his sister Tamar. 
10O	13	33	83510	 Now therefore let not my lord the king so take it to heart as to suppose that all the king's sons are dead, for Amnon alone is dead." 
10O	13	34	83520	 But Absalom fled. And the young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, many people were coming from the road behind him by the side of the mountain. 
10O	13	35	83530	 And Jonadab said to the king, "Behold, the king's sons have come; as your servant said, so it has come about." 
10O	13	36	83540	 And as soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king's sons came and lifted up their voice and wept. And the king also and all his servants wept very bitterly. 
10O	13	37	83550	 But Absalom fled and went to Talmai the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son day after day. 
10O	13	38	83560	 So Absalom fled and went to Geshur, and was there three years. 
10O	13	39	83570	 And the spirit of the king longed to go out to Absalom, because he was comforted about Amnon, since he was dead. 
10O	14	1	83580	 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah knew that the king's heart went out to Absalom. 
10O	14	2	83590	 And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman and said to her, "Pretend to be a mourner and put on mourning garments. Do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead. 
10O	14	3	83600	 Go to the king and speak thus to him." So Joab put the words in her mouth. 
10O	14	4	83610	 When the woman of Tekoa came to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and paid homage and said, "Save me, O king." 
10O	14	5	83620	 And the king said to her, "What is your trouble?" She answered, "Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead. 
10O	14	6	83630	 And your servant had two sons, and they quarreled with one another in the field. There was no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him. 
10O	14	7	83640	 And now the whole clan has risen against your servant, and they say, 'Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed.' And so they would destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal that is left and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth." 
10O	14	8	83650	 Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you." 
10O	14	9	83660	 And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, "On me be the guilt, my lord the king, and on my father's house; let the king and his throne be guiltless." 
10O	14	10	83670	 The king said, "If anyone says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall never touch you again." 
10O	14	11	83680	 Then she said, "Please let the king invoke the LORD your God, that the avenger of blood kill no more, and my son be not destroyed." He said, "As the LORD lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground." 
10O	14	12	83690	 Then the woman said, "Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Speak." 
10O	14	13	83700	 And the woman said, "Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in giving this decision the king convicts himself, inasmuch as the king does not bring his banished one home again. 
10O	14	14	83710	 We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast. 
10O	14	15	83720	 Now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid, and your servant thought, 'I will speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant. 
10O	14	16	83730	 For the king will hear and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the heritage of God.' 
10O	14	17	83740	 And your servant thought, 'The word of my lord the king will set me at rest,' for my lord the king is like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The LORD your God be with you!" 
10O	14	18	83750	 Then the king answered the woman, "Do not hide from me anything I ask you." And the woman said, "Let my lord the king speak." 
10O	14	19	83760	 The king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" The woman answered and said, "As surely as you live, my lord the king, one cannot turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. It was your servant Joab who commanded me; it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your servant. 
10O	14	20	83770	 In order to change the course of things your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth." 
10O	14	21	83780	 Then the king said to Joab, "Behold now, I grant this; go, bring back the young man Absalom." 
10O	14	22	83790	 And Joab fell on his face to the ground and paid homage and blessed the king. And Joab said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, in that the king has granted the request of his servant." 
10O	14	23	83800	 So Joab arose and went to Geshur and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. 
10O	14	24	83810	 And the king said, "Let him dwell apart in his own house; he is not to come into my presence." So Absalom lived apart in his own house and did not come into the king's presence. 
10O	14	25	83820	 Now in all Israel there was no one so much to be praised for his handsome appearance as Absalom. From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him. 
10O	14	26	83830	 And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the king's weight. 
10O	14	27	83840	 There were born to Absalom three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar. She was a beautiful woman. 
10O	14	28	83850	 So Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, without coming into the king's presence. 
10O	14	29	83860	 Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but Joab would not come to him. And he sent a second time, but Joab would not come. 
10O	14	30	83870	 Then he said to his servants, "See, Joab's field is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire." So Absalom's servants set the field on fire. 
10O	14	31	83880	 Then Joab arose and went to Absalom at his house and said to him, "Why have your servants set my field on fire?" 
10O	14	32	83890	 Absalom answered Joab, "Behold, I sent word to you, 'Come here, that I may send you to the king, to ask, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still." Now therefore let me go into the presence of the king, and if there is guilt in me, let him put me to death.'" 
10O	14	33	83900	 Then Joab went to the king and told him, and he summoned Absalom. So he came to the king and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king, and the king kissed Absalom. 
10O	15	1	83910	 After this Absalom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him. 
10O	15	2	83920	 And Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way of the gate. And when any man had a dispute to come before the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, "From what city are you?" And when he said, "Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel," 
10O	15	3	83930	 Absalom would say to him, "See, your claims are good and right, but there is no man designated by the king to hear you." 
10O	15	4	83940	 Then Absalom would say, "Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice." 
10O	15	5	83950	 And whenever a man came near to pay homage to him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him. 
10O	15	6	83960	 Thus Absalom did to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. 
10O	15	7	83970	 And at the end of four years Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the LORD, in Hebron. 
10O	15	8	83980	 For your servant vowed a vow while I lived at Geshur in Aram, saying, 'If the LORD will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will offer worship to the LORD.'" 
10O	15	9	83990	 The king said to him, "Go in peace." So he arose and went to Hebron. 
10O	15	10	84000	 But Absalom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then say, 'Absalom is king at Hebron!'" 
10O	15	11	84010	 With Absalom went two hundred men from Jerusalem who were invited guests, and they went in their innocence and knew nothing. 
10O	15	12	84020	 And while Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city Giloh. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the people with Absalom kept increasing. 
10O	15	13	84030	 And a messenger came to David, saying, "The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom." 
10O	15	14	84040	 Then David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, "Arise, and let us flee, or else there will be no escape for us from Absalom. Go quickly, lest he overtake us quickly and bring down ruin on us and strike the city with the edge of the sword." 
10O	15	15	84050	 And the king's servants said to the king, "Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king decides." 
10O	15	16	84060	 So the king went out, and all his household after him. And the king left ten concubines to keep the house. 
10O	15	17	84070	 And the king went out, and all the people after him. And they halted at the last house. 
10O	15	18	84080	 And all his servants passed by him, and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath, passed on before the king. 
10O	15	19	84090	 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why do you also go with us? Go back and stay with the king, for you are a foreigner and also an exile from your home. 
10O	15	20	84100	 You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, since I go I know not where? Go back and take your brothers with you, and may the LORD show steadfast love and faithfulness to you." 
10O	15	21	84110	 But Ittai answered the king, "As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be." 
10O	15	22	84120	 And David said to Ittai, "Go then, pass on." So Ittai the Gittite passed on with all his men and all the little ones who were with him. 
10O	15	23	84130	 And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness. 
10O	15	24	84140	 And Abiathar came up, and behold, Zadok came also with all the Levites, bearing the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God until the people had all passed out of the city. 
10O	15	25	84150	 Then the king said to Zadok, "Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me back and let me see both it and his dwelling place. 
10O	15	26	84160	 But if he says, 'I have no pleasure in you,' behold, here I am, let him do to me what seems good to him." 
10O	15	27	84170	 The king also said to Zadok the priest, "Are you not a seer? Go back to the city in peace, with your two sons, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar. 
10O	15	28	84180	 See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me." 
10O	15	29	84190	 So Zadok and Abiathar carried the ark of God back to Jerusalem, and they remained there. 
10O	15	30	84200	 But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, barefoot and with his head covered. And all the people who were with him covered their heads, and they went up, weeping as they went. 
10O	15	31	84210	 And it was told David, "Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom." And David said, "O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness." 
10O	15	32	84220	 While David was coming to the summit, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn and dirt on his head. 
10O	15	33	84230	 David said to him, "If you go on with me, you will be a burden to me. 
10O	15	34	84240	 But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, 'I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,' then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel. 
10O	15	35	84250	 Are not Zadok and Abiathar the priests with you there? So whatever you hear from the king's house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests. 
10O	15	36	84260	 Behold, their two sons are with them there, Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abiathar's son, and by them you shall send to me everything you hear." 
10O	15	37	84270	 So Hushai, David's friend, came into the city, just as Absalom was entering Jerusalem. 
10O	16	1	84280	 When David had passed a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, bearing two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a skin of wine. 
10O	16	2	84290	 And the king said to Ziba, "Why have you brought these?" Ziba answered, "The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on, the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for those who faint in the wilderness to drink." 
10O	16	3	84300	 And the king said, "And where is your master's son?" Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he remains in Jerusalem, for he said, 'Today the house of Israel will give me back the kingdom of my father.'" 
10O	16	4	84310	 Then the king said to Ziba, "Behold, all that belonged to Mephibosheth is now yours." And Ziba said, "I pay homage; let me ever find favor in your sight, my lord the king." 
10O	16	5	84320	 When King David came to Bahurim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera, and as he came he cursed continually. 
10O	16	6	84330	 And he threw stones at David and at all the servants of King David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. 
10O	16	7	84340	 And Shimei said as he cursed, "Get out, get out, you man of blood, you worthless man! 
10O	16	8	84350	 The LORD has avenged on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, your evil is on you, for you are a man of blood." 
10O	16	9	84360	 Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head." 
10O	16	10	84370	 But the king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the LORD has said to him, 'Curse David,' who then shall say, 'Why have you done so?'" 
10O	16	11	84380	 And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, "Behold, my own son seeks my life; how much more now may this Benjaminite! Leave him alone, and let him curse, for the LORD has told him to. 
10O	16	12	84390	 It may be that the LORD will look on the wrong done to me, and that the LORD will repay me with good for his cursing today." 
10O	16	13	84400	 So David and his men went on the road, while Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him and cursed as he went and threw stones at him and flung dust. 
10O	16	14	84410	 And the king, and all the people who were with him, arrived weary at the Jordan. And there he refreshed himself. 
10O	16	15	84420	 Now Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him. 
10O	16	16	84430	 And when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, "Long live the king! Long live the king!" 
10O	16	17	84440	 And Absalom said to Hushai, "Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?" 
10O	16	18	84450	 And Hushai said to Absalom, "No, for whom the LORD and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, his I will be, and with him I will remain. 
10O	16	19	84460	 And again, whom should I serve? Should it not be his son? As I have served your father, so I will serve you." 
10O	16	20	84470	 Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, "Give your counsel. What shall we do?" 
10O	16	21	84480	 Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself a stench to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened." 
10O	16	22	84490	 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof. And Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel. 
10O	16	23	84500	 Now in those days the counsel that Ahithophel gave was as if one consulted the word of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel esteemed, both by David and by Absalom. 
10O	17	1	84510	 Moreover, Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight. 
10O	17	2	84520	 I will come upon him while he is weary and discouraged and throw him into a panic, and all the people who are with him will flee. I will strike down only the king, 
10O	17	3	84530	 and I will bring all the people back to you as a bride comes home to her husband. You seek the life of only one man, and all the people will be at peace." 
10O	17	4	84540	 And the advice seemed right in the eyes of Absalom and all the elders of Israel. 
10O	17	5	84550	 Then Absalom said, "Call Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear what he has to say." 
10O	17	6	84560	 And when Hushai came to Absalom, Absalom said to him, "Thus has Ahithophel spoken; shall we do as he says? If not, you speak." 
10O	17	7	84570	 Then Hushai said to Absalom, "This time the counsel that Ahithophel has given is not good." 
10O	17	8	84580	 Hushai said, "You know that your father and his men are mighty men, and that they are enraged, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is expert in war; he will not spend the night with the people. 
10O	17	9	84590	 Behold, even now he has hidden himself in one of the pits or in some other place. And as soon as some of the people fall at the first attack, whoever hears it will say, 'There has been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.' 
10O	17	10	84600	 Then even the valiant man, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will utterly melt with fear, for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and that those who are with him are valiant men. 
10O	17	11	84610	 But my counsel is that all Israel be gathered to you, from Dan to Beersheba, as the sand by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in person. 
10O	17	12	84620	 So we shall come upon him in some place where he is to be found, and we shall light upon him as the dew falls on the ground, and of him and all the men with him not one will be left. 
10O	17	13	84630	 If he withdraws into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we shall drag it into the valley, until not even a pebble is to be found there." 
10O	17	14	84640	 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For the LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the LORD might bring harm upon Absalom. 
10O	17	15	84650	 Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, "Thus and so did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel, and thus and so have I counseled. 
10O	17	16	84660	 Now therefore send quickly and tell David, 'Do not stay tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.'" 
10O	17	17	84670	 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were waiting at En-rogel. A female servant was to go and tell them, and they were to go and tell King David, for they were not to be seen entering the city. 
10O	17	18	84680	 But a young man saw them and told Absalom. So both of them went away quickly and came to the house of a man at Bahurim, who had a well in his courtyard. And they went down into it. 
10O	17	19	84690	 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth and scattered grain on it, and nothing was known of it. 
10O	17	20	84700	 When Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house, they said, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" And the woman said to them, "They have gone over the brook of water." And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem. 
10O	17	21	84710	 After they had gone, the men came up out of the well, and went and told King David. They said to David, "Arise, and go quickly over the water, for thus and so has Ahithophel counseled against you." 
10O	17	22	84720	 Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they crossed the Jordan. By daybreak not one was left who had not crossed the Jordan. 
10O	17	23	84730	 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his father. 
10O	17	24	84740	 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel. 
10O	17	25	84750	 Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had married Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother. 
10O	17	26	84760	 And Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead. 
10O	17	27	84770	 When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim, 
10O	17	28	84780	 brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, wheat, barley, flour, parched grain, beans and lentils, 
10O	17	29	84790	 honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat, for they said, "The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness." 
10O	18	1	84800	 Then David mustered the men who were with him and set over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds. 
10O	18	2	84810	 And David sent out the army, one third under the command of Joab, one third under the command of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and one third under the command of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the men, "I myself will also go out with you." 
10O	18	3	84820	 But the men said, "You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore it is better that you send us help from the city." 
10O	18	4	84830	 The king said to them, "Whatever seems best to you I will do." So the king stood at the side of the gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands. 
10O	18	5	84840	 And the king ordered Joab and Abishai and Ittai, "Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom." And all the people heard when the king gave orders to all the commanders about Absalom. 
10O	18	6	84850	 So the army went out into the field against Israel, and the battle was fought in the forest of Ephraim. 
10O	18	7	84860	 And the men of Israel were defeated there by the servants of David, and the loss there was great on that day, twenty thousand men. 
10O	18	8	84870	 The battle spread over the face of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword. 
10O	18	9	84880	 And Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak, and his head caught fast in the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on. 
10O	18	10	84890	 And a certain man saw it and told Joab, "Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak." 
10O	18	11	84900	 Joab said to the man who told him, "What, you saw him! Why then did you not strike him there to the ground? I would have been glad to give you ten pieces of silver and a belt." 
10O	18	12	84910	 But the man said to Joab, "Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not reach out my hand against the king's son, for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, 'For my sake protect the young man Absalom.' 
10O	18	13	84920	 On the other hand, if I had dealt treacherously against his life (and there is nothing hidden from the king), then you yourself would have stood aloof." 
10O	18	14	84930	 Joab said, "I will not waste time like this with you." And he took three javelins in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak. 
10O	18	15	84940	 And ten young men, Joab's armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him and killed him. 
10O	18	16	84950	 Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the troops came back from pursuing Israel, for Joab restrained them. 
10O	18	17	84960	 And they took Absalom and threw him into a great pit in the forest and raised over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled every one to his own home. 
10O	18	18	84970	 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar that is in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance." He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom's monument to this day. 
10O	18	19	84980	 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Let me run and carry news to the king that the LORD has delivered him from the hand of his enemies." 
10O	18	20	84990	 And Joab said to him, "You are not to carry news today. You may carry news another day, but today you shall carry no news, because the king's son is dead." 
10O	18	21	85000	 Then Joab said to the Cushite, "Go, tell the king what you have seen." The Cushite bowed before Joab, and ran. 
10O	18	22	85010	 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said again to Joab, "Come what may, let me also run after the Cushite." And Joab said, "Why will you run, my son, seeing that you will have no reward for the news?" 
10O	18	23	85020	 "Come what may," he said, "I will run." So he said to him, "Run." Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and outran the Cushite. 
10O	18	24	85030	 Now David was sitting between the two gates, and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and when he lifted up his eyes and looked, he saw a man running alone. 
10O	18	25	85040	 The watchman called out and told the king. And the king said, "If he is alone, there is news in his mouth." And he drew nearer and nearer. 
10O	18	26	85050	 The watchman saw another man running. And the watchman called to the gate and said, "See, another man running alone!" The king said, "He also brings news." 
10O	18	27	85060	 The watchman said, "I think the running of the first is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok." And the king said, "He is a good man and comes with good news." 
10O	18	28	85070	 Then Ahimaaz cried out to the king, "All is well." And he bowed before the king with his face to the earth and said, "Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delivered up the men who raised their hand against my lord the king." 
10O	18	29	85080	 And the king said, "Is it well with the young man Absalom?" Ahimaaz answered, "When Joab sent the king's servant, your servant, I saw a great commotion, but I do not know what it was." 
10O	18	30	85090	 And the king said, "Turn aside and stand here." So he turned aside and stood still. 
10O	18	31	85100	 And behold, the Cushite came, and the Cushite said, "Good news for my lord the king! For the LORD has delivered you this day from the hand of all who rose up against you." 
10O	18	32	85110	 The king said to the Cushite, "Is it well with the young man Absalom?" And the Cushite answered, "May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up against you for evil be like that young man." 
10O	18	33	85120	 And the king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he went, he said, "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!" 
10O	19	1	85130	 It was told Joab, "Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom." 
10O	19	2	85140	 So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the people, for the people heard that day, "The king is grieving for his son." 
10O	19	3	85150	 And the people stole into the city that day as people steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle. 
10O	19	4	85160	 The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, "O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!" 
10O	19	5	85170	 Then Joab came into the house to the king and said, "You have today covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who have this day saved your life and the lives of your sons and your daughters and the lives of your wives and your concubines, 
10O	19	6	85180	 because you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you, for today I know that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased. 
10O	19	7	85190	 Now therefore arise, go out and speak kindly to your servants, for I swear by the LORD, if you do not go, not a man will stay with you this night, and this will be worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now." 
10O	19	8	85200	 Then the king arose and took his seat in the gate. And the people were all told, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate." And all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his own home. 
10O	19	9	85210	 And all the people were arguing throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies and saved us from the hand of the Philistines, and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom. 
10O	19	10	85220	 But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?" 
10O	19	11	85230	 And King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar the priests: "Say to the elders of Judah, 'Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his house, when the word of all Israel has come to the king? 
10O	19	12	85240	 You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?' 
10O	19	13	85250	 And say to Amasa, 'Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if you are not commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.'" 
10O	19	14	85260	 And he swayed the heart of all the men of Judah as one man, so that they sent word to the king, "Return, both you and all your servants." 
10O	19	15	85270	 So the king came back to the Jordan, and Judah came to Gilgal to meet the king and to bring the king over the Jordan. 
10O	19	16	85280	 And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, from Bahurim, hurried to come down with the men of Judah to meet King David. 
10O	19	17	85290	 And with him were a thousand men from Benjamin. And Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, with his fifteen sons and his twenty servants, rushed down to the Jordan before the king, 
10O	19	18	85300	 and they crossed the ford to bring over the king's household and to do his pleasure. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was about to cross the Jordan, 
10O	19	19	85310	 and said to the king, "Let not my lord hold me guilty or remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. Do not let the king take it to heart. 
10O	19	20	85320	 For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore, behold, I have come this day, the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king." 
10O	19	21	85330	 Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed?" 
10O	19	22	85340	 But David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be as an adversary to me? Shall anyone be put to death in Israel this day? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?" 
10O	19	23	85350	 And the king said to Shimei, "You shall not die." And the king gave him his oath. 
10O	19	24	85360	 And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. He had neither taken care of his feet nor trimmed his beard nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came back in safety. 
10O	19	25	85370	 And when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, "Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?" 
10O	19	26	85380	 He answered, "My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for your servant said to him, 'I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go with the king.' For your servant is lame. 
10O	19	27	85390	 He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you. 
10O	19	28	85400	 For all my father's house were but men doomed to death before my lord the king, but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right have I, then, to cry to the king?" 
10O	19	29	85410	 And the king said to him, "Why speak any more of your affairs? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land." 
10O	19	30	85420	 And Mephibosheth said to the king, "Oh, let him take it all, since my lord the king has come safely home." 
10O	19	31	85430	 Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim, and he went on with the king to the Jordan, to escort him over the Jordan. 
10O	19	32	85440	 Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. He had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man. 
10O	19	33	85450	 And the king said to Barzillai, "Come over with me, and I will provide for you with me in Jerusalem." 
10O	19	34	85460	 But Barzillai said to the king, "How many years have I still to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem? 
10O	19	35	85470	 I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king? 
10O	19	36	85480	 Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward? 
10O	19	37	85490	 Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him go over with my lord the king, and do for him whatever seems good to you." 
10O	19	38	85500	 And the king answered, "Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do for him whatever seems good to you, and all that you desire of me I will do for you." 
10O	19	39	85510	 Then all the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. And the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his own home. 
10O	19	40	85520	 The king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him. All the people of Judah, and also half the people of Israel, brought the king on his way. 
10O	19	41	85530	 Then all the men of Israel came to the king and said to the king, "Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away and brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?" 
10O	19	42	85540	 All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "Because the king is our close relative. Why then are you angry over this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king's expense? Or has he given us any gift?" 
10O	19	43	85550	 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, "We have ten shares in the king, and in David also we have more than you. Why then did you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?" But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel. 
10O	20	1	85560	 Now there happened to be there a worthless man, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. And he blew the trumpet and said, "We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!" 
10O	20	2	85570	 So all the men of Israel withdrew from David and followed Sheba the son of Bichri. But the men of Judah followed their king steadfastly from the Jordan to Jerusalem. 
10O	20	3	85580	 And David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house and put them in a house under guard and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood. 
10O	20	4	85590	 Then the king said to Amasa, "Call the men of Judah together to me within three days, and be here yourself." 
10O	20	5	85600	 So Amasa went to summon Judah, but he delayed beyond the set time that had been appointed him. 
10O	20	6	85610	 And David said to Abishai, "Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your lord's servants and pursue him, lest he get himself to fortified cities and escape from us." 
10O	20	7	85620	 And there went out after him Joab's men and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men. They went out from Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri. 
10O	20	8	85630	 When they were at the great stone that is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Now Joab was wearing a soldier's garment, and over it was a belt with a sword in its sheath fastened on his thigh, and as he went forward it fell out. 
10O	20	9	85640	 And Joab said to Amasa, "Is it well with you, my brother?" And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him. 
10O	20	10	85650	 But Amasa did not observe the sword that was in Joab's hand. So Joab struck him with it in the stomach and spilled his entrails to the ground without striking a second blow, and he died. Then Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri. 
10O	20	11	85660	 And one of Joab's young men took his stand by Amasa and said, "Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab." 
10O	20	12	85670	 And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the highway. And anyone who came by, seeing him, stopped. And when the man saw that all the people stopped, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field and threw a garment over him. 
10O	20	13	85680	 When he was taken out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri. 
10O	20	14	85690	 And Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel of Beth-maacah, and all the Bichrites assembled and followed him in. 
10O	20	15	85700	 And all the men who were with Joab came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah. They cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart, and they were battering the wall to throw it down. 
10O	20	16	85710	 Then a wise woman called from the city, "Listen! Listen! Tell Joab, 'Come here, that I may speak to you.'" 
10O	20	17	85720	 And he came near her, and the woman said, "Are you Joab?" He answered, "I am." Then she said to him, "Listen to the words of your servant." And he answered, "I am listening." 
10O	20	18	85730	 Then she said, "They used to say in former times, 'Let them but ask counsel at Abel,' and so they settled a matter. 
10O	20	19	85740	 I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the heritage of the LORD?" 
10O	20	20	85750	 Joab answered, "Far be it from me, far be it, that I should swallow up or destroy! 
10O	20	21	85760	 That is not true. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, called Sheba the son of Bichri, has lifted up his hand against King David. Give up him alone, and I will withdraw from the city." And the woman said to Joab, "Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall." 
10O	20	22	85770	 Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every man to his home. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king. 
10O	20	23	85780	 Now Joab was in command of all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the Cherethites and the Pelethites; 
10O	20	24	85790	 and Adoram was in charge of the forced labor; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder; 
10O	20	25	85800	 and Sheva was secretary; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; 
10O	20	26	85810	 and Ira the Jairite was also David's priest. 
10O	21	1	85820	 Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, "There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death." 
10O	21	2	85830	 So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites. Although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had sought to strike them down in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah. 
10O	21	3	85840	 And David said to the Gibeonites, "What shall I do for you? And how shall I make atonement, that you may bless the heritage of the LORD?" 
10O	21	4	85850	 The Gibeonites said to him, "It is not a matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel." And he said, "What do you say that I shall do for you?" 
10O	21	5	85860	 They said to the king, "The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel, 
10O	21	6	85870	 let seven of his sons be given to us, so that we may hang them before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD." And the king said, "I will give them." 
10O	21	7	85880	 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the oath of the LORD that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. 
10O	21	8	85890	 The king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite; 
10O	21	9	85900	 and he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before the LORD, and the seven of them perished together. They were put to death in the first days of harvest, at the beginning of barley harvest. 
10O	21	10	85910	 Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell upon them from the heavens. And she did not allow the birds of the air to come upon them by day, or the beasts of the field by night. 
10O	21	11	85920	 When David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done, 
10O	21	12	85930	 David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa. 
10O	21	13	85940	 And he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan; and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged. 
10O	21	14	85950	 And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father. And they did all that the king commanded. And after that God responded to the plea for the land. 
10O	21	15	85960	 There was war again between the Philistines and Israel, and David went down together with his servants, and they fought against the Philistines. And David grew weary. 
10O	21	16	85970	 And Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze, and who was armed with a new sword, thought to kill David. 
10O	21	17	85980	 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, "You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel." 
10O	21	18	85990	 After this there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Saph, who was one of the descendants of the giants. 
10O	21	19	86000	 And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite, struck down Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. 
10O	21	20	86010	 And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was descended from the giants. 
10O	21	21	86020	 And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, struck him down. 
10O	21	22	86030	 These four were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. 
10O	22	1	86040	 And David spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. 
10O	22	2	86050	 He said, "The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, 
10O	22	3	86060	 my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; you save me from violence. 
10O	22	4	86070	 I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies. 
10O	22	5	86080	 "For the waves of death encompassed me, the torrents of destruction assailed me; 
10O	22	6	86090	 the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me. 
10O	22	7	86100	 "In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I called. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry came to his ears. 
10O	22	8	86110	 "Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations of the heavens trembled and quaked, because he was angry. 
10O	22	9	86120	 Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him. 
10O	22	10	86130	 He bowed the heavens and came down; thick darkness was under his feet. 
10O	22	11	86140	 He rode on a cherub and flew; he was seen on the wings of the wind. 
10O	22	12	86150	 He made darkness around him his canopy, thick clouds, a gathering of water. 
10O	22	13	86160	 Out of the brightness before him coals of fire flamed forth. 
10O	22	14	86170	 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice. 
10O	22	15	86180	 And he sent out arrows and scattered them; lightning, and routed them. 
10O	22	16	86190	 Then the channels of the sea were seen; the foundations of the world were laid bare, at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. 
10O	22	17	86200	 "He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters. 
10O	22	18	86210	 He rescued me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me. 
10O	22	19	86220	 They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support. 
10O	22	20	86230	 He brought me out into a broad place; he rescued me, because he delighted in me. 
10O	22	21	86240	 "The LORD dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me. 
10O	22	22	86250	 For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God. 
10O	22	23	86260	 For all his rules were before me, and from his statutes I did not turn aside. 
10O	22	24	86270	 I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt. 
10O	22	25	86280	 And the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight. 
10O	22	26	86290	 "With the merciful you show yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless; 
10O	22	27	86300	 with the purified you deal purely, and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous. 
10O	22	28	86310	 You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down. 
10O	22	29	86320	 For you are my lamp, O LORD, and my God lightens my darkness. 
10O	22	30	86330	 For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall. 
10O	22	31	86340	 This God--his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him. 
10O	22	32	86350	 "For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God? 
10O	22	33	86360	 This God is my strong refuge and has made my way blameless. 
10O	22	34	86370	 He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights. 
10O	22	35	86380	 He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. 
10O	22	36	86390	 You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your gentleness made me great. 
10O	22	37	86400	 You gave a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip; 
10O	22	38	86410	 I pursued my enemies and destroyed them, and did not turn back until they were consumed. 
10O	22	39	86420	 I consumed them; I thrust them through, so that they did not rise; they fell under my feet. 
10O	22	40	86430	 For you equipped me with strength for the battle; you made those who rise against me sink under me. 
10O	22	41	86440	 You made my enemies turn their backs to me, those who hated me, and I destroyed them. 
10O	22	42	86450	 They looked, but there was none to save; they cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them. 
10O	22	43	86460	 I beat them fine as the dust of the earth; I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets. 
10O	22	44	86470	 "You delivered me from strife with my people; you kept me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me. 
10O	22	45	86480	 Foreigners came cringing to me; as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me. 
10O	22	46	86490	 Foreigners lost heart and came trembling out of their fortresses. 
10O	22	47	86500	 "The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation, 
10O	22	48	86510	 the God who gave me vengeance and brought down peoples under me, 
10O	22	49	86520	 who brought me out from my enemies; you exalted me above those who rose against me; you delivered me from men of violence. 
10O	22	50	86530	 "For this I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations, and sing praises to your name. 
10O	22	51	86540	 Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever." 
10O	23	1	86550	 Now these are the last words of David: The oracle of David, the son of Jesse, the oracle of the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel: 
10O	23	2	86560	 "The Spirit of the LORD speaks by me; his word is on my tongue. 
10O	23	3	86570	 The God of Israel has spoken; the Rock of Israel has said to me: When one rules justly over men, ruling in the fear of God, 
10O	23	4	86580	 he dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth. 
10O	23	5	86590	 "For does not my house stand so with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire? 
10O	23	6	86600	 But worthless men are all like thorns that are thrown away, for they cannot be taken with the hand; 
10O	23	7	86610	 but the man who touches them arms himself with iron and the shaft of a spear, and they are utterly consumed with fire." 
10O	23	8	86620	 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite; he was chief of the three. He wielded his spear against eight hundred whom he killed at one time. 
10O	23	9	86630	 And next to him among the three mighty men was Eleazar the son of Dodo, son of Ahohi. He was with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there for battle, and the men of Israel withdrew. 
10O	23	10	86640	 He rose and struck down the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clung to the sword. And the LORD brought about a great victory that day, and the men returned after him only to strip the slain. 
10O	23	11	86650	 And next to him was Shammah, the son of Agee the Hararite. The Philistines gathered together at Lehi, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils, and the men fled from the Philistines. 
10O	23	12	86660	 But he took his stand in the midst of the plot and defended it and struck down the Philistines, and the LORD worked a great victory. 
10O	23	13	86670	 And three of the thirty chief men went down and came about harvest time to David at the cave of Adullam, when a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim. 
10O	23	14	86680	 David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem. 
10O	23	15	86690	 And David said longingly, "Oh, that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!" 
10O	23	16	86700	 Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and carried and brought it to David. But he would not drink of it. He poured it out to the LORD 
10O	23	17	86710	 and said, "Far be it from me, O LORD, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?" Therefore he would not drink it. These things the three mighty men did. 
10O	23	18	86720	 Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the thirty. And he wielded his spear against three hundred men and killed them and won a name beside the three. 
10O	23	19	86730	 He was the most renowned of the thirty and became their commander, but he did not attain to the three. 
10O	23	20	86740	 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two ariels of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen. 
10O	23	21	86750	 And he struck down an Egyptian, a handsome man. The Egyptian had a spear in his hand, but Benaiah went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear. 
10O	23	22	86760	 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and won a name beside the three mighty men. 
10O	23	23	86770	 He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard. 
10O	23	24	86780	 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, 
10O	23	25	86790	 Shammah of Harod, Elika of Harod, 
10O	23	26	86800	 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh of Tekoa, 
10O	23	27	86810	 Abiezer of Anathoth, Mebunnai the Hushathite, 
10O	23	28	86820	 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai of Netophah, 
10O	23	29	86830	 Heleb the son of Baanah of Netophah, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the people of Benjamin, 
10O	23	30	86840	 Benaiah of Pirathon, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash, 
10O	23	31	86850	 Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth of Bahurim, 
10O	23	32	86860	 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, 
10O	23	33	86870	 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite, 
10O	23	34	86880	 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai of Maacah, Eliam the son of Ahithophel of Gilo, 
10O	23	35	86890	 Hezro of Carmel, Paarai the Arbite, 
10O	23	36	86900	 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, 
10O	23	37	86910	 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai of Beeroth, the armor-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah, 
10O	23	38	86920	 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, 
10O	23	39	86930	 Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all. 
10O	24	1	86940	 Again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, "Go, number Israel and Judah." 
10O	24	2	86950	 So the king said to Joab, the commander of the army, who was with him, "Go through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and number the people, that I may know the number of the people." 
10O	24	3	86960	 But Joab said to the king, "May the LORD your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see it, but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?" 
10O	24	4	86970	 But the king's word prevailed against Joab and the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel. 
10O	24	5	86980	 They crossed the Jordan and began from Aroer, and from the city that is in the middle of the valley, toward Gad and on to Jazer. 
10O	24	6	86990	 Then they came to Gilead, and to Kadesh in the land of the Hittites; and they came to Dan, and from Dan they went around to Sidon, 
10O	24	7	87000	 and came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites; and they went out to the Negeb of Judah at Beersheba. 
10O	24	8	87010	 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. 
10O	24	9	87020	 And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: in Israel there were 800,000 valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were 500,000. 
10O	24	10	87030	 But David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the LORD, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O LORD, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly." 
10O	24	11	87040	 And when David arose in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying, 
10O	24	12	87050	 "Go and say to David, 'Thus says the LORD, Three things I offer you. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.'" 
10O	24	13	87060	 So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, "Shall three years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me." 
10O	24	14	87070	 Then David said to Gad, "I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for his mercy is great; but let me not fall into the hand of man." 
10O	24	15	87080	 So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning until the appointed time. And there died of the people from Dan to Beersheba 70,000 men. 
10O	24	16	87090	 And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. 
10O	24	17	87100	 Then David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, "Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me and against my father's house." 
10O	24	18	87110	 And Gad came that day to David and said to him, "Go up, raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite." 
10O	24	19	87120	 So David went up at Gad's word, as the LORD commanded. 
10O	24	20	87130	 And when Araunah looked down, he saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. And Araunah went out and paid homage to the king with his face to the ground. 
10O	24	21	87140	 And Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be averted from the people." 
10O	24	22	87150	 Then Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Here are the oxen for the burnt offering and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood. 
10O	24	23	87160	 All this, O king, Araunah gives to the king." And Araunah said to the king, "May the LORD your God accept you." 
10O	24	24	87170	 But the king said to Araunah, "No, but I will buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God that cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. 
10O	24	25	87180	 And David built there an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD responded to the plea for the land, and the plague was averted from Israel. 
11O	1	1	87190	 Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm. 
11O	1	2	87200	 Therefore his servants said to him, "Let a young woman be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be in his service. Let her lie in your arms, that my lord the king may be warm." 
11O	1	3	87210	 So they sought for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king. 
11O	1	4	87220	 The young woman was very beautiful, and she was of service to the king and attended to him, but the king knew her not. 
11O	1	5	87230	 Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, "I will be king." And he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. 
11O	1	6	87240	 His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, "Why have you done thus and so?" He was also a very handsome man, and he was born next after Absalom. 
11O	1	7	87250	 He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest. And they followed Adonijah and helped him. 
11O	1	8	87260	 But Zadok the priest and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei and David's mighty men were not with Adonijah. 
11O	1	9	87270	 Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened cattle by the Serpent's Stone, which is beside En-rogel, and he invited all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the royal officials of Judah, 
11O	1	10	87280	 but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the mighty men or Solomon his brother. 
11O	1	11	87290	 Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, "Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith has become king and David our lord does not know it? 
11O	1	12	87300	 Now therefore come, let me give you advice, that you may save your own life and the life of your son Solomon. 
11O	1	13	87310	 Go in at once to King David, and say to him, 'Did you not, my lord the king, swear to your servant, saying, "Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne"? Why then is Adonijah king?' 
11O	1	14	87320	 Then while you are still speaking with the king, I also will come in after you and confirm your words." 
11O	1	15	87330	 So Bathsheba went to the king in his chamber (now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was attending to the king). 
11O	1	16	87340	 Bathsheba bowed and paid homage to the king, and the king said, "What do you desire?" 
11O	1	17	87350	 She said to him, "My lord, you swore to your servant by the LORD your God, saying, 'Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.' 
11O	1	18	87360	 And now, behold, Adonijah is king, although you, my lord the king, do not know it. 
11O	1	19	87370	 He has sacrificed oxen, fattened cattle, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the commander of the army, but Solomon your servant he has not invited. 
11O	1	20	87380	 And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. 
11O	1	21	87390	 Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be counted offenders." 
11O	1	22	87400	 While she was still speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in. 
11O	1	23	87410	 And they told the king, "Here is Nathan the prophet." And when he came in before the king, he bowed before the king, with his face to the ground. 
11O	1	24	87420	 And Nathan said, "My lord the king, have you said, 'Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne'? 
11O	1	25	87430	 For he has gone down this day and has sacrificed oxen, fattened cattle, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the king's sons, the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest. And behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, 'Long live King Adonijah!' 
11O	1	26	87440	 But me, your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon he has not invited. 
11O	1	27	87450	 Has this thing been brought about by my lord the king and you have not told your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?" 
11O	1	28	87460	 Then King David answered, "Call Bathsheba to me." So she came into the king's presence and stood before the king. 
11O	1	29	87470	 And the king swore, saying, "As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of every adversity, 
11O	1	30	87480	 as I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel, saying, 'Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place,' even so will I do this day." 
11O	1	31	87490	 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground and paid homage to the king and said, "May my lord King David live forever!" 
11O	1	32	87500	 King David said, "Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada." So they came before the king. 
11O	1	33	87510	 And the king said to them, "Take with you the servants of your lord and have Solomon my son ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon. 
11O	1	34	87520	 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel. Then blow the trumpet and say, 'Long live King Solomon!' 
11O	1	35	87530	 You shall then come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne, for he shall be king in my place. And I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah." 
11O	1	36	87540	 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, "Amen! May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, say so. 
11O	1	37	87550	 As the LORD has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David." 
11O	1	38	87560	 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King David's mule and brought him to Gihon. 
11O	1	39	87570	 There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, "Long live King Solomon!" 
11O	1	40	87580	 And all the people went up after him, playing on pipes, and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth was split by their noise. 
11O	1	41	87590	 Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they finished feasting. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, "What does this uproar in the city mean?" 
11O	1	42	87600	 While he was still speaking, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came. And Adonijah said, "Come in, for you are a worthy man and bring good news." 
11O	1	43	87610	 Jonathan answered Adonijah, "No, for our lord King David has made Solomon king, 
11O	1	44	87620	 and the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites. And they had him ride on the king's mule. 
11O	1	45	87630	 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that you have heard. 
11O	1	46	87640	 Solomon sits on the royal throne. 
11O	1	47	87650	 Moreover, the king's servants came to congratulate our lord King David, saying, 'May your God make the name of Solomon more famous than yours, and make his throne greater than your throne.' And the king bowed himself on the bed. 
11O	1	48	87660	 And the king also said, 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has granted someone to sit on my throne this day, my own eyes seeing it.'" 
11O	1	49	87670	 Then all the guests of Adonijah trembled and rose, and each went his own way. 
11O	1	50	87680	 And Adonijah feared Solomon. So he arose and went and took hold of the horns of the altar. 
11O	1	51	87690	 Then it was told Solomon, "Behold, Adonijah fears King Solomon, for behold, he has laid hold of the horns of the altar, saying, 'Let King Solomon swear to me first that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.'" 
11O	1	52	87700	 And Solomon said, "If he will show himself a worthy man, not one of his hairs shall fall to the earth, but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die." 
11O	1	53	87710	 So King Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and paid homage to King Solomon, and Solomon said to him, "Go to your house." 
11O	2	1	87720	 When David's time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying, 
11O	2	2	87730	 "I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man, 
11O	2	3	87740	 and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn, 
11O	2	4	87750	 that the LORD may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.' 
11O	2	5	87760	 "Moreover, you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, how he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, Abner the son of Ner, and Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, avenging in time of peace for blood that had been shed in war, and putting the blood of war on the belt around his waist and on the sandals on his feet. 
11O	2	6	87770	 Act therefore according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace. 
11O	2	7	87780	 But deal loyally with the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for with such loyalty they met me when I fled from Absalom your brother. 
11O	2	8	87790	 And there is also with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD, saying, 'I will not put you to death with the sword.' 
11O	2	9	87800	 Now therefore do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man. You will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down with blood to Sheol." 
11O	2	10	87810	 Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. 
11O	2	11	87820	 And the time that David reigned over Israel was forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. 
11O	2	12	87830	 So Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was firmly established. 
11O	2	13	87840	 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, "Do you come peacefully?" He said, "Peacefully." 
11O	2	14	87850	 Then he said, "I have something to say to you." She said, "Speak." 
11O	2	15	87860	 He said, "You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel fully expected me to reign. However, the kingdom has turned about and become my brother's, for it was his from the LORD. 
11O	2	16	87870	 And now I have one request to make of you; do not refuse me." She said to him, "Speak." 
11O	2	17	87880	 And he said, "Please ask King Solomon--he will not refuse you--to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife." 
11O	2	18	87890	 Bathsheba said, "Very well; I will speak for you to the king." 
11O	2	19	87900	 So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him on behalf of Adonijah. And the king rose to meet her and bowed down to her. Then he sat on his throne and had a seat brought for the king's mother, and she sat on his right. 
11O	2	20	87910	 Then she said, "I have one small request to make of you; do not refuse me." And the king said to her, "Make your request, my mother, for I will not refuse you." 
11O	2	21	87920	 She said, "Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as his wife." 
11O	2	22	87930	 King Solomon answered his mother, "And why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also, for he is my older brother, and on his side are Abiathar the priest and Joab the son of Zeruiah." 
11O	2	23	87940	 Then King Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, "God do so to me and more also if this word does not cost Adonijah his life! 
11O	2	24	87950	 Now therefore as the LORD lives, who has established me and placed me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death today." 
11O	2	25	87960	 So King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he struck him down, and he died. 
11O	2	26	87970	 And to Abiathar the priest the king said, "Go to Anathoth, to your estate, for you deserve death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because you shared in all my father's affliction." 
11O	2	27	87980	 So Solomon expelled Abiathar from being priest to the LORD, thus fulfilling the word of the LORD that he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh. 
11O	2	28	87990	 When the news came to Joab--for Joab had supported Adonijah although he had not supported Absalom--Joab fled to the tent of the LORD and caught hold of the horns of the altar. 
11O	2	29	88000	 And when it was told King Solomon, "Joab has fled to the tent of the LORD, and behold, he is beside the altar," Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, "Go, strike him down." 
11O	2	30	88010	 So Benaiah came to the tent of the LORD and said to him, "The king commands, 'Come out.'" But he said, "No, I will die here." Then Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, "Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me." 
11O	2	31	88020	 The king replied to him, "Do as he has said, strike him down and bury him, and thus take away from me and from my father's house the guilt for the blood that Joab shed without cause. 
11O	2	32	88030	 The LORD will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah. 
11O	2	33	88040	 So shall their blood come back on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever. But for David and for his descendants and for his house and for his throne there shall be peace from the LORD forevermore." 
11O	2	34	88050	 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and struck him down and put him to death. And he was buried in his own house in the wilderness. 
11O	2	35	88060	 The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada over the army in place of Joab, and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar. 
11O	2	36	88070	 Then the king sent and summoned Shimei and said to him, "Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and dwell there, and do not go out from there to any place whatever. 
11O	2	37	88080	 For on the day you go out and cross the brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall die. Your blood shall be on your own head." 
11O	2	38	88090	 And Shimei said to the king, "What you say is good; as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do." So Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days. 
11O	2	39	88100	 But it happened at the end of three years that two of Shimei's servants ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. And when it was told Shimei, "Behold, your servants are in Gath," 
11O	2	40	88110	 Shimei arose and saddled a donkey and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants. Shimei went and brought his servants from Gath. 
11O	2	41	88120	 And when Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and returned, 
11O	2	42	88130	 the king sent and summoned Shimei and said to him, "Did I not make you swear by the LORD and solemnly warn you, saying, 'Know for certain that on the day you go out and go to any place whatever, you shall die'? And you said to me, 'What you say is good; I will obey.' 
11O	2	43	88140	 Why then have you not kept your oath to the LORD and the commandment with which I commanded you?" 
11O	2	44	88150	 The king also said to Shimei, "You know in your own heart all the harm that you did to David my father. So the LORD will bring back your harm on your own head. 
11O	2	45	88160	 But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD forever." 
11O	2	46	88170	 Then the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck him down, and he died. So the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon. 
11O	3	1	88180	 Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the LORD and the wall around Jerusalem. 
11O	3	2	88190	 The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the LORD. 
11O	3	3	88200	 Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father, only he sacrificed and made offerings at the high places. 
11O	3	4	88210	 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. 
11O	3	5	88220	 At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, "Ask what I shall give you." 
11O	3	6	88230	 And Solomon said, "You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant David my father, because he walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward you. And you have kept for him this great and steadfast love and have given him a son to sit on his throne this day. 
11O	3	7	88240	 And now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king in place of David my father, although I am but a little child. I do not know how to go out or come in. 
11O	3	8	88250	 And your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, a great people, too many to be numbered or counted for multitude. 
11O	3	9	88260	 Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?" 
11O	3	10	88270	 It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this. 
11O	3	11	88280	 And God said to him, "Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right, 
11O	3	12	88290	 behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you. 
11O	3	13	88300	 I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days. 
11O	3	14	88310	 And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days." 
11O	3	15	88320	 And Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up burnt offerings and peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants. 
11O	3	16	88330	 Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. 
11O	3	17	88340	 The one woman said, "Oh, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house. 
11O	3	18	88350	 Then on the third day after I gave birth, this woman also gave birth. And we were alone. There was no one else with us in the house; only we two were in the house. 
11O	3	19	88360	 And this woman's son died in the night, because she lay on him. 
11O	3	20	88370	 And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid him at her breast, and laid her dead son at my breast. 
11O	3	21	88380	 When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead. But when I looked at him closely in the morning, behold, he was not the child that I had borne." 
11O	3	22	88390	 But the other woman said, "No, the living child is mine, and the dead child is yours." The first said, "No, the dead child is yours, and the living child is mine." Thus they spoke before the king. 
11O	3	23	88400	 Then the king said, "The one says, 'This is my son that is alive, and your son is dead'; and the other says, 'No; but your son is dead, and my son is the living one.'" 
11O	3	24	88410	 And the king said, "Bring me a sword." So a sword was brought before the king. 
11O	3	25	88420	 And the king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other." 
11O	3	26	88430	 Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death." But the other said, "He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him." 
11O	3	27	88440	 Then the king answered and said, "Give the living child to the first woman, and by no means put him to death; she is his mother." 
11O	3	28	88450	 And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice. 
11O	4	1	88460	 King Solomon was king over all Israel, 
11O	4	2	88470	 and these were his high officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest; 
11O	4	3	88480	 Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder; 
11O	4	4	88490	 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests; 
11O	4	5	88500	 Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and king's friend; 
11O	4	6	88510	 Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram the son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor. 
11O	4	7	88520	 Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for one month in the year. 
11O	4	8	88530	 These were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim; 
11O	4	9	88540	 Ben-deker, in Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elonbeth-hanan; 
11O	4	10	88550	 Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him belonged Socoh and all the land of Hepher); 
11O	4	11	88560	 Ben-abinadab, in all Naphath-dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as his wife); 
11O	4	12	88570	 Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach, Megiddo, and all Beth-shean that is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, and from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the other side of Jokmeam; 
11O	4	13	88580	 Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (he had the villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and he had the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars); 
11O	4	14	88590	 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; 
11O	4	15	88600	 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he had taken Basemath the daughter of Solomon as his wife); 
11O	4	16	88610	 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; 
11O	4	17	88620	 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; 
11O	4	18	88630	 Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; 
11O	4	19	88640	 Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. And there was one governor who was over the land. 
11O	4	20	88650	 Judah and Israel were as many as the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy. 
11O	4	21	88660	 Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life. 
11O	4	22	88670	 Solomon's provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour and sixty cors of meal, 
11O	4	23	88680	 ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl. 
11O	4	24	88690	 For he had dominion over all the region west of the Euphrates from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings west of the Euphrates. And he had peace on all sides around him. 
11O	4	25	88700	 And Judah and Israel lived in safety, from Dan even to Beersheba, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, all the days of Solomon. 
11O	4	26	88710	 Solomon also had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen. 
11O	4	27	88720	 And those officers supplied provisions for King Solomon, and for all who came to King Solomon's table, each one in his month. They let nothing be lacking. 
11O	4	28	88730	 Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds they brought to the place where it was required, each according to his duty. 
11O	4	29	88740	 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breadth of mind like the sand on the seashore, 
11O	4	30	88750	 so that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt. 
11O	4	31	88760	 For he was wiser than all other men, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all the surrounding nations. 
11O	4	32	88770	 He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005. 
11O	4	33	88780	 He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall. He spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fish. 
11O	4	34	88790	 And people of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom. 
11O	5	1	88800	 Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram always loved David. 
11O	5	2	88810	 And Solomon sent word to Hiram, 
11O	5	3	88820	 "You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet. 
11O	5	4	88830	 But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side. There is neither adversary nor misfortune. 
11O	5	5	88840	 And so I intend to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD said to David my father, 'Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.' 
11O	5	6	88850	 Now therefore command that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. And my servants will join your servants, and I will pay you for your servants such wages as you set, for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians." 
11O	5	7	88860	 As soon as Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly and said, "Blessed be the LORD this day, who has given to David a wise son to be over this great people." 
11O	5	8	88870	 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, "I have heard the message that you have sent to me. I am ready to do all you desire in the matter of cedar and cypress timber. 
11O	5	9	88880	 My servants shall bring it down to the sea from Lebanon, and I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you direct. And I will have them broken up there, and you shall receive it. And you shall meet my wishes by providing food for my household." 
11O	5	10	88890	 So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the timber of cedar and cypress that he desired, 
11O	5	11	88900	 while Solomon gave Hiram 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, and 20,000 cors of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year. 
11O	5	12	88910	 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty. 
11O	5	13	88920	 King Solomon drafted forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men. 
11O	5	14	88930	 And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the draft. 
11O	5	15	88940	 Solomon also had 70,000 burden-bearers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country, 
11O	5	16	88950	 besides Solomon's 3,300 chief officers who were over the work, who had charge of the people who carried on the work. 
11O	5	17	88960	 At the king's command they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones. 
11O	5	18	88970	 So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the men of Gebal did the cutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house. 
11O	6	1	88980	 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD. 
11O	6	2	88990	 The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. 
11O	6	3	89000	 The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house. 
11O	6	4	89010	 And he made for the house windows with recessed frames. 
11O	6	5	89020	 He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around. 
11O	6	6	89030	 The lowest story was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. For around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house. 
11O	6	7	89040	 When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built. 
11O	6	8	89050	 The entrance for the lowest story was on the south side of the house, and one went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third. 
11O	6	9	89060	 So he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar. 
11O	6	10	89070	 He built the structure against the whole house, five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar. 
11O	6	11	89080	 Now the word of the LORD came to Solomon, 
11O	6	12	89090	 "Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father. 
11O	6	13	89100	 And I will dwell among the children of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel." 
11O	6	14	89110	 So Solomon built the house and finished it. 
11O	6	15	89120	 He lined the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar. From the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood, and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress. 
11O	6	16	89130	 He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place. 
11O	6	17	89140	 The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long. 
11O	6	18	89150	 The cedar within the house was carved in the form of gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was seen. 
11O	6	19	89160	 The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD. 
11O	6	20	89170	 The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid an altar of cedar. 
11O	6	21	89180	 And Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold, and he drew chains of gold across, in front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold. 
11O	6	22	89190	 And he overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. Also the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold. 
11O	6	23	89200	 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high. 
11O	6	24	89210	 Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the length of the other wing of the cherub; it was ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other. 
11O	6	25	89220	 The other cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same measure and the same form. 
11O	6	26	89230	 The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub. 
11O	6	27	89240	 He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house. And the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one touched the one wall, and a wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; their other wings touched each other in the middle of the house. 
11O	6	28	89250	 And he overlaid the cherubim with gold. 
11O	6	29	89260	 Around all the walls of the house he carved engraved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms. 
11O	6	30	89270	 The floor of the house he overlaid with gold in the inner and outer rooms. 
11O	6	31	89280	 For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors of olivewood; the lintel and the doorposts were five-sided. 
11O	6	32	89290	 He covered the two doors of olivewood with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers. He overlaid them with gold and spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees. 
11O	6	33	89300	 So also he made for the entrance to the nave doorposts of olivewood, in the form of a square, 
11O	6	34	89310	 and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding. 
11O	6	35	89320	 On them he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the carved work. 
11O	6	36	89330	 He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and one course of cedar beams. 
11O	6	37	89340	 In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid, in the month of Ziv. 
11O	6	38	89350	 And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it. 
11O	7	1	89360	 Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house. 
11O	7	2	89370	 He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was a hundred cubits and its breadth fifty cubits and its height thirty cubits, and it was built on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars. 
11O	7	3	89380	 And it was covered with cedar above the chambers that were on the forty-five pillars, fifteen in each row. 
11O	7	4	89390	 There were window frames in three rows, and window opposite window in three tiers. 
11O	7	5	89400	 All the doorways and windows had square frames, and window was opposite window in three tiers. 
11O	7	6	89410	 And he made the Hall of Pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits. There was a porch in front with pillars, and a canopy in front of them. 
11O	7	7	89420	 And he made the Hall of the Throne where he was to pronounce judgment, even the Hall of Judgment. It was finished with cedar from floor to rafters. 
11O	7	8	89430	 His own house where he was to dwell, in the other court back of the hall, was of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter whom he had taken in marriage. 
11O	7	9	89440	 All these were made of costly stones, cut according to measure, sawed with saws, back and front, even from the foundation to the coping, and from the outside to the great court. 
11O	7	10	89450	 The foundation was of costly stones, huge stones, stones of eight and ten cubits. 
11O	7	11	89460	 And above were costly stones, cut according to measurement, and cedar. 
11O	7	12	89470	 The great court had three courses of cut stone all around, and a course of cedar beams; so had the inner court of the house of the LORD and the vestibule of the house. 
11O	7	13	89480	 And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. 
11O	7	14	89490	 He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze. And he was full of wisdom, understanding, and skill for making any work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work. 
11O	7	15	89500	 He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference. It was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers. The second pillar was the same. 
11O	7	16	89510	 He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits. 
11O	7	17	89520	 There were lattices of checker work with wreaths of chain work for the capitals on the tops of the pillars, a lattice for the one capital and a lattice for the other capital. 
11O	7	18	89530	 Likewise he made pomegranates in two rows around the one latticework to cover the capital that was on the top of the pillar, and he did the same with the other capital. 
11O	7	19	89540	 Now the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars in the vestibule were of lily-work, four cubits. 
11O	7	20	89550	 The capitals were on the two pillars and also above the rounded projection which was beside the latticework. There were two hundred pomegranates in two rows all around, and so with the other capital. 
11O	7	21	89560	 He set up the pillars at the vestibule of the temple. He set up the pillar on the south and called its name Jachin, and he set up the pillar on the north and called its name Boaz. 
11O	7	22	89570	 And on the tops of the pillars was lily-work. Thus the work of the pillars was finished. 
11O	7	23	89580	 Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference. 
11O	7	24	89590	 Under its brim were gourds, for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast. 
11O	7	25	89600	 It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on them, and all their rear parts were inward. 
11O	7	26	89610	 Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths. 
11O	7	27	89620	 He also made the ten stands of bronze. Each stand was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high. 
11O	7	28	89630	 This was the construction of the stands: they had panels, and the panels were set in the frames, 
11O	7	29	89640	 and on the panels that were set in the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the frames, both above and below the lions and oxen, there were wreaths of beveled work. 
11O	7	30	89650	 Moreover, each stand had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze, and at the four corners were supports for a basin. The supports were cast with wreaths at the side of each. 
11O	7	31	89660	 Its opening was within a crown that projected upward one cubit. Its opening was round, as a pedestal is made, a cubit and a half deep. At its opening there were carvings, and its panels were square, not round. 
11O	7	32	89670	 And the four wheels were underneath the panels. The axles of the wheels were of one piece with the stands, and the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half. 
11O	7	33	89680	 The wheels were made like a chariot wheel; their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast. 
11O	7	34	89690	 There were four supports at the four corners of each stand. The supports were of one piece with the stands. 
11O	7	35	89700	 And on the top of the stand there was a round band half a cubit high; and on the top of the stand its stays and its panels were of one piece with it. 
11O	7	36	89710	 And on the surfaces of its stays and on its panels, he carved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths all around. 
11O	7	37	89720	 After this manner he made the ten stands. All of them were cast alike, of the same measure and the same form. 
11O	7	38	89730	 And he made ten basins of bronze. Each basin held forty baths, each basin measured four cubits, and there was a basin for each of the ten stands. 
11O	7	39	89740	 And he set the stands, five on the south side of the house, and five on the north side of the house. And he set the sea at the southeast corner of the house. 
11O	7	40	89750	 Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished all the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of the LORD: 
11O	7	41	89760	 the two pillars, the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars, and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars; 
11O	7	42	89770	 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars; 
11O	7	43	89780	 the ten stands, and the ten basins on the stands; 
11O	7	44	89790	 and the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath the sea. 
11O	7	45	89800	 Now the pots, the shovels, and the basins, all these vessels in the house of the LORD, which Hiram made for King Solomon, were of burnished bronze. 
11O	7	46	89810	 In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. 
11O	7	47	89820	 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them; the weight of the bronze was not ascertained. 
11O	7	48	89830	 So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the LORD: the golden altar, the golden table for the bread of the Presence, 
11O	7	49	89840	 the lampstands of pure gold, five on the south side and five on the north, before the inner sanctuary; the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold; 
11O	7	50	89850	 the cups, snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and fire pans, of pure gold; and the sockets of gold, for the doors of the innermost part of the house, the Most Holy Place, and for the doors of the nave of the temple. 
11O	7	51	89860	 Thus all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and stored them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD. 
11O	8	1	89870	 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. 
11O	8	2	89880	 And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. 
11O	8	3	89890	 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. 
11O	8	4	89900	 And they brought up the ark of the LORD, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up. 
11O	8	5	89910	 And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered. 
11O	8	6	89920	 Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim. 
11O	8	7	89930	 For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles. 
11O	8	8	89940	 And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place before the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day. 
11O	8	9	89950	 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone that Moses put there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. 
11O	8	10	89960	 And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, a cloud filled the house of the LORD, 
11O	8	11	89970	 so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD. 
11O	8	12	89980	 Then Solomon said, "The LORD has said that he would dwell in thick darkness. 
11O	8	13	89990	 I have indeed built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever." 
11O	8	14	90000	 Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood. 
11O	8	15	90010	 And he said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying, 
11O	8	16	90020	 'Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there. But I chose David to be over my people Israel.' 
11O	8	17	90030	 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 
11O	8	18	90040	 But the LORD said to David my father, 'Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart. 
11O	8	19	90050	 Nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.' 
11O	8	20	90060	 Now the LORD has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and I have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 
11O	8	21	90070	 And there I have provided a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt." 
11O	8	22	90080	 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven, 
11O	8	23	90090	 and said, "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart, 
11O	8	24	90100	 who have kept with your servant David my father what you declared to him. You spoke with your mouth, and with your hand have fulfilled it this day. 
11O	8	25	90110	 Now therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, 'You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.' 
11O	8	26	90120	 Now therefore, O God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David my father. 
11O	8	27	90130	 "But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built! 
11O	8	28	90140	 Yet have regard to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O LORD my God, listening to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you this day, 
11O	8	29	90150	 that your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you have said, 'My name shall be there,' that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place. 
11O	8	30	90160	 And listen to the plea of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen in heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive. 
11O	8	31	90170	 "If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house, 
11O	8	32	90180	 then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness. 
11O	8	33	90190	 "When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and if they turn again to you and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house, 
11O	8	34	90200	 then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to their fathers. 
11O	8	35	90210	 "When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them, 
11O	8	36	90220	 then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance. 
11O	8	37	90230	 "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is, 
11O	8	38	90240	 whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house, 
11O	8	39	90250	 then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind), 
11O	8	40	90260	 that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers. 
11O	8	41	90270	 "Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for your name's sake 
11O	8	42	90280	 (for they shall hear of your great name and your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house, 
11O	8	43	90290	 hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name. 
11O	8	44	90300	 "If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the LORD toward the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name, 
11O	8	45	90310	 then hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause. 
11O	8	46	90320	 "If they sin against you--for there is no one who does not sin--and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near, 
11O	8	47	90330	 yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, 'We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,' 
11O	8	48	90340	 if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name, 
11O	8	49	90350	 then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause 
11O	8	50	90360	 and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions that they have committed against you, and grant them compassion in the sight of those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them 
11O	8	51	90370	 (for they are your people, and your heritage, which you brought out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace). 
11O	8	52	90380	 Let your eyes be open to the plea of your servant and to the plea of your people Israel, giving ear to them whenever they call to you. 
11O	8	53	90390	 For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your heritage, as you declared through Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD." 
11O	8	54	90400	 Now as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and plea to the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, where he had knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven. 
11O	8	55	90410	 And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying, 
11O	8	56	90420	 "Blessed be the LORD who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses his servant. 
11O	8	57	90430	 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. May he not leave us or forsake us, 
11O	8	58	90440	 that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his rules, which he commanded our fathers. 
11O	8	59	90450	 Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires, 
11O	8	60	90460	 that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no other. 
11O	8	61	90470	 Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the LORD our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day." 
11O	8	62	90480	 Then the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD. 
11O	8	63	90490	 Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. 
11O	8	64	90500	 The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD, for there he offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to receive the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings. 
11O	8	65	90510	 So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days. 
11O	8	66	90520	 On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king and went to their homes joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people. 
11O	9	1	90530	 As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the king's house and all that Solomon desired to build, 
11O	9	2	90540	 the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. 
11O	9	3	90550	 And the LORD said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time. 
11O	9	4	90560	 And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules, 
11O	9	5	90570	 then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, 'You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.' 
11O	9	6	90580	 But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, 
11O	9	7	90590	 then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 
11O	9	8	90600	 And this house will become a heap of ruins. Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?' 
11O	9	9	90610	 Then they will say, 'Because they abandoned the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore the LORD has brought all this disaster on them.'" 
11O	9	10	90620	 At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king's house, 
11O	9	11	90630	 and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 
11O	9	12	90640	 But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, they did not please him. 
11O	9	13	90650	 Therefore he said, "What kind of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?" So they are called the land of Cabul to this day. 
11O	9	14	90660	 Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents of gold. 
11O	9	15	90670	 And this is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the LORD and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer 
11O	9	16	90680	 (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife; 
11O	9	17	90690	 so Solomon rebuilt Gezer) and Lower Beth-horon 
11O	9	18	90700	 and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah, 
11O	9	19	90710	 and all the store cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. 
11O	9	20	90720	 All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel-- 
11O	9	21	90730	 their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction--these Solomon drafted to be slaves, and so they are to this day. 
11O	9	22	90740	 But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves. They were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen. 
11O	9	23	90750	 These were the chief officers who were over Solomon's work: 550 who had charge of the people who carried on the work. 
11O	9	24	90760	 But Pharaoh's daughter went up from the city of David to her own house that Solomon had built for her. Then he built the Millo. 
11O	9	25	90770	 Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he built to the LORD, making offerings with it before the LORD. So he finished the house. 
11O	9	26	90780	 King Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 
11O	9	27	90790	 And Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon. 
11O	9	28	90800	 And they went to Ophir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon. 
11O	10	1	90810	 Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with hard questions. 
11O	10	2	90820	 She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, with camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind. 
11O	10	3	90830	 And Solomon answered all her questions; there was nothing hidden from the king that he could not explain to her. 
11O	10	4	90840	 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built, 
11O	10	5	90850	 the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, their clothing, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of the LORD, there was no more breath in her. 
11O	10	6	90860	 And she said to the king, "The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom, 
11O	10	7	90870	 but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, the half was not told me. Your wisdom and prosperity surpass the report that I heard. 
11O	10	8	90880	 Happy are your men! Happy are your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom! 
11O	10	9	90890	 Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the LORD loved Israel forever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness." 
11O	10	10	90900	 Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices and precious stones. Never again came such an abundance of spices as these that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon. 
11O	10	11	90910	 Moreover, the fleet of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir a very great amount of almug wood and precious stones. 
11O	10	12	90920	 And the king made of the almug wood supports for the house of the LORD and for the king's house, also lyres and harps for the singers. No such almug wood has come or been seen to this day. 
11O	10	13	90930	 And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked besides what was given her by the bounty of King Solomon. So she turned and went back to her own land with her servants. 
11O	10	14	90940	 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold, 
11O	10	15	90950	 besides that which came from the explorers and from the business of the merchants, and from all the kings of the west and from the governors of the land. 
11O	10	16	90960	 King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold; 600 shekels of gold went into each shield. 
11O	10	17	90970	 And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon. 
11O	10	18	90980	 The king also made a great ivory throne and overlaid it with the finest gold. 
11O	10	19	90990	 The throne had six steps, and at the back of the throne was a calf's head, and on each side of the seat were armrests and two lions standing beside the armrests, 
11O	10	20	91000	 while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. The like of it was never made in any kingdom. 
11O	10	21	91010	 All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver; silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon. 
11O	10	22	91020	 For the king had a fleet of ships of Tarshish at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the fleet of ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. 
11O	10	23	91030	 Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom. 
11O	10	24	91040	 And the whole earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind. 
11O	10	25	91050	 Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year. 
11O	10	26	91060	 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem. 
11O	10	27	91070	 And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah. 
11O	10	28	91080	 And Solomon's import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king's traders received them from Kue at a price. 
11O	10	29	91090	 A chariot could be imported from Egypt for 600 shekels of silver and a horse for 150, and so through the king's traders they were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria. 
11O	11	1	91100	 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, 
11O	11	2	91110	 from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, "You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods." Solomon clung to these in love. 
11O	11	3	91120	 He had 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. 
11O	11	4	91130	 For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. 
11O	11	5	91140	 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 
11O	11	6	91150	 So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and did not wholly follow the LORD, as David his father had done. 
11O	11	7	91160	 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem. 
11O	11	8	91170	 And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods. 
11O	11	9	91180	 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice 
11O	11	10	91190	 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the LORD commanded. 
11O	11	11	91200	 Therefore the LORD said to Solomon, "Since this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant. 
11O	11	12	91210	 Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son. 
11O	11	13	91220	 However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen." 
11O	11	14	91230	 And the LORD raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. He was of the royal house in Edom. 
11O	11	15	91240	 For when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, he struck down every male in Edom 
11O	11	16	91250	 (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom). 
11O	11	17	91260	 But Hadad fled to Egypt, together with certain Edomites of his father's servants, Hadad still being a little child. 
11O	11	18	91270	 They set out from Midian and came to Paran and took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house and assigned him an allowance of food and gave him land. 
11O	11	19	91280	 And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen. 
11O	11	20	91290	 And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house. And Genubath was in Pharaoh's house among the sons of Pharaoh. 
11O	11	21	91300	 But when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers and that Joab the commander of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, "Let me depart, that I may go to my own country." 
11O	11	22	91310	 But Pharaoh said to him, "What have you lacked with me that you are now seeking to go to your own country?" And he said to him, "Only let me depart." 
11O	11	23	91320	 God also raised up as an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master Hadadezer king of Zobah. 
11O	11	24	91330	 And he gathered men about him and became leader of a marauding band, after the killing by David. And they went to Damascus and lived there and made him king in Damascus. 
11O	11	25	91340	 He was an adversary of Israel all the days of Solomon, doing harm as Hadad did. And he loathed Israel and reigned over Syria. 
11O	11	26	91350	 Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king. 
11O	11	27	91360	 And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king. Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of David his father. 
11O	11	28	91370	 The man Jeroboam was very able, and when Solomon saw that the young man was industrious he gave him charge over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph. 
11O	11	29	91380	 And at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now Ahijah had dressed himself in a new garment, and the two of them were alone in the open country. 
11O	11	30	91390	 Then Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces. 
11O	11	31	91400	 And he said to Jeroboam, "Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon and will give you ten tribes 
11O	11	32	91410	 (but he shall have one tribe, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel), 
11O	11	33	91420	 because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did. 
11O	11	34	91430	 Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of David my servant whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes. 
11O	11	35	91440	 But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand and will give it to you, ten tribes. 
11O	11	36	91450	 Yet to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name. 
11O	11	37	91460	 And I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel. 
11O	11	38	91470	 And if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you. 
11O	11	39	91480	 And I will afflict the offspring of David because of this, but not forever.'" 
11O	11	40	91490	 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon. 
11O	11	41	91500	 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon? 
11O	11	42	91510	 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. 
11O	11	43	91520	 And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. 
11O	12	1	91530	 Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. 
11O	12	2	91540	 And as soon as Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), then Jeroboam returned from Egypt. 
11O	12	3	91550	 And they sent and called him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and said to Rehoboam, 
11O	12	4	91560	 "Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you." 
11O	12	5	91570	 He said to them, "Go away for three days, then come again to me." So the people went away. 
11O	12	6	91580	 Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, "How do you advise me to answer this people?" 
11O	12	7	91590	 And they said to him, "If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants forever." 
11O	12	8	91600	 But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him. 
11O	12	9	91610	 And he said to them, "What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, 'Lighten the yoke that your father put on us'?" 
11O	12	10	91620	 And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, "Thus shall you speak to this people who said to you, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us,' thus shall you say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's thighs. 
11O	12	11	91630	 And now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.'" 
11O	12	12	91640	 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, "Come to me again the third day." 
11O	12	13	91650	 And the king answered the people harshly, and forsaking the counsel that the old men had given him, 
11O	12	14	91660	 he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions." 
11O	12	15	91670	 So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of affairs brought about by the LORD that he might fulfill his word, which the LORD spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. 
11O	12	16	91680	 And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, "What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David." So Israel went to their tents. 
11O	12	17	91690	 But Rehoboam reigned over the people of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah. 
11O	12	18	91700	 Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam hurried to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem. 
11O	12	19	91710	 So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day. 
11O	12	20	91720	 And when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was none that followed the house of David but the tribe of Judah only. 
11O	12	21	91730	 When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. 
11O	12	22	91740	 But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God: 
11O	12	23	91750	 "Say to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, 
11O	12	24	91760	 'Thus says the LORD, You shall not go up or fight against your relatives the people of Israel. Every man return to his home, for this thing is from me.'" So they listened to the word of the LORD and went home again, according to the word of the LORD. 
11O	12	25	91770	 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And he went out from there and built Penuel. 
11O	12	26	91780	 And Jeroboam said in his heart, "Now the kingdom will turn back to the house of David. 
11O	12	27	91790	 If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the temple of the LORD at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah." 
11O	12	28	91800	 So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, "You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt." 
11O	12	29	91810	 And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. 
11O	12	30	91820	 Then this thing became a sin, for the people went as far as Dan to be before one. 
11O	12	31	91830	 He also made temples on high places and appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites. 
11O	12	32	91840	 And Jeroboam appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made. 
11O	12	33	91850	 He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised from his own heart. And he instituted a feast for the people of Israel and went up to the altar to make offerings. 
11O	13	1	91860	 And behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the LORD to Bethel. Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make offerings. 
11O	13	2	91870	 And the man cried against the altar by the word of the LORD and said, "O altar, altar, thus says the LORD: 'Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.'" 
11O	13	3	91880	 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, "This is the sign that the LORD has spoken: 'Behold, the altar shall be torn down, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.'" 
11O	13	4	91890	 And when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, "Seize him." And his hand, which he stretched out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself. 
11O	13	5	91900	 The altar also was torn down, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the LORD. 
11O	13	6	91910	 And the king said to the man of God, "Entreat now the favor of the LORD your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me." And the man of God entreated the LORD, and the king's hand was restored to him and became as it was before. 
11O	13	7	91920	 And the king said to the man of God, "Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward." 
11O	13	8	91930	 And the man of God said to the king, "If you give me half your house, I will not go in with you. And I will not eat bread or drink water in this place, 
11O	13	9	91940	 for so was it commanded me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'You shall neither eat bread nor drink water nor return by the way that you came.'" 
11O	13	10	91950	 So he went another way and did not return by the way that he came to Bethel. 
11O	13	11	91960	 Now an old prophet lived in Bethel. And his sons came and told him all that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told to their father the words that he had spoken to the king. 
11O	13	12	91970	 And their father said to them, "Which way did he go?" And his sons showed him the way that the man of God who came from Judah had gone. 
11O	13	13	91980	 And he said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." So they saddled the donkey for him and he mounted it. 
11O	13	14	91990	 And he went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak. And he said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" And he said, "I am." 
11O	13	15	92000	 Then he said to him, "Come home with me and eat bread." 
11O	13	16	92010	 And he said, "I may not return with you, or go in with you, neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place, 
11O	13	17	92020	 for it was said to me by the word of the LORD, 'You shall neither eat bread nor drink water there, nor return by the way that you came.'" 
11O	13	18	92030	 And he said to him, "I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'Bring him back with you into your house that he may eat bread and drink water.'" But he lied to him. 
11O	13	19	92040	 So he went back with him and ate bread in his house and drank water. 
11O	13	20	92050	 And as they sat at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back. 
11O	13	21	92060	 And he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, "Thus says the LORD, 'Because you have disobeyed the word of the LORD and have not kept the command that the LORD your God commanded you, 
11O	13	22	92070	 but have come back and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, "Eat no bread and drink no water," your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.'" 
11O	13	23	92080	 And after he had eaten bread and drunk, he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back. 
11O	13	24	92090	 And as he went away a lion met him on the road and killed him. And his body was thrown in the road, and the donkey stood beside it; the lion also stood beside the body. 
11O	13	25	92100	 And behold, men passed by and saw the body thrown in the road and the lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived. 
11O	13	26	92110	 And when the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, "It is the man of God who disobeyed the word of the LORD; therefore the LORD has given him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD spoke to him." 
11O	13	27	92120	 And he said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." And they saddled it. 
11O	13	28	92130	 And he went and found his body thrown in the road, and the donkey and the lion standing beside the body. The lion had not eaten the body or torn the donkey. 
11O	13	29	92140	 And the prophet took up the body of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back to the city to mourn and to bury him. 
11O	13	30	92150	 And he laid the body in his own grave. And they mourned over him, saying, "Alas, my brother!" 
11O	13	31	92160	 And after he had buried him, he said to his sons, "When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones. 
11O	13	32	92170	 For the saying that he called out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places that are in the cities of Samaria shall surely come to pass." 
11O	13	33	92180	 After this thing Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made priests for the high places again from among all the people. Any who would, he ordained to be priests of the high places. 
11O	13	34	92190	 And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, so as to cut it off and to destroy it from the face of the earth. 
11O	14	1	92200	 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. 
11O	14	2	92210	 And Jeroboam said to his wife, "Arise, and disguise yourself, that it not be known that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said of me that I should be king over this people. 
11O	14	3	92220	 Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what shall happen to the child." 
11O	14	4	92230	 Jeroboam's wife did so. She arose and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age. 
11O	14	5	92240	 And the LORD said to Ahijah, "Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus shall you say to her." When she came, she pretended to be another woman. 
11O	14	6	92250	 But when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another? For I am charged with unbearable news for you. 
11O	14	7	92260	 Go, tell Jeroboam, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: "Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over my people Israel 
11O	14	8	92270	 and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you, and yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, doing only that which was right in my eyes, 
11O	14	9	92280	 but you have done evil above all who were before you and have gone and made for yourself other gods and metal images, provoking me to anger, and have cast me behind your back, 
11O	14	10	92290	 therefore behold, I will bring harm upon the house of Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both bond and free in Israel, and will burn up the house of Jeroboam, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone. 
11O	14	11	92300	 Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat, for the LORD has spoken it."' 
11O	14	12	92310	 Arise therefore, go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die. 
11O	14	13	92320	 And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found something pleasing to the LORD, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam. 
11O	14	14	92330	 Moreover, the LORD will raise up for himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam today. And henceforth, 
11O	14	15	92340	 the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water, and root up Israel out of this good land that he gave to their fathers and scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger. 
11O	14	16	92350	 And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin." 
11O	14	17	92360	 Then Jeroboam's wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah. And as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died. 
11O	14	18	92370	 And all Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet. 
11O	14	19	92380	 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 
11O	14	20	92390	 And the time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years. And he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place. 
11O	14	21	92400	 Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite. 
11O	14	22	92410	 And Judah did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins that they committed, more than all that their fathers had done. 
11O	14	23	92420	 For they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, 
11O	14	24	92430	 and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the LORD drove out before the people of Israel. 
11O	14	25	92440	 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. 
11O	14	26	92450	 He took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house. He took away everything. He also took away all the shields of gold that Solomon had made, 
11O	14	27	92460	 and King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house. 
11O	14	28	92470	 And as often as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard carried them and brought them back to the guardroom. 
11O	14	29	92480	 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 
11O	14	30	92490	 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. 
11O	14	31	92500	 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite. And Abijam his son reigned in his place. 
11O	15	1	92510	 Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah. 
11O	15	2	92520	 He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. 
11O	15	3	92530	 And he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father. 
11O	15	4	92540	 Nevertheless, for David's sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem, 
11O	15	5	92550	 because David did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. 
11O	15	6	92560	 Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. 
11O	15	7	92570	 The rest of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam. 
11O	15	8	92580	 And Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place. 
11O	15	9	92590	 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah, 
11O	15	10	92600	 and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. 
11O	15	11	92610	 And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as David his father had done. 
11O	15	12	92620	 He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. 
11O	15	13	92630	 He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron. 
11O	15	14	92640	 But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true to the LORD all his days. 
11O	15	15	92650	 And he brought into the house of the LORD the sacred gifts of his father and his own sacred gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels. 
11O	15	16	92660	 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. 
11O	15	17	92670	 Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. 
11O	15	18	92680	 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house and gave them into the hands of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying, 
11O	15	19	92690	 "Let there be a covenant between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me." 
11O	15	20	92700	 And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel and conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali. 
11O	15	21	92710	 And when Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and he lived in Tirzah. 
11O	15	22	92720	 Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, none was exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building, and with them King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah. 
11O	15	23	92730	 Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, all his might, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But in his old age he was diseased in his feet. 
11O	15	24	92740	 And Asa slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place. 
11O	15	25	92750	 Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years. 
11O	15	26	92760	 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin which he made Israel to sin. 
11O	15	27	92770	 Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him. And Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon. 
11O	15	28	92780	 So Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa king of Judah and reigned in his place. 
11O	15	29	92790	 And as soon as he was king, he killed all the house of Jeroboam. He left to the house of Jeroboam not one that breathed, until he had destroyed it, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite. 
11O	15	30	92800	 It was for the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned and that he made Israel to sin, and because of the anger to which he provoked the LORD, the God of Israel. 
11O	15	31	92810	 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 
11O	15	32	92820	 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. 
11O	15	33	92830	 In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel at Tirzah, and he reigned twenty-four years. 
11O	15	34	92840	 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel to sin. 
11O	16	1	92850	 And the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, 
11O	16	2	92860	 "Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins, 
11O	16	3	92870	 behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. 
11O	16	4	92880	 Anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the field the birds of the heavens shall eat." 
11O	16	5	92890	 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 
11O	16	6	92900	 And Baasha slept with his fathers and was buried at Tirzah, and Elah his son reigned in his place. 
11O	16	7	92910	 Moreover, the word of the LORD came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and also because he destroyed it. 
11O	16	8	92920	 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah, and he reigned two years. 
11O	16	9	92930	 But his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. When he was at Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah, 
11O	16	10	92940	 Zimri came in and struck him down and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place. 
11O	16	11	92950	 When he began to reign, as soon as he had seated himself on his throne, he struck down all the house of Baasha. He did not leave him a single male of his relatives or his friends. 
11O	16	12	92960	 Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet, 
11O	16	13	92970	 for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israel to sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols. 
11O	16	14	92980	 Now the rest of the acts of Elah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 
11O	16	15	92990	 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the troops were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, 
11O	16	16	93000	 and the troops who were encamped heard it said, "Zimri has conspired, and he has killed the king." Therefore all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp. 
11O	16	17	93010	 So Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah. 
11O	16	18	93020	 And when Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king's house and burned the king's house over him with fire and died, 
11O	16	19	93030	 because of his sins that he committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD, walking in the way of Jeroboam, and for his sin which he committed, making Israel to sin. 
11O	16	20	93040	 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the conspiracy that he made, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 
11O	16	21	93050	 Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts. Half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king, and half followed Omri. 
11O	16	22	93060	 But the people who followed Omri overcame the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath. So Tibni died, and Omri became king. 
11O	16	23	93070	 In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel, and he reigned for twelve years; six years he reigned in Tirzah. 
11O	16	24	93080	 He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver, and he fortified the hill and called the name of the city that he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill. 
11O	16	25	93090	 Omri did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and did more evil than all who were before him. 
11O	16	26	93100	 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in the sins that he made Israel to sin, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols. 
11O	16	27	93110	 Now the rest of the acts of Omri that he did, and the might that he showed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 
11O	16	28	93120	 And Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his son reigned in his place. 
11O	16	29	93130	 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel, and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years. 
11O	16	30	93140	 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who were before him. 
11O	16	31	93150	 And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshiped him. 
11O	16	32	93160	 He erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria. 
11O	16	33	93170	 And Ahab made an Asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him. 
11O	16	34	93180	 In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho. He laid its foundation at the cost of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun. 
11O	17	1	93190	 Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word." 
11O	17	2	93200	 And the word of the LORD came to him: 
11O	17	3	93210	 "Depart from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. 
11O	17	4	93220	 You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there." 
11O	17	5	93230	 So he went and did according to the word of the LORD. He went and lived by the brook Cherith that is east of the Jordan. 
11O	17	6	93240	 And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. 
11O	17	7	93250	 And after a while the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. 
11O	17	8	93260	 Then the word of the LORD came to him, 
11O	17	9	93270	 "Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you." 
11O	17	10	93280	 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, "Bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink." 
11O	17	11	93290	 And as she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, "Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand." 
11O	17	12	93300	 And she said, "As the LORD your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die." 
11O	17	13	93310	 And Elijah said to her, "Do not fear; go and do as you have said. But first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterward make something for yourself and your son. 
11O	17	14	93320	 For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'The jar of flour shall not be spent, and the jug of oil shall not be empty, until the day that the LORD sends rain upon the earth.'" 
11O	17	15	93330	 And she went and did as Elijah said. And she and he and her household ate for many days. 
11O	17	16	93340	 The jar of flour was not spent, neither did the jug of oil become empty, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke by Elijah. 
11O	17	17	93350	 After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill. And his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him. 
11O	17	18	93360	 And she said to Elijah, "What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance and to cause the death of my son!" 
11O	17	19	93370	 And he said to her, "Give me your son." And he took him from her arms and carried him up into the upper chamber where he lodged, and laid him on his own bed. 
11O	17	20	93380	 And he cried to the LORD, "O LORD my God, have you brought calamity even upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?" 
11O	17	21	93390	 Then he stretched himself upon the child three times and cried to the LORD, "O LORD my God, let this child's life come into him again." 
11O	17	22	93400	 And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah. And the life of the child came into him again, and he revived. 
11O	17	23	93410	 And Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper chamber into the house and delivered him to his mother. And Elijah said, "See, your son lives." 
11O	17	24	93420	 And the woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth." 
11O	18	1	93430	 After many days the word of the LORD came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth." 
11O	18	2	93440	 So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. 
11O	18	3	93450	 And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly, 
11O	18	4	93460	 and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.) 
11O	18	5	93470	 And Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, and not lose some of the animals." 
11O	18	6	93480	 So they divided the land between them to pass through it. Ahab went in one direction by himself, and Obadiah went in another direction by himself. 
11O	18	7	93490	 And as Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. And Obadiah recognized him and fell on his face and said, "Is it you, my lord Elijah?" 
11O	18	8	93500	 And he answered him, "It is I. Go, tell your lord, 'Behold, Elijah is here.'" 
11O	18	9	93510	 And he said, "How have I sinned, that you would give your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me? 
11O	18	10	93520	 As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they would say, 'He is not here,' he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you. 
11O	18	11	93530	 And now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here."' 
11O	18	12	93540	 And as soon as I have gone from you, the Spirit of the LORD will carry you I know not where. And so, when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have feared the LORD from my youth. 
11O	18	13	93550	 Has it not been told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD's prophets by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water? 
11O	18	14	93560	 And now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here"'; and he will kill me." 
11O	18	15	93570	 And Elijah said, "As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today." 
11O	18	16	93580	 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him. And Ahab went to meet Elijah. 
11O	18	17	93590	 When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "Is it you, you troubler of Israel?" 
11O	18	18	93600	 And he answered, "I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father's house, because you have abandoned the commandments of the LORD and followed the Baals. 
11O	18	19	93610	 Now therefore send and gather all Israel to me at Mount Carmel, and the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table." 
11O	18	20	93620	 So Ahab sent to all the people of Israel and gathered the prophets together at Mount Carmel. 
11O	18	21	93630	 And Elijah came near to all the people and said, "How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." And the people did not answer him a word. 
11O	18	22	93640	 Then Elijah said to the people, "I, even I only, am left a prophet of the LORD, but Baal's prophets are 450 men. 
11O	18	23	93650	 Let two bulls be given to us, and let them choose one bull for themselves and cut it in pieces and lay it on the wood, but put no fire to it. And I will prepare the other bull and lay it on the wood and put no fire to it. 
11O	18	24	93660	 And you call upon the name of your god, and I will call upon the name of the LORD, and the God who answers by fire, he is God." And all the people answered, "It is well spoken." 
11O	18	25	93670	 Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first, for you are many, and call upon the name of your god, but put no fire to it." 
11O	18	26	93680	 And they took the bull that was given them, and they prepared it and called upon the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, "O Baal, answer us!" But there was no voice, and no one answered. And they limped around the altar that they had made. 
11O	18	27	93690	 And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, "Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened." 
11O	18	28	93700	 And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them. 
11O	18	29	93710	 And as midday passed, they raved on until the time of the offering of the oblation, but there was no voice. No one answered; no one paid attention. 
11O	18	30	93720	 Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come near to me." And all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that had been thrown down. 
11O	18	31	93730	 Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD came, saying, "Israel shall be your name," 
11O	18	32	93740	 and with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD. And he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two seahs of seed. 
11O	18	33	93750	 And he put the wood in order and cut the bull in pieces and laid it on the wood. And he said, "Fill four jars with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood." 
11O	18	34	93760	 And he said, "Do it a second time." And they did it a second time. And he said, "Do it a third time." And they did it a third time. 
11O	18	35	93770	 And the water ran around the altar and filled the trench also with water. 
11O	18	36	93780	 And at the time of the offering of the oblation, Elijah the prophet came near and said, "O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word. 
11O	18	37	93790	 Answer me, O LORD, answer me, that this people may know that you, O LORD, are God, and that you have turned their hearts back." 
11O	18	38	93800	 Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. 
11O	18	39	93810	 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, "The LORD, he is God; the LORD, he is God." 
11O	18	40	93820	 And Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape." And they seized them. And Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slaughtered them there. 
11O	18	41	93830	 And Elijah said to Ahab, "Go up, eat and drink, for there is a sound of the rushing of rain." 
11O	18	42	93840	 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Mount Carmel. And he bowed himself down on the earth and put his face between his knees. 
11O	18	43	93850	 And he said to his servant, "Go up now, look toward the sea." And he went up and looked and said, "There is nothing." And he said, "Go again," seven times. 
11O	18	44	93860	 And at the seventh time he said, "Behold, a little cloud like a man's hand is rising from the sea." And he said, "Go up, say to Ahab, 'Prepare your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you.'" 
11O	18	45	93870	 And in a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel. 
11O	18	46	93880	 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah, and he gathered up his garment and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. 
11O	19	1	93890	 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 
11O	19	2	93900	 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow." 
11O	19	3	93910	 Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. 
11O	19	4	93920	 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers." 
11O	19	5	93930	 And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, "Arise and eat." 
11O	19	6	93940	 And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank and lay down again. 
11O	19	7	93950	 And the angel of the LORD came again a second time and touched him and said, "Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you." 
11O	19	8	93960	 And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God. 
11O	19	9	93970	 There he came to a cave and lodged in it. And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" 
11O	19	10	93980	 He said, "I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away." 
11O	19	11	93990	 And he said, "Go out and stand on the mount before the LORD." And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. 
11O	19	12	94000	 And after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire the sound of a low whisper. 
11O	19	13	94010	 And when Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice to him and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" 
11O	19	14	94020	 He said, "I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away." 
11O	19	15	94030	 And the LORD said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria. 
11O	19	16	94040	 And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place. 
11O	19	17	94050	 And the one who escapes from the sword of Hazael shall Jehu put to death, and the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha put to death. 
11O	19	18	94060	 Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him." 
11O	19	19	94070	 So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen in front of him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by him and cast his cloak upon him. 
11O	19	20	94080	 And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, "Let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you." And he said to him, "Go back again, for what have I done to you?" 
11O	19	21	94090	 And he returned from following him and took the yoke of oxen and sacrificed them and boiled their flesh with the yokes of the oxen and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and went after Elijah and assisted him. 
11O	20	1	94100	 Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together. Thirty-two kings were with him, and horses and chariots. And he went up and closed in on Samaria and fought against it. 
11O	20	2	94110	 And he sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel and said to him, "Thus says Ben-hadad: 
11O	20	3	94120	 'Your silver and your gold are mine; your best wives and children also are mine.'" 
11O	20	4	94130	 And the king of Israel answered, "As you say, my lord, O king, I am yours, and all that I have." 
11O	20	5	94140	 The messengers came again and said, "Thus says Ben-hadad: 'I sent to you, saying, "Deliver to me your silver and your gold, your wives and your children." 
11O	20	6	94150	 Nevertheless I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house and the houses of your servants and lay hands on whatever pleases you and take it away.'" 
11O	20	7	94160	 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, "Mark, now, and see how this man is seeking trouble, for he sent to me for my wives and my children, and for my silver and my gold, and I did not refuse him." 
11O	20	8	94170	 And all the elders and all the people said to him, "Do not listen or consent." 
11O	20	9	94180	 So he said to the messengers of Ben-hadad, "Tell my lord the king, 'All that you first demanded of your servant I will do, but this thing I cannot do.'" And the messengers departed and brought him word again. 
11O	20	10	94190	 Ben-hadad sent to him and said, "The gods do so to me and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me." 
11O	20	11	94200	 And the king of Israel answered, "Tell him, 'Let not him who straps on his armor boast himself as he who takes it off.'" 
11O	20	12	94210	 When Ben-hadad heard this message as he was drinking with the kings in the booths, he said to his men, "Take your positions." And they took their positions against the city. 
11O	20	13	94220	 And behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel and said, "Thus says the LORD, Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will give it into your hand this day, and you shall know that I am the LORD." 
11O	20	14	94230	 And Ahab said, "By whom?" He said, "Thus says the LORD, By the servants of the governors of the districts." Then he said, "Who shall begin the battle?" He answered, "You." 
11O	20	15	94240	 Then he mustered the servants of the governors of the districts, and they were 232. And after them he mustered all the people of Israel, seven thousand. 
11O	20	16	94250	 And they went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the thirty-two kings who helped him. 
11O	20	17	94260	 The servants of the governors of the districts went out first. And Ben-hadad sent out scouts, and they reported to him, "Men are coming out from Samaria." 
11O	20	18	94270	 He said, "If they have come out for peace, take them alive. Or if they have come out for war, take them alive." 
11O	20	19	94280	 So these went out of the city, the servants of the governors of the districts and the army that followed them. 
11O	20	20	94290	 And each struck down his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them, but Ben-hadad king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen. 
11O	20	21	94300	 And the king of Israel went out and struck the horses and chariots, and struck the Syrians with a great blow. 
11O	20	22	94310	 Then the prophet came near to the king of Israel and said to him, "Come, strengthen yourself, and consider well what you have to do, for in the spring the king of Syria will come up against you." 
11O	20	23	94320	 And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, "Their gods are gods of the hills, and so they were stronger than we. But let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. 
11O	20	24	94330	 And do this: remove the kings, each from his post, and put commanders in their places, 
11O	20	25	94340	 and muster an army like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. Then we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they." And he listened to their voice and did so. 
11O	20	26	94350	 In the spring, Ben-hadad mustered the Syrians and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel. 
11O	20	27	94360	 And the people of Israel were mustered and were provisioned and went against them. The people of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of goats, but the Syrians filled the country. 
11O	20	28	94370	 And a man of God came near and said to the king of Israel, "Thus says the LORD, 'Because the Syrians have said, "The LORD is a god of the hills but he is not a god of the valleys," therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD.'" 
11O	20	29	94380	 And they encamped opposite one another seven days. Then on the seventh day the battle was joined. And the people of Israel struck down of the Syrians 100,000 foot soldiers in one day. 
11O	20	30	94390	 And the rest fled into the city of Aphek, and the wall fell upon 27,000 men who were left. Ben-hadad also fled and entered an inner chamber in the city. 
11O	20	31	94400	 And his servants said to him, "Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life." 
11O	20	32	94410	 So they tied sackcloth around their waists and put ropes on their heads and went to the king of Israel and said, "Your servant Ben-hadad says, 'Please, let me live.'" And he said, "Does he still live? He is my brother." 
11O	20	33	94420	 Now the men were watching for a sign, and they quickly took it up from him and said, "Yes, your brother Ben-hadad." Then he said, "Go and bring him." Then Ben-hadad came out to him, and he caused him to come up into the chariot. 
11O	20	34	94430	 And Ben-hadad said to him, "The cities that my father took from your father I will restore, and you may establish bazaars for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria." And Ahab said, "I will let you go on these terms." So he made a covenant with him and let him go. 
11O	20	35	94440	 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow at the command of the LORD, "Strike me, please." But the man refused to strike him. 
11O	20	36	94450	 Then he said to him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as you have gone from me, a lion shall strike you down." And as soon as he had departed from him, a lion met him and struck him down. 
11O	20	37	94460	 Then he found another man and said, "Strike me, please." And the man struck him--struck him and wounded him. 
11O	20	38	94470	 So the prophet departed and waited for the king by the way, disguising himself with a bandage over his eyes. 
11O	20	39	94480	 And as the king passed, he cried to the king and said, "Your servant went out into the midst of the battle, and behold, a soldier turned and brought a man to me and said, 'Guard this man; if by any means he is missing, your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.' 
11O	20	40	94490	 And as your servant was busy here and there, he was gone." The king of Israel said to him, "So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it." 
11O	20	41	94500	 Then he hurried to take the bandage away from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets. 
11O	20	42	94510	 And he said to him, "Thus says the LORD, 'Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall be for his life, and your people for his people.'" 
11O	20	43	94520	 And the king of Israel went to his house vexed and sullen and came to Samaria. 
11O	21	1	94530	 Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel, beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. 
11O	21	2	94540	 And after this Ahab said to Naboth, "Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is near my house, and I will give you a better vineyard for it; or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its value in money." 
11O	21	3	94550	 But Naboth said to Ahab, "The LORD forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers." 
11O	21	4	94560	 And Ahab went into his house vexed and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, for he had said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers." And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and would eat no food. 
11O	21	5	94570	 But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, "Why is your spirit so vexed that you eat no food?" 
11O	21	6	94580	 And he said to her, "Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, 'Give me your vineyard for money, or else, if it please you, I will give you another vineyard for it.' And he answered, 'I will not give you my vineyard.'" 
11O	21	7	94590	 And Jezebel his wife said to him, "Do you now govern Israel? Arise and eat bread and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite." 
11O	21	8	94600	 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name and sealed them with his seal, and she sent the letters to the elders and the leaders who lived with Naboth in his city. 
11O	21	9	94610	 And she wrote in the letters, "Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people. 
11O	21	10	94620	 And set two worthless men opposite him, and let them bring a charge against him, saying, 'You have cursed God and the king.' Then take him out and stone him to death." 
11O	21	11	94630	 And the men of his city, the elders and the leaders who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them. As it was written in the letters that she had sent to them, 
11O	21	12	94640	 they proclaimed a fast and set Naboth at the head of the people. 
11O	21	13	94650	 And the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him. And the worthless men brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king." So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones. 
11O	21	14	94660	 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, "Naboth has been stoned; he is dead." 
11O	21	15	94670	 As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, "Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money, for Naboth is not alive, but dead." 
11O	21	16	94680	 And as soon as Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it. 
11O	21	17	94690	 Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 
11O	21	18	94700	 "Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to take possession. 
11O	21	19	94710	 And you shall say to him, 'Thus says the LORD, "Have you killed and also taken possession?"' And you shall say to him, 'Thus says the LORD: "In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood."'" 
11O	21	20	94720	 Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the LORD. 
11O	21	21	94730	 Behold, I will bring disaster upon you. I will utterly burn you up, and will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel. 
11O	21	22	94740	 And I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the anger to which you have provoked me, and because you have made Israel to sin. 
11O	21	23	94750	 And of Jezebel the LORD also said, 'The dogs shall eat Jezebel within the walls of Jezreel.' 
11O	21	24	94760	 Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat." 
11O	21	25	94770	 (There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the LORD like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited. 
11O	21	26	94780	 He acted very abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the LORD cast out before the people of Israel.) 
11O	21	27	94790	 And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly. 
11O	21	28	94800	 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 
11O	21	29	94810	 "Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son's days I will bring the disaster upon his house." 
11O	22	1	94820	 For three years Syria and Israel continued without war. 
11O	22	2	94830	 But in the third year Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. 
11O	22	3	94840	 And the king of Israel said to his servants, "Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, and we keep quiet and do not take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?" 
11O	22	4	94850	 And he said to Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to battle at Ramoth-gilead?" And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses." 
11O	22	5	94860	 And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Inquire first for the word of the LORD." 
11O	22	6	94870	 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?" And they said, "Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king." 
11O	22	7	94880	 But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not here another prophet of the LORD of whom we may inquire?" 
11O	22	8	94890	 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil." And Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say so." 
11O	22	9	94900	 Then the king of Israel summoned an officer and said, "Bring quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah." 
11O	22	10	94910	 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them. 
11O	22	11	94920	 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron and said, "Thus says the LORD, 'With these you shall push the Syrians until they are destroyed.'" 
11O	22	12	94930	 And all the prophets prophesied so and said, "Go up to Ramoth-gilead and triumph; the LORD will give it into the hand of the king." 
11O	22	13	94940	 And the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, "Behold, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king. Let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably." 
11O	22	14	94950	 But Micaiah said, "As the LORD lives, what the LORD says to me, that I will speak." 
11O	22	15	94960	 And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we refrain?" And he answered him, "Go up and triumph; the LORD will give it into the hand of the king." 
11O	22	16	94970	 But the king said to him, "How many times shall I make you swear that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?" 
11O	22	17	94980	 And he said, "I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And the LORD said, 'These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.'" 
11O	22	18	94990	 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?" 
11O	22	19	95000	 And Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing beside him on his right hand and on his left; 
11O	22	20	95010	 and the LORD said, 'Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?' And one said one thing, and another said another. 
11O	22	21	95020	 Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, saying, 'I will entice him.' 
11O	22	22	95030	 And the LORD said to him, 'By what means?' And he said, 'I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' And he said, 'You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.' 
11O	22	23	95040	 Now therefore behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the LORD has declared disaster for you." 
11O	22	24	95050	 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, "How did the Spirit of the LORD go from me to speak to you?" 
11O	22	25	95060	 And Micaiah said, "Behold, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself." 
11O	22	26	95070	 And the king of Israel said, "Seize Micaiah, and take him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king's son, 
11O	22	27	95080	 and say, 'Thus says the king, "Put this fellow in prison and feed him meager rations of bread and water, until I come in peace."'" 
11O	22	28	95090	 And Micaiah said, "If you return in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me." And he said, "Hear, all you peoples!" 
11O	22	29	95100	 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead. 
11O	22	30	95110	 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your robes." And the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle. 
11O	22	31	95120	 Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, "Fight with neither small nor great, but only with the king of Israel." 
11O	22	32	95130	 And when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, "It is surely the king of Israel." So they turned to fight against him. And Jehoshaphat cried out. 
11O	22	33	95140	 And when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him. 
11O	22	34	95150	 But a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn around and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded." 
11O	22	35	95160	 And the battle continued that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, until at evening he died. And the blood of the wound flowed into the bottom of the chariot. 
11O	22	36	95170	 And about sunset a cry went through the army, "Every man to his city, and every man to his country!" 
11O	22	37	95180	 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria. And they buried the king in Samaria. 
11O	22	38	95190	 And they washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood, and the prostitutes washed themselves in it, according to the word of the LORD that he had spoken. 
11O	22	39	95200	 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did, and the ivory house that he built and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 
11O	22	40	95210	 So Ahab slept with his fathers, and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place. 
11O	22	41	95220	 Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. 
11O	22	42	95230	 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. 
11O	22	43	95240	 He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the LORD. Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. 
11O	22	44	95250	 Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel. 
11O	22	45	95260	 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 
11O	22	46	95270	 And from the land he exterminated the remnant of the male cult prostitutes who remained in the days of his father Asa. 
11O	22	47	95280	 There was no king in Edom; a deputy was king. 
11O	22	48	95290	 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go, for the ships were wrecked at Ezion-geber. 
11O	22	49	95300	 Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships," but Jehoshaphat was not willing. 
11O	22	50	95310	 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place. 
11O	22	51	95320	 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel. 
11O	22	52	95330	 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. 
11O	22	53	95340	 He served Baal and worshiped him and provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger in every way that his father had done. 
12O	1	1	95350	 After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel. 
12O	1	2	95360	 Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, "Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness." 
12O	1	3	95370	 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, "Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, 'Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? 
12O	1	4	95380	 Now therefore thus says the LORD, You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.'" So Elijah went. 
12O	1	5	95390	 The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, "Why have you returned?" 
12O	1	6	95400	 And they said to him, "There came a man to meet us, and said to us, 'Go back to the king who sent you, and say to him, Thus says the LORD, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.'" 
12O	1	7	95410	 He said to them, "What kind of man was he who came to meet you and told you these things?" 
12O	1	8	95420	 They answered him, "He wore a garment of hair, with a belt of leather about his waist." And he said, "It is Elijah the Tishbite." 
12O	1	9	95430	 Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty men with his fifty. He went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, "O man of God, the king says, 'Come down.'" 
12O	1	10	95440	 But Elijah answered the captain of fifty, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty." Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. 
12O	1	11	95450	 Again the king sent to him another captain of fifty men with his fifty. And he answered and said to him, "O man of God, this is the king's order, 'Come down quickly!'" 
12O	1	12	95460	 But Elijah answered them, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty." Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. 
12O	1	13	95470	 Again the king sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up and came and fell on his knees before Elijah and entreated him, "O man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty servants of yours, be precious in your sight. 
12O	1	14	95480	 Behold, fire came down from heaven and consumed the two former captains of fifty men with their fifties, but now let my life be precious in your sight." 
12O	1	15	95490	 Then the angel of the LORD said to Elijah, "Go down with him; do not be afraid of him." So he arose and went down with him to the king 
12O	1	16	95500	 and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, 'Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron--is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word?--therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.'" 
12O	1	17	95510	 So he died according to the word of the LORD that Elijah had spoken. Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, because Ahaziah had no son. 
12O	1	18	95520	 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 
12O	2	1	95530	 Now when the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. 
12O	2	2	95540	 And Elijah said to Elisha, "Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me as far as Bethel." But Elisha said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel. 
12O	2	3	95550	 And the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, "Do you know that today the LORD will take away your master from over you?" And he said, "Yes, I know it; keep quiet." 
12O	2	4	95560	 Elijah said to him, "Elisha, please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to Jericho." But he said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So they came to Jericho. 
12O	2	5	95570	 The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho drew near to Elisha and said to him, "Do you know that today the LORD will take away your master from over you?" And he answered, "Yes, I know it; keep quiet." 
12O	2	6	95580	 Then Elijah said to him, "Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to the Jordan." But he said, "As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So the two of them went on. 
12O	2	7	95590	 Fifty men of the sons of the prophets also went and stood at some distance from them, as they both were standing by the Jordan. 
12O	2	8	95600	 Then Elijah took his cloak and rolled it up and struck the water, and the water was parted to the one side and to the other, till the two of them could go over on dry ground. 
12O	2	9	95610	 When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, "Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you." And Elisha said, "Please let there be a double portion of your spirit on me." 
12O	2	10	95620	 And he said, "You have asked a hard thing; yet, if you see me as I am being taken from you, it shall be so for you, but if you do not see me, it shall not be so." 
12O	2	11	95630	 And as they still went on and talked, behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. 
12O	2	12	95640	 And Elisha saw it and he cried, "My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" And he saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces. 
12O	2	13	95650	 And he took up the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. 
12O	2	14	95660	 Then he took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the water, saying, "Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah?" And when he had struck the water, the water was parted to the one side and to the other, and Elisha went over. 
12O	2	15	95670	 Now when the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho saw him opposite them, they said, "The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha." And they came to meet him and bowed to the ground before him. 
12O	2	16	95680	 And they said to him, "Behold now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. It may be that the Spirit of the LORD has caught him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley." And he said, "You shall not send." 
12O	2	17	95690	 But when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, "Send." They sent therefore fifty men. And for three days they sought him but did not find him. 
12O	2	18	95700	 And they came back to him while he was staying at Jericho, and he said to them, "Did I not say to you, 'Do not go'?" 
12O	2	19	95710	 Now the men of the city said to Elisha, "Behold, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees, but the water is bad, and the land is unfruitful." 
12O	2	20	95720	 He said, "Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it." So they brought it to him. 
12O	2	21	95730	 Then he went to the spring of water and threw salt in it and said, "Thus says the LORD, I have healed this water; from now on neither death nor miscarriage shall come from it." 
12O	2	22	95740	 So the water has been healed to this day, according to the word that Elisha spoke. 
12O	2	23	95750	 He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, "Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!" 
12O	2	24	95760	 And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys. 
12O	2	25	95770	 From there he went on to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria. 
12O	3	1	95780	 In the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twelve years. 
12O	3	2	95790	 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, though not like his father and mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made. 
12O	3	3	95800	 Nevertheless, he clung to the sin of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin; he did not depart from it. 
12O	3	4	95810	 Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he had to deliver to the king of Israel 100,000 lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams. 
12O	3	5	95820	 But when Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel. 
12O	3	6	95830	 So King Jehoram marched out of Samaria at that time and mustered all Israel. 
12O	3	7	95840	 And he went and sent word to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, "The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to battle against Moab?" And he said, "I will go. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses." 
12O	3	8	95850	 Then he said, "By which way shall we march?" Jehoram answered, "By the way of the wilderness of Edom." 
12O	3	9	95860	 So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom. And when they had made a circuitous march of seven days, there was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them. 
12O	3	10	95870	 Then the king of Israel said, "Alas! The LORD has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab." 
12O	3	11	95880	 And Jehoshaphat said, "Is there no prophet of the LORD here, through whom we may inquire of the LORD?" Then one of the king of Israel's servants answered, "Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah." 
12O	3	12	95890	 And Jehoshaphat said, "The word of the LORD is with him." So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him. 
12O	3	13	95900	 And Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother." But the king of Israel said to him, "No; it is the LORD who has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab." 
12O	3	14	95910	 And Elisha said, "As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not that I have regard for Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would neither look at you nor see you. 
12O	3	15	95920	 But now bring me a musician." And when the musician played, the hand of the LORD came upon him. 
12O	3	16	95930	 And he said, "Thus says the LORD, 'I will make this dry streambed full of pools.' 
12O	3	17	95940	 For thus says the LORD, 'You shall not see wind or rain, but that streambed shall be filled with water, so that you shall drink, you, your livestock, and your animals.' 
12O	3	18	95950	 This is a light thing in the sight of the LORD. He will also give the Moabites into your hand, 
12O	3	19	95960	 and you shall attack every fortified city and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree and stop up all springs of water and ruin every good piece of land with stones." 
12O	3	20	95970	 The next morning, about the time of offering the sacrifice, behold, water came from the direction of Edom, till the country was filled with water. 
12O	3	21	95980	 When all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, all who were able to put on armor, from the youngest to the oldest, were called out and were drawn up at the border. 
12O	3	22	95990	 And when they rose early in the morning and the sun shone on the water, the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood. 
12O	3	23	96000	 And they said, "This is blood; the kings have surely fought together and struck one another down. Now then, Moab, to the spoil!" 
12O	3	24	96010	 But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose and struck the Moabites, till they fled before them. And they went forward, striking the Moabites as they went. 
12O	3	25	96020	 And they overthrew the cities, and on every good piece of land every man threw a stone until it was covered. They stopped every spring of water and felled all the good trees, till only its stones were left in Kir-hareseth, and the slingers surrounded and attacked it. 
12O	3	26	96030	 When the king of Moab saw that the battle was going against him, he took with him 700 swordsmen to break through, opposite the king of Edom, but they could not. 
12O	3	27	96040	 Then he took his oldest son who was to reign in his place and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. And there came great wrath against Israel. And they withdrew from him and returned to their own land. 
12O	4	1	96050	 Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves." 
12O	4	2	96060	 And Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me; what have you in the house?" And she said, "Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil." 
12O	4	3	96070	 Then he said, "Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not too few. 
12O	4	4	96080	 Then go in and shut the door behind yourself and your sons and pour into all these vessels. And when one is full, set it aside." 
12O	4	5	96090	 So she went from him and shut the door behind herself and her sons. And as she poured they brought the vessels to her. 
12O	4	6	96100	 When the vessels were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another vessel." And he said to her, "There is not another." Then the oil stopped flowing. 
12O	4	7	96110	 She came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest." 
12O	4	8	96120	 One day Elisha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food. 
12O	4	9	96130	 And she said to her husband, "Behold now, I know that this is a holy man of God who is continually passing our way. 
12O	4	10	96140	 Let us make a small room on the roof with walls and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that whenever he comes to us, he can go in there." 
12O	4	11	96150	 One day he came there, and he turned into the chamber and rested there. 
12O	4	12	96160	 And he said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite." When he had called her, she stood before him. 
12O	4	13	96170	 And he said to him, "Say now to her, 'See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?'" She answered, "I dwell among my own people." 
12O	4	14	96180	 And he said, "What then is to be done for her?" Gehazi answered, "Well, she has no son, and her husband is old." 
12O	4	15	96190	 He said, "Call her." And when he had called her, she stood in the doorway. 
12O	4	16	96200	 And he said, "At this season, about this time next year, you shall embrace a son." And she said, "No, my lord, O man of God; do not lie to your servant." 
12O	4	17	96210	 But the woman conceived, and she bore a son about that time the following spring, as Elisha had said to her. 
12O	4	18	96220	 When the child had grown, he went out one day to his father among the reapers. 
12O	4	19	96230	 And he said to his father, "Oh, my head, my head!" The father said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother." 
12O	4	20	96240	 And when he had lifted him and brought him to his mother, the child sat on her lap till noon, and then he died. 
12O	4	21	96250	 And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God and shut the door behind him and went out. 
12O	4	22	96260	 Then she called to her husband and said, "Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may quickly go to the man of God and come back again." 
12O	4	23	96270	 And he said, "Why will you go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath." She said, "All is well." 
12O	4	24	96280	 Then she saddled the donkey, and she said to her servant, "Urge the animal on; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you." 
12O	4	25	96290	 So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her coming, he said to Gehazi his servant, "Look, there is the Shunammite. 
12O	4	26	96300	 Run at once to meet her and say to her, 'Is all well with you? Is all well with your husband? Is all well with the child?'" And she answered, "All is well." 
12O	4	27	96310	 And when she came to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came to push her away. But the man of God said, "Leave her alone, for she is in bitter distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me." 
12O	4	28	96320	 Then she said, "Did I ask my lord for a son? Did I not say, 'Do not deceive me?'" 
12O	4	29	96330	 He said to Gehazi, "Tie up your garment and take my staff in your hand and go. If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not reply. And lay my staff on the face of the child." 
12O	4	30	96340	 Then the mother of the child said, "As the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." So he arose and followed her. 
12O	4	31	96350	 Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the face of the child, but there was no sound or sign of life. Therefore he returned to meet him and told him, "The child has not awakened." 
12O	4	32	96360	 When Elisha came into the house, he saw the child lying dead on his bed. 
12O	4	33	96370	 So he went in and shut the door behind the two of them and prayed to the LORD. 
12O	4	34	96380	 Then he went up and lay on the child, putting his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. And as he stretched himself upon him, the flesh of the child became warm. 
12O	4	35	96390	 Then he got up again and walked once back and forth in the house, and went up and stretched himself upon him. The child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. 
12O	4	36	96400	 Then he summoned Gehazi and said, "Call this Shunammite." So he called her. And when she came to him, he said, "Pick up your son." 
12O	4	37	96410	 She came and fell at his feet, bowing to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out. 
12O	4	38	96420	 And Elisha came again to Gilgal when there was a famine in the land. And as the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, "Set on the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets." 
12O	4	39	96430	 One of them went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, not knowing what they were. 
12O	4	40	96440	 And they poured out some for the men to eat. But while they were eating of the stew, they cried out, "O man of God, there is death in the pot!" And they could not eat it. 
12O	4	41	96450	 He said, "Then bring flour." And he threw it into the pot and said, "Pour some out for the men, that they may eat." And there was no harm in the pot. 
12O	4	42	96460	 A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Elisha said, "Give to the men, that they may eat." 
12O	4	43	96470	 But his servant said, "How can I set this before a hundred men?" So he repeated, "Give them to the men, that they may eat, for thus says the LORD, 'They shall eat and have some left.'" 
12O	4	44	96480	 So he set it before them. And they ate and had some left, according to the word of the LORD. 
12O	5	1	96490	 Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper. 
12O	5	2	96500	 Now the Syrians on one of their raids had carried off a little girl from the land of Israel, and she worked in the service of Naaman's wife. 
12O	5	3	96510	 She said to her mistress, "Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy." 
12O	5	4	96520	 So Naaman went in and told his lord, "Thus and so spoke the girl from the land of Israel." 
12O	5	5	96530	 And the king of Syria said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel." So he went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing. 
12O	5	6	96540	 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, "When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you Naaman my servant, that you may cure him of his leprosy." 
12O	5	7	96550	 And when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me." 
12O	5	8	96560	 But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, "Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, that he may know that there is a prophet in Israel." 
12O	5	9	96570	 So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stood at the door of Elisha's house. 
12O	5	10	96580	 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean." 
12O	5	11	96590	 But Naaman was angry and went away, saying, "Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call upon the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper. 
12O	5	12	96600	 Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?" So he turned and went away in a rage. 
12O	5	13	96610	 But his servants came near and said to him, "My father, it is a great word the prophet has spoken to you; will you not do it? Has he actually said to you, 'Wash, and be clean'?" 
12O	5	14	96620	 So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. 
12O	5	15	96630	 Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him. And he said, "Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant." 
12O	5	16	96640	 But he said, "As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none." And he urged him to take it, but he refused. 
12O	5	17	96650	 Then Naaman said, "If not, please let there be given to your servant two mules' load of earth, for from now on your servant will not offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any god but the LORD. 
12O	5	18	96660	 In this matter may the LORD pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, leaning on my arm, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon your servant in this matter." 
12O	5	19	96670	 He said to him, "Go in peace." But when Naaman had gone from him a short distance, 
12O	5	20	96680	 Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "See, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not accepting from his hand what he brought. As the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him." 
12O	5	21	96690	 So Gehazi followed Naaman. And when Naaman saw someone running after him, he got down from the chariot to meet him and said, "Is all well?" 
12O	5	22	96700	 And he said, "All is well. My master has sent me to say, 'There have just now come to me from the hill country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.'" 
12O	5	23	96710	 And Naaman said, "Be pleased to accept two talents." And he urged him and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants. And they carried them before Gehazi. 
12O	5	24	96720	 And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand and put them in the house, and he sent the men away, and they departed. 
12O	5	25	96730	 He went in and stood before his master, and Elisha said to him, "Where have you been, Gehazi?" And he said, "Your servant went nowhere." 
12O	5	26	96740	 But he said to him, "Did not my heart go when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to accept money and garments, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male servants and female servants? 
12O	5	27	96750	 Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever." So he went out from his presence a leper, like snow. 
12O	6	1	96760	 Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "See, the place where we dwell under your charge is too small for us. 
12O	6	2	96770	 Let us go to the Jordan and each of us get there a log, and let us make a place for us to dwell there." And he answered, "Go." 
12O	6	3	96780	 Then one of them said, "Be pleased to go with your servants." And he answered, "I will go." 
12O	6	4	96790	 So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees. 
12O	6	5	96800	 But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water, and he cried out, "Alas, my master! It was borrowed." 
12O	6	6	96810	 Then the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" When he showed him the place, he cut off a stick and threw it in there and made the iron float. 
12O	6	7	96820	 And he said, "Take it up." So he reached out his hand and took it. 
12O	6	8	96830	 Once when the king of Syria was warring against Israel, he took counsel with his servants, saying, "At such and such a place shall be my camp." 
12O	6	9	96840	 But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, "Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are going down there." 
12O	6	10	96850	 And the king of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God told him. Thus he used to warn him, so that he saved himself there more than once or twice. 
12O	6	11	96860	 And the mind of the king of Syria was greatly troubled because of this thing, and he called his servants and said to them, "Will you not show me who of us is for the king of Israel?" 
12O	6	12	96870	 And one of his servants said, "None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom." 
12O	6	13	96880	 And he said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and seize him." It was told him, "Behold, he is in Dothan." 
12O	6	14	96890	 So he sent there horses and chariots and a great army, and they came by night and surrounded the city. 
12O	6	15	96900	 When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was all around the city. And the servant said, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?" 
12O	6	16	96910	 He said, "Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them." 
12O	6	17	96920	 Then Elisha prayed and said, "O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see." So the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. 
12O	6	18	96930	 And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD and said, "Please strike this people with blindness." So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha. 
12O	6	19	96940	 And Elisha said to them, "This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." And he led them to Samaria. 
12O	6	20	96950	 As soon as they entered Samaria, Elisha said, "O LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see." So the LORD opened their eyes and they saw, and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria. 
12O	6	21	96960	 As soon as the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, "My father, shall I strike them down? Shall I strike them down?" 
12O	6	22	96970	 He answered, "You shall not strike them down. Would you strike down those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master." 
12O	6	23	96980	 So he prepared for them a great feast, and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the Syrians did not come again on raids into the land of Israel. 
12O	6	24	96990	 Afterward Ben-hadad king of Syria mustered his entire army and went up and besieged Samaria. 
12O	6	25	97000	 And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver. 
12O	6	26	97010	 Now as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!" 
12O	6	27	97020	 And he said, "If the LORD will not help you, how shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?" 
12O	6	28	97030	 And the king asked her, "What is your trouble?" She answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.' 
12O	6	29	97040	 So we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, 'Give your son, that we may eat him.' But she has hidden her son." 
12O	6	30	97050	 When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes--now he was passing by on the wall--and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath on his body-- 
12O	6	31	97060	 and he said, "May God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today." 
12O	6	32	97070	 Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a man from his presence, but before the messenger arrived Elisha said to the elders, "Do you see how this murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?" 
12O	6	33	97080	 And while he was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him and said, "This trouble is from the LORD! Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?" 
12O	7	1	97090	 But Elisha said, "Hear the word of the LORD: thus says the LORD, Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria." 
12O	7	2	97100	 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, "If the LORD himself should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?" But he said, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it." 
12O	7	3	97110	 Now there were four men who were lepers at the entrance to the gate. And they said to one another, "Why are we sitting here until we die? 
12O	7	4	97120	 If we say, 'Let us enter the city,' the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die." 
12O	7	5	97130	 So they arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians. But when they came to the edge of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no one there. 
12O	7	6	97140	 For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians hear the sound of chariots and of horses, the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, "Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us." 
12O	7	7	97150	 So they fled away in the twilight and abandoned their tents, their horses, and their donkeys, leaving the camp as it was, and fled for their lives. 
12O	7	8	97160	 And when these lepers came to the edge of the camp, they went into a tent and ate and drank, and they carried off silver and gold and clothing and went and hid them. Then they came back and entered another tent and carried off things from it and went and hid them. 
12O	7	9	97170	 Then they said to one another, "We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come; let us go and tell the king's household." 
12O	7	10	97180	 So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, "We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied and the donkeys tied and the tents as they were." 
12O	7	11	97190	 Then the gatekeepers called out, and it was told within the king's household. 
12O	7	12	97200	 And the king rose in the night and said to his servants, "I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, 'When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.'" 
12O	7	13	97210	 And one of his servants said, "Let some men take five of the remaining horses, seeing that those who are left here will fare like the whole multitude of Israel who have already perished. Let us send and see." 
12O	7	14	97220	 So they took two horsemen, and the king sent them after the army of the Syrians, saying, "Go and see." 
12O	7	15	97230	 So they went after them as far as the Jordan, and behold, all the way was littered with garments and equipment that the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned and told the king. 
12O	7	16	97240	 Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD. 
12O	7	17	97250	 Now the king had appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate. And the people trampled him in the gate, so that he died, as the man of God had said when the king came down to him. 
12O	7	18	97260	 For when the man of God had said to the king, "Two seahs of barley shall be sold for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria," 
12O	7	19	97270	 the captain had answered the man of God, "If the LORD himself should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?" And he had said, "You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it." 
12O	7	20	97280	 And so it happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gate and he died. 
12O	8	1	97290	 Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, "Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years." 
12O	8	2	97300	 So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years. 
12O	8	3	97310	 And at the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land. 
12O	8	4	97320	 Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, "Tell me all the great things that Elisha has done." 
12O	8	5	97330	 And while he was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead to life, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, "My lord, O king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Elisha restored to life." 
12O	8	6	97340	 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her, saying, "Restore all that was hers, together with all the produce of the fields from the day that she left the land until now." 
12O	8	7	97350	 Now Elisha came to Damascus. Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick. And when it was told him, "The man of God has come here," 
12O	8	8	97360	 the king said to Hazael, "Take a present with you and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD through him, saying, 'Shall I recover from this sickness?'" 
12O	8	9	97370	 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camel loads. When he came and stood before him, he said, "Your son Ben-hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, 'Shall I recover from this sickness?'" 
12O	8	10	97380	 And Elisha said to him, "Go, say to him, 'You shall certainly recover,' but the LORD has shown me that he shall certainly die." 
12O	8	11	97390	 And he fixed his gaze and stared at him, until he was embarrassed. And the man of God wept. 
12O	8	12	97400	 And Hazael said, "Why does my lord weep?" He answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women." 
12O	8	13	97410	 And Hazael said, "What is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?" Elisha answered, "The LORD has shown me that you are to be king over Syria." 
12O	8	14	97420	 Then he departed from Elisha and came to his master, who said to him, "What did Elisha say to you?" And he answered, "He told me that you would certainly recover." 
12O	8	15	97430	 But the next day he took the bed cloth and dipped it in water and spread it over his face, till he died. And Hazael became king in his place. 
12O	8	16	97440	 In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, when Jehoshaphat was king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, began to reign. 
12O	8	17	97450	 He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. 
12O	8	18	97460	 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. 
12O	8	19	97470	 Yet the LORD was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant, since he promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forever. 
12O	8	20	97480	 In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah and set up a king of their own. 
12O	8	21	97490	 Then Joram passed over to Zair with all his chariots and rose by night, and he and his chariot commanders struck the Edomites who had surrounded him, but his army fled home. 
12O	8	22	97500	 So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time. 
12O	8	23	97510	 Now the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 
12O	8	24	97520	 So Joram slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place. 
12O	8	25	97530	 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, began to reign. 
12O	8	26	97540	 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah; she was a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel. 
12O	8	27	97550	 He also walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was son-in-law to the house of Ahab. 
12O	8	28	97560	 He went with Joram the son of Ahab to make war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram. 
12O	8	29	97570	 And King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick. 
12O	9	1	97580	 Then Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, "Tie up your garments, and take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead. 
12O	9	2	97590	 And when you arrive, look there for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi. And go in and have him rise from among his fellows, and lead him to an inner chamber. 
12O	9	3	97600	 Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, 'Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.' Then open the door and flee; do not linger." 
12O	9	4	97610	 So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead. 
12O	9	5	97620	 And when he came, behold, the commanders of the army were in council. And he said, "I have a word for you, O commander." And Jehu said, "To which of us all?" And he said, "To you, O commander." 
12O	9	6	97630	 So he arose and went into the house. And the young man poured the oil on his head, saying to him, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, I anoint you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel. 
12O	9	7	97640	 And you shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, so that I may avenge on Jezebel the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD. 
12O	9	8	97650	 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel. 
12O	9	9	97660	 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah. 
12O	9	10	97670	 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and none shall bury her." Then he opened the door and fled. 
12O	9	11	97680	 When Jehu came out to the servants of his master, they said to him, "Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?" And he said to them, "You know the fellow and his talk." 
12O	9	12	97690	 And they said, "That is not true; tell us now." And he said, "Thus and so he spoke to me, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.'" 
12O	9	13	97700	 Then in haste every man of them took his garment and put it under him on the bare steps, and they blew the trumpet and proclaimed, "Jehu is king." 
12O	9	14	97710	 Thus Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram with all Israel had been on guard at Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Syria, 
12O	9	15	97720	 but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) So Jehu said, "If this is your decision, then let no one slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel." 
12O	9	16	97730	 Then Jehu mounted his chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to visit Joram. 
12O	9	17	97740	 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came and said, "I see a company." And Joram said, "Take a horseman and send to meet them, and let him say, 'Is it peace?'" 
12O	9	18	97750	 So a man on horseback went to meet him and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" And Jehu said, "What do you have to do with peace? Turn around and ride behind me." And the watchman reported, saying, "The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back." 
12O	9	19	97760	 Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, "Thus the king has said, 'Is it peace?'" And Jehu answered, "What do you have to do with peace? Turn around and ride behind me." 
12O	9	20	97770	 Again the watchman reported, "He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously." 
12O	9	21	97780	 Joram said, "Make ready." And they made ready his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his chariot, and went to meet Jehu, and met him at the property of Naboth the Jezreelite. 
12O	9	22	97790	 And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" He answered, "What peace can there be, so long as the whorings and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?" 
12O	9	23	97800	 Then Joram reined about and fled, saying to Ahaziah, "Treachery, O Ahaziah!" 
12O	9	24	97810	 And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and shot Joram between the shoulders, so that the arrow pierced his heart, and he sank in his chariot. 
12O	9	25	97820	 Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, "Take him up and throw him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember, when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how the LORD made this pronouncement against him: 
12O	9	26	97830	 'As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons--declares the LORD--I will repay you on this plot of ground.' Now therefore take him up and throw him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the LORD." 
12O	9	27	97840	 When Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled in the direction of Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him and said, "Shoot him also." And they shot him in the chariot at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo and died there. 
12O	9	28	97850	 His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David. 
12O	9	29	97860	 In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah. 
12O	9	30	97870	 When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. And she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out of the window. 
12O	9	31	97880	 And as Jehu entered the gate, she said, "Is it peace, you Zimri, murderer of your master?" 
12O	9	32	97890	 And he lifted up his face to the window and said, "Who is on my side? Who?" Two or three eunuchs looked out at him. 
12O	9	33	97900	 He said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down. And some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled on her. 
12O	9	34	97910	 Then he went in and ate and drank. And he said, "See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king's daughter." 
12O	9	35	97920	 But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. 
12O	9	36	97930	 When they came back and told him, he said, "This is the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, 'In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel, 
12O	9	37	97940	 and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.'" 
12O	10	1	97950	 Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of the city, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying, 
12O	10	2	97960	 "Now then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also, and weapons, 
12O	10	3	97970	 select the best and fittest of your master's sons and set him on his father's throne and fight for your master's house." 
12O	10	4	97980	 But they were exceedingly afraid and said, "Behold, the two kings could not stand before him. How then can we stand?" 
12O	10	5	97990	 So he who was over the palace, and he who was over the city, together with the elders and the guardians, sent to Jehu, saying, "We are your servants, and we will do all that you tell us. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your eyes." 
12O	10	6	98000	 Then he wrote to them a second letter, saying, "If you are on my side, and if you are ready to obey me, take the heads of your master's sons and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow at this time." Now the king's sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were bringing them up. 
12O	10	7	98010	 And as soon as the letter came to them, they took the king's sons and slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel. 
12O	10	8	98020	 When the messenger came and told him, "They have brought the heads of the king's sons," he said, "Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning." 
12O	10	9	98030	 Then in the morning, when he went out, he stood and said to all the people, "You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master and killed him, but who struck down all these? 
12O	10	10	98040	 Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the LORD has done what he said by his servant Elijah." 
12O	10	11	98050	 So Jehu struck down all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his great men and his close friends and his priests, until he left him none remaining. 
12O	10	12	98060	 Then he set out and went to Samaria. On the way, when he was at Beth-eked of the Shepherds, 
12O	10	13	98070	 Jehu met the relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah, and he said, "Who are you?" And they answered, "We are the relatives of Ahaziah, and we came down to visit the royal princes and the sons of the queen mother." 
12O	10	14	98080	 He said, "Take them alive." And they took them alive and slaughtered them at the pit of Beth-eked, forty-two persons, and he spared none of them. 
12O	10	15	98090	 And when he departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. And he greeted him and said to him, "Is your heart true to my heart as mine is to yours?" And Jehonadab answered, "It is." Jehu said, "If it is, give me your hand." So he gave him his hand. And Jehu took him up with him into the chariot. 
12O	10	16	98100	 And he said, "Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD." So he had him ride in his chariot. 
12O	10	17	98110	 And when he came to Samaria, he struck down all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, till he had wiped them out, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke to Elijah. 
12O	10	18	98120	 Then Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him much. 
12O	10	19	98130	 Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers and all his priests. Let none be missing, for I have a great sacrifice to offer to Baal. Whoever is missing shall not live." But Jehu did it with cunning in order to destroy the worshipers of Baal. 
12O	10	20	98140	 And Jehu ordered, "Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal." So they proclaimed it. 
12O	10	21	98150	 And Jehu sent throughout all Israel, and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. And they entered the house of Baal, and the house of Baal was filled from one end to the other. 
12O	10	22	98160	 He said to him who was in charge of the wardrobe, "Bring out the vestments for all the worshipers of Baal." So he brought out the vestments for them. 
12O	10	23	98170	 Then Jehu went into the house of Baal with Jehonadab the son of Rechab, and he said to the worshipers of Baal, "Search, and see that there is no servant of the LORD here among you, but only the worshipers of Baal." 
12O	10	24	98180	 Then they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside and said, "The man who allows any of those whom I give into your hands to escape shall forfeit his life." 
12O	10	25	98190	 So as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the officers, "Go in and strike them down; let not a man escape." So when they put them to the sword, the guard and the officers cast them out and went into the inner room of the house of Baal, 
12O	10	26	98200	 and they brought out the pillar that was in the house of Baal and burned it. 
12O	10	27	98210	 And they demolished the pillar of Baal, and demolished the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day. 
12O	10	28	98220	 Thus Jehu wiped out Baal from Israel. 
12O	10	29	98230	 But Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin--that is, the golden calves that were in Bethel and in Dan. 
12O	10	30	98240	 And the LORD said to Jehu, "Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel." 
12O	10	31	98250	 But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin. 
12O	10	32	98260	 In those days the LORD began to cut off parts of Israel. Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel: 
12O	10	33	98270	 from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the Valley of the Arnon, that is, Gilead and Bashan. 
12O	10	34	98280	 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 
12O	10	35	98290	 So Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place. 
12O	10	36	98300	 The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years. 
12O	11	1	98310	 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family. 
12O	11	2	98320	 But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king's sons who were being put to death, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Thus they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not put to death. 
12O	11	3	98330	 And he remained with her six years, hidden in the house of the LORD, while Athaliah reigned over the land. 
12O	11	4	98340	 But in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and brought the captains of the Carites and of the guards, and had them come to him in the house of the LORD. And he made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the LORD, and he showed them the king's son. 
12O	11	5	98350	 And he commanded them, "This is the thing that you shall do: one third of you, those who come off duty on the Sabbath and guard the king's house 
12O	11	6	98360	 (another third being at the gate Sur and a third at the gate behind the guards) shall guard the palace. 
12O	11	7	98370	 And the two divisions of you, which come on duty in force on the Sabbath and guard the house of the LORD on behalf of the king, 
12O	11	8	98380	 shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever approaches the ranks is to be put to death. Be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in." 
12O	11	9	98390	 The captains did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and they each brought his men who were to go off duty on the Sabbath, with those who were to come on duty on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest. 
12O	11	10	98400	 And the priest gave to the captains the spears and shields that had been King David's, which were in the house of the LORD. 
12O	11	11	98410	 And the guards stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the south side of the house to the north side of the house, around the altar and the house on behalf of the king. 
12O	11	12	98420	 Then he brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, "Long live the king!" 
12O	11	13	98430	 When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she went into the house of the LORD to the people. 
12O	11	14	98440	 And when she looked, there was the king standing by the pillar, according to the custom, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets. And Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, "Treason! Treason!" 
12O	11	15	98450	 Then Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains who were set over the army, "Bring her out between the ranks, and put to death with the sword anyone who follows her." For the priest said, "Let her not be put to death in the house of the LORD." 
12O	11	16	98460	 So they laid hands on her; and she went through the horses' entrance to the king's house, and there she was put to death. 
12O	11	17	98470	 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and people, that they should be the LORD's people, and also between the king and the people. 
12O	11	18	98480	 Then all the people of the land went to the house of Baal and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest posted watchmen over the house of the LORD. 
12O	11	19	98490	 And he took the captains, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD, marching through the gate of the guards to the king's house. And he took his seat on the throne of the kings. 
12O	11	20	98500	 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been put to death with the sword at the king's house. 
12O	11	21	98510	 Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign. 
12O	12	1	98520	 In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba. 
12O	12	2	98530	 And Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 
12O	12	3	98540	 Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places. 
12O	12	4	98550	 Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of the LORD, the money for which each man is assessed--the money from the assessment of persons--and the money that a man's heart prompts him to bring into the house of the LORD, 
12O	12	5	98560	 let the priests take, each from his donor, and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered." 
12O	12	6	98570	 But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had made no repairs on the house. 
12O	12	7	98580	 Therefore King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said to them, "Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore take no more money from your donors, but hand it over for the repair of the house." 
12O	12	8	98590	 So the priests agreed that they should take no more money from the people, and that they should not repair the house. 
12O	12	9	98600	 Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in the lid of it and set it beside the altar on the right side as one entered the house of the LORD. And the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD. 
12O	12	10	98610	 And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's secretary and the high priest came up and they bagged and counted the money that was found in the house of the LORD. 
12O	12	11	98620	 Then they would give the money that was weighed out into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the LORD. And they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the house of the LORD, 
12O	12	12	98630	 and to the masons and the stonecutters, as well as to buy timber and quarried stone for making repairs on the house of the LORD, and for any outlay for the repairs of the house. 
12O	12	13	98640	 But there were not made for the house of the LORD basins of silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, or any vessels of gold, or of silver, from the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, 
12O	12	14	98650	 for that was given to the workmen who were repairing the house of the LORD with it. 
12O	12	15	98660	 And they did not ask an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly. 
12O	12	16	98670	 The money from the guilt offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests. 
12O	12	17	98680	 At that time Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath and took it. But when Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem, 
12O	12	18	98690	 Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred gifts that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred gifts, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent these to Hazael king of Syria. Then Hazael went away from Jerusalem. 
12O	12	19	98700	 Now the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 
12O	12	20	98710	 His servants arose and made a conspiracy and struck down Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla. 
12O	12	21	98720	 It was Jozacar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, who struck him down, so that he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Amaziah his son reigned in his place. 
12O	13	1	98730	 In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned seventeen years. 
12O	13	2	98740	 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin; he did not depart from them. 
12O	13	3	98750	 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he gave them continually into the hand of Hazael king of Syria and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael. 
12O	13	4	98760	 Then Jehoahaz sought the favor of the LORD, and the LORD listened to him, for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them. 
12O	13	5	98770	 (Therefore the LORD gave Israel a savior, so that they escaped from the hand of the Syrians, and the people of Israel lived in their homes as formerly. 
12O	13	6	98780	 Nevertheless, they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained in Samaria.) 
12O	13	7	98790	 For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing. 
12O	13	8	98800	 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 
12O	13	9	98810	 So Jehoahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria, and Joash his son reigned in his place. 
12O	13	10	98820	 In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned sixteen years. 
12O	13	11	98830	 He also did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin, but he walked in them. 
12O	13	12	98840	 Now the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, and the might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 
12O	13	13	98850	 So Joash slept with his fathers, and Jeroboam sat on his throne. And Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. 
12O	13	14	98860	 Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, "My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" 
12O	13	15	98870	 And Elisha said to him, "Take a bow and arrows." So he took a bow and arrows. 
12O	13	16	98880	 Then he said to the king of Israel, "Draw the bow," and he drew it. And Elisha laid his hands on the king's hands. 
12O	13	17	98890	 And he said, "Open the window eastward," and he opened it. Then Elisha said, "Shoot," and he shot. And he said, "The LORD's arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Syria! For you shall fight the Syrians in Aphek until you have made an end of them." 
12O	13	18	98900	 And he said, "Take the arrows," and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground with them." And he struck three times and stopped. 
12O	13	19	98910	 Then the man of God was angry with him and said, "You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck down Syria until you had made an end of it, but now you will strike down Syria only three times." 
12O	13	20	98920	 So Elisha died, and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year. 
12O	13	21	98930	 And as a man was being buried, behold, a marauding band was seen and the man was thrown into the grave of Elisha, and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood on his feet. 
12O	13	22	98940	 Now Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz. 
12O	13	23	98950	 But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion on them, and he turned toward them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, nor has he cast them from his presence until now. 
12O	13	24	98960	 When Hazael king of Syria died, Ben-hadad his son became king in his place. 
12O	13	25	98970	 Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again from Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. Three times Joash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel. 
12O	14	1	98980	 In the second year of Joash the son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, began to reign. 
12O	14	2	98990	 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem. 
12O	14	3	99000	 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, yet not like David his father. He did in all things as Joash his father had done. 
12O	14	4	99010	 But the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. 
12O	14	5	99020	 And as soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand, he struck down his servants who had struck down the king his father. 
12O	14	6	99030	 But he did not put to death the children of the murderers, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded, "Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. But each one shall die for his own sin." 
12O	14	7	99040	 He struck down ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm, and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this day. 
12O	14	8	99050	 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us look one another in the face." 
12O	14	9	99060	 And Jehoash king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, "A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, 'Give your daughter to my son for a wife,' and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle. 
12O	14	10	99070	 You have indeed struck down Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory, and stay at home, for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?" 
12O	14	11	99080	 But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced one another in battle at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah. 
12O	14	12	99090	 And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his home. 
12O	14	13	99100	 And Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for four hundred cubits, from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate. 
12O	14	14	99110	 And he seized all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king's house, also hostages, and he returned to Samaria. 
12O	14	15	99120	 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash that he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 
12O	14	16	99130	 And Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel, and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place. 
12O	14	17	99140	 Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel. 
12O	14	18	99150	 Now the rest of the deeds of Amaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 
12O	14	19	99160	 And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there. 
12O	14	20	99170	 And they brought him on horses; and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David. 
12O	14	21	99180	 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah. 
12O	14	22	99190	 He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers. 
12O	14	23	99200	 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years. 
12O	14	24	99210	 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin. 
12O	14	25	99220	 He restored the border of Israel from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher. 
12O	14	26	99230	 For the LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, for there was none left, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel. 
12O	14	27	99240	 But the LORD had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. 
12O	14	28	99250	 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he restored Damascus and Hamath to Judah in Israel, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 
12O	14	29	99260	 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel, and Zechariah his son reigned in his place. 
12O	15	1	99270	 In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign. 
12O	15	2	99280	 He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. 
12O	15	3	99290	 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. 
12O	15	4	99300	 Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. 
12O	15	5	99310	 And the LORD touched the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house. And Jotham the king's son was over the household, governing the people of the land. 
12O	15	6	99320	 Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 
12O	15	7	99330	 And Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Jotham his son reigned in his place. 
12O	15	8	99340	 In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria six months. 
12O	15	9	99350	 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin. 
12O	15	10	99360	 Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him and struck him down at Ibleam and put him to death and reigned in his place. 
12O	15	11	99370	 Now the rest of the deeds of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 
12O	15	12	99380	 (This was the promise of the LORD that he gave to Jehu, "Your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation." And so it came to pass.) 
12O	15	13	99390	 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned one month in Samaria. 
12O	15	14	99400	 Then Menahem the son of Gadi came up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and he struck down Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria and put him to death and reigned in his place. 
12O	15	15	99410	 Now the rest of the deeds of Shallum, and the conspiracy that he made, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 
12O	15	16	99420	 At that time Menahem sacked Tiphsah and all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on, because they did not open it to him. Therefore he sacked it, and he ripped open all the women in it who were pregnant. 
12O	15	17	99430	 In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel, and he reigned ten years in Samaria. 
12O	15	18	99440	 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart all his days from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin. 
12O	15	19	99450	 Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold on the royal power. 
12O	15	20	99460	 Menahem exacted the money from Israel, that is, from all the wealthy men, fifty shekels of silver from every man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back and did not stay there in the land. 
12O	15	21	99470	 Now the rest of the deeds of Menahem and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 
12O	15	22	99480	 And Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son reigned in his place. 
12O	15	23	99490	 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned two years. 
12O	15	24	99500	 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin. 
12O	15	25	99510	 And Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him with fifty men of the people of Gilead, and struck him down in Samaria, in the citadel of the king's house with Argob and Arieh; he put him to death and reigned in his place. 
12O	15	26	99520	 Now the rest of the deeds of Pekahiah and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 
12O	15	27	99530	 In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twenty years. 
12O	15	28	99540	 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin. 
12O	15	29	99550	 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria. 
12O	15	30	99560	 Then Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah and struck him down and put him to death and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. 
12O	15	31	99570	 Now the rest of the acts of Pekah and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 
12O	15	32	99580	 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign. 
12O	15	33	99590	 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok. 
12O	15	34	99600	 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah had done. 
12O	15	35	99610	 Nevertheless, the high places were not removed. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD. 
12O	15	36	99620	 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 
12O	15	37	99630	 In those days the LORD began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah. 
12O	15	38	99640	 Jotham slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Ahaz his son reigned in his place. 
12O	16	1	99650	 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign. 
12O	16	2	99660	 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God, as his father David had done, 
12O	16	3	99670	 but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel. 
12O	16	4	99680	 And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree. 
12O	16	5	99690	 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to wage war on Jerusalem, and they besieged Ahaz but could not conquer him. 
12O	16	6	99700	 At that time Rezin the king of Syria recovered Elath for Syria and drove the men of Judah from Elath, and the Edomites came to Elath, where they dwell to this day. 
12O	16	7	99710	 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, "I am your servant and your son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are attacking me." 
12O	16	8	99720	 Ahaz also took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasures of the king's house and sent a present to the king of Assyria. 
12O	16	9	99730	 And the king of Assyria listened to him. The king of Assyria marched up against Damascus and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir, and he killed Rezin. 
12O	16	10	99740	 When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a model of the altar, and its pattern, exact in all its details. 
12O	16	11	99750	 And Uriah the priest built the altar; in accordance with all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Uriah the priest made it, before King Ahaz arrived from Damascus. 
12O	16	12	99760	 And when the king came from Damascus, the king viewed the altar. Then the king drew near to the altar and went up on it 
12O	16	13	99770	 and burned his burnt offering and his grain offering and poured his drink offering and threw the blood of his peace offerings on the altar. 
12O	16	14	99780	 And the bronze altar that was before the LORD he removed from the front of the house, from the place between his altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of his altar. 
12O	16	15	99790	 And King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, "On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering and the king's burnt offering and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their drink offering. And throw on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice, but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by." 
12O	16	16	99800	 Uriah the priest did all this, as King Ahaz commanded. 
12O	16	17	99810	 And King Ahaz cut off the frames of the stands and removed the basin from them, and he took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone pedestal. 
12O	16	18	99820	 And the covered way for the Sabbath that had been built inside the house and the outer entrance for the king he caused to go around the house of the LORD, because of the king of Assyria. 
12O	16	19	99830	 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 
12O	16	20	99840	 And Ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place. 
12O	17	1	99850	 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel, and he reigned nine years. 
12O	17	2	99860	 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him. 
12O	17	3	99870	 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria. And Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute. 
12O	17	4	99880	 But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison. 
12O	17	5	99890	 Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it. 
12O	17	6	99900	 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. 
12O	17	7	99910	 And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods 
12O	17	8	99920	 and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel, and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced. 
12O	17	9	99930	 And the people of Israel did secretly against the LORD their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city. 
12O	17	10	99940	 They set up for themselves pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, 
12O	17	11	99950	 and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger, 
12O	17	12	99960	 and they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this." 
12O	17	13	99970	 Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets." 
12O	17	14	99980	 But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the LORD their God. 
12O	17	15	99990	 They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them. 
12O	17	16	100000	 And they abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves metal images of two calves; and they made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal. 
12O	17	17	100010	 And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger. 
12O	17	18	100020	 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but the tribe of Judah only. 
12O	17	19	100030	 Judah also did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced. 
12O	17	20	100040	 And the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight. 
12O	17	21	100050	 When he had torn Israel from the house of David, they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from following the LORD and made them commit great sin. 
12O	17	22	100060	 The people of Israel walked in all the sins that Jeroboam did. They did not depart from them, 
12O	17	23	100070	 until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day. 
12O	17	24	100080	 And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the people of Israel. And they took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities. 
12O	17	25	100090	 And at the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear the LORD. Therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them. 
12O	17	26	100100	 So the king of Assyria was told, "The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land." 
12O	17	27	100110	 Then the king of Assyria commanded, "Send there one of the priests whom you carried away from there, and let him go and dwell there and teach them the law of the god of the land." 
12O	17	28	100120	 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel and taught them how they should fear the LORD. 
12O	17	29	100130	 But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived. 
12O	17	30	100140	 The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima, 
12O	17	31	100150	 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. 
12O	17	32	100160	 They also feared the LORD and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places. 
12O	17	33	100170	 So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away. 
12O	17	34	100180	 To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the LORD, and they do not follow the statutes or the rules or the law or the commandment that the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel. 
12O	17	35	100190	 The LORD made a covenant with them and commanded them, "You shall not fear other gods or bow yourselves to them or serve them or sacrifice to them, 
12O	17	36	100200	 but you shall fear the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm. You shall bow yourselves to him, and to him you shall sacrifice. 
12O	17	37	100210	 And the statutes and the rules and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to do. You shall not fear other gods, 
12O	17	38	100220	 and you shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. You shall not fear other gods, 
12O	17	39	100230	 but you shall fear the LORD your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies." 
12O	17	40	100240	 However, they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner. 
12O	17	41	100250	 So these nations feared the LORD and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children's children--as their fathers did, so they do to this day. 
12O	18	1	100260	 In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign. 
12O	18	2	100270	 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. 
12O	18	3	100280	 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done. 
12O	18	4	100290	 He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan). 
12O	18	5	100300	 He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel, so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him. 
12O	18	6	100310	 For he held fast to the LORD. He did not depart from following him, but kept the commandments that the LORD commanded Moses. 
12O	18	7	100320	 And the LORD was with him; wherever he went out, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and would not serve him. 
12O	18	8	100330	 He struck down the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city. 
12O	18	9	100340	 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it, 
12O	18	10	100350	 and at the end of three years he took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 
12O	18	11	100360	 The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, 
12O	18	12	100370	 because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded. They neither listened nor obeyed. 
12O	18	13	100380	 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. 
12O	18	14	100390	 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me I will bear." And the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. 
12O	18	15	100400	 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king's house. 
12O	18	16	100410	 At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD and from the doorposts that Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria. 
12O	18	17	100420	 And the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Washer's Field. 
12O	18	18	100430	 And when they called for the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder. 
12O	18	19	100440	 And the Rabshakeh said to them, "Say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours? 
12O	18	20	100450	 Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me? 
12O	18	21	100460	 Behold, you are trusting now in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. 
12O	18	22	100470	 But if you say to me, "We trust in the LORD our God," is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, "You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem"? 
12O	18	23	100480	 Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. 
12O	18	24	100490	 How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 
12O	18	25	100500	 Moreover, is it without the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.'" 
12O	18	26	100510	 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall." 
12O	18	27	100520	 But the Rabshakeh said to them, "Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?" 
12O	18	28	100530	 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria! 
12O	18	29	100540	 Thus says the king: 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you out of my hand. 
12O	18	30	100550	 Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD by saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.' 
12O	18	31	100560	 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: 'Make your peace with me and come out to me. Then each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern, 
12O	18	32	100570	 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live, and not die. And do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you by saying, The LORD will deliver us. 
12O	18	33	100580	 Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 
12O	18	34	100590	 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 
12O	18	35	100600	 Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'" 
12O	18	36	100610	 But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's command was, "Do not answer him." 
12O	18	37	100620	 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of the Rabshakeh. 
12O	19	1	100630	 As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the LORD. 
12O	19	2	100640	 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz. 
12O	19	3	100650	 They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth. 
12O	19	4	100660	 It may be that the LORD your God heard all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left." 
12O	19	5	100670	 When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, 
12O	19	6	100680	 Isaiah said to them, "Say to your master, 'Thus says the LORD: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me. 
12O	19	7	100690	 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.'" 
12O	19	8	100700	 The Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he heard that the king had left Lachish. 
12O	19	9	100710	 Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, "Behold, he has set out to fight against you." So he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying, 
12O	19	10	100720	 "Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: 'Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 
12O	19	11	100730	 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered? 
12O	19	12	100740	 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar? 
12O	19	13	100750	 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?'" 
12O	19	14	100760	 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD and spread it before the LORD. 
12O	19	15	100770	 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD and said: "O LORD, the God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. 
12O	19	16	100780	 Incline your ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God. 
12O	19	17	100790	 Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands 
12O	19	18	100800	 and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed. 
12O	19	19	100810	 So now, O LORD our God, save us, please, from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O LORD, are God alone." 
12O	19	20	100820	 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Your prayer to me about Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard. 
12O	19	21	100830	 This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: "She despises you, she scorns you-- the virgin daughter of Zion; she wags her head behind you-- the daughter of Jerusalem. 
12O	19	22	100840	 "Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel! 
12O	19	23	100850	 By your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, 'With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest lodging place, its most fruitful forest. 
12O	19	24	100860	 I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.' 
12O	19	25	100870	 "Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins, 
12O	19	26	100880	 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown. 
12O	19	27	100890	 "But I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me. 
12O	19	28	100900	 Because you have raged against me and your complacency has come into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came. 
12O	19	29	100910	 "And this shall be the sign for you: this year eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same. Then in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 
12O	19	30	100920	 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. 
12O	19	31	100930	 For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD will do this. 
12O	19	32	100940	 "Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it. 
12O	19	33	100950	 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the LORD. 
12O	19	34	100960	 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David." 
12O	19	35	100970	 And that night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 
12O	19	36	100980	 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went home and lived at Nineveh. 
12O	19	37	100990	 And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword and escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place. 
12O	20	1	101000	 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, 'Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.'" 
12O	20	2	101010	 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying, 
12O	20	3	101020	 "Now, O LORD, please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. 
12O	20	4	101030	 And before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of the LORD came to him: 
12O	20	5	101040	 "Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD, 
12O	20	6	101050	 and I will add fifteen years to your life. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city for my own sake and for my servant David's sake." 
12O	20	7	101060	 And Isaiah said, "Bring a cake of figs. And let them take and lay it on the boil, that he may recover." 
12O	20	8	101070	 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?" 
12O	20	9	101080	 And Isaiah said, "This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he has promised: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?" 
12O	20	10	101090	 And Hezekiah answered, "It is an easy thing for the shadow to lengthen ten steps. Rather let the shadow go back ten steps." 
12O	20	11	101100	 And Isaiah the prophet called to the LORD, and he brought the shadow back ten steps, by which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz. 
12O	20	12	101110	 At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick. 
12O	20	13	101120	 And Hezekiah welcomed them, and he showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them. 
12O	20	14	101130	 Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, "What did these men say? And from where did they come to you?" And Hezekiah said, "They have come from a far country, from Babylon." 
12O	20	15	101140	 He said, "What have they seen in your house?" And Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them." 
12O	20	16	101150	 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD: 
12O	20	17	101160	 Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the LORD. 
12O	20	18	101170	 And some of your own sons, who shall be born to you, shall be taken away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon." 
12O	20	19	101180	 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good." For he thought, "Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?" 
12O	20	20	101190	 The rest of the deeds of Hezekiah and all his might and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 
12O	20	21	101200	 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place. 
12O	21	1	101210	 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hephzibah. 
12O	21	2	101220	 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel. 
12O	21	3	101230	 For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. 
12O	21	4	101240	 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem will I put my name." 
12O	21	5	101250	 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 
12O	21	6	101260	 And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger. 
12O	21	7	101270	 And the carved image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever. 
12O	21	8	101280	 And I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander anymore out of the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the Law that my servant Moses commanded them." 
12O	21	9	101290	 But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations had done whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel. 
12O	21	10	101300	 And the LORD said by his servants the prophets, 
12O	21	11	101310	 "Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols, 
12O	21	12	101320	 therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such disaster that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle. 
12O	21	13	101330	 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. 
12O	21	14	101340	 And I will forsake the remnant of my heritage and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies, 
12O	21	15	101350	 because they have done what is evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day." 
12O	21	16	101360	 Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. 
12O	21	17	101370	 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 
12O	21	18	101380	 And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza, and Amon his son reigned in his place. 
12O	21	19	101390	 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. 
12O	21	20	101400	 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Manasseh his father had done. 
12O	21	21	101410	 He walked in all the way in which his father walked and served the idols that his father served and worshiped them. 
12O	21	22	101420	 He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD. 
12O	21	23	101430	 And the servants of Amon conspired against him and put the king to death in his house. 
12O	21	24	101440	 But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place. 
12O	21	25	101450	 Now the rest of the acts of Amon that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 
12O	21	26	101460	 And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place. 
12O	22	1	101470	 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. 
12O	22	2	101480	 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the way of David his father, and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left. 
12O	22	3	101490	 In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the secretary, to the house of the LORD, saying, 
12O	22	4	101500	 "Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people. 
12O	22	5	101510	 And let it be given into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the LORD, and let them give it to the workmen who are at the house of the LORD, repairing the house 
12O	22	6	101520	 (that is, to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons), and let them use it for buying timber and quarried stone to repair the house. 
12O	22	7	101530	 But no accounting shall be asked from them for the money that is delivered into their hand, for they deal honestly." 
12O	22	8	101540	 And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, "I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD." And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it. 
12O	22	9	101550	 And Shaphan the secretary came to the king, and reported to the king, "Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the LORD." 
12O	22	10	101560	 Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, "Hilkiah the priest has given me a book." And Shaphan read it before the king. 
12O	22	11	101570	 When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes. 
12O	22	12	101580	 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying, 
12O	22	13	101590	 "Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us." 
12O	22	14	101600	 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter), and they talked with her. 
12O	22	15	101610	 And she said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: 'Tell the man who sent you to me, 
12O	22	16	101620	 Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read. 
12O	22	17	101630	 Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched. 
12O	22	18	101640	 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Regarding the words that you have heard, 
12O	22	19	101650	 because your heart was penitent, and you humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the LORD. 
12O	22	20	101660	 Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place.'" And they brought back word to the king. 
12O	23	1	101670	 Then the king sent, and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem were gathered to him. 
12O	23	2	101680	 And the king went up to the house of the LORD, and with him all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the prophets, all the people, both small and great. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD. 
12O	23	3	101690	 And the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people joined in the covenant. 
12O	23	4	101700	 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel. 
12O	23	5	101710	 And he deposed the priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to make offerings in the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and the moon and the constellations and all the host of the heavens. 
12O	23	6	101720	 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people. 
12O	23	7	101730	 And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes who were in the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah. 
12O	23	8	101740	 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had made offerings, from Geba to Beersheba. And he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on one's left at the gate of the city. 
12O	23	9	101750	 However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers. 
12O	23	10	101760	 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech. 
12O	23	11	101770	 And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts. And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 
12O	23	12	101780	 And the altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, he pulled down and broke in pieces and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron. 
12O	23	13	101790	 And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 
12O	23	14	101800	 And he broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men. 
12O	23	15	101810	 Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected by Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, that altar with the high place he pulled down and burned, reducing it to dust. He also burned the Asherah. 
12O	23	16	101820	 And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, according to the word of the LORD that the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things. 
12O	23	17	101830	 Then he said, "What is that monument that I see?" And the men of the city told him, "It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and predicted these things that you have done against the altar at Bethel." 
12O	23	18	101840	 And he said, "Let him be; let no man move his bones." So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria. 
12O	23	19	101850	 And Josiah removed all the shrines also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which kings of Israel had made, provoking the LORD to anger. He did to them according to all that he had done at Bethel. 
12O	23	20	101860	 And he sacrificed all the priests of the high places who were there, on the altars, and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem. 
12O	23	21	101870	 And the king commanded all the people, "Keep the Passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant." 
12O	23	22	101880	 For no such Passover had been kept since the days of the judges who judged Israel, or during all the days of the kings of Israel or of the kings of Judah. 
12O	23	23	101890	 But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the LORD in Jerusalem. 
12O	23	24	101900	 Moreover, Josiah put away the mediums and the necromancers and the household gods and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD. 
12O	23	25	101910	 Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses, nor did any like him arise after him. 
12O	23	26	101920	 Still the LORD did not turn from the burning of his great wrath, by which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him. 
12O	23	27	101930	 And the LORD said, "I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city that I have chosen, Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there." 
12O	23	28	101940	 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 
12O	23	29	101950	 In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went to meet him, and Pharaoh Neco killed him at Megiddo, as soon as he saw him. 
12O	23	30	101960	 And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place. 
12O	23	31	101970	 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 
12O	23	32	101980	 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. 
12O	23	33	101990	 And Pharaoh Neco put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. 
12O	23	34	102000	 And Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz away, and he came to Egypt and died there. 
12O	23	35	102010	 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco. 
12O	23	36	102020	 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. 
12O	23	37	102030	 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. 
12O	24	1	102040	 In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him. 
12O	24	2	102050	 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans and bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke by his servants the prophets. 
12O	24	3	102060	 Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the LORD, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, 
12O	24	4	102070	 and also for the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD would not pardon. 
12O	24	5	102080	 Now the rest of the deeds of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 
12O	24	6	102090	 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. 
12O	24	7	102100	 And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates. 
12O	24	8	102110	 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. 
12O	24	9	102120	 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done. 
12O	24	10	102130	 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. 
12O	24	11	102140	 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it, 
12O	24	12	102150	 and Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. The king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign 
12O	24	13	102160	 and carried off all the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the LORD, which Solomon king of Israel had made, as the LORD had foretold. 
12O	24	14	102170	 He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, 10,000 captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, except the poorest people of the land. 
12O	24	15	102180	 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon. The king's mother, the king's wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. 
12O	24	16	102190	 And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, 7,000, and the craftsmen and the metal workers, 1,000, all of them strong and fit for war. 
12O	24	17	102200	 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah. 
12O	24	18	102210	 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 
12O	24	19	102220	 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 
12O	24	20	102230	 For because of the anger of the LORD it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. 
12O	25	1	102240	 And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it. 
12O	25	2	102250	 So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 
12O	25	3	102260	 On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. 
12O	25	4	102270	 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah. 
12O	25	5	102280	 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. 
12O	25	6	102290	 Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him. 
12O	25	7	102300	 They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon. 
12O	25	8	102310	 In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month--that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon--Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 
12O	25	9	102320	 And he burned the house of the LORD and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down. 
12O	25	10	102330	 And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem. 
12O	25	11	102340	 And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile. 
12O	25	12	102350	 But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen. 
12O	25	13	102360	 And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the LORD, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon. 
12O	25	14	102370	 And they took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service, 
12O	25	15	102380	 the fire pans also and the bowls. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver. 
12O	25	16	102390	 As for the two pillars, the one sea, and the stands that Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight. 
12O	25	17	102400	 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and on it was a capital of bronze. The height of the capital was three cubits. A latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, were all around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with the latticework. 
12O	25	18	102410	 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the threshold, 
12O	25	19	102420	 and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and five men of the king's council who were found in the city, and the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city. 
12O	25	20	102430	 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 
12O	25	21	102440	 And the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile out of its land. 
12O	25	22	102450	 And over the people who remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, governor. 
12O	25	23	102460	 Now when all the captains and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah governor, they came with their men to Gedaliah at Mizpah, namely, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite. 
12O	25	24	102470	 And Gedaliah swore to them and their men, saying, "Do not be afraid because of the Chaldean officials. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you." 
12O	25	25	102480	 But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down Gedaliah and put him to death along with the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah. 
12O	25	26	102490	 Then all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces arose and went to Egypt, for they were afraid of the Chaldeans. 
12O	25	27	102500	 And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, graciously freed Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison. 
12O	25	28	102510	 And he spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon. 
12O	25	29	102520	 So Jehoiachin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life he dined regularly at the king's table, 
12O	25	30	102530	 and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, according to his daily needs, as long as he lived. 
13O	1	1	102540	 Adam, Seth, Enosh; 
13O	1	2	102550	 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared; 
13O	1	3	102560	 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech; 
13O	1	4	102570	 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 
13O	1	5	102580	 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 
13O	1	6	102590	 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 
13O	1	7	102600	 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. 
13O	1	8	102610	 The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. 
13O	1	9	102620	 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. 
13O	1	10	102630	 Cush fathered Nimrod. He was the first on earth to be a mighty man. 
13O	1	11	102640	 Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 
13O	1	12	102650	 Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom the Philistines came), and Caphtorim. 
13O	1	13	102660	 Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth, 
13O	1	14	102670	 and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, 
13O	1	15	102680	 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, 
13O	1	16	102690	 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. 
13O	1	17	102700	 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. And the sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech. 
13O	1	18	102710	 Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber. 
13O	1	19	102720	 To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg (for in his days the earth was divided), and his brother's name was Joktan. 
13O	1	20	102730	 Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 
13O	1	21	102740	 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 
13O	1	22	102750	 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 
13O	1	23	102760	 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan. 
13O	1	24	102770	 Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah; 
13O	1	25	102780	 Eber, Peleg, Reu; 
13O	1	26	102790	 Serug, Nahor, Terah; 
13O	1	27	102800	 Abram, that is, Abraham. 
13O	1	28	102810	 The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael. 
13O	1	29	102820	 These are their genealogies: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, 
13O	1	30	102830	 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, 
13O	1	31	102840	 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael. 
13O	1	32	102850	 The sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan. 
13O	1	33	102860	 The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the descendants of Keturah. 
13O	1	34	102870	 Abraham fathered Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel. 
13O	1	35	102880	 The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. 
13O	1	36	102890	 The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, Kenaz, and of Timna, Amalek. 
13O	1	37	102900	 The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. 
13O	1	38	102910	 The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. 
13O	1	39	102920	 The sons of Lotan: Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was Timna. 
13O	1	40	102930	 The sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. 
13O	1	41	102940	 The son of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran. 
13O	1	42	102950	 The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran. 
13O	1	43	102960	 These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the people of Israel: Bela the son of Beor, the name of his city being Dinhabah. 
13O	1	44	102970	 Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place. 
13O	1	45	102980	 Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place. 
13O	1	46	102990	 Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place, the name of his city being Avith. 
13O	1	47	103000	 Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place. 
13O	1	48	103010	 Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates reigned in his place. 
13O	1	49	103020	 Shaul died, and Baal-hanan, the son of Achbor, reigned in his place. 
13O	1	50	103030	 Baal-hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place, the name of his city being Pai; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. 
13O	1	51	103040	 And Hadad died. The chiefs of Edom were: chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, 
13O	1	52	103050	 Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, 
13O	1	53	103060	 Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, 
13O	1	54	103070	 Magdiel, and Iram; these are the chiefs of Edom. 
13O	2	1	103080	 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, 
13O	2	2	103090	 Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 
13O	2	3	103100	 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; these three Bath-shua the Canaanite bore to him. Now Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the sight of the LORD, and he put him to death. 
13O	2	4	103110	 His daughter-in-law Tamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all. 
13O	2	5	103120	 The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. 
13O	2	6	103130	 The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, five in all. 
13O	2	7	103140	 The son of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who broke faith in the matter of the devoted thing; 
13O	2	8	103150	 and Ethan's son was Azariah. 
13O	2	9	103160	 The sons of Hezron that were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai. 
13O	2	10	103170	 Ram fathered Amminadab, and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, prince of the sons of Judah. 
13O	2	11	103180	 Nahshon fathered Salmon, Salmon fathered Boaz, 
13O	2	12	103190	 Boaz fathered Obed, Obed fathered Jesse. 
13O	2	13	103200	 Jesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third, 
13O	2	14	103210	 Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, 
13O	2	15	103220	 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh. 
13O	2	16	103230	 And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three. 
13O	2	17	103240	 Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. 
13O	2	18	103250	 Caleb the son of Hezron fathered children by his wife Azubah, and by Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. 
13O	2	19	103260	 When Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur. 
13O	2	20	103270	 Hur fathered Uri, and Uri fathered Bezalel. 
13O	2	21	103280	 Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old, and she bore him Segub. 
13O	2	22	103290	 And Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. 
13O	2	23	103300	 But Geshur and Aram took from them Havvoth-jair, Kenath, and its villages, sixty towns. All these were descendants of Machir, the father of Gilead. 
13O	2	24	103310	 After the death of Hezron, Caleb went in to Ephrathah, the wife of Hezron his father, and she bore him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa. 
13O	2	25	103320	 The sons of Jerahmeel, the firstborn of Hezron: Ram, his firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah. 
13O	2	26	103330	 Jerahmeel also had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam. 
13O	2	27	103340	 The sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jerahmeel: Maaz, Jamin, and Eker. 
13O	2	28	103350	 The sons of Onam: Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur. 
13O	2	29	103360	 The name of Abishur's wife was Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid. 
13O	2	30	103370	 The sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; and Seled died childless. 
13O	2	31	103380	 The son of Appaim: Ishi. The son of Ishi: Sheshan. The son of Sheshan: Ahlai. 
13O	2	32	103390	 The sons of Jada, Shammai's brother: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died childless. 
13O	2	33	103400	 The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the descendants of Jerahmeel. 
13O	2	34	103410	 Now Sheshan had no sons, only daughters, but Sheshan had an Egyptian slave whose name was Jarha. 
13O	2	35	103420	 So Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to Jarha his slave, and she bore him Attai. 
13O	2	36	103430	 Attai fathered Nathan, and Nathan fathered Zabad. 
13O	2	37	103440	 Zabad fathered Ephlal, and Ephlal fathered Obed. 
13O	2	38	103450	 Obed fathered Jehu, and Jehu fathered Azariah. 
13O	2	39	103460	 Azariah fathered Helez, and Helez fathered Eleasah. 
13O	2	40	103470	 Eleasah fathered Sismai, and Sismai fathered Shallum. 
13O	2	41	103480	 Shallum fathered Jekamiah, and Jekamiah fathered Elishama. 
13O	2	42	103490	 The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel: Mareshah his firstborn, who fathered Ziph. The son of Mareshah: Hebron. 
13O	2	43	103500	 The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem and Shema. 
13O	2	44	103510	 Shema fathered Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem fathered Shammai. 
13O	2	45	103520	 The son of Shammai: Maon; and Maon fathered Beth-zur. 
13O	2	46	103530	 Ephah also, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran fathered Gazez. 
13O	2	47	103540	 The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph. 
13O	2	48	103550	 Maacah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah. 
13O	2	49	103560	 She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah. 
13O	2	50	103570	 These were the descendants of Caleb. The sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim, 
13O	2	51	103580	 Salma, the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth-gader. 
13O	2	52	103590	 Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had other sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth. 
13O	2	53	103600	 And the clans of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from these came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites. 
13O	2	54	103610	 The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. 
13O	2	55	103620	 The clans also of the scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab. 
13O	3	1	103630	 These are the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelite; the second, Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite, 
13O	3	2	103640	 the third, Absalom, whose mother was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith; 
13O	3	3	103650	 the fifth, Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth, Ithream, by his wife Eglah; 
13O	3	4	103660	 six were born to him in Hebron, where he reigned for seven years and six months. And he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem. 
13O	3	5	103670	 These were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan and Solomon, four by Bath-shua, the daughter of Ammiel; 
13O	3	6	103680	 then Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet, 
13O	3	7	103690	 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, 
13O	3	8	103700	 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine. 
13O	3	9	103710	 All these were David's sons, besides the sons of the concubines, and Tamar was their sister. 
13O	3	10	103720	 The son of Solomon was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son, 
13O	3	11	103730	 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son, 
13O	3	12	103740	 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son, 
13O	3	13	103750	 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son, 
13O	3	14	103760	 Amon his son, Josiah his son. 
13O	3	15	103770	 The sons of Josiah: Johanan the firstborn, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. 
13O	3	16	103780	 The descendants of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son; 
13O	3	17	103790	 and the sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son, 
13O	3	18	103800	 Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama and Nedabiah; 
13O	3	19	103810	 and the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei; and the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah, and Shelomith was their sister; 
13O	3	20	103820	 and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab-hesed, five. 
13O	3	21	103830	 The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah, his son Rephaiah, his son Arnan, his son Obadiah, his son Shecaniah. 
13O	3	22	103840	 The son of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. And the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six. 
13O	3	23	103850	 The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three. 
13O	3	24	103860	 The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani, seven. 
13O	4	1	103870	 The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal. 
13O	4	2	103880	 Reaiah the son of Shobal fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites. 
13O	4	3	103890	 These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi, 
13O	4	4	103900	 and Penuel fathered Gedor, and Ezer fathered Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem. 
13O	4	5	103910	 Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah; 
13O	4	6	103920	 Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. 
13O	4	7	103930	 The sons of Helah: Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan. 
13O	4	8	103940	 Koz fathered Anub, Zobebah, and the clans of Aharhel, the son of Harum. 
13O	4	9	103950	 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him in pain." 
13O	4	10	103960	 Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, "Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that it might not bring me pain!" And God granted what he asked. 
13O	4	11	103970	 Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, fathered Mehir, who fathered Eshton. 
13O	4	12	103980	 Eshton fathered Beth-rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah. 
13O	4	13	103990	 The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai. 
13O	4	14	104000	 Meonothai fathered Ophrah; and Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of Ge-harashim, so-called because they were craftsmen. 
13O	4	15	104010	 The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the son of Elah: Kenaz. 
13O	4	16	104020	 The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel. 
13O	4	17	104030	 The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. These are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married; and she conceived and bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa. 
13O	4	18	104040	 And his Judahite wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. 
13O	4	19	104050	 The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite. 
13O	4	20	104060	 The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben-zoheth. 
13O	4	21	104070	 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the clans of the house of linen workers at Beth-ashbea; 
13O	4	22	104080	 and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and returned to Lehem (now the records are ancient). 
13O	4	23	104090	 These were the potters who were inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the king's service. 
13O	4	24	104100	 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul; 
13O	4	25	104110	 Shallum was his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. 
13O	4	26	104120	 The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son. 
13O	4	27	104130	 Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers did not have many children, nor did all their clan multiply like the men of Judah. 
13O	4	28	104140	 They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual, 
13O	4	29	104150	 Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad, 
13O	4	30	104160	 Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag, 
13O	4	31	104170	 Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Beth-biri, and Shaaraim. These were their cities until David reigned. 
13O	4	32	104180	 And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities, 
13O	4	33	104190	 along with all their villages that were around these cities as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record. 
13O	4	34	104200	 Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of Amaziah, 
13O	4	35	104210	 Joel, Jehu the son of Joshibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel, 
13O	4	36	104220	 Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, 
13O	4	37	104230	 Ziza the son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah-- 
13O	4	38	104240	 these mentioned by name were princes in their clans, and their fathers' houses increased greatly. 
13O	4	39	104250	 They journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks, 
13O	4	40	104260	 where they found rich, good pasture, and the land was very broad, quiet, and peaceful, for the former inhabitants there belonged to Ham. 
13O	4	41	104270	 These, registered by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and destroyed their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and marked them for destruction to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks. 
13O	4	42	104280	 And some of them, five hundred men of the Simeonites, went to Mount Seir, having as their leaders Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. 
13O	4	43	104290	 And they defeated the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day. 
13O	5	1	104300	 The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he could not be enrolled as the oldest son; 
13O	5	2	104310	 though Judah became strong among his brothers and a chief came from him, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph), 
13O	5	3	104320	 the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 
13O	5	4	104330	 The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, 
13O	5	5	104340	 Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son, 
13O	5	6	104350	 Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria carried away into exile; he was a chief of the Reubenites. 
13O	5	7	104360	 And his kinsmen by their clans, when the genealogy of their generations was recorded: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, 
13O	5	8	104370	 and Bela the son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-meon. 
13O	5	9	104380	 He also lived to the east as far as the entrance of the desert this side of the Euphrates, because their livestock had multiplied in the land of Gilead. 
13O	5	10	104390	 And in the days of Saul they waged war against the Hagrites, who fell into their hand. And they lived in their tents throughout all the region east of Gilead. 
13O	5	11	104400	 The sons of Gad lived over against them in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah: 
13O	5	12	104410	 Joel the chief, Shapham the second, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan. 
13O	5	13	104420	 And their kinsmen according to their fathers' houses: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia and Eber, seven. 
13O	5	14	104430	 These were the sons of Abihail the son of Huri, son of Jaroah, son of Gilead, son of Michael, son of Jeshishai, son of Jahdo, son of Buz. 
13O	5	15	104440	 Ahi the son of Abdiel, son of Guni, was chief in their fathers' houses, 
13O	5	16	104450	 and they lived in Gilead, in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the pasturelands of Sharon to their limits. 
13O	5	17	104460	 All of these were recorded in genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel. 
13O	5	18	104470	 The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had valiant men who carried shield and sword, and drew the bow, expert in war, 44,760, able to go to war. 
13O	5	19	104480	 They waged war against the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab. 
13O	5	20	104490	 And when they prevailed over them, the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hands, for they cried out to God in the battle, and he granted their urgent plea because they trusted in him. 
13O	5	21	104500	 They carried off their livestock: 50,000 of their camels, 250,000 sheep, 2,000 donkeys, and 100,000 men alive. 
13O	5	22	104510	 For many fell, because the war was of God. And they lived in their place until the exile. 
13O	5	23	104520	 The members of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land. They were very numerous from Bashan to Baal-hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. 
13O	5	24	104530	 These were the heads of their fathers' houses: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty warriors, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses. 
13O	5	25	104540	 But they broke faith with the God of their fathers, and whored after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them. 
13O	5	26	104550	 So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, the spirit of Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and he took them into exile, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river Gozan, to this day. 
13O	6	1	104560	 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 
13O	6	2	104570	 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 
13O	6	3	104580	 The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 
13O	6	4	104590	 Eleazar fathered Phinehas, Phinehas fathered Abishua, 
13O	6	5	104600	 Abishua fathered Bukki, Bukki fathered Uzzi, 
13O	6	6	104610	 Uzzi fathered Zerahiah, Zerahiah fathered Meraioth, 
13O	6	7	104620	 Meraioth fathered Amariah, Amariah fathered Ahitub, 
13O	6	8	104630	 Ahitub fathered Zadok, Zadok fathered Ahimaaz, 
13O	6	9	104640	 Ahimaaz fathered Azariah, Azariah fathered Johanan, 
13O	6	10	104650	 and Johanan fathered Azariah (it was he who served as priest in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem). 
13O	6	11	104660	 Azariah fathered Amariah, Amariah fathered Ahitub, 
13O	6	12	104670	 Ahitub fathered Zadok, Zadok fathered Shallum, 
13O	6	13	104680	 Shallum fathered Hilkiah, Hilkiah fathered Azariah, 
13O	6	14	104690	 Azariah fathered Seraiah, Seraiah fathered Jehozadak; 
13O	6	15	104700	 and Jehozadak went into exile when the LORD sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. 
13O	6	16	104710	 The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. 
13O	6	17	104720	 And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. 
13O	6	18	104730	 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. 
13O	6	19	104740	 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their fathers. 
13O	6	20	104750	 Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, 
13O	6	21	104760	 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son. 
13O	6	22	104770	 The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, 
13O	6	23	104780	 Elkanah his son, Ebiasaph his son, Assir his son, 
13O	6	24	104790	 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. 
13O	6	25	104800	 The sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth, 
13O	6	26	104810	 Elkanah his son, Zophai his son, Nahath his son, 
13O	6	27	104820	 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son. 
13O	6	28	104830	 The sons of Samuel: Joel his firstborn, the second Abijah. 
13O	6	29	104840	 The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son, 
13O	6	30	104850	 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, and Asaiah his son. 
13O	6	31	104860	 These are the men whom David put in charge of the service of song in the house of the LORD after the ark rested there. 
13O	6	32	104870	 They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting until Solomon built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they performed their service according to their order. 
13O	6	33	104880	 These are the men who served and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer the son of Joel, son of Samuel, 
13O	6	34	104890	 son of Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Eliel, son of Toah, 
13O	6	35	104900	 son of Zuph, son of Elkanah, son of Mahath, son of Amasai, 
13O	6	36	104910	 son of Elkanah, son of Joel, son of Azariah, son of Zephaniah, 
13O	6	37	104920	 son of Tahath, son of Assir, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, 
13O	6	38	104930	 son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, son of Israel; 
13O	6	39	104940	 and his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, namely, Asaph the son of Berechiah, son of Shimea, 
13O	6	40	104950	 son of Michael, son of Baaseiah, son of Malchijah, 
13O	6	41	104960	 son of Ethni, son of Zerah, son of Adaiah, 
13O	6	42	104970	 son of Ethan, son of Zimmah, son of Shimei, 
13O	6	43	104980	 son of Jahath, son of Gershom, son of Levi. 
13O	6	44	104990	 On the left hand were their brothers, the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch, 
13O	6	45	105000	 son of Hashabiah, son of Amaziah, son of Hilkiah, 
13O	6	46	105010	 son of Amzi, son of Bani, son of Shemer, 
13O	6	47	105020	 son of Mahli, son of Mushi, son of Merari, son of Levi. 
13O	6	48	105030	 And their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God. 
13O	6	49	105040	 But Aaron and his sons made offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense for all the work of the Most Holy Place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded. 
13O	6	50	105050	 These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son, 
13O	6	51	105060	 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son, 
13O	6	52	105070	 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, 
13O	6	53	105080	 Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son. 
13O	6	54	105090	 These are their dwelling places according to their settlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the clans of Kohathites, for theirs was the first lot, 
13O	6	55	105100	 to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasturelands, 
13O	6	56	105110	 but the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 
13O	6	57	105120	 To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands, 
13O	6	58	105130	 Hilen with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands, 
13O	6	59	105140	 Ashan with its pasturelands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands; 
13O	6	60	105150	 and from the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon, Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands, and Anathoth with its pasturelands. All their cities throughout their clans were thirteen. 
13O	6	61	105160	 To the rest of the Kohathites were given by lot out of the clan of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities. 
13O	6	62	105170	 To the Gershomites according to their clans were allotted thirteen cities out of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali and Manasseh in Bashan. 
13O	6	63	105180	 To the Merarites according to their clans were allotted twelve cities out of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun. 
13O	6	64	105190	 So the people of Israel gave the Levites the cities with their pasturelands. 
13O	6	65	105200	 They gave by lot out of the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin these cities that are mentioned by name. 
13O	6	66	105210	 And some of the clans of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory out of the tribe of Ephraim. 
13O	6	67	105220	 They were given the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands, 
13O	6	68	105230	 Jokmeam with its pasturelands, Beth-horon with its pasturelands, 
13O	6	69	105240	 Aijalon with its pasturelands, Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands, 
13O	6	70	105250	 and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its pasturelands, and Bileam with its pasturelands, for the rest of the clans of the Kohathites. 
13O	6	71	105260	 To the Gershomites were given out of the clan of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands and Ashtaroth with its pasturelands; 
13O	6	72	105270	 and out of the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh with its pasturelands, Daberath with its pasturelands, 
13O	6	73	105280	 Ramoth with its pasturelands, and Anem with its pasturelands; 
13O	6	74	105290	 out of the tribe of Asher: Mashal with its pasturelands, Abdon with its pasturelands, 
13O	6	75	105300	 Hukok with its pasturelands, and Rehob with its pasturelands; 
13O	6	76	105310	 and out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, Hammon with its pasturelands, and Kiriathaim with its pasturelands. 
13O	6	77	105320	 To the rest of the Merarites were allotted out of the tribe of Zebulun: Rimmono with its pasturelands, Tabor with its pasturelands, 
13O	6	78	105330	 and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with its pasturelands, Jahzah with its pasturelands, 
13O	6	79	105340	 Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands; 
13O	6	80	105350	 and out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, Mahanaim with its pasturelands, 
13O	6	81	105360	 Heshbon with its pasturelands, and Jazer with its pasturelands. 
13O	7	1	105370	 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. 
13O	7	2	105380	 The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses, namely of Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David being 22,600. 
13O	7	3	105390	 The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, all five of them were chief men. 
13O	7	4	105400	 And along with them, by their generations, according to their fathers' houses, were units of the army for war, 36,000, for they had many wives and sons. 
13O	7	5	105410	 Their kinsmen belonging to all the clans of Issachar were in all 87,000 mighty warriors, enrolled by genealogy. 
13O	7	6	105420	 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three. 
13O	7	7	105430	 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five, heads of fathers' houses, mighty warriors. And their enrollment by genealogies was 22,034. 
13O	7	8	105440	 The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher. 
13O	7	9	105450	 And their enrollment by genealogies, according to their generations, as heads of their fathers' houses, mighty warriors, was 20,200. 
13O	7	10	105460	 The son of Jediael: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. 
13O	7	11	105470	 All these were the sons of Jediael according to the heads of their fathers' houses, mighty warriors, 17,200, able to go to war. 
13O	7	12	105480	 And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir, Hushim the son of Aher. 
13O	7	13	105490	 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer and Shallum, the descendants of Bilhah. 
13O	7	14	105500	 The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead. 
13O	7	15	105510	 And Machir took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim. The name of his sister was Maacah. And the name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters. 
13O	7	16	105520	 And Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem. 
13O	7	17	105530	 The son of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manasseh. 
13O	7	18	105540	 And his sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, Abiezer and Mahlah. 
13O	7	19	105550	 The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam. 
13O	7	20	105560	 The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son, 
13O	7	21	105570	 Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to raid their livestock. 
13O	7	22	105580	 And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him. 
13O	7	23	105590	 And Ephraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son. And he called his name Beriah, because disaster had befallen his house. 
13O	7	24	105600	 His daughter was Sheerah, who built both Lower and Upper Beth-horon, and Uzzen-sheerah. 
13O	7	25	105610	 Rephah was his son, Resheph his son, Telah his son, Tahan his son, 
13O	7	26	105620	 Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, 
13O	7	27	105630	 Nun his son, Joshua his son. 
13O	7	28	105640	 Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and to the east Naaran, and to the west Gezer and its towns, Shechem and its towns, and Ayyah and its towns; 
13O	7	29	105650	 also in possession of the Manassites, Beth-shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph the son of Israel. 
13O	7	30	105660	 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. 
13O	7	31	105670	 The sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel, who fathered Birzaith. 
13O	7	32	105680	 Heber fathered Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shua. 
13O	7	33	105690	 The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the sons of Japhlet. 
13O	7	34	105700	 The sons of Shemer his brother: Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram. 
13O	7	35	105710	 The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal. 
13O	7	36	105720	 The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah. 
13O	7	37	105730	 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera. 
13O	7	38	105740	 The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara. 
13O	7	39	105750	 The sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia. 
13O	7	40	105760	 All of these were men of Asher, heads of fathers' houses, approved, mighty warriors, chiefs of the princes. Their number enrolled by genealogies, for service in war, was 26,000 men. 
13O	8	1	105770	 Benjamin fathered Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third, 
13O	8	2	105780	 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. 
13O	8	3	105790	 And Bela had sons: Addar, Gera, Abihud, 
13O	8	4	105800	 Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah, 
13O	8	5	105810	 Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram. 
13O	8	6	105820	 These are the sons of Ehud (they were heads of fathers' houses of the inhabitants of Geba, and they were carried into exile to Manahath): 
13O	8	7	105830	 Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera, that is, Heglam, who fathered Uzza and Ahihud. 
13O	8	8	105840	 And Shaharaim fathered sons in the country of Moab after he had sent away Hushim and Baara his wives. 
13O	8	9	105850	 He fathered sons by Hodesh his wife: Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam, 
13O	8	10	105860	 Jeuz, Sachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers' houses. 
13O	8	11	105870	 He also fathered sons by Hushim: Abitub and Elpaal. 
13O	8	12	105880	 The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod with its towns, 
13O	8	13	105890	 and Beriah and Shema (they were heads of fathers' houses of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who caused the inhabitants of Gath to flee); 
13O	8	14	105900	 and Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth. 
13O	8	15	105910	 Zebadiah, Arad, Eder, 
13O	8	16	105920	 Michael, Ishpah, and Joha were sons of Beriah. 
13O	8	17	105930	 Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber, 
13O	8	18	105940	 Ishmerai, Izliah, and Jobab were the sons of Elpaal. 
13O	8	19	105950	 Jakim, Zichri, Zabdi, 
13O	8	20	105960	 Elienai, Zillethai, Eliel, 
13O	8	21	105970	 Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath were the sons of Shimei. 
13O	8	22	105980	 Ishpan, Eber, Eliel, 
13O	8	23	105990	 Abdon, Zichri, Hanan, 
13O	8	24	106000	 Hananiah, Elam, Anthothijah, 
13O	8	25	106010	 Iphdeiah, and Penuel were the sons of Shashak. 
13O	8	26	106020	 Shamsherai, Shehariah, Athaliah, 
13O	8	27	106030	 Jaareshiah, Elijah, and Zichri were the sons of Jeroham. 
13O	8	28	106040	 These were the heads of fathers' houses, according to their generations, chief men. These lived in Jerusalem. 
13O	8	29	106050	 Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon, and the name of his wife was Maacah. 
13O	8	30	106060	 His firstborn son: Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab, 
13O	8	31	106070	 Gedor, Ahio, Zecher, 
13O	8	32	106080	 and Mikloth (he fathered Shimeah). Now these also lived opposite their kinsmen in Jerusalem, with their kinsmen. 
13O	8	33	106090	 Ner was the father of Kish, Kish of Saul, Saul of Jonathan, Malchi-shua, Abinadab and Eshbaal; 
13O	8	34	106100	 and the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal was the father of Micah. 
13O	8	35	106110	 The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz. 
13O	8	36	106120	 Ahaz fathered Jehoaddah, and Jehoaddah fathered Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. Zimri fathered Moza. 
13O	8	37	106130	 Moza fathered Binea; Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son. 
13O	8	38	106140	 Azel had six sons, and these are their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel. 
13O	8	39	106150	 The sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third. 
13O	8	40	106160	 The sons of Ulam were men who were mighty warriors, bowmen, having many sons and grandsons, 150. All these were Benjaminites. 
13O	9	1	106170	 So all Israel was recorded in genealogies, and these are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was taken into exile in Babylon because of their breach of faith. 
13O	9	2	106180	 Now the first to dwell again in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants. 
13O	9	3	106190	 And some of the people of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh lived in Jerusalem: 
13O	9	4	106200	 Uthai the son of Ammihud, son of Omri, son of Imri, son of Bani, from the sons of Perez the son of Judah. 
13O	9	5	106210	 And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons. 
13O	9	6	106220	 Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their kinsmen, 690. 
13O	9	7	106230	 Of the Benjaminites: Sallu the son of Meshullam, son of Hodaviah, son of Hassenuah, 
13O	9	8	106240	 Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, Elah the son of Uzzi, son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, son of Reuel, son of Ibnijah; 
13O	9	9	106250	 and their kinsmen according to their generations, 956. All these were heads of fathers' houses according to their fathers' houses. 
13O	9	10	106260	 Of the priests: Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, Jachin, 
13O	9	11	106270	 and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub, the chief officer of the house of God; 
13O	9	12	106280	 and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, son of Pashhur, son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, son of Jahzerah, son of Meshullam, son of Meshillemith, son of Immer; 
13O	9	13	106290	 besides their kinsmen, heads of their fathers' houses, 1,760, mighty men for the work of the service of the house of God. 
13O	9	14	106300	 Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari; 
13O	9	15	106310	 and Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal and Mattaniah the son of Mica, son of Zichri, son of Asaph; 
13O	9	16	106320	 and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites. 
13O	9	17	106330	 The gatekeepers were Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their kinsmen (Shallum was the chief); 
13O	9	18	106340	 until then they were in the king's gate on the east side as the gatekeepers of the camps of the Levites. 
13O	9	19	106350	 Shallum the son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his kinsmen of his fathers' house, the Korahites, were in charge of the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent, as their fathers had been in charge of the camp of the LORD, keepers of the entrance. 
13O	9	20	106360	 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the chief officer over them in time past; the LORD was with him. 
13O	9	21	106370	 Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 
13O	9	22	106380	 All these, who were chosen as gatekeepers at the thresholds, were 212. They were enrolled by genealogies in their villages. David and Samuel the seer established them in their office of trust. 
13O	9	23	106390	 So they and their sons were in charge of the gates of the house of the LORD, that is, the house of the tent, as guards. 
13O	9	24	106400	 The gatekeepers were on the four sides, east, west, north, and south. 
13O	9	25	106410	 And their kinsmen who were in their villages were obligated to come in every seven days, in turn, to be with these, 
13O	9	26	106420	 for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted to be over the chambers and the treasures of the house of God. 
13O	9	27	106430	 And they lodged around the house of God, for on them lay the duty of watching, and they had charge of opening it every morning. 
13O	9	28	106440	 Some of them had charge of the utensils of service, for they were required to count them when they were brought in and taken out. 
13O	9	29	106450	 Others of them were appointed over the furniture and over all the holy utensils, also over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the incense, and the spices. 
13O	9	30	106460	 Others, of the sons of the priests, prepared the mixing of the spices, 
13O	9	31	106470	 and Mattithiah, one of the Levites, the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, was entrusted with making the flat cakes. 
13O	9	32	106480	 Also some of their kinsmen of the Kohathites had charge of the showbread, to prepare it every Sabbath. 
13O	9	33	106490	 Now these, the singers, the heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, were in the chambers of the temple free from other service, for they were on duty day and night. 
13O	9	34	106500	 These were heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, according to their generations, leaders. These lived in Jerusalem. 
13O	9	35	106510	 In Gibeon lived the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, and the name of his wife was Maacah, 
13O	9	36	106520	 and his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab, 
13O	9	37	106530	 Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth; 
13O	9	38	106540	 and Mikloth was the father of Shimeam; and these also lived opposite their kinsmen in Jerusalem, with their kinsmen. 
13O	9	39	106550	 Ner fathered Kish, Kish fathered Saul, Saul fathered Jonathan, Malchi-shua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal. 
13O	9	40	106560	 And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal, and Merib-baal fathered Micah. 
13O	9	41	106570	 The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz. 
13O	9	42	106580	 And Ahaz fathered Jarah, and Jarah fathered Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. And Zimri fathered Moza. 
13O	9	43	106590	 Moza fathered Binea, and Rephaiah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son. 
13O	9	44	106600	 Azel had six sons and these are their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan; these were the sons of Azel. 
13O	10	1	106610	 Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa. 
13O	10	2	106620	 And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines struck down Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul. 
13O	10	3	106630	 The battle pressed hard against Saul, and the archers found him, and he was wounded by the archers. 
13O	10	4	106640	 Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and mistreat me." But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it. 
13O	10	5	106650	 And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died. 
13O	10	6	106660	 Thus Saul died; he and his three sons and all his house died together. 
13O	10	7	106670	 And when all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled, and the Philistines came and lived in them. 
13O	10	8	106680	 The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. 
13O	10	9	106690	 And they stripped him and took his head and his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to carry the good news to their idols and to the people. 
13O	10	10	106700	 And they put his armor in the temple of their gods and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon. 
13O	10	11	106710	 But when all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul, 
13O	10	12	106720	 all the valiant men arose and took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days. 
13O	10	13	106730	 So Saul died for his breach of faith. He broke faith with the LORD in that he did not keep the command of the LORD, and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance. 
13O	10	14	106740	 He did not seek guidance from the LORD. Therefore the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse. 
13O	11	1	106750	 Then all Israel gathered together to David at Hebron and said, "Behold, we are your bone and flesh. 
13O	11	2	106760	 In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the LORD your God said to you, 'You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.'" 
13O	11	3	106770	 So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD. And they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel. 
13O	11	4	106780	 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, that is, Jebus, where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land. 
13O	11	5	106790	 The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, "You will not come in here." Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David. 
13O	11	6	106800	 David said, "Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and commander." And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, so he became chief. 
13O	11	7	106810	 And David lived in the stronghold; therefore it was called the city of David. 
13O	11	8	106820	 And he built the city all around from the Millo in complete circuit, and Joab repaired the rest of the city. 
13O	11	9	106830	 And David became greater and greater, for the LORD of hosts was with him. 
13O	11	10	106840	 Now these are the chiefs of David's mighty men, who gave him strong support in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel. 
13O	11	11	106850	 This is an account of David's mighty men: Jashobeam, a Hachmonite, was chief of the three. He wielded his spear against 300 whom he killed at one time. 
13O	11	12	106860	 And next to him among the three mighty men was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite. 
13O	11	13	106870	 He was with David at Pas-dammim when the Philistines were gathered there for battle. There was a plot of ground full of barley, and the men fled from the Philistines. 
13O	11	14	106880	 But he took his stand in the midst of the plot and defended it and killed the Philistines. And the LORD saved them by a great victory. 
13O	11	15	106890	 Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David at the cave of Adullam, when the army of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim. 
13O	11	16	106900	 David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem. 
13O	11	17	106910	 And David said longingly, "Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!" 
13O	11	18	106920	 Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and took it and brought it to David. But David would not drink it. He poured it out to the LORD 
13O	11	19	106930	 and said, "Far be it from me before my God that I should do this. Shall I drink the lifeblood of these men? For at the risk of their lives they brought it." Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men. 
13O	11	20	106940	 Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the thirty. And he wielded his spear against 300 men and killed them and won a name beside the three. 
13O	11	21	106950	 He was the most renowned of the thirty and became their commander, but he did not attain to the three. 
13O	11	22	106960	 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two heroes of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen. 
13O	11	23	106970	 And he struck down an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits tall. The Egyptian had in his hand a spear like a weaver's beam, but Benaiah went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear. 
13O	11	24	106980	 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and won a name beside the three mighty men. 
13O	11	25	106990	 He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard. 
13O	11	26	107000	 The mighty men were Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, 
13O	11	27	107010	 Shammoth of Harod, Helez the Pelonite, 
13O	11	28	107020	 Ira the son of Ikkesh of Tekoa, Abiezer of Anathoth, 
13O	11	29	107030	 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite, 
13O	11	30	107040	 Maharai of Netophah, Heled the son of Baanah of Netophah, 
13O	11	31	107050	 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the people of Benjamin, Benaiah of Pirathon, 
13O	11	32	107060	 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, 
13O	11	33	107070	 Azmaveth of Baharum, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, 
13O	11	34	107080	 Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite, 
13O	11	35	107090	 Ahiam the son of Sachar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, 
13O	11	36	107100	 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite, 
13O	11	37	107110	 Hezro of Carmel, Naarai the son of Ezbai, 
13O	11	38	107120	 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri, 
13O	11	39	107130	 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai of Beeroth, the armor-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah, 
13O	11	40	107140	 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, 
13O	11	41	107150	 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, 
13O	11	42	107160	 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a leader of the Reubenites, and thirty with him, 
13O	11	43	107170	 Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite, 
13O	11	44	107180	 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite, 
13O	11	45	107190	 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite, 
13O	11	46	107200	 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite, 
13O	11	47	107210	 Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite. 
13O	12	1	107220	 Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he could not move about freely because of Saul the son of Kish. And they were among the mighty men who helped him in war. 
13O	12	2	107230	 They were bowmen and could shoot arrows and sling stones with either the right or the left hand; they were Benjaminites, Saul's kinsmen. 
13O	12	3	107240	 The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, both sons of Shemaah of Gibeah; also Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; Beracah, Jehu of Anathoth, 
13O	12	4	107250	 Ishmaiah of Gibeon, a mighty man among the thirty and a leader over the thirty; Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, Jozabad of Gederah, 
13O	12	5	107260	 Eluzai, Jerimoth, Bealiah, Shemariah, Shephatiah the Haruphite; 
13O	12	6	107270	 Elkanah, Isshiah, Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites; 
13O	12	7	107280	 And Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor. 
13O	12	8	107290	 From the Gadites there went over to David at the stronghold in the wilderness mighty and experienced warriors, expert with shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and who were swift as gazelles upon the mountains: 
13O	12	9	107300	 Ezer the chief, Obadiah second, Eliab third, 
13O	12	10	107310	 Mishmannah fourth, Jeremiah fifth, 
13O	12	11	107320	 Attai sixth, Eliel seventh, 
13O	12	12	107330	 Johanan eighth, Elzabad ninth, 
13O	12	13	107340	 Jeremiah tenth, Machbannai eleventh. 
13O	12	14	107350	 These Gadites were officers of the army; the least was a match for a hundred men and the greatest for a thousand. 
13O	12	15	107360	 These are the men who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it was overflowing all its banks, and put to flight all those in the valleys, to the east and to the west. 
13O	12	16	107370	 And some of the men of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David. 
13O	12	17	107380	 David went out to meet them and said to them, "If you have come to me in friendship to help me, my heart will be joined to you; but if to betray me to my adversaries, although there is no wrong in my hands, then may the God of our fathers see and rebuke you." 
13O	12	18	107390	 Then the Spirit clothed Amasai, chief of the thirty, and he said, "We are yours, O David, and with you, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to your helpers! For your God helps you." Then David received them and made them officers of his troops. 
13O	12	19	107400	 Some of the men of Manasseh deserted to David when he came with the Philistines for the battle against Saul. (Yet he did not help them, for the rulers of the Philistines took counsel and sent him away, saying, "At peril to our heads he will desert to his master Saul.") 
13O	12	20	107410	 As he went to Ziklag, these men of Manasseh deserted to him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, chiefs of thousands in Manasseh. 
13O	12	21	107420	 They helped David against the band of raiders, for they were all mighty men of valor and were commanders in the army. 
13O	12	22	107430	 For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like an army of God. 
13O	12	23	107440	 These are the numbers of the divisions of the armed troops who came to David in Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul over to him, according to the word of the LORD. 
13O	12	24	107450	 The men of Judah bearing shield and spear were 6,800 armed troops. 
13O	12	25	107460	 Of the Simeonites, mighty men of valor for war, 7,100. 
13O	12	26	107470	 Of the Levites 4,600. 
13O	12	27	107480	 The prince Jehoiada, of the house of Aaron, and with him 3,700. 
13O	12	28	107490	 Zadok, a young man mighty in valor, and twenty-two commanders from his own fathers' house. 
13O	12	29	107500	 Of the Benjaminites, the kinsmen of Saul, 3,000, of whom the majority had to that point kept their allegiance to the house of Saul. 
13O	12	30	107510	 Of the Ephraimites 20,800, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers' houses. 
13O	12	31	107520	 Of the half-tribe of Manasseh 18,000, who were expressly named to come and make David king. 
13O	12	32	107530	 Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs, and all their kinsmen under their command. 
13O	12	33	107540	 Of Zebulun 50,000 seasoned troops, equipped for battle with all the weapons of war, to help David with singleness of purpose. 
13O	12	34	107550	 Of Naphtali 1,000 commanders with whom were 37,000 men armed with shield and spear. 
13O	12	35	107560	 Of the Danites 28,600 men equipped for battle. 
13O	12	36	107570	 Of Asher 40,000 seasoned troops ready for battle. 
13O	12	37	107580	 Of the Reubenites and Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh from beyond the Jordan, 120,000 men armed with all the weapons of war. 
13O	12	38	107590	 All these, men of war, arrayed in battle order, came to Hebron with full intent to make David king over all Israel. Likewise, all the rest of Israel were of a single mind to make David king. 
13O	12	39	107600	 And they were there with David for three days, eating and drinking, for their brothers had made preparation for them. 
13O	12	40	107610	 And also their relatives, from as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came bringing food on donkeys and on camels and on mules and on oxen, abundant provisions of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, and wine and oil, oxen and sheep, for there was joy in Israel. 
13O	13	1	107620	 David consulted with the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, with every leader. 
13O	13	2	107630	 And David said to all the assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you and from the LORD our God, let us send abroad to our brothers who remain in all the lands of Israel, as well as to the priests and Levites in the cities that have pasturelands, that they may be gathered to us. 
13O	13	3	107640	 Then let us bring again the ark of our God to us, for we did not seek it in the days of Saul." 
13O	13	4	107650	 All the assembly agreed to do so, for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people. 
13O	13	5	107660	 So David assembled all Israel from the Nile of Egypt to Lebo-hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim. 
13O	13	6	107670	 And David and all Israel went up to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim that belongs to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the LORD who sits enthroned above the cherubim. 
13O	13	7	107680	 And they carried the ark of God on a new cart, from the house of Abinadab, and Uzzah and Ahio were driving the cart. 
13O	13	8	107690	 And David and all Israel were rejoicing before God with all their might, with song and lyres and harps and tambourines and cymbals and trumpets. 
13O	13	9	107700	 And when they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzzah put out his hand to take hold of the ark, for the oxen stumbled. 
13O	13	10	107710	 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and he struck him down because he put out his hand to the ark, and he died there before God. 
13O	13	11	107720	 And David was angry because the LORD had broken out against Uzzah. And that place is called Perez-uzza to this day. 
13O	13	12	107730	 And David was afraid of God that day, and he said, "How can I bring the ark of God home to me?" 
13O	13	13	107740	 So David did not take the ark home into the city of David, but took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. 
13O	13	14	107750	 And the ark of God remained with the household of Obed-edom in his house three months. And the LORD blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that he had. 
13O	14	1	107760	 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also masons and carpenters to build a house for him. 
13O	14	2	107770	 And David knew that the LORD had established him as king over Israel, and that his kingdom was highly exalted for the sake of his people Israel. 
13O	14	3	107780	 And David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David fathered more sons and daughters. 
13O	14	4	107790	 These are the names of the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, 
13O	14	5	107800	 Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet, 
13O	14	6	107810	 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, 
13O	14	7	107820	 Elishama, Beeliada and Eliphelet. 
13O	14	8	107830	 When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went out against them. 
13O	14	9	107840	 Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the Valley of Rephaim. 
13O	14	10	107850	 And David inquired of God, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you give them into my hand?" And the LORD said to him, "Go up, and I will give them into your hand." 
13O	14	11	107860	 And he went up to Baal-perazim, and David struck them down there. And David said, "God has broken through my enemies by my hand, like a bursting flood." Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim. 
13O	14	12	107870	 And they left their gods there, and David gave command, and they were burned. 
13O	14	13	107880	 And the Philistines yet again made a raid in the valley. 
13O	14	14	107890	 And when David again inquired of God, God said to him, "You shall not go up after them; go around and come against them opposite the balsam trees. 
13O	14	15	107900	 And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then go out to battle, for God has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines." 
13O	14	16	107910	 And David did as God commanded him, and they struck down the Philistine army from Gibeon to Gezer. 
13O	14	17	107920	 And the fame of David went out into all lands, and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations. 
13O	15	1	107930	 David built houses for himself in the city of David. And he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. 
13O	15	2	107940	 Then David said that no one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the LORD had chosen them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister to him forever. 
13O	15	3	107950	 And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the LORD to its place, which he had prepared for it. 
13O	15	4	107960	 And David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites: 
13O	15	5	107970	 of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, with 120 of his brothers; 
13O	15	6	107980	 of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, with 220 of his brothers; 
13O	15	7	107990	 of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, with 130 of his brothers; 
13O	15	8	108000	 of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, with 200 of his brothers; 
13O	15	9	108010	 of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, with 80 of his brothers; 
13O	15	10	108020	 of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, with 112 of his brothers. 
13O	15	11	108030	 Then David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar, and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab, 
13O	15	12	108040	 and said to them, "You are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites. Consecrate yourselves, you and your brothers, so that you may bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it. 
13O	15	13	108050	 Because you did not carry it the first time, the LORD our God broke out against us, because we did not seek him according to the rule." 
13O	15	14	108060	 So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel. 
13O	15	15	108070	 And the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the LORD. 
13O	15	16	108080	 David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as the singers who should play loudly on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy. 
13O	15	17	108090	 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari, their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah; 
13O	15	18	108100	 and with them their brothers of the second order, Zechariah, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-edom and Jeiel. 
13O	15	19	108110	 The singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were to sound bronze cymbals; 
13O	15	20	108120	 Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play harps according to Alamoth; 
13O	15	21	108130	 but Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to lead with lyres according to the Sheminith. 
13O	15	22	108140	 Chenaniah, leader of the Levites in music, should direct the music, for he understood it. 
13O	15	23	108150	 Berechiah and Elkanah were to be gatekeepers for the ark. 
13O	15	24	108160	 Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, should blow the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah were to be gatekeepers for the ark. 
13O	15	25	108170	 So David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-edom with rejoicing. 
13O	15	26	108180	 And because God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams. 
13O	15	27	108190	 David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as also were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, and the singers and Chenaniah the leader of the music of the singers. And David wore a linen ephod. 
13O	15	28	108200	 So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, to the sound of the horn, trumpets, and cymbals, and made loud music on harps and lyres. 
13O	15	29	108210	 And as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David dancing and rejoicing, and she despised him in her heart. 
13O	16	1	108220	 And they brought in the ark of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God. 
13O	16	2	108230	 And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD 
13O	16	3	108240	 and distributed to all Israel, both men and women, to each a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins. 
13O	16	4	108250	 Then he appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the LORD, to invoke, to thank, and to praise the LORD, the God of Israel. 
13O	16	5	108260	 Asaph was the chief, and second to him were Zechariah, Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel, who were to play harps and lyres; Asaph was to sound the cymbals, 
13O	16	6	108270	 and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests were to blow trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God. 
13O	16	7	108280	 Then on that day David first appointed that thanksgiving be sung to the LORD by Asaph and his brothers. 
13O	16	8	108290	 Oh give thanks to the LORD; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples! 
13O	16	9	108300	 Sing to him; sing praises to him; tell of all his wondrous works! 
13O	16	10	108310	 Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice! 
13O	16	11	108320	 Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his presence continually! 
13O	16	12	108330	 Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles and the judgments he uttered, 
13O	16	13	108340	 O offspring of Israel his servant, sons of Jacob, his chosen ones! 
13O	16	14	108350	 He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth. 
13O	16	15	108360	 Remember his covenant forever, the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations, 
13O	16	16	108370	 the covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac, 
13O	16	17	108380	 which he confirmed as a statute to Jacob, as an everlasting covenant to Israel, 
13O	16	18	108390	 saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, as your portion for an inheritance." 
13O	16	19	108400	 When you were few in number, and of little account, and sojourners in it, 
13O	16	20	108410	 wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people, 
13O	16	21	108420	 he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their account, 
13O	16	22	108430	 saying, "Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!" 
13O	16	23	108440	 Sing to the LORD, all the earth! Tell of his salvation from day to day. 
13O	16	24	108450	 Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples! 
13O	16	25	108460	 For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be held in awe above all gods. 
13O	16	26	108470	 For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the LORD made the heavens. 
13O	16	27	108480	 Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his place. 
13O	16	28	108490	 Ascribe to the LORD, O clans of the peoples, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength! 
13O	16	29	108500	 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering and come before him! Worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness; 
13O	16	30	108510	 tremble before him, all the earth; yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved. 
13O	16	31	108520	 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, "The LORD reigns!" 
13O	16	32	108530	 Let the sea roar, and all that fills it; let the field exult, and everything in it! 
13O	16	33	108540	 Then shall the trees of the forest sing for joy before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. 
13O	16	34	108550	 Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! 
13O	16	35	108560	 Say also: "Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather and deliver us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name, and glory in your praise. 
13O	16	36	108570	 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting!" Then all the people said, "Amen!" and praised the LORD. 
13O	16	37	108580	 So David left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD to minister regularly before the ark as each day required, 
13O	16	38	108590	 and also Obed-edom and his sixty-eight brothers, while Obed-edom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah were to be gatekeepers. 
13O	16	39	108600	 And he left Zadok the priest and his brothers the priests before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon 
13O	16	40	108610	 to offer burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offering regularly morning and evening, to do all that is written in the Law of the LORD that he commanded Israel. 
13O	16	41	108620	 With them were Heman and Jeduthun and the rest of those chosen and expressly named to give thanks to the LORD, for his steadfast love endures forever. 
13O	16	42	108630	 Heman and Jeduthun had trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments for sacred song. The sons of Jeduthun were appointed to the gate. 
13O	16	43	108640	 Then all the people departed each to his house, and David went home to bless his household. 
13O	17	1	108650	 Now when David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, "Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent." 
13O	17	2	108660	 And Nathan said to David, "Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you." 
13O	17	3	108670	 But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, 
13O	17	4	108680	 "Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says the LORD: It is not you who will build me a house to dwell in. 
13O	17	5	108690	 For I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up Israel to this day, but I have gone from tent to tent and from dwelling to dwelling. 
13O	17	6	108700	 In all places where I have moved with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"' 
13O	17	7	108710	 Now, therefore, thus shall you say to my servant David, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel, 
13O	17	8	108720	 and I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a name, like the name of the great ones of the earth. 
13O	17	9	108730	 And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall waste them no more, as formerly, 
13O	17	10	108740	 from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build you a house. 
13O	17	11	108750	 When your days are fulfilled to walk with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. 
13O	17	12	108760	 He shall build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever. 
13O	17	13	108770	 I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from him who was before you, 
13O	17	14	108780	 but I will confirm him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established forever.'" 
13O	17	15	108790	 In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David. 
13O	17	16	108800	 Then King David went in and sat before the LORD and said, "Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? 
13O	17	17	108810	 And this was a small thing in your eyes, O God. You have also spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have shown me future generations, O LORD God! 
13O	17	18	108820	 And what more can David say to you for honoring your servant? For you know your servant. 
13O	17	19	108830	 For your servant's sake, O LORD, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, in making known all these great things. 
13O	17	20	108840	 There is none like you, O LORD, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 
13O	17	21	108850	 And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name for great and awesome things, in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt? 
13O	17	22	108860	 And you made your people Israel to be your people forever, and you, O LORD, became their God. 
13O	17	23	108870	 And now, O LORD, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house be established forever, and do as you have spoken, 
13O	17	24	108880	 and your name will be established and magnified forever, saying, 'The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, is Israel's God,' and the house of your servant David will be established before you. 
13O	17	25	108890	 For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build a house for him. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you. 
13O	17	26	108900	 And now, O LORD, you are God, and you have promised this good thing to your servant. 
13O	17	27	108910	 Now you have been pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you, for it is you, O LORD, who have blessed, and it is blessed forever." 
13O	18	1	108920	 After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Gath and its villages out of the hand of the Philistines. 
13O	18	2	108930	 And he defeated Moab, and the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute. 
13O	18	3	108940	 David also defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah-Hamath, as he went to set up his monument at the river Euphrates. 
13O	18	4	108950	 And David took from him 1,000 chariots, 7,000 horsemen, and 20,000 foot soldiers. And David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but left enough for 100 chariots. 
13O	18	5	108960	 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down 22,000 men of the Syrians. 
13O	18	6	108970	 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus, and the Syrians became servants to David and brought tribute. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went. 
13O	18	7	108980	 And David took the shields of gold that were carried by the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem. 
13O	18	8	108990	 And from Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took a large amount of bronze. With it Solomon made the bronze sea and the pillars and the vessels of bronze. 
13O	18	9	109000	 When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadadezer, king of Zobah, 
13O	18	10	109010	 he sent his son Hadoram to King David, to ask about his health and to bless him because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him; for Hadadezer had often been at war with Tou. And he sent all sorts of articles of gold, of silver, and of bronze. 
13O	18	11	109020	 These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he had carried off from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and Amalek. 
13O	18	12	109030	 And Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, killed 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. 
13O	18	13	109040	 Then he put garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became David's servants. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went. 
13O	18	14	109050	 So David reigned over all Israel, and he administered justice and equity to all his people. 
13O	18	15	109060	 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder; 
13O	18	16	109070	 and Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests; and Shavsha was secretary; 
13O	18	17	109080	 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were the chief officials in the service of the king. 
13O	19	1	109090	 Now after this Nahash the king of the Ammonites died, and his son reigned in his place. 
13O	19	2	109100	 And David said, "I will deal kindly with Hanun the son of Nahash, for his father dealt kindly with me." So David sent messengers to console him concerning his father. And David's servants came to the land of the Ammonites to Hanun to console him. 
13O	19	3	109110	 But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun, "Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Have not his servants come to you to search and to overthrow and to spy out the land?" 
13O	19	4	109120	 So Hanun took David's servants and shaved them and cut off their garments in the middle, at their hips, and sent them away; 
13O	19	5	109130	 and they departed. When David was told concerning the men, he sent messengers to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, "Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown and then return." 
13O	19	6	109140	 When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent 1,000 talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Mesopotamia, from Aram-maacah, and from Zobah. 
13O	19	7	109150	 They hired 32,000 chariots and the king of Maacah with his army, who came and encamped before Medeba. And the Ammonites were mustered from their cities and came to battle. 
13O	19	8	109160	 When David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the army of the mighty men. 
13O	19	9	109170	 And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the city, and the kings who had come were by themselves in the open country. 
13O	19	10	109180	 When Joab saw that the battle was set against him both in front and in the rear, he chose some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Syrians. 
13O	19	11	109190	 The rest of his men he put in the charge of Abishai his brother, and they were arrayed against the Ammonites. 
13O	19	12	109200	 And he said, "If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me, but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will help you. 
13O	19	13	109210	 Be strong, and let us use our strength for our people and for the cities of our God, and may the LORD do what seems good to him." 
13O	19	14	109220	 So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before the Syrians for battle, and they fled before him. 
13O	19	15	109230	 And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, Joab's brother, and entered the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem. 
13O	19	16	109240	 But when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they sent messengers and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the Euphrates, with Shophach the commander of the army of Hadadezer at their head. 
13O	19	17	109250	 And when it was told to David, he gathered all Israel together and crossed the Jordan and came to them and drew up his forces against them. And when David set the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him. 
13O	19	18	109260	 And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David killed of the Syrians the men of 7,000 chariots and 40,000 foot soldiers, and put to death also Shophach the commander of their army. 
13O	19	19	109270	 And when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became subject to him. So the Syrians were not willing to save the Ammonites anymore. 
13O	20	1	109280	 In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led out the army and ravaged the country of the Ammonites and came and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. And Joab struck down Rabbah and overthrew it. 
13O	20	2	109290	 And David took the crown of their king from his head. He found that it weighed a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone. And it was placed on David's head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount. 
13O	20	3	109300	 And he brought out the people who were in it and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and axes. And thus David did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. 
13O	20	4	109310	 And after this there arose war with the Philistines at Gezer. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Sippai, who was one of the descendants of the giants, and the Philistines were subdued. 
13O	20	5	109320	 And there was again war with the Philistines, and Elhanan the son of Jair struck down Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. 
13O	20	6	109330	 And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was descended from the giants. 
13O	20	7	109340	 And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David's brother, struck him down. 
13O	20	8	109350	 These were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. 
13O	21	1	109360	 Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel. 
13O	21	2	109370	 So David said to Joab and the commanders of the army, "Go, number Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, and bring me a report, that I may know their number." 
13O	21	3	109380	 But Joab said, "May the LORD add to his people a hundred times as many as they are! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my lord's servants? Why then should my lord require this? Why should it be a cause of guilt for Israel?" 
13O	21	4	109390	 But the king's word prevailed against Joab. So Joab departed and went throughout all Israel and came back to Jerusalem. 
13O	21	5	109400	 And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to David. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword, and in Judah 470,000 who drew the sword. 
13O	21	6	109410	 But he did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, for the king's command was abhorrent to Joab. 
13O	21	7	109420	 But God was displeased with this thing, and he struck Israel. 
13O	21	8	109430	 And David said to God, "I have sinned greatly in that I have done this thing. But now, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly." 
13O	21	9	109440	 And the LORD spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying, 
13O	21	10	109450	 "Go and say to David, 'Thus says the LORD, Three things I offer you; choose one of them, that I may do it to you.'" 
13O	21	11	109460	 So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, 'Choose what you will: 
13O	21	12	109470	 either three years of famine, or three months of devastation by your foes while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the LORD, pestilence on the land, with the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.' Now decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me." 
13O	21	13	109480	 Then David said to Gad, "I am in great distress. Let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for his mercy is very great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man." 
13O	21	14	109490	 So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel, and 70,000 men of Israel fell. 
13O	21	15	109500	 And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, the LORD saw, and he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 
13O	21	16	109510	 And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between earth and heaven, and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. 
13O	21	17	109520	 And David said to God, "Was it not I who gave command to number the people? It is I who have sinned and done great evil. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O LORD my God, be against me and against my father's house. But do not let the plague be on your people." 
13O	21	18	109530	 Now the angel of the LORD had commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 
13O	21	19	109540	 So David went up at Gad's word, which he had spoken in the name of the LORD. 
13O	21	20	109550	 Now Ornan was threshing wheat. He turned and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. 
13O	21	21	109560	 As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David and went out from the threshing floor and paid homage to David with his face to the ground. 
13O	21	22	109570	 And David said to Ornan, "Give me the site of the threshing floor that I may build on it an altar to the LORD--give it to me at its full price--that the plague may be averted from the people." 
13O	21	23	109580	 Then Ornan said to David, "Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems good to him. See, I give the oxen for burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for the wood and the wheat for a grain offering; I give it all." 
13O	21	24	109590	 But King David said to Ornan, "No, but I will buy them for the full price. I will not take for the LORD what is yours, nor offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing." 
13O	21	25	109600	 So David paid Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site. 
13O	21	26	109610	 And David built there an altar to the LORD and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings and called on the LORD, and the LORD answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering. 
13O	21	27	109620	 Then the LORD commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath. 
13O	21	28	109630	 At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there. 
13O	21	29	109640	 For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time in the high place at Gibeon, 
13O	21	30	109650	 but David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD. 
13O	22	1	109660	 Then David said, "Here shall be the house of the LORD God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel." 
13O	22	2	109670	 David commanded to gather together the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to prepare dressed stones for building the house of God. 
13O	22	3	109680	 David also provided great quantities of iron for nails for the doors of the gates and for clamps, as well as bronze in quantities beyond weighing, 
13O	22	4	109690	 and cedar timbers without number, for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought great quantities of cedar to David. 
13O	22	5	109700	 For David said, "Solomon my son is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and glory throughout all lands. I will therefore make preparation for it." So David provided materials in great quantity before his death. 
13O	22	6	109710	 Then he called for Solomon his son and charged him to build a house for the LORD, the God of Israel. 
13O	22	7	109720	 David said to Solomon, "My son, I had it in my heart to build a house to the name of the LORD my God. 
13O	22	8	109730	 But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 'You have shed much blood and have waged great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed so much blood before me on the earth. 
13O	22	9	109740	 Behold, a son shall be born to you who shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his surrounding enemies. For his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days. 
13O	22	10	109750	 He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.' 
13O	22	11	109760	 "Now, my son, the LORD be with you, so that you may succeed in building the house of the LORD your God, as he has spoken concerning you. 
13O	22	12	109770	 Only, may the LORD grant you discretion and understanding, that when he gives you charge over Israel you may keep the law of the LORD your God. 
13O	22	13	109780	 Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed. 
13O	22	14	109790	 With great pains I have provided for the house of the LORD 100,000 talents of gold, a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for there is so much of it; timber and stone, too, I have provided. To these you must add. 
13O	22	15	109800	 You have an abundance of workmen: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and all kinds of craftsmen without number, skilled in working 
13O	22	16	109810	 gold, silver, bronze, and iron. Arise and work! The LORD be with you!" 
13O	22	17	109820	 David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying, 
13O	22	18	109830	 "Is not the LORD your God with you? And has he not given you peace on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand, and the land is subdued before the LORD and his people. 
13O	22	19	109840	 Now set your mind and heart to seek the LORD your God. Arise and build the sanctuary of the LORD God, so that the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the holy vessels of God may be brought into a house built for the name of the LORD." 
13O	23	1	109850	 When David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel. 
13O	23	2	109860	 David assembled all the leaders of Israel and the priests and the Levites. 
13O	23	3	109870	 The Levites, thirty years old and upward, were numbered, and the total was 38,000 men. 
13O	23	4	109880	 "Twenty-four thousand of these," David said, "shall have charge of the work in the house of the LORD, 6,000 shall be officers and judges, 
13O	23	5	109890	 4,000 gatekeepers, and 4,000 shall offer praises to the LORD with the instruments that I have made for praise." 
13O	23	6	109900	 And David organized them in divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 
13O	23	7	109910	 The sons of Gershon were Ladan and Shimei. 
13O	23	8	109920	 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three. 
13O	23	9	109930	 The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers' houses of Ladan. 
13O	23	10	109940	 And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei. 
13O	23	11	109950	 Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons, therefore they became counted as a single father's house. 
13O	23	12	109960	 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four. 
13O	23	13	109970	 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart to dedicate the most holy things, that he and his sons forever should make offerings before the LORD and minister to him and pronounce blessings in his name forever. 
13O	23	14	109980	 But the sons of Moses the man of God were named among the tribe of Levi. 
13O	23	15	109990	 The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer. 
13O	23	16	110000	 The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief. 
13O	23	17	110010	 The sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the chief. Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many. 
13O	23	18	110020	 The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief. 
13O	23	19	110030	 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth. 
13O	23	20	110040	 The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief and Isshiah the second. 
13O	23	21	110050	 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish. 
13O	23	22	110060	 Eleazar died having no sons, but only daughters; their kinsmen, the sons of Kish, married them. 
13O	23	23	110070	 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth, three. 
13O	23	24	110080	 These were the sons of Levi by their fathers' houses, the heads of fathers' houses as they were listed according to the number of the names of the individuals from twenty years old and upward who were to do the work for the service of the house of the LORD. 
13O	23	25	110090	 For David said, "The LORD, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people, and he dwells in Jerusalem forever. 
13O	23	26	110100	 And so the Levites no longer need to carry the tabernacle or any of the things for its service." 
13O	23	27	110110	 For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered from twenty years old and upward. 
13O	23	28	110120	 For their duty was to assist the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, having the care of the courts and the chambers, the cleansing of all that is holy, and any work for the service of the house of God. 
13O	23	29	110130	 Their duty was also to assist with the showbread, the flour for the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baked offering, the offering mixed with oil, and all measures of quantity or size. 
13O	23	30	110140	 And they were to stand every morning, thanking and praising the LORD, and likewise at evening, 
13O	23	31	110150	 and whenever burnt offerings were offered to the LORD on Sabbaths, new moons, and feast days, according to the number required of them, regularly before the LORD. 
13O	23	32	110160	 Thus they were to keep charge of the tent of meeting and the sanctuary, and to attend the sons of Aaron, their brothers, for the service of the house of the LORD. 
13O	24	1	110170	 The divisions of the sons of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 
13O	24	2	110180	 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no children, so Eleazar and Ithamar became the priests. 
13O	24	3	110190	 With the help of Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, David organized them according to the appointed duties in their service. 
13O	24	4	110200	 Since more chief men were found among the sons of Eleazar than among the sons of Ithamar, they organized them under sixteen heads of fathers' houses of the sons of Eleazar, and eight of the sons of Ithamar. 
13O	24	5	110210	 They divided them by lot, all alike, for there were sacred officers and officers of God among both the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar. 
13O	24	6	110220	 And the scribe Shemaiah, the son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded them in the presence of the king and the princes and Zadok the priest and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar and the heads of the fathers' houses of the priests and of the Levites, one father's house being chosen for Eleazar and one chosen for Ithamar. 
13O	24	7	110230	 The first lot fell to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah, 
13O	24	8	110240	 the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, 
13O	24	9	110250	 the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin, 
13O	24	10	110260	 the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, 
13O	24	11	110270	 the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah, 
13O	24	12	110280	 the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim, 
13O	24	13	110290	 the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab, 
13O	24	14	110300	 the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer, 
13O	24	15	110310	 the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez, 
13O	24	16	110320	 the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel, 
13O	24	17	110330	 the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul, 
13O	24	18	110340	 the twenty-third to Delaiah, the twenty-fourth to Maaziah. 
13O	24	19	110350	 These had as their appointed duty in their service to come into the house of the LORD according to the procedure established for them by Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him. 
13O	24	20	110360	 And of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah. 
13O	24	21	110370	 Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief. 
13O	24	22	110380	 Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath. 
13O	24	23	110390	 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth. 
13O	24	24	110400	 The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir. 
13O	24	25	110410	 The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah. 
13O	24	26	110420	 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Jaaziah: Beno. 
13O	24	27	110430	 The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri. 
13O	24	28	110440	 Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons. 
13O	24	29	110450	 Of Kish, the sons of Kish: Jerahmeel. 
13O	24	30	110460	 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites according to their fathers' houses. 
13O	24	31	110470	 These also, the head of each father's house and his younger brother alike, cast lots, just as their brothers the sons of Aaron, in the presence of King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of fathers' houses of the priests and of the Levites. 
13O	25	1	110480	 David and the chiefs of the service also set apart for the service the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who prophesied with lyres, with harps, and with cymbals. The list of those who did the work and of their duties was: 
13O	25	2	110490	 Of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah, sons of Asaph, under the direction of Asaph, who prophesied under the direction of the king. 
13O	25	3	110500	 Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the direction of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with the lyre in thanksgiving and praise to the LORD. 
13O	25	4	110510	 Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth. 
13O	25	5	110520	 All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer, according to the promise of God to exalt him, for God had given Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. 
13O	25	6	110530	 They were all under the direction of their father in the music in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the order of the king. 
13O	25	7	110540	 The number of them along with their brothers, who were trained in singing to the LORD, all who were skillful, was 288. 
13O	25	8	110550	 And they cast lots for their duties, small and great, teacher and pupil alike. 
13O	25	9	110560	 The first lot fell for Asaph to Joseph; the second to Gedaliah, to him and his brothers and his sons, twelve; 
13O	25	10	110570	 the third to Zaccur, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 
13O	25	11	110580	 the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 
13O	25	12	110590	 the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 
13O	25	13	110600	 the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 
13O	25	14	110610	 the seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 
13O	25	15	110620	 the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 
13O	25	16	110630	 the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 
13O	25	17	110640	 the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 
13O	25	18	110650	 the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 
13O	25	19	110660	 the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 
13O	25	20	110670	 to the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 
13O	25	21	110680	 to the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 
13O	25	22	110690	 to the fifteenth, to Jeremoth, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 
13O	25	23	110700	 to the sixteenth, to Hananiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 
13O	25	24	110710	 to the seventeenth, to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 
13O	25	25	110720	 to the eighteenth, to Hanani, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 
13O	25	26	110730	 to the nineteenth, to Mallothi, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 
13O	25	27	110740	 to the twentieth, to Eliathah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 
13O	25	28	110750	 to the twenty-first, to Hothir, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 
13O	25	29	110760	 to the twenty-second, to Giddalti, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 
13O	25	30	110770	 to the twenty-third, to Mahazioth, his sons and his brothers, twelve; 
13O	25	31	110780	 to the twenty-fourth, to Romamti-ezer, his sons and his brothers, twelve. 
13O	26	1	110790	 As for the divisions of the gatekeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph. 
13O	26	2	110800	 And Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, 
13O	26	3	110810	 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh. 
13O	26	4	110820	 And Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sachar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth, 
13O	26	5	110830	 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth, for God blessed him. 
13O	26	6	110840	 Also to his son Shemaiah were sons born who were rulers in their fathers' houses, for they were men of great ability. 
13O	26	7	110850	 The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed and Elzabad, whose brothers were able men, Elihu and Semachiah. 
13O	26	8	110860	 All these were of the sons of Obed-edom with their sons and brothers, able men qualified for the service; sixty-two of Obed-edom. 
13O	26	9	110870	 And Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, able men, eighteen. 
13O	26	10	110880	 And Hosah, of the sons of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, his father made him chief), 
13O	26	11	110890	 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen. 
13O	26	12	110900	 These divisions of the gatekeepers, corresponding to their chief men, had duties, just as their brothers did, ministering in the house of the LORD. 
13O	26	13	110910	 And they cast lots by fathers' houses, small and great alike, for their gates. 
13O	26	14	110920	 The lot for the east fell to Shelemiah. They cast lots also for his son Zechariah, a shrewd counselor, and his lot came out for the north. 
13O	26	15	110930	 Obed-edom's came out for the south, and to his sons was allotted the gatehouse. 
13O	26	16	110940	 For Shuppim and Hosah it came out for the west, at the gate of Shallecheth on the road that goes up. Watch corresponded to watch. 
13O	26	17	110950	 On the east there were six each day, on the north four each day, on the south four each day, as well as two and two at the gatehouse. 
13O	26	18	110960	 And for the colonnade on the west there were four at the road and two at the colonnade. 
13O	26	19	110970	 These were the divisions of the gatekeepers among the Korahites and the sons of Merari. 
13O	26	20	110980	 And of the Levites, Ahijah had charge of the treasuries of the house of God and the treasuries of the dedicated gifts. 
13O	26	21	110990	 The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers' houses belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli. 
13O	26	22	111000	 The sons of Jehieli, Zetham, and Joel his brother, were in charge of the treasuries of the house of the LORD. 
13O	26	23	111010	 Of the Amramites, the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites-- 
13O	26	24	111020	 and Shebuel the son of Gershom, son of Moses, was chief officer in charge of the treasuries. 
13O	26	25	111030	 His brothers: from Eliezer were his son Rehabiah, and his son Jeshaiah, and his son Joram, and his son Zichri, and his son Shelomoth. 
13O	26	26	111040	 This Shelomoth and his brothers were in charge of all the treasuries of the dedicated gifts that David the king and the heads of the fathers' houses and the officers of the thousands and the hundreds and the commanders of the army had dedicated. 
13O	26	27	111050	 From spoil won in battles they dedicated gifts for the maintenance of the house of the LORD. 
13O	26	28	111060	 Also all that Samuel the seer and Saul the son of Kish and Abner the son of Ner and Joab the son of Zeruiah had dedicated--all dedicated gifts were in the care of Shelomoth and his brothers. 
13O	26	29	111070	 Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were appointed to external duties for Israel, as officers and judges. 
13O	26	30	111080	 Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, 1,700 men of ability, had the oversight of Israel westward of the Jordan for all the work of the LORD and for the service of the king. 
13O	26	31	111090	 Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was chief of the Hebronites of whatever genealogy or fathers' houses. (In the fortieth year of David's reign search was made and men of great ability among them were found at Jazer in Gilead.) 
13O	26	32	111100	 King David appointed him and his brothers, 2,700 men of ability, heads of fathers' houses, to have the oversight of the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of the Manassites for everything pertaining to God and for the affairs of the king. 
13O	27	1	111110	 This is the number of the people of Israel, the heads of fathers' houses, the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and their officers who served the king in all matters concerning the divisions that came and went, month after month throughout the year, each division numbering 24,000: 
13O	27	2	111120	 Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel was in charge of the first division in the first month; in his division were 24,000. 
13O	27	3	111130	 He was a descendant of Perez and was chief of all the commanders. He served for the first month. 
13O	27	4	111140	 Dodai the Ahohite was in charge of the division of the second month; in his division were 24,000. 
13O	27	5	111150	 The third commander, for the third month, was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the chief priest; in his division were 24,000. 
13O	27	6	111160	 This is the Benaiah who was a mighty man of the thirty and in command of the thirty; Ammizabad his son was in charge of his division. 
13O	27	7	111170	 Asahel the brother of Joab was fourth, for the fourth month, and his son Zebadiah after him; in his division were 24,000. 
13O	27	8	111180	 The fifth commander, for the fifth month, was Shamhuth the Izrahite; in his division were 24,000. 
13O	27	9	111190	 Sixth, for the sixth month, was Ira, the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite; in his division were 24,000. 
13O	27	10	111200	 Seventh, for the seventh month, was Helez the Pelonite, of the sons of Ephraim; in his division were 24,000. 
13O	27	11	111210	 Eighth, for the eighth month, was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites; in his division were 24,000. 
13O	27	12	111220	 Ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiezer of Anathoth, a Benjaminite; in his division were 24,000. 
13O	27	13	111230	 Tenth, for the tenth month, was Maharai of Netophah, of the Zerahites; in his division were 24,000. 
13O	27	14	111240	 Eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Benaiah of Pirathon, of the sons of Ephraim; in his division were 24,000. 
13O	27	15	111250	 Twelfth, for the twelfth month, was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel; in his division were 24,000. 
13O	27	16	111260	 Over the tribes of Israel, for the Reubenites, Eliezer the son of Zichri was chief officer; for the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah; 
13O	27	17	111270	 for Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; for Aaron, Zadok; 
13O	27	18	111280	 for Judah, Elihu, one of David's brothers; for Issachar, Omri the son of Michael; 
13O	27	19	111290	 for Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah; for Naphtali, Jeremoth the son of Azriel; 
13O	27	20	111300	 for the Ephraimites, Hoshea the son of Azaziah; for the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah; 
13O	27	21	111310	 for the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah; for Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner; 
13O	27	22	111320	 for Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the leaders of the tribes of Israel. 
13O	27	23	111330	 David did not count those below twenty years of age, for the LORD had promised to make Israel as many as the stars of heaven. 
13O	27	24	111340	 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to count, but did not finish. Yet wrath came upon Israel for this, and the number was not entered in the chronicles of King David. 
13O	27	25	111350	 Over the king's treasuries was Azmaveth the son of Adiel; and over the treasuries in the country, in the cities, in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah; 
13O	27	26	111360	 and over those who did the work of the field for tilling the soil was Ezri the son of Chelub; 
13O	27	27	111370	 and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite; and over the produce of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite. 
13O	27	28	111380	 Over the olive and sycamore trees in the Shephelah was Baal-hanan the Gederite; and over the stores of oil was Joash. 
13O	27	29	111390	 Over the herds that pastured in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; over the herds in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai. 
13O	27	30	111400	 Over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite. Over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite. 
13O	27	31	111410	 All these were stewards of King David's property. 
13O	27	32	111420	 Jonathan, David's uncle, was a counselor, being a man of understanding and a scribe. He and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni attended the king's sons. 
13O	27	33	111430	 Ahithophel was the king's counselor, and Hushai the Archite was the king's friend. 
13O	27	34	111440	 Ahithophel was succeeded by Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar. Joab was commander of the king's army. 
13O	28	1	111450	 David assembled at Jerusalem all the officials of Israel, the officials of the tribes, the officers of the divisions that served the king, the commanders of thousands, the commanders of hundreds, the stewards of all the property and livestock of the king and his sons, together with the palace officials, the mighty men and all the seasoned warriors. 
13O	28	2	111460	 Then King David rose to his feet and said: "Hear me, my brothers and my people. I had it in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD and for the footstool of our God, and I made preparations for building. 
13O	28	3	111470	 But God said to me, 'You may not build a house for my name, for you are a man of war and have shed blood.' 
13O	28	4	111480	 Yet the LORD God of Israel chose me from all my father's house to be king over Israel forever. For he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father's house, and among my father's sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel. 
13O	28	5	111490	 And of all my sons (for the LORD has given me many sons) he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel. 
13O	28	6	111500	 He said to me, 'It is Solomon your son who shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father. 
13O	28	7	111510	 I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues strong in keeping my commandments and my rules, as he is today.' 
13O	28	8	111520	 Now therefore in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God, that you may possess this good land and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever. 
13O	28	9	111530	 "And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever. 
13O	28	10	111540	 Be careful now, for the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong and do it." 
13O	28	11	111550	 Then David gave Solomon his son the plan of the vestibule of the temple, and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, and its inner chambers, and of the room for the mercy seat; 
13O	28	12	111560	 and the plan of all that he had in mind for the courts of the house of the LORD, all the surrounding chambers, the treasuries of the house of God, and the treasuries for dedicated gifts; 
13O	28	13	111570	 for the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, and all the work of the service in the house of the LORD; for all the vessels for the service in the house of the LORD, 
13O	28	14	111580	 the weight of gold for all golden vessels for each service, the weight of silver vessels for each service, 
13O	28	15	111590	 the weight of the golden lampstands and their lamps, the weight of gold for each lampstand and its lamps, the weight of silver for a lampstand and its lamps, according to the use of each lampstand in the service, 
13O	28	16	111600	 the weight of gold for each table for the showbread, the silver for the silver tables, 
13O	28	17	111610	 and pure gold for the forks, the basins and the cups; for the golden bowls and the weight of each; for the silver bowls and the weight of each; 
13O	28	18	111620	 for the altar of incense made of refined gold, and its weight; also his plan for the golden chariot of the cherubim that spread their wings and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD. 
13O	28	19	111630	 "All this he made clear to me in writing from the hand of the LORD, all the work to be done according to the plan." 
13O	28	20	111640	 Then David said to Solomon his son, "Be strong and courageous and do it. Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed, for the LORD God, even my God, is with you. He will not leave you or forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of the LORD is finished. 
13O	28	21	111650	 And behold the divisions of the priests and the Levites for all the service of the house of God; and with you in all the work will be every willing man who has skill for any kind of service; also the officers and all the people will be wholly at your command." 
13O	29	1	111660	 And David the king said to all the assembly, "Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is young and inexperienced, and the work is great, for the palace will not be for man but for the LORD God. 
13O	29	2	111670	 So I have provided for the house of my God, so far as I was able, the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, and the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood, besides great quantities of onyx and stones for setting, antimony, colored stones, all sorts of precious stones and marble. 
13O	29	3	111680	 Moreover, in addition to all that I have provided for the holy house, I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, and because of my devotion to the house of my God I give it to the house of my God: 
13O	29	4	111690	 3,000 talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and 7,000 talents of refined silver, for overlaying the walls of the house, 
13O	29	5	111700	 and for all the work to be done by craftsmen, gold for the things of gold and silver for the things of silver. Who then will offer willingly, consecrating himself today to the LORD?" 
13O	29	6	111710	 Then the leaders of fathers' houses made their freewill offerings, as did also the leaders of the tribes, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and the officers over the king's work. 
13O	29	7	111720	 They gave for the service of the house of God 5,000 talents and 10,000 darics of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze and 100,000 talents of iron. 
13O	29	8	111730	 And whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of the LORD, in the care of Jehiel the Gershonite. 
13O	29	9	111740	 Then the people rejoiced because they had given willingly, for with a whole heart they had offered freely to the LORD. David the king also rejoiced greatly. 
13O	29	10	111750	 Therefore David blessed the LORD in the presence of all the assembly. And David said: "Blessed are you, O LORD, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever. 
13O	29	11	111760	 Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all. 
13O	29	12	111770	 Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. 
13O	29	13	111780	 And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name. 
13O	29	14	111790	 "But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you. 
13O	29	15	111800	 For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding. 
13O	29	16	111810	 O LORD our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand and is all your own. 
13O	29	17	111820	 I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you. 
13O	29	18	111830	 O LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep forever such purposes and thoughts in the hearts of your people, and direct their hearts toward you. 
13O	29	19	111840	 Grant to Solomon my son a whole heart that he may keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, performing all, and that he may build the palace for which I have made provision." 
13O	29	20	111850	 Then David said to all the assembly, "Bless the LORD your God." And all the assembly blessed the LORD, the God of their fathers, and bowed their heads and paid homage to the LORD and to the king. 
13O	29	21	111860	 And they offered sacrifices to the LORD, and on the next day offered burnt offerings to the LORD, 1,000 bulls, 1,000 rams, and 1,000 lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel. 
13O	29	22	111870	 And they ate and drank before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and they anointed him as prince for the LORD, and Zadok as priest. 
13O	29	23	111880	 Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king in place of David his father. And he prospered, and all Israel obeyed him. 
13O	29	24	111890	 All the leaders and the mighty men, and also all the sons of King David, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon. 
13O	29	25	111900	 And the LORD made Solomon very great in the sight of all Israel and bestowed on him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel. 
13O	29	26	111910	 Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel. 
13O	29	27	111920	 The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. 
13O	29	28	111930	 Then he died at a good age, full of days, riches, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place. 
13O	29	29	111940	 Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are written in the Chronicles of Samuel the seer, and in the Chronicles of Nathan the prophet, and in the Chronicles of Gad the seer, 
13O	29	30	111950	 with accounts of all his rule and his might and of the circumstances that came upon him and upon Israel and upon all the kingdoms of the countries. 
14O	1	1	111960	 Solomon the son of David established himself in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him and made him exceedingly great. 
14O	1	2	111970	 Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers' houses. 
14O	1	3	111980	 And Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness, was there. 
14O	1	4	111990	 (But David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.) 
14O	1	5	112000	 Moreover, the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the LORD. And Solomon and the assembly sought it out. 
14O	1	6	112010	 And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the LORD, which was at the tent of meeting, and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it. 
14O	1	7	112020	 In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, "Ask what I shall give you." 
14O	1	8	112030	 And Solomon said to God, "You have shown great and steadfast love to David my father, and have made me king in his place. 
14O	1	9	112040	 O LORD God, let your word to David my father be now fulfilled, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth. 
14O	1	10	112050	 Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can govern this people of yours, which is so great?" 
14O	1	11	112060	 God answered Solomon, "Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked long life, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may govern my people over whom I have made you king, 
14O	1	12	112070	 wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you riches, possessions, and honor, such as none of the kings had who were before you, and none after you shall have the like." 
14O	1	13	112080	 So Solomon came from the high place at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem. And he reigned over Israel. 
14O	1	14	112090	 Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem. 
14O	1	15	112100	 And the king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah. 
14O	1	16	112110	 And Solomon's import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king's traders would buy them from Kue for a price. 
14O	1	17	112120	 They imported a chariot from Egypt for 600 shekels of silver, and a horse for 150. Likewise through them these were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria. 
14O	2	1	112130	 Now Solomon purposed to build a temple for the name of the LORD, and a royal palace for himself. 
14O	2	2	112140	 And Solomon assigned 70,000 men to bear burdens and 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 to oversee them. 
14O	2	3	112150	 And Solomon sent word to Hiram the king of Tyre: "As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedar to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me. 
14O	2	4	112160	 Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the LORD my God and dedicate it to him for the burning of incense of sweet spices before him, and for the regular arrangement of the showbread, and for burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and the new moons and the appointed feasts of the LORD our God, as ordained forever for Israel. 
14O	2	5	112170	 The house that I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods. 
14O	2	6	112180	 But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him? 
14O	2	7	112190	 So now send me a man skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, trained also in engraving, to be with the skilled workers who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided. 
14O	2	8	112200	 Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. And my servants will be with your servants, 
14O	2	9	112210	 to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the house I am to build will be great and wonderful. 
14O	2	10	112220	 I will give for your servants, the woodsmen who cut timber, 20,000 cors of crushed wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of oil." 
14O	2	11	112230	 Then Hiram the king of Tyre answered in a letter that he sent to Solomon, "Because the LORD loves his people, he has made you king over them." 
14O	2	12	112240	 Hiram also said, "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, who has discretion and understanding, who will build a temple for the LORD and a royal palace for himself. 
14O	2	13	112250	 "Now I have sent a skilled man, who has understanding, Huram-abi, 
14O	2	14	112260	 the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father. 
14O	2	15	112270	 Now therefore the wheat and barley, oil and wine, of which my lord has spoken, let him send to his servants. 
14O	2	16	112280	 And we will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon and bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may take it up to Jerusalem." 
14O	2	17	112290	 Then Solomon counted all the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, after the census of them that David his father had taken, and there were found 153,600. 
14O	2	18	112300	 Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work. 
14O	3	1	112310	 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 
14O	3	2	112320	 He began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign. 
14O	3	3	112330	 These are Solomon's measurements for building the house of God: the length, in cubits of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. 
14O	3	4	112340	 The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and its height was 120 cubits. He overlaid it on the inside with pure gold. 
14O	3	5	112350	 The nave he lined with cypress and covered it with fine gold and made palms and chains on it. 
14O	3	6	112360	 He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold of Parvaim. 
14O	3	7	112370	 So he lined the house with gold--its beams, its thresholds, its walls, and its doors--and he carved cherubim on the walls. 
14O	3	8	112380	 And he made the Most Holy Place. Its length, corresponding to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth was twenty cubits. He overlaid it with 600 talents of fine gold. 
14O	3	9	112390	 The weight of gold for the nails was fifty shekels. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold. 
14O	3	10	112400	 In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of wood and overlaid them with gold. 
14O	3	11	112410	 The wings of the cherubim together extended twenty cubits: one wing of the one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub; 
14O	3	12	112420	 and of this cherub, one wing, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, also of five cubits, was joined to the wing of the first cherub. 
14O	3	13	112430	 The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. The cherubim stood on their feet, facing the nave. 
14O	3	14	112440	 And he made the veil of blue and purple and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and he worked cherubim on it. 
14O	3	15	112450	 In front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, with a capital of five cubits on the top of each. 
14O	3	16	112460	 He made chains like a necklace and put them on the tops of the pillars, and he made a hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains. 
14O	3	17	112470	 He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south, the other on the north; that on the south he called Jachin, and that on the north Boaz. 
14O	4	1	112480	 He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high. 
14O	4	2	112490	 Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference. 
14O	4	3	112500	 Under it were figures of gourds, for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast. 
14O	4	4	112510	 It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on them, and all their rear parts were inward. 
14O	4	5	112520	 Its thickness was a handbreadth. And its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held 3,000 baths. 
14O	4	6	112530	 He also made ten basins in which to wash, and set five on the south side, and five on the north side. In these they were to rinse off what was used for the burnt offering, and the sea was for the priests to wash in. 
14O	4	7	112540	 And he made ten golden lampstands as prescribed, and set them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. 
14O	4	8	112550	 He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. And he made a hundred basins of gold. 
14O	4	9	112560	 He made the court of the priests and the great court and doors for the court and overlaid their doors with bronze. 
14O	4	10	112570	 And he set the sea at the southeast corner of the house. 
14O	4	11	112580	 Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of God: 
14O	4	12	112590	 the two pillars, the bowls, and the two capitals on the top of the pillars; and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; 
14O	4	13	112600	 and the 400 pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars. 
14O	4	14	112610	 He made the stands also, and the basins on the stands, 
14O	4	15	112620	 and the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath it. 
14O	4	16	112630	 The pots, the shovels, the forks, and all the equipment for these Huram-abi made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the LORD. 
14O	4	17	112640	 In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah. 
14O	4	18	112650	 Solomon made all these things in great quantities, for the weight of the bronze was not sought. 
14O	4	19	112660	 So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God: the golden altar, the tables for the bread of the Presence, 
14O	4	20	112670	 the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold to burn before the inner sanctuary, as prescribed; 
14O	4	21	112680	 the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of purest gold; 
14O	4	22	112690	 the snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and fire pans, of pure gold, and the sockets of the temple, for the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and for the doors of the nave of the temple were of gold. 
14O	5	1	112700	 Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the treasuries of the house of God. 
14O	5	2	112710	 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel, in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. 
14O	5	3	112720	 And all the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast that is in the seventh month. 
14O	5	4	112730	 And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark. 
14O	5	5	112740	 And they brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the Levitical priests brought them up. 
14O	5	6	112750	 And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered. 
14O	5	7	112760	 Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim. 
14O	5	8	112770	 The cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles. 
14O	5	9	112780	 And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day. 
14O	5	10	112790	 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses put there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of Egypt. 
14O	5	11	112800	 And when the priests came out of the Holy Place (for all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves, without regard to their divisions, 
14O	5	12	112810	 and all the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, their sons and kinsmen, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, stood east of the altar with 120 priests who were trumpeters; 
14O	5	13	112820	 and it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the LORD), and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the LORD, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever," the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud, 
14O	5	14	112830	 so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God. 
14O	6	1	112840	 Then Solomon said, "The LORD has said that he would dwell in thick darkness. 
14O	6	2	112850	 But I have built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever." 
14O	6	3	112860	 Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood. 
14O	6	4	112870	 And he said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying, 
14O	6	5	112880	 'Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, and I chose no man as prince over my people Israel; 
14O	6	6	112890	 but I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.' 
14O	6	7	112900	 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 
14O	6	8	112910	 But the LORD said to David my father, 'Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart. 
14O	6	9	112920	 Nevertheless, it is not you who shall build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.' 
14O	6	10	112930	 Now the LORD has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and I have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 
14O	6	11	112940	 And there I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that he made with the people of Israel." 
14O	6	12	112950	 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands. 
14O	6	13	112960	 Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the court, and he stood on it. Then he knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven, 
14O	6	14	112970	 and said, "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart, 
14O	6	15	112980	 who have kept with your servant David my father what you declared to him. You spoke with your mouth, and with your hand have fulfilled it this day. 
14O	6	16	112990	 Now therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, 'You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.' 
14O	6	17	113000	 Now therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David. 
14O	6	18	113010	 "But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built! 
14O	6	19	113020	 Yet have regard to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O LORD my God, listening to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you, 
14O	6	20	113030	 that your eyes may be open day and night toward this house, the place where you have promised to set your name, that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place. 
14O	6	21	113040	 And listen to the pleas of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen from heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive. 
14O	6	22	113050	 "If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house, 
14O	6	23	113060	 then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness. 
14O	6	24	113070	 "If your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house, 
14O	6	25	113080	 then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to them and to their fathers. 
14O	6	26	113090	 "When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them, 
14O	6	27	113100	 then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance. 
14O	6	28	113110	 "If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemies besiege them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is, 
14O	6	29	113120	 whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing his own affliction and his own sorrow and stretching out his hands toward this house, 
14O	6	30	113130	 then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind, 
14O	6	31	113140	 that they may fear you and walk in your ways all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers. 
14O	6	32	113150	 "Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for the sake of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when he comes and prays toward this house, 
14O	6	33	113160	 hear from heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name. 
14O	6	34	113170	 "If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name, 
14O	6	35	113180	 then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause. 
14O	6	36	113190	 "If they sin against you--for there is no one who does not sin--and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far or near, 
14O	6	37	113200	 yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity, saying, 'We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,' 
14O	6	38	113210	 if they repent with all their mind and with all their heart in the land of their captivity to which they were carried captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name, 
14O	6	39	113220	 then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you. 
14O	6	40	113230	 Now, O my God, let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place. 
14O	6	41	113240	 "And now arise, O LORD God, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might. Let your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in your goodness. 
14O	6	42	113250	 O LORD God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one! Remember your steadfast love for David your servant." 
14O	7	1	113260	 As soon as Solomon finished his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. 
14O	7	2	113270	 And the priests could not enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD filled the LORD's house. 
14O	7	3	113280	 When all the people of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the LORD on the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever." 
14O	7	4	113290	 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD. 
14O	7	5	113300	 King Solomon offered as a sacrifice 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God. 
14O	7	6	113310	 The priests stood at their posts; the Levites also, with the instruments for music to the LORD that King David had made for giving thanks to the LORD--for his steadfast love endures forever--whenever David offered praises by their ministry; opposite them the priests sounded trumpets, and all Israel stood. 
14O	7	7	113320	 And Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD, for there he offered the burnt offering and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar Solomon had made could not hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat. 
14O	7	8	113330	 At that time Solomon held the feast for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt. 
14O	7	9	113340	 And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for they had kept the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days. 
14O	7	10	113350	 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the prosperity that the LORD had granted to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people. 
14O	7	11	113360	 Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king's house. All that Solomon had planned to do in the house of the LORD and in his own house he successfully accomplished. 
14O	7	12	113370	 Then the LORD appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice. 
14O	7	13	113380	 When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, 
14O	7	14	113390	 if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 
14O	7	15	113400	 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place. 
14O	7	16	113410	 For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time. 
14O	7	17	113420	 And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules, 
14O	7	18	113430	 then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, 'You shall not lack a man to rule Israel.' 
14O	7	19	113440	 "But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, 
14O	7	20	113450	 then I will pluck you up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 
14O	7	21	113460	 And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?' 
14O	7	22	113470	 Then they will say, 'Because they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore he has brought all this disaster on them.'" 
14O	8	1	113480	 At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own house, 
14O	8	2	113490	 Solomon rebuilt the cities that Hiram had given to him, and settled the people of Israel in them. 
14O	8	3	113500	 And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and took it. 
14O	8	4	113510	 He built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the store cities that he built in Hamath. 
14O	8	5	113520	 He also built Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars, 
14O	8	6	113530	 and Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had and all the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. 
14O	8	7	113540	 All the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel, 
14O	8	8	113550	 from their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel had not destroyed--these Solomon drafted as forced labor, and so they are to this day. 
14O	8	9	113560	 But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves for his work; they were soldiers, and his officers, the commanders of his chariots, and his horsemen. 
14O	8	10	113570	 And these were the chief officers of King Solomon, 250, who exercised authority over the people. 
14O	8	11	113580	 Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the city of David to the house that he had built for her, for he said, "My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel, for the places to which the ark of the LORD has come are holy." 
14O	8	12	113590	 Then Solomon offered up burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD that he had built before the vestibule, 
14O	8	13	113600	 as the duty of each day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the three annual feasts--the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths. 
14O	8	14	113610	 According to the ruling of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry before the priests as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers in their divisions at each gate, for so David the man of God had commanded. 
14O	8	15	113620	 And they did not turn aside from what the king had commanded the priests and Levites concerning any matter and concerning the treasuries. 
14O	8	16	113630	 Thus was accomplished all the work of Solomon from the day the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was completed. 
14O	8	17	113640	 Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and Eloth on the shore of the sea, in the land of Edom. 
14O	8	18	113650	 And Hiram sent to him by the hand of his servants ships and servants familiar with the sea, and they went to Ophir together with the servants of Solomon and brought from there 450 talents of gold and brought it to King Solomon. 
14O	9	1	113660	 Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions, having a very great retinue and camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind. 
14O	9	2	113670	 And Solomon answered all her questions. There was nothing hidden from Solomon that he could not explain to her. 
14O	9	3	113680	 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built, 
14O	9	4	113690	 the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, and their clothing, his cupbearers, and their clothing, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of the LORD, there was no more breath in her. 
14O	9	5	113700	 And she said to the king, "The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom, 
14O	9	6	113710	 but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, half the greatness of your wisdom was not told me; you surpass the report that I heard. 
14O	9	7	113720	 Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom! 
14O	9	8	113730	 Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the LORD your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness." 
14O	9	9	113740	 Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There were no spices such as those that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon. 
14O	9	10	113750	 Moreover, the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum wood and precious stones. 
14O	9	11	113760	 And the king made from the algum wood supports for the house of the LORD and for the king's house, lyres also and harps for the singers. There never was seen the like of them before in the land of Judah. 
14O	9	12	113770	 And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked besides what she had brought to the king. So she turned and went back to her own land with her servants. 
14O	9	13	113780	 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold, 
14O	9	14	113790	 besides that which the explorers and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land brought gold and silver to Solomon. 
14O	9	15	113800	 King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold; 600 shekels of beaten gold went into each shield. 
14O	9	16	113810	 And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; 300 shekels of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon. 
14O	9	17	113820	 The king also made a great ivory throne and overlaid it with pure gold. 
14O	9	18	113830	 The throne had six steps and a footstool of gold, which were attached to the throne, and on each side of the seat were armrests and two lions standing beside the armrests, 
14O	9	19	113840	 while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. Nothing like it was ever made for any kingdom. 
14O	9	20	113850	 All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon. 
14O	9	21	113860	 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. 
14O	9	22	113870	 Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom. 
14O	9	23	113880	 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind. 
14O	9	24	113890	 Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and of gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year. 
14O	9	25	113900	 And Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem. 
14O	9	26	113910	 And he ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. 
14O	9	27	113920	 And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah. 
14O	9	28	113930	 And horses were imported for Solomon from Egypt and from all lands. 
14O	9	29	113940	 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, from first to last, are they not written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat? 
14O	9	30	113950	 Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. 
14O	9	31	113960	 And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David his father, and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. 
14O	10	1	113970	 Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. 
14O	10	2	113980	 And as soon as Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), then Jeroboam returned from Egypt. 
14O	10	3	113990	 And they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all Israel came and said to Rehoboam, 
14O	10	4	114000	 "Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you." 
14O	10	5	114010	 He said to them, "Come to me again in three days." So the people went away. 
14O	10	6	114020	 Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, "How do you advise me to answer this people?" 
14O	10	7	114030	 And they said to him, "If you will be good to this people and please them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever." 
14O	10	8	114040	 But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him. 
14O	10	9	114050	 And he said to them, "What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, 'Lighten the yoke that your father put on us'?" 
14O	10	10	114060	 And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, "Thus shall you speak to the people who said to you, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us'; thus shall you say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's thighs. 
14O	10	11	114070	 And now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.'" 
14O	10	12	114080	 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, "Come to me again the third day." 
14O	10	13	114090	 And the king answered them harshly; and forsaking the counsel of the old men, 
14O	10	14	114100	 King Rehoboam spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions." 
14O	10	15	114110	 So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of affairs brought about by God that the LORD might fulfill his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. 
14O	10	16	114120	 And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, "What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Each of you to your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David." So all Israel went to their tents. 
14O	10	17	114130	 But Rehoboam reigned over the people of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah. 
14O	10	18	114140	 Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and the people of Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam quickly mounted his chariot to flee to Jerusalem. 
14O	10	19	114150	 So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day. 
14O	11	1	114160	 When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam. 
14O	11	2	114170	 But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God: 
14O	11	3	114180	 "Say to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, 
14O	11	4	114190	 'Thus says the LORD, You shall not go up or fight against your relatives. Return every man to his home, for this thing is from me.'" So they listened to the word of the LORD and returned and did not go against Jeroboam. 
14O	11	5	114200	 Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and he built cities for defense in Judah. 
14O	11	6	114210	 He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa, 
14O	11	7	114220	 Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam, 
14O	11	8	114230	 Gath, Mareshah, Ziph, 
14O	11	9	114240	 Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah, 
14O	11	10	114250	 Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, fortified cities that are in Judah and in Benjamin. 
14O	11	11	114260	 He made the fortresses strong, and put commanders in them, and stores of food, oil, and wine. 
14O	11	12	114270	 And he put shields and spears in all the cities and made them very strong. So he held Judah and Benjamin. 
14O	11	13	114280	 And the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel presented themselves to him from all places where they lived. 
14O	11	14	114290	 For the Levites left their common lands and their holdings and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons cast them out from serving as priests of the LORD, 
14O	11	15	114300	 and he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the calves that he had made. 
14O	11	16	114310	 And those who had set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came after them from all the tribes of Israel to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers. 
14O	11	17	114320	 They strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and for three years they made Rehoboam the son of Solomon secure, for they walked for three years in the way of David and Solomon. 
14O	11	18	114330	 Rehoboam took as wife Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse, 
14O	11	19	114340	 and she bore him sons, Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham. 
14O	11	20	114350	 After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith. 
14O	11	21	114360	 Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters). 
14O	11	22	114370	 And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as chief prince among his brothers, for he intended to make him king. 
14O	11	23	114380	 And he dealt wisely and distributed some of his sons through all the districts of Judah and Benjamin, in all the fortified cities, and he gave them abundant provisions and procured wives for them. 
14O	12	1	114390	 When the rule of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him. 
14O	12	2	114400	 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem 
14O	12	3	114410	 with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people were without number who came with him from Egypt--Libyans, Sukkiim, and Ethiopians. 
14O	12	4	114420	 And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem. 
14O	12	5	114430	 Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah, who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, "Thus says the LORD, 'You abandoned me, so I have abandoned you to the hand of Shishak.'" 
14O	12	6	114440	 Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The LORD is righteous." 
14O	12	7	114450	 When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah: "They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. 
14O	12	8	114460	 Nevertheless, they shall be servants to him, that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries." 
14O	12	9	114470	 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. He took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house. He took away everything. He also took away the shields of gold that Solomon had made, 
14O	12	10	114480	 and King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house. 
14O	12	11	114490	 And as often as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard came and carried them and brought them back to the guardroom. 
14O	12	12	114500	 And when he humbled himself the wrath of the LORD turned from him, so as not to make a complete destruction. Moreover, conditions were good in Judah. 
14O	12	13	114510	 So King Rehoboam grew strong in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite. 
14O	12	14	114520	 And he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek the LORD. 
14O	12	15	114530	 Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the chronicles of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer? There were continual wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam. 
14O	12	16	114540	 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David, and Abijah his son reigned in his place. 
14O	13	1	114550	 In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah began to reign over Judah. 
14O	13	2	114560	 He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. Now there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. 
14O	13	3	114570	 Abijah went out to battle, having an army of valiant men of war, 400,000 chosen men. And Jeroboam drew up his line of battle against him with 800,000 chosen mighty warriors. 
14O	13	4	114580	 Then Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim that is in the hill country of Ephraim and said, "Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel! 
14O	13	5	114590	 Ought you not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt? 
14O	13	6	114600	 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his lord, 
14O	13	7	114610	 and certain worthless scoundrels gathered about him and defied Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and irresolute and could not withstand them. 
14O	13	8	114620	 "And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David, because you are a great multitude and have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made you for gods. 
14O	13	9	114630	 Have you not driven out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes for ordination with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are no gods. 
14O	13	10	114640	 But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests ministering to the LORD who are sons of Aaron, and Levites for their service. 
14O	13	11	114650	 They offer to the LORD every morning and every evening burnt offerings and incense of sweet spices, set out the showbread on the table of pure gold, and care for the golden lampstand that its lamps may burn every evening. For we keep the charge of the LORD our God, but you have forsaken him. 
14O	13	12	114660	 Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with their battle trumpets to sound the call to battle against you. O sons of Israel, do not fight against the LORD, the God of your fathers, for you cannot succeed." 
14O	13	13	114670	 Jeroboam had sent an ambush around to come upon them from behind. Thus his troops were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them. 
14O	13	14	114680	 And when Judah looked, behold, the battle was in front of and behind them. And they cried to the LORD, and the priests blew the trumpets. 
14O	13	15	114690	 Then the men of Judah raised the battle shout. And when the men of Judah shouted, God defeated Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. 
14O	13	16	114700	 The men of Israel fled before Judah, and God gave them into their hand. 
14O	13	17	114710	 Abijah and his people struck them with great force, so there fell slain of Israel 500,000 chosen men. 
14O	13	18	114720	 Thus the men of Israel were subdued at that time, and the men of Judah prevailed, because they relied on the LORD, the God of their fathers. 
14O	13	19	114730	 And Abijah pursued Jeroboam and took cities from him, Bethel with its villages and Jeshanah with its villages and Ephron with its villages. 
14O	13	20	114740	 Jeroboam did not recover his power in the days of Abijah. And the LORD struck him down, and he died. 
14O	13	21	114750	 But Abijah grew mighty. And he took fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters. 
14O	13	22	114760	 The rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo. 
14O	14	1	114770	 Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land had rest for ten years. 
14O	14	2	114780	 And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God. 
14O	14	3	114790	 He took away the foreign altars and the high places and broke down the pillars and cut down the Asherim 
14O	14	4	114800	 and commanded Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to keep the law and the commandment. 
14O	14	5	114810	 He also took out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars. And the kingdom had rest under him. 
14O	14	6	114820	 He built fortified cities in Judah, for the land had rest. He had no war in those years, for the LORD gave him peace. 
14O	14	7	114830	 And he said to Judah, "Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours, because we have sought the LORD our God. We have sought him, and he has given us peace on every side." So they built and prospered. 
14O	14	8	114840	 And Asa had an army of 300,000 from Judah, armed with large shields and spears, and 280,000 men from Benjamin that carried shields and drew bows. All these were mighty men of valor. 
14O	14	9	114850	 Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and 300 chariots, and came as far as Mareshah. 
14O	14	10	114860	 And Asa went out to meet him, and they drew up their lines of battle in the Valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. 
14O	14	11	114870	 And Asa cried to the LORD his God, "O LORD, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, you are our God; let not man prevail against you." 
14O	14	12	114880	 So the LORD defeated the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah, and the Ethiopians fled. 
14O	14	13	114890	 Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar, and the Ethiopians fell until none remained alive, for they were broken before the LORD and his army. The men of Judah carried away very much spoil. 
14O	14	14	114900	 And they attacked all the cities around Gerar, for the fear of the LORD was upon them. They plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them. 
14O	14	15	114910	 And they struck down the tents of those who had livestock and carried away sheep in abundance and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem. 
14O	15	1	114920	 The Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded, 
14O	15	2	114930	 and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, "Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The LORD is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you. 
14O	15	3	114940	 For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law, 
14O	15	4	114950	 but when in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them. 
14O	15	5	114960	 In those times there was no peace to him who went out or to him who came in, for great disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands. 
14O	15	6	114970	 They were broken in pieces. Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress. 
14O	15	7	114980	 But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded." 
14O	15	8	114990	 As soon as Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Azariah the son of Oded, he took courage and put away the detestable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of the LORD that was in front of the vestibule of the house of the LORD. 
14O	15	9	115000	 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were residing with them, for great numbers had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him. 
14O	15	10	115010	 They were gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. 
14O	15	11	115020	 They sacrificed to the LORD on that day from the spoil that they had brought 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep. 
14O	15	12	115030	 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul, 
14O	15	13	115040	 but that whoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman. 
14O	15	14	115050	 They swore an oath to the LORD with a loud voice and with shouting and with trumpets and with horns. 
14O	15	15	115060	 And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and had sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and the LORD gave them rest all around. 
14O	15	16	115070	 Even Maacah, his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron. 
14O	15	17	115080	 But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true all his days. 
14O	15	18	115090	 And he brought into the house of God the sacred gifts of his father and his own sacred gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels. 
14O	15	19	115100	 And there was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa. 
14O	16	1	115110	 In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. 
14O	16	2	115120	 Then Asa took silver and gold from the treasures of the house of the LORD and the king's house and sent them to Ben-hadad king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying, 
14O	16	3	115130	 "There is a covenant between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending to you silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me." 
14O	16	4	115140	 And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and they conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali. 
14O	16	5	115150	 And when Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah and let his work cease. 
14O	16	6	115160	 Then King Asa took all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building, and with them he built Geba and Mizpah. 
14O	16	7	115170	 At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, "Because you relied on the king of Syria, and did not rely on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped you. 
14O	16	8	115180	 Were not the Ethiopians and the Libyans a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD, he gave them into your hand. 
14O	16	9	115190	 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars." 
14O	16	10	115200	 Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in the stocks in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time. 
14O	16	11	115210	 The acts of Asa, from first to last, are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. 
14O	16	12	115220	 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet, and his disease became severe. Yet even in his disease he did not seek the LORD, but sought help from physicians. 
14O	16	13	115230	 And Asa slept with his fathers, dying in the forty-first year of his reign. 
14O	16	14	115240	 They buried him in the tomb that he had cut for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer's art, and they made a very great fire in his honor. 
14O	17	1	115250	 Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place and strengthened himself against Israel. 
14O	17	2	115260	 He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim that Asa his father had captured. 
14O	17	3	115270	 The LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals, 
14O	17	4	115280	 but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments, and not according to the practices of Israel. 
14O	17	5	115290	 Therefore the LORD established the kingdom in his hand. And all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had great riches and honor. 
14O	17	6	115300	 His heart was courageous in the ways of the LORD. And furthermore, he took the high places and the Asherim out of Judah. 
14O	17	7	115310	 In the third year of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah; 
14O	17	8	115320	 and with them the Levites, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah; and with these Levites, the priests Elishama and Jehoram. 
14O	17	9	115330	 And they taught in Judah, having the Book of the Law of the LORD with them. They went about through all the cities of Judah and taught among the people. 
14O	17	10	115340	 And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, and they made no war against Jehoshaphat. 
14O	17	11	115350	 Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents and silver for tribute, and the Arabians also brought him 7,700 rams and 7,700 goats. 
14O	17	12	115360	 And Jehoshaphat grew steadily greater. He built in Judah fortresses and store cities, 
14O	17	13	115370	 and he had large supplies in the cities of Judah. He had soldiers, mighty men of valor, in Jerusalem. 
14O	17	14	115380	 This was the muster of them by fathers' houses: Of Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah the commander, with 300,000 mighty men of valor; 
14O	17	15	115390	 and next to him Jehohanan the commander, with 280,000; 
14O	17	16	115400	 and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, a volunteer for the service of the LORD, with 200,000 mighty men of valor. 
14O	17	17	115410	 Of Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valor, with 200,000 men armed with bow and shield; 
14O	17	18	115420	 and next to him Jehozabad with 180,000 armed for war. 
14O	17	19	115430	 These were in the service of the king, besides those whom the king had placed in the fortified cities throughout all Judah. 
14O	18	1	115440	 Now Jehoshaphat had great riches and honor, and he made a marriage alliance with Ahab. 
14O	18	2	115450	 After some years he went down to Ahab in Samaria. And Ahab killed an abundance of sheep and oxen for him and for the people who were with him, and induced him to go up against Ramoth-gilead. 
14O	18	3	115460	 Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, "Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead?" He answered him, "I am as you are, my people as your people. We will be with you in the war." 
14O	18	4	115470	 And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Inquire first for the word of the LORD." 
14O	18	5	115480	 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall we go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?" And they said, "Go up, for God will give it into the hand of the king." 
14O	18	6	115490	 But Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not here another prophet of the LORD of whom we may inquire?" 
14O	18	7	115500	 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil." And Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say so." 
14O	18	8	115510	 Then the king of Israel summoned an officer and said, "Bring quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah." 
14O	18	9	115520	 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes. And they were sitting at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them. 
14O	18	10	115530	 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron and said, "Thus says the LORD, 'With these you shall push the Syrians until they are destroyed.'" 
14O	18	11	115540	 And all the prophets prophesied so and said, "Go up to Ramoth-gilead and triumph. The LORD will give it into the hand of the king." 
14O	18	12	115550	 And the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, "Behold, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king. Let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably." 
14O	18	13	115560	 But Micaiah said, "As the LORD lives, what my God says, that I will speak." 
14O	18	14	115570	 And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I refrain?" And he answered, "Go up and triumph; they will be given into your hand." 
14O	18	15	115580	 But the king said to him, "How many times shall I make you swear that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?" 
14O	18	16	115590	 And he said, "I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And the LORD said, 'These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.'" 
14O	18	17	115600	 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?" 
14O	18	18	115610	 And Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left. 
14O	18	19	115620	 And the LORD said, 'Who will entice Ahab the king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?' And one said one thing, and another said another. 
14O	18	20	115630	 Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, saying, 'I will entice him.' And the LORD said to him, 'By what means?' 
14O	18	21	115640	 And he said, 'I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' And he said, 'You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.' 
14O	18	22	115650	 Now therefore behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets. The LORD has declared disaster concerning you." 
14O	18	23	115660	 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, "Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go from me to speak to you?" 
14O	18	24	115670	 And Micaiah said, "Behold, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself." 
14O	18	25	115680	 And the king of Israel said, "Seize Micaiah and take him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king's son, 
14O	18	26	115690	 and say, 'Thus says the king, Put this fellow in prison and feed him with meager rations of bread and water until I return in peace.'" 
14O	18	27	115700	 And Micaiah said, "If you return in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me." And he said, "Hear, all you peoples!" 
14O	18	28	115710	 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead. 
14O	18	29	115720	 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your robes." And the king of Israel disguised himself, and they went into battle. 
14O	18	30	115730	 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, "Fight with neither small nor great, but only with the king of Israel." 
14O	18	31	115740	 As soon as the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, "It is the king of Israel." So they turned to fight against him. And Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; God drew them away from him. 
14O	18	32	115750	 For as soon as the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him. 
14O	18	33	115760	 But a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn around and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded." 
14O	18	34	115770	 And the battle continued that day, and the king of Israel was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians until evening. Then at sunset he died. 
14O	19	1	115780	 Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned in safety to his house in Jerusalem. 
14O	19	2	115790	 But Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, "Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the LORD. 
14O	19	3	115800	 Nevertheless, some good is found in you, for you destroyed the Asherahs out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God." 
14O	19	4	115810	 Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem. And he went out again among the people, from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers. 
14O	19	5	115820	 He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city, 
14O	19	6	115830	 and said to the judges, "Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD. He is with you in giving judgment. 
14O	19	7	115840	 Now then, let the fear of the LORD be upon you. Be careful what you do, for there is no injustice with the LORD our God, or partiality or taking bribes." 
14O	19	8	115850	 Moreover, in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel, to give judgment for the LORD and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem. 
14O	19	9	115860	 And he charged them: "Thus you shall do in the fear of the LORD, in faithfulness, and with your whole heart: 
14O	19	10	115870	 whenever a case comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or rules, then you shall warn them, that they may not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt. 
14O	19	11	115880	 And behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the governor of the house of Judah, in all the king's matters, and the Levites will serve you as officers. Deal courageously, and may the LORD be with the upright!" 
14O	20	1	115890	 After this the Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of the Meunites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle. 
14O	20	2	115900	 Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, "A great multitude is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the sea; and, behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar" (that is, Engedi). 
14O	20	3	115910	 Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. 
14O	20	4	115920	 And Judah assembled to seek help from the LORD; from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD. 
14O	20	5	115930	 And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court, 
14O	20	6	115940	 and said, "O LORD, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you. 
14O	20	7	115950	 Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend? 
14O	20	8	115960	 And they have lived in it and have built for you in it a sanctuary for your name, saying, 
14O	20	9	115970	 'If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and before you--for your name is in this house--and cry out to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.' 
14O	20	10	115980	 And now behold, the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, and whom they avoided and did not destroy-- 
14O	20	11	115990	 behold, they reward us by coming to drive us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. 
14O	20	12	116000	 O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you." 
14O	20	13	116010	 Meanwhile all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children. 
14O	20	14	116020	 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, son of Benaiah, son of Jeiel, son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly. 
14O	20	15	116030	 And he said, "Listen, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat: Thus says the LORD to you, 'Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed at this great horde, for the battle is not yours but God's. 
14O	20	16	116040	 Tomorrow go down against them. Behold, they will come up by the ascent of Ziz. You will find them at the end of the valley, east of the wilderness of Jeruel. 
14O	20	17	116050	 You will not need to fight in this battle. Stand firm, hold your position, and see the salvation of the LORD on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.' Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them, and the LORD will be with you." 
14O	20	18	116060	 Then Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the LORD, worshiping the LORD. 
14O	20	19	116070	 And the Levites, of the Kohathites and the Korahites, stood up to praise the LORD, the God of Israel, with a very loud voice. 
14O	20	20	116080	 And they rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. And when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Hear me, Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you will succeed." 
14O	20	21	116090	 And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to the LORD and praise him in holy attire, as they went before the army, and say, "Give thanks to the LORD, for his steadfast love endures forever." 
14O	20	22	116100	 And when they began to sing and praise, the LORD set an ambush against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed. 
14O	20	23	116110	 For the men of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction, and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they all helped to destroy one another. 
14O	20	24	116120	 When Judah came to the watchtower of the wilderness, they looked toward the horde, and behold, there were dead bodies lying on the ground; none had escaped. 
14O	20	25	116130	 When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their spoil, they found among them, in great numbers, goods, clothing, and precious things, which they took for themselves until they could carry no more. They were three days in taking the spoil, it was so much. 
14O	20	26	116140	 On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Beracah, for there they blessed the LORD. Therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Beracah to this day. 
14O	20	27	116150	 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat at their head, returning to Jerusalem with joy, for the LORD had made them rejoice over their enemies. 
14O	20	28	116160	 They came to Jerusalem with harps and lyres and trumpets, to the house of the LORD. 
14O	20	29	116170	 And the fear of God came on all the kingdoms of the countries when they heard that the LORD had fought against the enemies of Israel. 
14O	20	30	116180	 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for his God gave him rest all around. 
14O	20	31	116190	 Thus Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. 
14O	20	32	116200	 He walked in the way of Asa his father and did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the LORD. 
14O	20	33	116210	 The high places, however, were not taken away; the people had not yet set their hearts upon the God of their fathers. 
14O	20	34	116220	 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, from first to last, are written in the chronicles of Jehu the son of Hanani, which are recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel. 
14O	20	35	116230	 After this Jehoshaphat king of Judah joined with Ahaziah king of Israel, who acted wickedly. 
14O	20	36	116240	 He joined him in building ships to go to Tarshish, and they built the ships in Ezion-geber. 
14O	20	37	116250	 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, "Because you have joined with Ahaziah, the LORD will destroy what you have made." And the ships were wrecked and were not able to go to Tarshish. 
14O	21	1	116260	 Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place. 
14O	21	2	116270	 He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel. 
14O	21	3	116280	 Their father gave them great gifts of silver, gold, and valuable possessions, together with fortified cities in Judah, but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn. 
14O	21	4	116290	 When Jehoram had ascended the throne of his father and was established, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel. 
14O	21	5	116300	 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. 
14O	21	6	116310	 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. 
14O	21	7	116320	 Yet the LORD was not willing to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and since he had promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forever. 
14O	21	8	116330	 In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah and set up a king of their own. 
14O	21	9	116340	 Then Jehoram passed over with his commanders and all his chariots, and he rose by night and struck the Edomites who had surrounded him and his chariot commanders. 
14O	21	10	116350	 So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. At that time Libnah also revolted from his rule, because he had forsaken the LORD, the God of his fathers. 
14O	21	11	116360	 Moreover, he made high places in the hill country of Judah and led the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom and made Judah go astray. 
14O	21	12	116370	 And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, 'Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, or in the ways of Asa king of Judah, 
14O	21	13	116380	 but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel and have enticed Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom, as the house of Ahab led Israel into whoredom, and also you have killed your brothers, of your father's house, who were better than yourself, 
14O	21	14	116390	 behold, the LORD will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions, 
14O	21	15	116400	 and you yourself will have a severe sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the disease, day by day.'" 
14O	21	16	116410	 And the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the anger of the Philistines and of the Arabians who are near the Ethiopians. 
14O	21	17	116420	 And they came up against Judah and invaded it and carried away all the possessions they found that belonged to the king's house, and also his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest son. 
14O	21	18	116430	 And after all this the LORD struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease. 
14O	21	19	116440	 In the course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great agony. His people made no fire in his honor, like the fires made for his fathers. 
14O	21	20	116450	 He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one's regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings. 
14O	22	1	116460	 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned. 
14O	22	2	116470	 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri. 
14O	22	3	116480	 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in doing wickedly. 
14O	22	4	116490	 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done. For after the death of his father they were his counselors, to his undoing. 
14O	22	5	116500	 He even followed their counsel and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to make war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead. And the Syrians wounded Joram, 
14O	22	6	116510	 and he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that he had received at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was wounded. 
14O	22	7	116520	 But it was ordained by God that the downfall of Ahaziah should come about through his going to visit Joram. For when he came there, he went out with Jehoram to meet Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab. 
14O	22	8	116530	 And when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he met the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers, who attended Ahaziah, and he killed them. 
14O	22	9	116540	 He searched for Ahaziah, and he was captured while hiding in Samaria, and he was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, "He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart." And the house of Ahaziah had no one able to rule the kingdom. 
14O	22	10	116550	 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family of the house of Judah. 
14O	22	11	116560	 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king's sons who were about to be put to death, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Thus Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and wife of Jehoiada the priest, because she was a sister of Ahaziah, hid him from Athaliah, so that she did not put him to death. 
14O	22	12	116570	 And he remained with them six years, hidden in the house of God, while Athaliah reigned over the land. 
14O	23	1	116580	 But in the seventh year Jehoiada took courage and entered into a covenant with the commanders of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri. 
14O	23	2	116590	 And they went about through Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers' houses of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem. 
14O	23	3	116600	 And all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And Jehoiada said to them, "Behold, the king's son! Let him reign, as the LORD spoke concerning the sons of David. 
14O	23	4	116610	 This is the thing that you shall do: of you priests and Levites who come off duty on the Sabbath, one third shall be gatekeepers, 
14O	23	5	116620	 and one third shall be at the king's house and one third at the Gate of the Foundation. And all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD. 
14O	23	6	116630	 Let no one enter the house of the LORD except the priests and ministering Levites. They may enter, for they are holy, but all the people shall keep the charge of the LORD. 
14O	23	7	116640	 The Levites shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever enters the house shall be put to death. Be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out." 
14O	23	8	116650	 The Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and they each brought his men, who were to go off duty on the Sabbath, with those who were to come on duty on the Sabbath, for Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss the divisions. 
14O	23	9	116660	 And Jehoiada the priest gave to the captains the spears and the large and small shields that had been King David's, which were in the house of God. 
14O	23	10	116670	 And he set all the people as a guard for the king, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the south side of the house to the north side of the house, around the altar and the house. 
14O	23	11	116680	 Then they brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king, and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, "Long live the king." 
14O	23	12	116690	 When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she went into the house of the LORD to the people. 
14O	23	13	116700	 And when she looked, there was the king standing by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets, and the singers with their musical instruments leading in the celebration. And Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, "Treason! Treason!" 
14O	23	14	116710	 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains who were set over the army, saying to them, "Bring her out between the ranks, and anyone who follows her is to be put to death with the sword." For the priest said, "Do not put her to death in the house of the LORD." 
14O	23	15	116720	 So they laid hands on her, and she went into the entrance of the horse gate of the king's house, and they put her to death there. 
14O	23	16	116730	 And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king that they should be the LORD's people. 
14O	23	17	116740	 Then all the people went to the house of Baal and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. 
14O	23	18	116750	 And Jehoiada posted watchmen for the house of the LORD under the direction of the Levitical priests and the Levites whom David had organized to be in charge of the house of the LORD, to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, as it is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David. 
14O	23	19	116760	 He stationed the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD so that no one should enter who was in any way unclean. 
14O	23	20	116770	 And he took the captains, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD, marching through the upper gate to the king's house. And they set the king on the royal throne. 
14O	23	21	116780	 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been put to death with the sword. 
14O	24	1	116790	 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba. 
14O	24	2	116800	 And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest. 
14O	24	3	116810	 Jehoiada got for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters. 
14O	24	4	116820	 After this Joash decided to restore the house of the LORD. 
14O	24	5	116830	 And he gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them, "Go out to the cities of Judah and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that you act quickly." But the Levites did not act quickly. 
14O	24	6	116840	 So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief and said to him, "Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax levied by Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the congregation of Israel for the tent of testimony?" 
14O	24	7	116850	 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken into the house of God, and had also used all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD for the Baals. 
14O	24	8	116860	 So the king commanded, and they made a chest and set it outside the gate of the house of the LORD. 
14O	24	9	116870	 And proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to bring in for the LORD the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness. 
14O	24	10	116880	 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced and brought their tax and dropped it into the chest until they had finished. 
14O	24	11	116890	 And whenever the chest was brought to the king's officers by the Levites, when they saw that there was much money in it, the king's secretary and the officer of the chief priest would come and empty the chest and take it and return it to its place. Thus they did day after day, and collected money in abundance. 
14O	24	12	116900	 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who had charge of the work of the house of the LORD, and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of the LORD, and also workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the LORD. 
14O	24	13	116910	 So those who were engaged in the work labored, and the repairing went forward in their hands, and they restored the house of God to its proper condition and strengthened it. 
14O	24	14	116920	 And when they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, and with it were made utensils for the house of the LORD, both for the service and for the burnt offerings, and dishes for incense and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD regularly all the days of Jehoiada. 
14O	24	15	116930	 But Jehoiada grew old and full of days, and died. He was 130 years old at his death. 
14O	24	16	116940	 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house. 
14O	24	17	116950	 Now after the death of Jehoiada the princes of Judah came and paid homage to the king. Then the king listened to them. 
14O	24	18	116960	 And they abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs. 
14O	24	19	116970	 Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the LORD. These testified against them, but they would not pay attention. 
14O	24	20	116980	 Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people, and said to them, "Thus says God, 'Why do you break the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has forsaken you.'" 
14O	24	21	116990	 But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the LORD. 
14O	24	22	117000	 Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah's father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, "May the LORD see and avenge!" 
14O	24	23	117010	 At the end of the year the army of the Syrians came up against Joash. They came to Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus. 
14O	24	24	117020	 Though the army of the Syrians had come with few men, the LORD delivered into their hand a very great army, because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. Thus they executed judgment on Joash. 
14O	24	25	117030	 When they had departed from him, leaving him severely wounded, his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed. So he died, and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings. 
14O	24	26	117040	 Those who conspired against him were Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonite, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabite. 
14O	24	27	117050	 Accounts of his sons and of the many oracles against him and of the rebuilding of the house of God are written in the Story of the Book of the Kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place. 
14O	25	1	117060	 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. 
14O	25	2	117070	 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, yet not with a whole heart. 
14O	25	3	117080	 And as soon as the royal power was firmly his, he killed his servants who had struck down the king his father. 
14O	25	4	117090	 But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, "Fathers shall not die because of their children, nor children die because of their fathers, but each one shall die for his own sin." 
14O	25	5	117100	 Then Amaziah assembled the men of Judah and set them by fathers' houses under commanders of thousands and of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He mustered those twenty years old and upward, and found that they were 300,000 choice men, fit for war, able to handle spear and shield. 
14O	25	6	117110	 He hired also 100,000 mighty men of valor from Israel for 100 talents of silver. 
14O	25	7	117120	 But a man of God came to him and said, "O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel, with all these Ephraimites. 
14O	25	8	117130	 But go, act, be strong for the battle. Why should you suppose that God will cast you down before the enemy? For God has power to help or to cast down." 
14O	25	9	117140	 And Amaziah said to the man of God, "But what shall we do about the hundred talents that I have given to the army of Israel?" The man of God answered, "The LORD is able to give you much more than this." 
14O	25	10	117150	 Then Amaziah discharged the army that had come to him from Ephraim to go home again. And they became very angry with Judah and returned home in fierce anger. 
14O	25	11	117160	 But Amaziah took courage and led out his people and went to the Valley of Salt and struck down 10,000 men of Seir. 
14O	25	12	117170	 The men of Judah captured another 10,000 alive and took them to the top of a rock and threw them down from the top of the rock, and they were all dashed to pieces. 
14O	25	13	117180	 But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, not letting them go with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck down 3,000 people in them and took much spoil. 
14O	25	14	117190	 After Amaziah came from striking down the Edomites, he brought the gods of the men of Seir and set them up as his gods and worshiped them, making offerings to them. 
14O	25	15	117200	 Therefore the LORD was angry with Amaziah and sent to him a prophet, who said to him, "Why have you sought the gods of a people who did not deliver their own people from your hand?" 
14O	25	16	117210	 But as he was speaking, the king said to him, "Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?" So the prophet stopped, but said, "I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel." 
14O	25	17	117220	 Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel and sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us look one another in the face." 
14O	25	18	117230	 And Joash the king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, "A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, 'Give your daughter to my son for a wife,' and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle. 
14O	25	19	117240	 You say, 'See, I have struck down Edom,' and your heart has lifted you up in boastfulness. But now stay at home. Why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?" 
14O	25	20	117250	 But Amaziah would not listen, for it was of God, in order that he might give them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought the gods of Edom. 
14O	25	21	117260	 So Joash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced one another in battle at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah. 
14O	25	22	117270	 And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his home. 
14O	25	23	117280	 And Joash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for 400 cubits, from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate. 
14O	25	24	117290	 And he seized all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God, in the care of Obed-edom. He seized also the treasuries of the king's house, also hostages, and he returned to Samaria. 
14O	25	25	117300	 Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel. 
14O	25	26	117310	 Now the rest of the deeds of Amaziah, from first to last, are they not written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel? 
14O	25	27	117320	 From the time when he turned away from the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there. 
14O	25	28	117330	 And they brought him upon horses, and he was buried with his fathers in the city of David. 
14O	26	1	117340	 And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah. 
14O	26	2	117350	 He built Eloth and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers. 
14O	26	3	117360	 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. 
14O	26	4	117370	 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. 
14O	26	5	117380	 He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper. 
14O	26	6	117390	 He went out and made war against the Philistines and broke through the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod, and he built cities in the territory of Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines. 
14O	26	7	117400	 God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians who lived in Gurbaal and against the Meunites. 
14O	26	8	117410	 The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread even to the border of Egypt, for he became very strong. 
14O	26	9	117420	 Moreover, Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate and at the Valley Gate and at the Angle, and fortified them. 
14O	26	10	117430	 And he built towers in the wilderness and cut out many cisterns, for he had large herds, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil. 
14O	26	11	117440	 Moreover, Uzziah had an army of soldiers, fit for war, in divisions according to the numbers in the muster made by Jeiel the secretary and Maaseiah the officer, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the king's commanders. 
14O	26	12	117450	 The whole number of the heads of fathers' houses of mighty men of valor was 2,600. 
14O	26	13	117460	 Under their command was an army of 307,500, who could make war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy. 
14O	26	14	117470	 And Uzziah prepared for all the army shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging. 
14O	26	15	117480	 In Jerusalem he made engines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong. 
14O	26	16	117490	 But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the LORD his God and entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense. 
14O	26	17	117500	 But Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty priests of the LORD who were men of valor, 
14O	26	18	117510	 and they withstood King Uzziah and said to him, "It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the LORD God." 
14O	26	19	117520	 Then Uzziah was angry. Now he had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and when he became angry with the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead in the presence of the priests in the house of the LORD, by the altar of incense. 
14O	26	20	117530	 And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead! And they rushed him out quickly, and he himself hurried to go out, because the LORD had struck him. 
14O	26	21	117540	 And King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the LORD. And Jotham his son was over the king's household, governing the people of the land. 
14O	26	22	117550	 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, from first to last, Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz wrote. 
14O	26	23	117560	 And Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the burial field that belonged to the kings, for they said, "He is a leper." And Jotham his son reigned in his place. 
14O	27	1	117570	 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok. 
14O	27	2	117580	 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD according to all that his father Uzziah had done, except he did not enter the temple of the LORD. But the people still followed corrupt practices. 
14O	27	3	117590	 He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD and did much building on the wall of Ophel. 
14O	27	4	117600	 Moreover, he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and forts and towers on the wooded hills. 
14O	27	5	117610	 He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them. And the Ammonites gave him that year 100 talents of silver, and 10,000 cors of wheat and 10,000 of barley. The Ammonites paid him the same amount in the second and the third years. 
14O	27	6	117620	 So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God. 
14O	27	7	117630	 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. 
14O	27	8	117640	 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. 
14O	27	9	117650	 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David, and Ahaz his son reigned in his place. 
14O	28	1	117660	 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as his father David had done, 
14O	28	2	117670	 but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even made metal images for the Baals, 
14O	28	3	117680	 and he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel. 
14O	28	4	117690	 And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree. 
14O	28	5	117700	 Therefore the LORD his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, who defeated him and took captive a great number of his people and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force. 
14O	28	6	117710	 For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed 120,000 from Judah in one day, all of them men of valor, because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. 
14O	28	7	117720	 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king's son and Azrikam the commander of the palace and Elkanah the next in authority to the king. 
14O	28	8	117730	 The men of Israel took captive 200,000 of their relatives, women, sons, and daughters. They also took much spoil from them and brought the spoil to Samaria. 
14O	28	9	117740	 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded, and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, "Behold, because the LORD, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have killed them in a rage that has reached up to heaven. 
14O	28	10	117750	 And now you intend to subjugate the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, as your slaves. Have you not sins of your own against the LORD your God? 
14O	28	11	117760	 Now hear me, and send back the captives from your relatives whom you have taken, for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you." 
14O	28	12	117770	 Certain chiefs also of the men of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who were coming from the war 
14O	28	13	117780	 and said to them, "You shall not bring the captives in here, for you propose to bring upon us guilt against the LORD in addition to our present sins and guilt. For our guilt is already great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel." 
14O	28	14	117790	 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly. 
14O	28	15	117800	 And the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all who were naked among them. They clothed them, gave them sandals, provided them with food and drink, and anointed them, and carrying all the feeble among them on donkeys, they brought them to their kinsfolk at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samaria. 
14O	28	16	117810	 At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria for help. 
14O	28	17	117820	 For the Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah and carried away captives. 
14O	28	18	117830	 And the Philistines had made raids on the cities in the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there. 
14O	28	19	117840	 For the LORD humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had made Judah act sinfully and had been very unfaithful to the LORD. 
14O	28	20	117850	 So Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him. 
14O	28	21	117860	 For Ahaz took a portion from the house of the LORD and the house of the king and of the princes, and gave tribute to the king of Assyria, but it did not help him. 
14O	28	22	117870	 In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the LORD--this same King Ahaz. 
14O	28	23	117880	 For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, "Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me." But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel. 
14O	28	24	117890	 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and he shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem. 
14O	28	25	117900	 In every city of Judah he made high places to make offerings to other gods, provoking to anger the LORD, the God of his fathers. 
14O	28	26	117910	 Now the rest of his acts and all his ways, from first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. 
14O	28	27	117920	 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son reigned in his place. 
14O	29	1	117930	 Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abijah the daughter of Zechariah. 
14O	29	2	117940	 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done. 
14O	29	3	117950	 In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them. 
14O	29	4	117960	 He brought in the priests and the Levites and assembled them in the square on the east 
14O	29	5	117970	 and said to them, "Hear me, Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the Holy Place. 
14O	29	6	117980	 For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done what was evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They have forsaken him and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD and turned their backs. 
14O	29	7	117990	 They also shut the doors of the vestibule and put out the lamps and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the Holy Place to the God of Israel. 
14O	29	8	118000	 Therefore the wrath of the LORD came on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has made them an object of horror, of astonishment, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes. 
14O	29	9	118010	 For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. 
14O	29	10	118020	 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, in order that his fierce anger may turn away from us. 
14O	29	11	118030	 My sons, do not now be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him and to be his ministers and make offerings to him." 
14O	29	12	118040	 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah; 
14O	29	13	118050	 and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah; 
14O	29	14	118060	 and of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel. 
14O	29	15	118070	 They gathered their brothers and consecrated themselves and went in as the king had commanded, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD. 
14O	29	16	118080	 The priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and they brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it and carried it out to the brook Kidron. 
14O	29	17	118090	 They began to consecrate on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the vestibule of the LORD. Then for eight days they consecrated the house of the LORD, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished. 
14O	29	18	118100	 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king and said, "We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the table for the showbread and all its utensils. 
14O	29	19	118110	 All the utensils that King Ahaz discarded in his reign when he was faithless, we have made ready and consecrated, and behold, they are before the altar of the LORD." 
14O	29	20	118120	 Then Hezekiah the king rose early and gathered the officials of the city and went up to the house of the LORD. 
14O	29	21	118130	 And they brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah. And he commanded the priests, the sons of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the LORD. 
14O	29	22	118140	 So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests received the blood and threw it against the altar. And they slaughtered the rams, and their blood was thrown against the altar. And they slaughtered the lambs, and their blood was thrown against the altar. 
14O	29	23	118150	 Then the goats for the sin offering were brought to the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them, 
14O	29	24	118160	 and the priests slaughtered them and made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel. For the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel. 
14O	29	25	118170	 And he stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the commandment of David and of Gad the king's seer and of Nathan the prophet, for the commandment was from the LORD through his prophets. 
14O	29	26	118180	 The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets. 
14O	29	27	118190	 Then Hezekiah commanded that the burnt offering be offered on the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song to the LORD began also, and the trumpets, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel. 
14O	29	28	118200	 The whole assembly worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded. All this continued until the burnt offering was finished. 
14O	29	29	118210	 When the offering was finished, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped. 
14O	29	30	118220	 And Hezekiah the king and the officials commanded the Levites to sing praises to the LORD with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed down and worshiped. 
14O	29	31	118230	 Then Hezekiah said, "You have now consecrated yourselves to the LORD. Come near; bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD." And the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all who were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings. 
14O	29	32	118240	 The number of the burnt offerings that the assembly brought was 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD. 
14O	29	33	118250	 And the consecrated offerings were 600 bulls and 3,000 sheep. 
14O	29	34	118260	 But the priests were too few and could not flay all the burnt offerings, so until other priests had consecrated themselves, their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was finished--for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in consecrating themselves. 
14O	29	35	118270	 Besides the great number of burnt offerings, there was the fat of the peace offerings, and there were the drink offerings for the burnt offerings. Thus the service of the house of the LORD was restored. 
14O	29	36	118280	 And Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced because God had prepared for the people, for the thing came about suddenly. 
14O	30	1	118290	 Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem to keep the Passover to the LORD, the God of Israel. 
14O	30	2	118300	 For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the Passover in the second month-- 
14O	30	3	118310	 for they could not keep it at that time because the priests had not consecrated themselves in sufficient number, nor had the people assembled in Jerusalem-- 
14O	30	4	118320	 and the plan seemed right to the king and all the assembly. 
14O	30	5	118330	 So they decreed to make a proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that the people should come and keep the Passover to the LORD, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they had not kept it as often as prescribed. 
14O	30	6	118340	 So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, "O people of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria. 
14O	30	7	118350	 Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the LORD God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see. 
14O	30	8	118360	 Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the LORD your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you. 
14O	30	9	118370	 For if you return to the LORD, your brothers and your children will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him." 
14O	30	10	118380	 So the couriers went from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them. 
14O	30	11	118390	 However, some men of Asher, of Manasseh, and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. 
14O	30	12	118400	 The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the LORD. 
14O	30	13	118410	 And many people came together in Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great assembly. 
14O	30	14	118420	 They set to work and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for burning incense they took away and threw into the Kidron Valley. 
14O	30	15	118430	 And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, so that they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of the LORD. 
14O	30	16	118440	 They took their accustomed posts according to the Law of Moses the man of God. The priests threw the blood that they received from the hand of the Levites. 
14O	30	17	118450	 For there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves. Therefore the Levites had to slaughter the Passover lamb for everyone who was not clean, to consecrate it to the LORD. 
14O	30	18	118460	 For a majority of the people, many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, "May the good LORD pardon everyone 
14O	30	19	118470	 who sets his heart to seek God, the LORD, the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary's rules of cleanness." 
14O	30	20	118480	 And the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people. 
14O	30	21	118490	 And the people of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great gladness, and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with all their might to the LORD. 
14O	30	22	118500	 And Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who showed good skill in the service of the LORD. So they ate the food of the festival for seven days, sacrificing peace offerings and giving thanks to the LORD, the God of their fathers. 
14O	30	23	118510	 Then the whole assembly agreed together to keep the feast for another seven days. So they kept it for another seven days with gladness. 
14O	30	24	118520	 For Hezekiah king of Judah gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep for offerings, and the princes gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep. And the priests consecrated themselves in great numbers. 
14O	30	25	118530	 The whole assembly of Judah, and the priests and the Levites, and the whole assembly that came out of Israel, and the sojourners who came out of the land of Israel, and the sojourners who lived in Judah, rejoiced. 
14O	30	26	118540	 So there was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem. 
14O	30	27	118550	 Then the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to his holy habitation in heaven. 
14O	31	1	118560	 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, every man to his possession. 
14O	31	2	118570	 And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, division by division, each according to his service, the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and peace offerings, to minister in the gates of the camp of the LORD and to give thanks and praise. 
14O	31	3	118580	 The contribution of the king from his own possessions was for the burnt offerings: the burnt offerings of morning and evening, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the appointed feasts, as it is written in the Law of the LORD. 
14O	31	4	118590	 And he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion due to the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the Law of the LORD. 
14O	31	5	118600	 As soon as the command was spread abroad, the people of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field. And they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything. 
14O	31	6	118610	 And the people of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the tithe of the dedicated things that had been dedicated to the LORD their God, and laid them in heaps. 
14O	31	7	118620	 In the third month they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month. 
14O	31	8	118630	 When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD and his people Israel. 
14O	31	9	118640	 And Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps. 
14O	31	10	118650	 Azariah the chief priest, who was of the house of Zadok, answered him, "Since they began to bring the contributions into the house of the LORD, we have eaten and had enough and have plenty left, for the LORD has blessed his people, so that we have this large amount left." 
14O	31	11	118660	 Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD, and they prepared them. 
14O	31	12	118670	 And they faithfully brought in the contributions, the tithes, and the dedicated things. The chief officer in charge of them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother as second, 
14O	31	13	118680	 while Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers assisting Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the chief officer of the house of God. 
14O	31	14	118690	 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, keeper of the east gate, was over the freewill offerings to God, to apportion the contribution reserved for the LORD and the most holy offerings. 
14O	31	15	118700	 Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah were faithfully assisting him in the cities of the priests, to distribute the portions to their brothers, old and young alike, by divisions, 
14O	31	16	118710	 except those enrolled by genealogy, males from three years old and upward--all who entered the house of the LORD as the duty of each day required--for their service according to their offices, by their divisions. 
14O	31	17	118720	 The enrollment of the priests was according to their fathers' houses; that of the Levites from twenty years old and upward was according to their offices, by their divisions. 
14O	31	18	118730	 They were enrolled with all their little children, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, the whole assembly, for they were faithful in keeping themselves holy. 
14O	31	19	118740	 And for the sons of Aaron, the priests, who were in the fields of common land belonging to their cities, there were men in the several cities who were designated by name to distribute portions to every male among the priests and to everyone among the Levites who was enrolled. 
14O	31	20	118750	 Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, and he did what was good and right and faithful before the LORD his God. 
14O	31	21	118760	 And every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God and in accordance with the law and the commandments, seeking his God, he did with all his heart, and prospered. 
14O	32	1	118770	 After these things and these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah and encamped against the fortified cities, thinking to win them for himself. 
14O	32	2	118780	 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and intended to fight against Jerusalem, 
14O	32	3	118790	 he planned with his officers and his mighty men to stop the water of the springs that were outside the city; and they helped him. 
14O	32	4	118800	 A great many people were gathered, and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?" 
14O	32	5	118810	 He set to work resolutely and built up all the wall that was broken down and raised towers upon it, and outside it he built another wall, and he strengthened the Millo in the city of David. He also made weapons and shields in abundance. 
14O	32	6	118820	 And he set combat commanders over the people and gathered them together to him in the square at the gate of the city and spoke encouragingly to them, saying, 
14O	32	7	118830	 "Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or dismayed before the king of Assyria and all the horde that is with him, for there are more with us than with him. 
14O	32	8	118840	 With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God, to help us and to fight our battles." And the people took confidence from the words of Hezekiah king of Judah. 
14O	32	9	118850	 After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria, who was besieging Lachish with all his forces, sent his servants to Jerusalem to Hezekiah king of Judah and to all the people of Judah who were in Jerusalem, saying, 
14O	32	10	118860	 "Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, 'On what are you trusting, that you endure the siege in Jerusalem? 
14O	32	11	118870	 Is not Hezekiah misleading you, that he may give you over to die by famine and by thirst, when he tells you, "The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria"? 
14O	32	12	118880	 Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, "Before one altar you shall worship, and on it you shall burn your sacrifices"? 
14O	32	13	118890	 Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands at all able to deliver their lands out of my hand? 
14O	32	14	118900	 Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand? 
14O	32	15	118910	 Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!'" 
14O	32	16	118920	 And his servants said still more against the LORD God and against his servant Hezekiah. 
14O	32	17	118930	 And he wrote letters to cast contempt on the LORD, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, "Like the gods of the nations of the lands who have not delivered their people from my hands, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver his people from my hand." 
14O	32	18	118940	 And they shouted it with a loud voice in the language of Judah to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and terrify them, in order that they might take the city. 
14O	32	19	118950	 And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as they spoke of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands. 
14O	32	20	118960	 Then Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed because of this and cried to heaven. 
14O	32	21	118970	 And the LORD sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty warriors and commanders and officers in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he came into the house of his god, some of his own sons struck him down there with the sword. 
14O	32	22	118980	 So the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Assyria and from the hand of all his enemies, and he provided for them on every side. 
14O	32	23	118990	 And many brought gifts to the LORD to Jerusalem and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from that time onward. 
14O	32	24	119000	 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death, and he prayed to the LORD, and he answered him and gave him a sign. 
14O	32	25	119010	 But Hezekiah did not make return according to the benefit done to him, for his heart was proud. Therefore wrath came upon him and Judah and Jerusalem. 
14O	32	26	119020	 But Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah. 
14O	32	27	119030	 And Hezekiah had very great riches and honor, and he made for himself treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of costly vessels; 
14O	32	28	119040	 storehouses also for the yield of grain, wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of cattle, and sheepfolds. 
14O	32	29	119050	 He likewise provided cities for himself, and flocks and herds in abundance, for God had given him very great possessions. 
14O	32	30	119060	 This same Hezekiah closed the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works. 
14O	32	31	119070	 And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart. 
14O	32	32	119080	 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. 
14O	32	33	119090	 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the upper part of the tombs of the sons of David, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his place. 
14O	33	1	119100	 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 
14O	33	2	119110	 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel. 
14O	33	3	119120	 For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made Asherahs, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. 
14O	33	4	119130	 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem shall my name be forever." 
14O	33	5	119140	 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 
14O	33	6	119150	 And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger. 
14O	33	7	119160	 And the carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever, 
14O	33	8	119170	 and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land that I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the rules given through Moses." 
14O	33	9	119180	 Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel. 
14O	33	10	119190	 The LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention. 
14O	33	11	119200	 Therefore the LORD brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon. 
14O	33	12	119210	 And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 
14O	33	13	119220	 He prayed to him, and God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God. 
14O	33	14	119230	 Afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of Gihon, in the valley, and for the entrance into the Fish Gate, and carried it around Ophel, and raised it to a very great height. He also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah. 
14O	33	15	119240	 And he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city. 
14O	33	16	119250	 He also restored the altar of the LORD and offered on it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and he commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel. 
14O	33	17	119260	 Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God. 
14O	33	18	119270	 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, behold, they are in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 
14O	33	19	119280	 And his prayer, and how God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers. 
14O	33	20	119290	 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house, and Amon his son reigned in his place. 
14O	33	21	119300	 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. 
14O	33	22	119310	 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Manasseh his father had done. Amon sacrificed to all the images that Manasseh his father had made, and served them. 
14O	33	23	119320	 And he did not humble himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred guilt more and more. 
14O	33	24	119330	 And his servants conspired against him and put him to death in his house. 
14O	33	25	119340	 But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon. And the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place. 
14O	34	1	119350	 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. 
14O	34	2	119360	 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father; and he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 
14O	34	3	119370	 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images. 
14O	34	4	119380	 And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the incense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the Asherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. 
14O	34	5	119390	 He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. 
14O	34	6	119400	 And in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins all around, 
14O	34	7	119410	 he broke down the altars and beat the Asherim and the images into powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem. 
14O	34	8	119420	 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had cleansed the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God. 
14O	34	9	119430	 They came to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had collected from Manasseh and Ephraim and from all the remnant of Israel and from all Judah and Benjamin and from the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 
14O	34	10	119440	 And they gave it to the workmen who were working in the house of the LORD. And the workmen who were working in the house of the LORD gave it for repairing and restoring the house. 
14O	34	11	119450	 They gave it to the carpenters and the builders to buy quarried stone, and timber for binders and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had let go to ruin. 
14O	34	12	119460	 And the men did the work faithfully. Over them were set Jahath and Obadiah the Levites, of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to have oversight. The Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music, 
14O	34	13	119470	 were over the burden-bearers and directed all who did work in every kind of service, and some of the Levites were scribes and officials and gatekeepers. 
14O	34	14	119480	 While they were bringing out the money that had been brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the LORD given through Moses. 
14O	34	15	119490	 Then Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the secretary, "I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD." And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan. 
14O	34	16	119500	 Shaphan brought the book to the king, and further reported to the king, "All that was committed to your servants they are doing. 
14O	34	17	119510	 They have emptied out the money that was found in the house of the LORD and have given it into the hand of the overseers and the workmen." 
14O	34	18	119520	 Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, "Hilkiah the priest has given me a book." And Shaphan read from it before the king. 
14O	34	19	119530	 And when the king heard the words of the Law, he tore his clothes. 
14O	34	20	119540	 And the king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying, 
14O	34	21	119550	 "Go, inquire of the LORD for me and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do according to all that is written in this book." 
14O	34	22	119560	 So Hilkiah and those whom the king had sent went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter) and spoke to her to that effect. 
14O	34	23	119570	 And she said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: 'Tell the man who sent you to me, 
14O	34	24	119580	 Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in the book that was read before the king of Judah. 
14O	34	25	119590	 Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands, therefore my wrath will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched. 
14O	34	26	119600	 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Regarding the words that you have heard, 
14O	34	27	119610	 because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the LORD. 
14O	34	28	119620	 Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place and its inhabitants.'" And they brought back word to the king. 
14O	34	29	119630	 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. 
14O	34	30	119640	 And the king went up to the house of the LORD, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the Levites, all the people both great and small. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD. 
14O	34	31	119650	 And the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book. 
14O	34	32	119660	 Then he made all who were present in Jerusalem and in Benjamin join in it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers. 
14O	34	33	119670	 And Josiah took away all the abominations from all the territory that belonged to the people of Israel and made all who were present in Israel serve the LORD their God. All his days they did not turn away from following the LORD, the God of their fathers. 
14O	35	1	119680	 Josiah kept a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem. And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month. 
14O	35	2	119690	 He appointed the priests to their offices and encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD. 
14O	35	3	119700	 And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel and who were holy to the LORD, "Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. You need not carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel. 
14O	35	4	119710	 Prepare yourselves according to your fathers' houses by your divisions, as prescribed in the writing of David king of Israel and the document of Solomon his son. 
14O	35	5	119720	 And stand in the Holy Place according to the groupings of the fathers' houses of your brothers the lay people, and according to the division of the Levites by fathers' household. 
14O	35	6	119730	 And slaughter the Passover lamb, and consecrate yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of the LORD by Moses." 
14O	35	7	119740	 Then Josiah contributed to the lay people, as Passover offerings for all who were present, lambs and young goats from the flock to the number of 30,000, and 3,000 bulls; these were from the king's possessions. 
14O	35	8	119750	 And his officials contributed willingly to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the chief officers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings 2,600 Passover lambs and 300 bulls. 
14O	35	9	119760	 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings 5,000 lambs and young goats and 500 bulls. 
14O	35	10	119770	 When the service had been prepared for, the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions according to the king's command. 
14O	35	11	119780	 And they slaughtered the Passover lamb, and the priests threw the blood that they received from them while the Levites flayed the sacrifices. 
14O	35	12	119790	 And they set aside the burnt offerings that they might distribute them according to the groupings of the fathers' houses of the lay people, to offer to the LORD, as it is written in the Book of Moses. And so they did with the bulls. 
14O	35	13	119800	 And they roasted the Passover lamb with fire according to the rule; and they boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the lay people. 
14O	35	14	119810	 And afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burnt offerings and the fat parts until night; so the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron. 
14O	35	15	119820	 The singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their place according to the command of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the gatekeepers were at each gate. They did not need to depart from their service, for their brothers the Levites prepared for them. 
14O	35	16	119830	 So all the service of the LORD was prepared that day, to keep the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the command of King Josiah. 
14O	35	17	119840	 And the people of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days. 
14O	35	18	119850	 No Passover like it had been kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel had kept such a Passover as was kept by Josiah, and the priests and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 
14O	35	19	119860	 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this Passover was kept. 
14O	35	20	119870	 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to meet him. 
14O	35	21	119880	 But he sent envoys to him, saying, "What have we to do with each other, king of Judah? I am not coming against you this day, but against the house with which I am at war. And God has commanded me to hurry. Cease opposing God, who is with me, lest he destroy you." 
14O	35	22	119890	 Nevertheless, Josiah did not turn away from him, but disguised himself in order to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but came to fight in the plain of Megiddo. 
14O	35	23	119900	 And the archers shot King Josiah. And the king said to his servants, "Take me away, for I am badly wounded." 
14O	35	24	119910	 So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in his second chariot and brought him to Jerusalem. And he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. 
14O	35	25	119920	 Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a rule in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments. 
14O	35	26	119930	 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds according to what is written in the Law of the LORD, 
14O	35	27	119940	 and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. 
14O	36	1	119950	 The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in his father's place in Jerusalem. 
14O	36	2	119960	 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. 
14O	36	3	119970	 Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. 
14O	36	4	119980	 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz his brother and carried him to Egypt. 
14O	36	5	119990	 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God. 
14O	36	6	120000	 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon. 
14O	36	7	120010	 Nebuchadnezzar also carried part of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon and put them in his palace in Babylon. 
14O	36	8	120020	 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and the abominations that he did, and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. 
14O	36	9	120030	 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. 
14O	36	10	120040	 In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the LORD, and made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem. 
14O	36	11	120050	 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. 
14O	36	12	120060	 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the LORD. 
14O	36	13	120070	 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel. 
14O	36	14	120080	 All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the LORD that he had made holy in Jerusalem. 
14O	36	15	120090	 The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. 
14O	36	16	120100	 But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD rose against his people, until there was no remedy. 
14O	36	17	120110	 Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand. 
14O	36	18	120120	 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon. 
14O	36	19	120130	 And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels. 
14O	36	20	120140	 He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia, 
14O	36	21	120150	 to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years. 
14O	36	22	120160	 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing: 
14O	36	23	120170	 "Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, 'The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the LORD his God be with him. Let him go up.'" 
15O	1	1	120180	 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing: 
15O	1	2	120190	 "Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 
15O	1	3	120200	 Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the LORD, the God of Israel--he is the God who is in Jerusalem. 
15O	1	4	120210	 And let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God that is in Jerusalem." 
15O	1	5	120220	 Then rose up the heads of the fathers' houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem. 
15O	1	6	120230	 And all who were about them aided them with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with beasts, and with costly wares, besides all that was freely offered. 
15O	1	7	120240	 Cyrus the king also brought out the vessels of the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods. 
15O	1	8	120250	 Cyrus king of Persia brought these out in the charge of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah. 
15O	1	9	120260	 And this was the number of them: 30 basins of gold, 1,000 basins of silver, 29 censers, 
15O	1	10	120270	 30 bowls of gold, 410 bowls of silver, and 1,000 other vessels; 
15O	1	11	120280	 all the vessels of gold and of silver were 5,400. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when the exiles were brought up from Babylonia to Jerusalem. 
15O	2	1	120290	 Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town. 
15O	2	2	120300	 They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: 
15O	2	3	120310	 the sons of Parosh, 2,172. 
15O	2	4	120320	 The sons of Shephatiah, 372. 
15O	2	5	120330	 The sons of Arah, 775. 
15O	2	6	120340	 The sons of Pahath-moab, namely the sons of Jeshua and Joab, 2,812. 
15O	2	7	120350	 The sons of Elam, 1,254. 
15O	2	8	120360	 The sons of Zattu, 945. 
15O	2	9	120370	 The sons of Zaccai, 760. 
15O	2	10	120380	 The sons of Bani, 642. 
15O	2	11	120390	 The sons of Bebai, 623. 
15O	2	12	120400	 The sons of Azgad, 1,222. 
15O	2	13	120410	 The sons of Adonikam, 666. 
15O	2	14	120420	 The sons of Bigvai, 2,056. 
15O	2	15	120430	 The sons of Adin, 454. 
15O	2	16	120440	 The sons of Ater, namely of Hezekiah, 98. 
15O	2	17	120450	 The sons of Bezai, 323. 
15O	2	18	120460	 The sons of Jorah, 112. 
15O	2	19	120470	 The sons of Hashum, 223. 
15O	2	20	120480	 The sons of Gibbar, 95. 
15O	2	21	120490	 The sons of Bethlehem, 123. 
15O	2	22	120500	 The men of Netophah, 56. 
15O	2	23	120510	 The men of Anathoth, 128. 
15O	2	24	120520	 The sons of Azmaveth, 42. 
15O	2	25	120530	 The sons of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743. 
15O	2	26	120540	 The sons of Ramah and Geba, 621. 
15O	2	27	120550	 The men of Michmas, 122. 
15O	2	28	120560	 The men of Bethel and Ai, 223. 
15O	2	29	120570	 The sons of Nebo, 52. 
15O	2	30	120580	 The sons of Magbish, 156. 
15O	2	31	120590	 The sons of the other Elam, 1,254. 
15O	2	32	120600	 The sons of Harim, 320. 
15O	2	33	120610	 The sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, 725. 
15O	2	34	120620	 The sons of Jericho, 345. 
15O	2	35	120630	 The sons of Senaah, 3,630. 
15O	2	36	120640	 The priests: the sons of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, 973. 
15O	2	37	120650	 The sons of Immer, 1,052. 
15O	2	38	120660	 The sons of Pashhur, 1,247. 
15O	2	39	120670	 The sons of Harim, 1,017. 
15O	2	40	120680	 The Levites: the sons of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodaviah, 74. 
15O	2	41	120690	 The singers: the sons of Asaph, 128. 
15O	2	42	120700	 The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, and the sons of Shobai, in all 139. 
15O	2	43	120710	 The temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth, 
15O	2	44	120720	 the sons of Keros, the sons of Siaha, the sons of Padon, 
15O	2	45	120730	 the sons of Lebanah, the sons of Hagabah, the sons of Akkub, 
15O	2	46	120740	 the sons of Hagab, the sons of Shamlai, the sons of Hanan, 
15O	2	47	120750	 the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar, the sons of Reaiah, 
15O	2	48	120760	 the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda, the sons of Gazzam, 
15O	2	49	120770	 the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah, the sons of Besai, 
15O	2	50	120780	 the sons of Asnah, the sons of Meunim, the sons of Nephisim, 
15O	2	51	120790	 the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur, 
15O	2	52	120800	 the sons of Bazluth, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha, 
15O	2	53	120810	 the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah, 
15O	2	54	120820	 the sons of Neziah, and the sons of Hatipha. 
15O	2	55	120830	 The sons of Solomon's servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Hassophereth, the sons of Peruda, 
15O	2	56	120840	 the sons of Jaalah, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel, 
15O	2	57	120850	 the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth-hazzebaim, and the sons of Ami. 
15O	2	58	120860	 All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon's servants were 392. 
15O	2	59	120870	 The following were those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, though they could not prove their fathers' houses or their descent, whether they belonged to Israel: 
15O	2	60	120880	 the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, and the sons of Nekoda, 652. 
15O	2	61	120890	 Also, of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, and the sons of Barzillai (who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name). 
15O	2	62	120900	 These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but they were not found there, and so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean. 
15O	2	63	120910	 The governor told them that they were not to partake of the most holy food, until there should be a priest to consult Urim and Thummim. 
15O	2	64	120920	 The whole assembly together was 42,360, 
15O	2	65	120930	 besides their male and female servants, of whom there were 7,337, and they had 200 male and female singers. 
15O	2	66	120940	 Their horses were 736, their mules were 245, 
15O	2	67	120950	 their camels were 435, and their donkeys were 6,720. 
15O	2	68	120960	 Some of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem, made freewill offerings for the house of God, to erect it on its site. 
15O	2	69	120970	 According to their ability they gave to the treasury of the work 61,000 darics of gold, 5,000 minas of silver, and 100 priests' garments. 
15O	2	70	120980	 Now the priests, the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants lived in their towns, and all the rest of Israel in their towns. 
15O	3	1	120990	 When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem. 
15O	3	2	121000	 Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God. 
15O	3	3	121010	 They set the altar in its place, for fear was on them because of the peoples of the lands, and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, burnt offerings morning and evening. 
15O	3	4	121020	 And they kept the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the rule, as each day required, 
15O	3	5	121030	 and after that the regular burnt offerings, the offerings at the new moon and at all the appointed feasts of the LORD, and the offerings of everyone who made a freewill offering to the LORD. 
15O	3	6	121040	 From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid. 
15O	3	7	121050	 So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus king of Persia. 
15O	3	8	121060	 Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to supervise the work of the house of the LORD. 
15O	3	9	121070	 And Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, and Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together supervised the workmen in the house of God, along with the sons of Henadad and the Levites, their sons and brothers. 
15O	3	10	121080	 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the directions of David king of Israel. 
15O	3	11	121090	 And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the LORD, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel." And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid. 
15O	3	12	121100	 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' houses, old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy, 
15O	3	13	121110	 so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people's weeping, for the people shouted with a great shout, and the sound was heard far away. 
15O	4	1	121120	 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the LORD, the God of Israel, 
15O	4	2	121130	 they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers' houses and said to them, "Let us build with you, for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria who brought us here." 
15O	4	3	121140	 But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' houses in Israel said to them, "You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we alone will build to the LORD, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us." 
15O	4	4	121150	 Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build 
15O	4	5	121160	 and bribed counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia. 
15O	4	6	121170	 And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem. 
15O	4	7	121180	 In the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam and Mithredath and Tabeel and the rest of their associates wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia. The letter was written in Aramaic and translated. 
15O	4	8	121190	 Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows: 
15O	4	9	121200	 Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the judges, the governors, the officials, the Persians, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites, 
15O	4	10	121210	 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River. 
15O	4	11	121220	 (This is a copy of the letter that they sent.) "To Artaxerxes the king: Your servants, the men of the province Beyond the River, send greeting. And now 
15O	4	12	121230	 be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. They are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations. 
15O	4	13	121240	 Now be it known to the king that if this city is rebuilt and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and the royal revenue will be impaired. 
15O	4	14	121250	 Now because we eat the salt of the palace and it is not fitting for us to witness the king's dishonor, therefore we send and inform the king, 
15O	4	15	121260	 in order that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will find in the book of the records and learn that this city is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and that sedition was stirred up in it from of old. That was why this city was laid waste. 
15O	4	16	121270	 We make known to the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls finished, you will then have no possession in the province Beyond the River." 
15O	4	17	121280	 The king sent an answer: "To Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe and the rest of their associates who live in Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River, greeting. And now 
15O	4	18	121290	 the letter that you sent to us has been plainly read before me. 
15O	4	19	121300	 And I made a decree, and search has been made, and it has been found that this city from of old has risen against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made in it. 
15O	4	20	121310	 And mighty kings have been over Jerusalem, who ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, custom, and toll were paid. 
15O	4	21	121320	 Therefore make a decree that these men be made to cease, and that this city be not rebuilt, until a decree is made by me. 
15O	4	22	121330	 And take care not to be slack in this matter. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the king?" 
15O	4	23	121340	 Then, when the copy of King Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their associates, they went in haste to the Jews at Jerusalem and by force and power made them cease. 
15O	4	24	121350	 Then the work on the house of God that is in Jerusalem stopped, and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. 
15O	5	1	121360	 Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them. 
15O	5	2	121370	 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak arose and began to rebuild the house of God that is in Jerusalem, and the prophets of God were with them, supporting them. 
15O	5	3	121380	 At the same time Tattenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and Shethar-bozenai and their associates came to them and spoke to them thus: "Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?" 
15O	5	4	121390	 They also asked them this: "What are the names of the men who are building this building?" 
15O	5	5	121400	 But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until the report should reach Darius and then an answer be returned by letter concerning it. 
15O	5	6	121410	 This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and Shethar-bozenai and his associates, the governors who were in the province Beyond the River, sent to Darius the king. 
15O	5	7	121420	 They sent him a report, in which was written as follows: "To Darius the king, all peace. 
15O	5	8	121430	 Be it known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. It is being built with huge stones, and timber is laid in the walls. This work goes on diligently and prospers in their hands. 
15O	5	9	121440	 Then we asked those elders and spoke to them thus: 'Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?' 
15O	5	10	121450	 We also asked them their names, for your information, that we might write down the names of their leaders. 
15O	5	11	121460	 And this was their reply to us: 'We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished. 
15O	5	12	121470	 But because our fathers had angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia. 
15O	5	13	121480	 However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree that this house of God should be rebuilt. 
15O	5	14	121490	 And the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple that was in Jerusalem and brought into the temple of Babylon, these Cyrus the king took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor; 
15O	5	15	121500	 and he said to him, "Take these vessels, go and put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt on its site." 
15O	5	16	121510	 Then this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God that is in Jerusalem, and from that time until now it has been in building, and it is not yet finished.' 
15O	5	17	121520	 Therefore, if it seems good to the king, let search be made in the royal archives there in Babylon, to see whether a decree was issued by Cyrus the king for the rebuilding of this house of God in Jerusalem. And let the king send us his pleasure in this matter." 
15O	6	1	121530	 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in Babylonia, in the house of the archives where the documents were stored. 
15O	6	2	121540	 And in Ecbatana, the capital that is in the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was written: "A record. 
15O	6	3	121550	 In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king issued a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be rebuilt, the place where sacrifices were offered, and let its foundations be retained. Its height shall be sixty cubits and its breadth sixty cubits, 
15O	6	4	121560	 with three layers of great stones and one layer of timber. Let the cost be paid from the royal treasury. 
15O	6	5	121570	 And also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that is in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought back to the temple that is in Jerusalem, each to its place. You shall put them in the house of God." 
15O	6	6	121580	 "Now therefore, Tattenai, governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and your associates the governors who are in the province Beyond the River, keep away. 
15O	6	7	121590	 Let the work on this house of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site. 
15O	6	8	121600	 Moreover, I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the rebuilding of this house of God. The cost is to be paid to these men in full and without delay from the royal revenue, the tribute of the province from Beyond the River. 
15O	6	9	121610	 And whatever is needed--bulls, rams, or sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, or oil, as the priests at Jerusalem require--let that be given to them day by day without fail, 
15O	6	10	121620	 that they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons. 
15O	6	11	121630	 Also I make a decree that if anyone alters this edict, a beam shall be pulled out of his house, and he shall be impaled on it, and his house shall be made a dunghill. 
15O	6	12	121640	 May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who shall put out a hand to alter this, or to destroy this house of God that is in Jerusalem. I Darius make a decree; let it be done with all diligence." 
15O	6	13	121650	 Then, according to the word sent by Darius the king, Tattenai, the governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates did with all diligence what Darius the king had ordered. 
15O	6	14	121660	 And the elders of the Jews built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They finished their building by decree of the God of Israel and by decree of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia; 
15O	6	15	121670	 and this house was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king. 
15O	6	16	121680	 And the people of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the returned exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy. 
15O	6	17	121690	 They offered at the dedication of this house of God 100 bulls, 200 rams, 400 lambs, and as a sin offering for all Israel 12 male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. 
15O	6	18	121700	 And they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their divisions, for the service of God at Jerusalem, as it is written in the Book of Moses. 
15O	6	19	121710	 On the fourteenth day of the first month, the returned exiles kept the Passover. 
15O	6	20	121720	 For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were clean. So they slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the returned exiles, for their fellow priests, and for themselves. 
15O	6	21	121730	 It was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and also by every one who had joined them and separated himself from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to worship the LORD, the God of Israel. 
15O	6	22	121740	 And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the LORD had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel. 
15O	7	1	121750	 Now after this, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah, 
15O	7	2	121760	 son of Shallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahitub, 
15O	7	3	121770	 son of Amariah, son of Azariah, son of Meraioth, 
15O	7	4	121780	 son of Zerahiah, son of Uzzi, son of Bukki, 
15O	7	5	121790	 son of Abishua, son of Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the chief priest-- 
15O	7	6	121800	 this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the LORD, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the LORD his God was on him. 
15O	7	7	121810	 And there went up also to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king, some of the people of Israel, and some of the priests and Levites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple servants. 
15O	7	8	121820	 And Ezra came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king. 
15O	7	9	121830	 For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylonia, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, for the good hand of his God was on him. 
15O	7	10	121840	 For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel. 
15O	7	11	121850	 This is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, a man learned in matters of the commandments of the LORD and his statutes for Israel: 
15O	7	12	121860	 "Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven. Peace. And now 
15O	7	13	121870	 I make a decree that anyone of the people of Israel or their priests or Levites in my kingdom, who freely offers to go to Jerusalem, may go with you. 
15O	7	14	121880	 For you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to make inquiries about Judah and Jerusalem according to the Law of your God, which is in your hand, 
15O	7	15	121890	 and also to carry the silver and gold that the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem, 
15O	7	16	121900	 with all the silver and gold that you shall find in the whole province of Babylonia, and with the freewill offerings of the people and the priests, vowed willingly for the house of their God that is in Jerusalem. 
15O	7	17	121910	 With this money, then, you shall with all diligence buy bulls, rams, and lambs, with their grain offerings and their drink offerings, and you shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God that is in Jerusalem. 
15O	7	18	121920	 Whatever seems good to you and your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do, according to the will of your God. 
15O	7	19	121930	 The vessels that have been given you for the service of the house of your God, you shall deliver before the God of Jerusalem. 
15O	7	20	121940	 And whatever else is required for the house of your God, which it falls to you to provide, you may provide it out of the king's treasury. 
15O	7	21	121950	 "And I, Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers in the province Beyond the River: Whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, requires of you, let it be done with all diligence, 
15O	7	22	121960	 up to 100 talents of silver, 100 cors of wheat, 100 baths of wine, 100 baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much. 
15O	7	23	121970	 Whatever is decreed by the God of heaven, let it be done in full for the house of the God of heaven, lest his wrath be against the realm of the king and his sons. 
15O	7	24	121980	 We also notify you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll on anyone of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, or other servants of this house of God. 
15O	7	25	121990	 "And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God. And those who do not know them, you shall teach. 
15O	7	26	122000	 Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed on him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment." 
15O	7	27	122010	 Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem, 
15O	7	28	122020	 and who extended to me his steadfast love before the king and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty officers. I took courage, for the hand of the LORD my God was on me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me. 
15O	8	1	122030	 These are the heads of their fathers' houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylonia, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king: 
15O	8	2	122040	 Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattush. 
15O	8	3	122050	 Of the sons of Shecaniah, who was of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah, with whom were registered 150 men. 
15O	8	4	122060	 Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him 200 men. 
15O	8	5	122070	 Of the sons of Zattu, Shecaniah the son of Jahaziel, and with him 300 men. 
15O	8	6	122080	 Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him 50 men. 
15O	8	7	122090	 Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him 70 men. 
15O	8	8	122100	 Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him 80 men. 
15O	8	9	122110	 Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him 218 men. 
15O	8	10	122120	 Of the sons of Bani, Shelomith the son of Josiphiah, and with him 160 men. 
15O	8	11	122130	 Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah, the son of Bebai, and with him 28 men. 
15O	8	12	122140	 Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him 110 men. 
15O	8	13	122150	 Of the sons of Adonikam, those who came later, their names being Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah, and with them 60 men. 
15O	8	14	122160	 Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zaccur, and with them 70 men. 
15O	8	15	122170	 I gathered them to the river that runs to Ahava, and there we camped three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there none of the sons of Levi. 
15O	8	16	122180	 Then I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of insight, 
15O	8	17	122190	 and sent them to Iddo, the leading man at the place Casiphia, telling them what to say to Iddo and his brothers and the temple servants at the place Casiphia, namely, to send us ministers for the house of our God. 
15O	8	18	122200	 And by the good hand of our God on us, they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli the son of Levi, son of Israel, namely Sherebiah with his sons and kinsmen, 18; 
15O	8	19	122210	 also Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, with his kinsmen and their sons, 20; 
15O	8	20	122220	 besides 220 of the temple servants, whom David and his officials had set apart to attend the Levites. These were all mentioned by name. 
15O	8	21	122230	 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods. 
15O	8	22	122240	 For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, "The hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him." 
15O	8	23	122250	 So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty. 
15O	8	24	122260	 Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their kinsmen with them. 
15O	8	25	122270	 And I weighed out to them the silver and the gold and the vessels, the offering for the house of our God that the king and his counselors and his lords and all Israel there present had offered. 
15O	8	26	122280	 I weighed out into their hand 650 talents of silver, and silver vessels worth 200 talents, and 100 talents of gold, 
15O	8	27	122290	 20 bowls of gold worth 1,000 darics, and two vessels of fine bright bronze as precious as gold. 
15O	8	28	122300	 And I said to them, "You are holy to the LORD, and the vessels are holy, and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers. 
15O	8	29	122310	 Guard them and keep them until you weigh them before the chief priests and the Levites and the heads of fathers' houses in Israel at Jerusalem, within the chambers of the house of the LORD." 
15O	8	30	122320	 So the priests and the Levites took over the weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem, to the house of our God. 
15O	8	31	122330	 Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way. 
15O	8	32	122340	 We came to Jerusalem, and there we remained three days. 
15O	8	33	122350	 On the fourth day, within the house of our God, the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed into the hands of Meremoth the priest, son of Uriah, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were the Levites, Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui. 
15O	8	34	122360	 The whole was counted and weighed, and the weight of everything was recorded. 
15O	8	35	122370	 At that time those who had come from captivity, the returned exiles, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and as a sin offering twelve male goats. All this was a burnt offering to the LORD. 
15O	8	36	122380	 They also delivered the king's commissions to the king's satraps and to the governors of the province Beyond the River, and they aided the people and the house of God. 
15O	9	1	122390	 After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, "The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. 
15O	9	2	122400	 For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost." 
15O	9	3	122410	 As soon as I heard this, I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled. 
15O	9	4	122420	 Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered around me while I sat appalled until the evening sacrifice. 
15O	9	5	122430	 And at the evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment and my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to the LORD my God, 
15O	9	6	122440	 saying: "O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens. 
15O	9	7	122450	 From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as it is today. 
15O	9	8	122460	 But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant and to give us a secure hold within his holy place, that our God may brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our slavery. 
15O	9	9	122470	 For we are slaves. Yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection in Judea and Jerusalem. 
15O	9	10	122480	 "And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments, 
15O	9	11	122490	 which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, 'The land that you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land impure with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations that have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness. 
15O	9	12	122500	 Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.' 
15O	9	13	122510	 And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this, 
15O	9	14	122520	 shall we break your commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape? 
15O	9	15	122530	 O LORD, the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this." 
15O	10	1	122540	 While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly. 
15O	10	2	122550	 And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: "We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this. 
15O	10	3	122560	 Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the Law. 
15O	10	4	122570	 Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; be strong and do it." 
15O	10	5	122580	 Then Ezra arose and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel take oath that they would do as had been said. So they took the oath. 
15O	10	6	122590	 Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib, where he spent the night, neither eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles. 
15O	10	7	122600	 And a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles that they should assemble at Jerusalem, 
15O	10	8	122610	 and that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles. 
15O	10	9	122620	 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. And all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain. 
15O	10	10	122630	 And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel. 
15O	10	11	122640	 Now then make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives." 
15O	10	12	122650	 Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, "It is so; we must do as you have said. 
15O	10	13	122660	 But the people are many, and it is a time of heavy rain; we cannot stand in the open. Nor is this a task for one day or for two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter. 
15O	10	14	122670	 Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us." 
15O	10	15	122680	 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supported them. 
15O	10	16	122690	 Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of fathers' houses, according to their fathers' houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter; 
15O	10	17	122700	 and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women. 
15O	10	18	122710	 Now there were found some of the sons of the priests who had married foreign women: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah, some of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brothers. 
15O	10	19	122720	 They pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt. 
15O	10	20	122730	 Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah. 
15O	10	21	122740	 Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah. 
15O	10	22	122750	 Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah. 
15O	10	23	122760	 Of the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer. 
15O	10	24	122770	 Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri. 
15O	10	25	122780	 And of Israel: of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Hashabiah, and Benaiah. 
15O	10	26	122790	 Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah. 
15O	10	27	122800	 Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza. 
15O	10	28	122810	 Of the sons of Bebai were Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai. 
15O	10	29	122820	 Of the sons of Bani were Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth. 
15O	10	30	122830	 Of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh. 
15O	10	31	122840	 Of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon, 
15O	10	32	122850	 Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah. 
15O	10	33	122860	 Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei. 
15O	10	34	122870	 Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel, 
15O	10	35	122880	 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi, 
15O	10	36	122890	 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib, 
15O	10	37	122900	 Mattaniah, Mattenai, Jaasu. 
15O	10	38	122910	 Of the sons of Binnui: Shimei, 
15O	10	39	122920	 Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah, 
15O	10	40	122930	 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai, 
15O	10	41	122940	 Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah, 
15O	10	42	122950	 Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph. 
15O	10	43	122960	 Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, Joel, and Benaiah. 
15O	10	44	122970	 All these had married foreign women, and some of the women had even borne children. 
16O	1	1	122980	 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the capital, 
16O	1	2	122990	 that Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men from Judah. And I asked them concerning the Jews who escaped, who had survived the exile, and concerning Jerusalem. 
16O	1	3	123000	 And they said to me, "The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire." 
16O	1	4	123010	 As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven. 
16O	1	5	123020	 And I said, "O LORD God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, 
16O	1	6	123030	 let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father's house have sinned. 
16O	1	7	123040	 We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses. 
16O	1	8	123050	 Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, 'If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples, 
16O	1	9	123060	 but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.' 
16O	1	10	123070	 They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand. 
16O	1	11	123080	 O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man." Now I was cupbearer to the king. 
16O	2	1	123090	 In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence. 
16O	2	2	123100	 And the king said to me, "Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart." Then I was very much afraid. 
16O	2	3	123110	 I said to the king, "Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?" 
16O	2	4	123120	 Then the king said to me, "What are you requesting?" So I prayed to the God of heaven. 
16O	2	5	123130	 And I said to the king, "If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' graves, that I may rebuild it." 
16O	2	6	123140	 And the king said to me (the queen sitting beside him), "How long will you be gone, and when will you return?" So it pleased the king to send me when I had given him a time. 
16O	2	7	123150	 And I said to the king, "If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors of the province Beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah, 
16O	2	8	123160	 and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy." And the king granted me what I asked, for the good hand of my God was upon me. 
16O	2	9	123170	 Then I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen. 
16O	2	10	123180	 But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel. 
16O	2	11	123190	 So I went to Jerusalem and was there three days. 
16O	2	12	123200	 Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me but the one on which I rode. 
16O	2	13	123210	 I went out by night by the Valley Gate to the Dragon Spring and to the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that were broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by fire. 
16O	2	14	123220	 Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King's Pool, but there was no room for the animal that was under me to pass. 
16O	2	15	123230	 Then I went up in the night by the valley and inspected the wall, and I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned. 
16O	2	16	123240	 And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, and I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, and the rest who were to do the work. 
16O	2	17	123250	 Then I said to them, "You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision." 
16O	2	18	123260	 And I told them of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, "Let us rise up and build." So they strengthened their hands for the good work. 
16O	2	19	123270	 But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they jeered at us and despised us and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?" 
16O	2	20	123280	 Then I replied to them, "The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build, but you have no portion or right or claim in Jerusalem." 
16O	3	1	123290	 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hananel. 
16O	3	2	123300	 And next to him the men of Jericho built. And next to them Zaccur the son of Imri built. 
16O	3	3	123310	 The sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate. They laid its beams and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars. 
16O	3	4	123320	 And next to them Meremoth the son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz repaired. And next to them Meshullam the son of Berechiah, son of Meshezabel repaired. And next to them Zadok the son of Baana repaired. 
16O	3	5	123330	 And next to them the Tekoites repaired, but their nobles would not stoop to serve their Lord. 
16O	3	6	123340	 Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired the Gate of Yeshanah. They laid its beams and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars. 
16O	3	7	123350	 And next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, the seat of the governor of the province Beyond the River. 
16O	3	8	123360	 Next to them Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths, repaired. Next to him Hananiah, one of the perfumers, repaired, and they restored Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall. 
16O	3	9	123370	 Next to them Rephaiah the son of Hur, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired. 
16O	3	10	123380	 Next to them Jedaiah the son of Harumaph repaired opposite his house. And next to him Hattush the son of Hashabneiah repaired. 
16O	3	11	123390	 Malchijah the son of Harim and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab repaired another section and the Tower of the Ovens. 
16O	3	12	123400	 Next to him Shallum the son of Hallohesh, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired, he and his daughters. 
16O	3	13	123410	 Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate. They rebuilt it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and repaired a thousand cubits of the wall, as far as the Dung Gate. 
16O	3	14	123420	 Malchijah the son of Rechab, ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem, repaired the Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars. 
16O	3	15	123430	 And Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it and covered it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars. And he built the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the king's garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the city of David. 
16O	3	16	123440	 After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, repaired to a point opposite the tombs of David, as far as the artificial pool, and as far as the house of the mighty men. 
16O	3	17	123450	 After him the Levites repaired: Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him Hashabiah, ruler of half the district of Keilah, repaired for his district. 
16O	3	18	123460	 After him their brothers repaired: Bavvai the son of Henadad, ruler of half the district of Keilah. 
16O	3	19	123470	 Next to him Ezer the son of Jeshua, ruler of Mizpah, repaired another section opposite the ascent to the armory at the buttress. 
16O	3	20	123480	 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai repaired another section from the buttress to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest. 
16O	3	21	123490	 After him Meremoth the son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz repaired another section from the door of the house of Eliashib to the end of the house of Eliashib. 
16O	3	22	123500	 After him the priests, the men of the surrounding area, repaired. 
16O	3	23	123510	 After them Benjamin and Hasshub repaired opposite their house. After them Azariah the son of Maaseiah, son of Ananiah repaired beside his own house. 
16O	3	24	123520	 After him Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another section, from the house of Azariah to the buttress 
16O	3	25	123530	 and to the corner. Palal the son of Uzai repaired opposite the buttress and the tower projecting from the upper house of the king at the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh 
16O	3	26	123540	 and the temple servants living on Ophel repaired to a point opposite the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower. 
16O	3	27	123550	 After him the Tekoites repaired another section opposite the great projecting tower as far as the wall of Ophel. 
16O	3	28	123560	 Above the Horse Gate the priests repaired, each one opposite his own house. 
16O	3	29	123570	 After them Zadok the son of Immer repaired opposite his own house. After him Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the East Gate, repaired. 
16O	3	30	123580	 After him Hananiah the son of Shelemiah and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph repaired another section. After him Meshullam the son of Berechiah repaired opposite his chamber. 
16O	3	31	123590	 After him Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, repaired as far as the house of the temple servants and of the merchants, opposite the Muster Gate, and to the upper chamber of the corner. 
16O	3	32	123600	 And between the upper chamber of the corner and the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and the merchants repaired. 
16O	4	1	123610	 Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews. 
16O	4	2	123620	 And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?" 
16O	4	3	123630	 Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, "Yes, what they are building--if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!" 
16O	4	4	123640	 Hear, O our God, for we are despised. Turn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives. 
16O	4	5	123650	 Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders. 
16O	4	6	123660	 So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work. 
16O	4	7	123670	 But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry. 
16O	4	8	123680	 And they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it. 
16O	4	9	123690	 And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night. 
16O	4	10	123700	 In Judah it was said, "The strength of those who bear the burdens is failing. There is too much rubble. By ourselves we will not be able to rebuild the wall." 
16O	4	11	123710	 And our enemies said, "They will not know or see till we come among them and kill them and stop the work." 
16O	4	12	123720	 At that time the Jews who lived near them came from all directions and said to us ten times, "You must return to us." 
16O	4	13	123730	 So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people by their clans, with their swords, their spears, and their bows. 
16O	4	14	123740	 And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, "Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes." 
16O	4	15	123750	 When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work. 
16O	4	16	123760	 From that day on, half of my servants worked on construction, and half held the spears, shields, bows, and coats of mail. And the leaders stood behind the whole house of Judah, 
16O	4	17	123770	 who were building on the wall. Those who carried burdens were loaded in such a way that each labored on the work with one hand and held his weapon with the other. 
16O	4	18	123780	 And each of the builders had his sword strapped at his side while he built. The man who sounded the trumpet was beside me. 
16O	4	19	123790	 And I said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, "The work is great and widely spread, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another. 
16O	4	20	123800	 In the place where you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us." 
16O	4	21	123810	 So we labored at the work, and half of them held the spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out. 
16O	4	22	123820	 I also said to the people at that time, "Let every man and his servant pass the night within Jerusalem, that they may be a guard for us by night and may labor by day." 
16O	4	23	123830	 So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes; each kept his weapon at his right hand. 
16O	5	1	123840	 Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. 
16O	5	2	123850	 For there were those who said, "With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive." 
16O	5	3	123860	 There were also those who said, "We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine." 
16O	5	4	123870	 And there were those who said, "We have borrowed money for the king's tax on our fields and our vineyards. 
16O	5	5	123880	 Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards." 
16O	5	6	123890	 I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these words. 
16O	5	7	123900	 I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, "You are exacting interest, each from his brother." And I held a great assembly against them 
16O	5	8	123910	 and said to them, "We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!" They were silent and could not find a word to say. 
16O	5	9	123920	 So I said, "The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies? 
16O	5	10	123930	 Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us abandon this exacting of interest. 
16O	5	11	123940	 Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the percentage of money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them." 
16O	5	12	123950	 Then they said, "We will restore these and require nothing from them. We will do as you say." And I called the priests and made them swear to do as they had promised. 
16O	5	13	123960	 I also shook out the fold of my garment and said, "So may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not keep this promise. So may he be shaken out and emptied." And all the assembly said "Amen" and praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised. 
16O	5	14	123970	 Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor. 
16O	5	15	123980	 The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God. 
16O	5	16	123990	 I also persevered in the work on this wall, and we acquired no land, and all my servants were gathered there for the work. 
16O	5	17	124000	 Moreover, there were at my table 150 men, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us. 
16O	5	18	124010	 Now what was prepared at my expense for each day was one ox and six choice sheep and birds, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Yet for all this I did not demand the food allowance of the governor, because the service was too heavy on this people. 
16O	5	19	124020	 Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people. 
16O	6	1	124030	 Now when Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it (although up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates), 
16O	6	2	124040	 Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, "Come and let us meet together at Hakkephirim in the plain of Ono." But they intended to do me harm. 
16O	6	3	124050	 And I sent messengers to them, saying, "I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?" 
16O	6	4	124060	 And they sent to me four times in this way, and I answered them in the same manner. 
16O	6	5	124070	 In the same way Sanballat for the fifth time sent his servant to me with an open letter in his hand. 
16O	6	6	124080	 In it was written, "It is reported among the nations, and Geshem also says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall. And according to these reports you wish to become their king. 
16O	6	7	124090	 And you have also set up prophets to proclaim concerning you in Jerusalem, 'There is a king in Judah.' And now the king will hear of these reports. So now come and let us take counsel together." 
16O	6	8	124100	 Then I sent to him, saying, "No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind." 
16O	6	9	124110	 For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, "Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done." But now, O God, strengthen my hands. 
16O	6	10	124120	 Now when I went into the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his home, he said, "Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple. Let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you. They are coming to kill you by night." 
16O	6	11	124130	 But I said, "Should such a man as I run away? And what man such as I could go into the temple and live? I will not go in." 
16O	6	12	124140	 And I understood and saw that God had not sent him, but he had pronounced the prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. 
16O	6	13	124150	 For this purpose he was hired, that I should be afraid and act in this way and sin, and so they could give me a bad name in order to taunt me. 
16O	6	14	124160	 Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, O my God, according to these things that they did, and also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who wanted to make me afraid. 
16O	6	15	124170	 So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days. 
16O	6	16	124180	 And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God. 
16O	6	17	124190	 Moreover, in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah's letters came to them. 
16O	6	18	124200	 For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah: and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as his wife. 
16O	6	19	124210	 Also they spoke of his good deeds in my presence and reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to make me afraid. 
16O	7	1	124220	 Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed, 
16O	7	2	124230	 I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was a more faithful and God-fearing man than many. 
16O	7	3	124240	 And I said to them, "Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot. And while they are still standing guard, let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their guard posts and some in front of their own homes." 
16O	7	4	124250	 The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few, and no houses had been rebuilt. 
16O	7	5	124260	 Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it: 
16O	7	6	124270	 These were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried into exile. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his town. 
16O	7	7	124280	 They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: 
16O	7	8	124290	 the sons of Parosh, 2,172. 
16O	7	9	124300	 The sons of Shephatiah, 372. 
16O	7	10	124310	 The sons of Arah, 652. 
16O	7	11	124320	 The sons of Pahath-moab, namely the sons of Jeshua and Joab, 2,818. 
16O	7	12	124330	 The sons of Elam, 1,254. 
16O	7	13	124340	 The sons of Zattu, 845. 
16O	7	14	124350	 The sons of Zaccai, 760. 
16O	7	15	124360	 The sons of Binnui, 648. 
16O	7	16	124370	 The sons of Bebai, 628. 
16O	7	17	124380	 The sons of Azgad, 2,322. 
16O	7	18	124390	 The sons of Adonikam, 667. 
16O	7	19	124400	 The sons of Bigvai, 2,067. 
16O	7	20	124410	 The sons of Adin, 655. 
16O	7	21	124420	 The sons of Ater, namely of Hezekiah, 98. 
16O	7	22	124430	 The sons of Hashum, 328. 
16O	7	23	124440	 The sons of Bezai, 324. 
16O	7	24	124450	 The sons of Hariph, 112. 
16O	7	25	124460	 The sons of Gibeon, 95. 
16O	7	26	124470	 The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, 188. 
16O	7	27	124480	 The men of Anathoth, 128. 
16O	7	28	124490	 The men of Beth-azmaveth, 42. 
16O	7	29	124500	 The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743. 
16O	7	30	124510	 The men of Ramah and Geba, 621. 
16O	7	31	124520	 The men of Michmas, 122. 
16O	7	32	124530	 The men of Bethel and Ai, 123. 
16O	7	33	124540	 The men of the other Nebo, 52. 
16O	7	34	124550	 The sons of the other Elam, 1,254. 
16O	7	35	124560	 The sons of Harim, 320. 
16O	7	36	124570	 The sons of Jericho, 345. 
16O	7	37	124580	 The sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, 721. 
16O	7	38	124590	 The sons of Senaah, 3,930. 
16O	7	39	124600	 The priests: the sons of Jedaiah, namely the house of Jeshua, 973. 
16O	7	40	124610	 The sons of Immer, 1,052. 
16O	7	41	124620	 The sons of Pashhur, 1,247. 
16O	7	42	124630	 The sons of Harim, 1,017. 
16O	7	43	124640	 The Levites: the sons of Jeshua, namely of Kadmiel of the sons of Hodevah, 74. 
16O	7	44	124650	 The singers: the sons of Asaph, 148. 
16O	7	45	124660	 The gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, 138. 
16O	7	46	124670	 The temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth, 
16O	7	47	124680	 the sons of Keros, the sons of Sia, the sons of Padon, 
16O	7	48	124690	 the sons of Lebana, the sons of Hagaba, the sons of Shalmai, 
16O	7	49	124700	 the sons of Hanan, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar, 
16O	7	50	124710	 the sons of Reaiah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda, 
16O	7	51	124720	 the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah, 
16O	7	52	124730	 the sons of Besai, the sons of Meunim, the sons of Nephushesim, 
16O	7	53	124740	 the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur, 
16O	7	54	124750	 the sons of Bazlith, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha, 
16O	7	55	124760	 the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah, 
16O	7	56	124770	 the sons of Neziah, the sons of Hatipha. 
16O	7	57	124780	 The sons of Solomon's servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of Perida, 
16O	7	58	124790	 the sons of Jaala, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel, 
16O	7	59	124800	 the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the sons of Amon. 
16O	7	60	124810	 All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon's servants were 392. 
16O	7	61	124820	 The following were those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not prove their fathers' houses nor their descent, whether they belonged to Israel: 
16O	7	62	124830	 the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, 642. 
16O	7	63	124840	 Also, of the priests: the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai (who had taken a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name). 
16O	7	64	124850	 These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but it was not found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean. 
16O	7	65	124860	 The governor told them that they were not to partake of the most holy food until a priest with Urim and Thummim should arise. 
16O	7	66	124870	 The whole assembly together was 42,360, 
16O	7	67	124880	 besides their male and female servants, of whom there were 7,337. And they had 245 singers, male and female. 
16O	7	68	124890	 Their horses were 736, their mules 245, 
16O	7	69	124900	 their camels 435, and their donkeys 6,720. 
16O	7	70	124910	 Now some of the heads of fathers' houses gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics of gold, 50 basins, 30 priests' garments and 500 minas of silver. 
16O	7	71	124920	 And some of the heads of fathers' houses gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver. 
16O	7	72	124930	 And what the rest of the people gave was 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas of silver, and 67 priests' garments. 
16O	7	73	124940	 So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their towns. And when the seventh month had come, the people of Israel were in their towns. 
16O	8	1	124950	 And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the LORD had commanded Israel. 
16O	8	2	124960	 So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, on the first day of the seventh month. 
16O	8	3	124970	 And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law. 
16O	8	4	124980	 And Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden platform that they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right hand, and Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam on his left hand. 
16O	8	5	124990	 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people, and as he opened it all the people stood. 
16O	8	6	125000	 And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and all the people answered, "Amen, Amen," lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground. 
16O	8	7	125010	 Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, the Levites, helped the people to understand the Law, while the people remained in their places. 
16O	8	8	125020	 They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading. 
16O	8	9	125030	 And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, "This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn or weep." For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law. 
16O	8	10	125040	 Then he said to them, "Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength." 
16O	8	11	125050	 So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, "Be quiet, for this day is holy; do not be grieved." 
16O	8	12	125060	 And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them. 
16O	8	13	125070	 On the second day the heads of fathers' houses of all the people, with the priests and the Levites, came together to Ezra the scribe in order to study the words of the Law. 
16O	8	14	125080	 And they found it written in the Law that the LORD had commanded by Moses that the people of Israel should dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month, 
16O	8	15	125090	 and that they should proclaim it and publish it in all their towns and in Jerusalem, "Go out to the hills and bring branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths, as it is written." 
16O	8	16	125100	 So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at the Water Gate and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim. 
16O	8	17	125110	 And all the assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and lived in the booths, for from the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the people of Israel had not done so. And there was very great rejoicing. 
16O	8	18	125120	 And day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of God. They kept the feast seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the rule. 
16O	9	1	125130	 Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth on their heads. 
16O	9	2	125140	 And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. 
16O	9	3	125150	 And they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for a quarter of the day; for another quarter of it they made confession and worshiped the LORD their God. 
16O	9	4	125160	 On the stairs of the Levites stood Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani; and they cried with a loud voice to the LORD their God. 
16O	9	5	125170	 Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, "Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting. Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise. 
16O	9	6	125180	 "You are the LORD, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you. 
16O	9	7	125190	 You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham. 
16O	9	8	125200	 You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous. 
16O	9	9	125210	 "And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea, 
16O	9	10	125220	 and performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for you knew that they acted arrogantly against our fathers. And you made a name for yourself, as it is to this day. 
16O	9	11	125230	 And you divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on dry land, and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into mighty waters. 
16O	9	12	125240	 By a pillar of cloud you led them in the day, and by a pillar of fire in the night to light for them the way in which they should go. 
16O	9	13	125250	 You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments, 
16O	9	14	125260	 and you made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses your servant. 
16O	9	15	125270	 You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger and brought water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and you told them to go in to possess the land that you had sworn to give them. 
16O	9	16	125280	 "But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments. 
16O	9	17	125290	 They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them. 
16O	9	18	125300	 Even when they had made for themselves a golden calf and said, 'This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,' and had committed great blasphemies, 
16O	9	19	125310	 you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night to light for them the way by which they should go. 
16O	9	20	125320	 You gave your good Spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst. 
16O	9	21	125330	 Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell. 
16O	9	22	125340	 "And you gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner. So they took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and the land of Og king of Bashan. 
16O	9	23	125350	 You multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess. 
16O	9	24	125360	 So the descendants went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hand, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would. 
16O	9	25	125370	 And they captured fortified cities and a rich land, and took possession of houses full of all good things, cisterns already hewn, vineyards, olive orchards and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness. 
16O	9	26	125380	 "Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies. 
16O	9	27	125390	 Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemies, who made them suffer. And in the time of their suffering they cried out to you and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them saviors who saved them from the hand of their enemies. 
16O	9	28	125400	 But after they had rest they did evil again before you, and you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they turned and cried to you, you heard from heaven, and many times you delivered them according to your mercies. 
16O	9	29	125410	 And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey. 
16O	9	30	125420	 Many years you bore with them and warned them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands. 
16O	9	31	125430	 Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God. 
16O	9	32	125440	 "Now, therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day. 
16O	9	33	125450	 Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly. 
16O	9	34	125460	 Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them. 
16O	9	35	125470	 Even in their own kingdom, and amid your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land that you set before them, they did not serve you or turn from their wicked works. 
16O	9	36	125480	 Behold, we are slaves this day; in the land that you gave to our fathers to enjoy its fruit and its good gifts, behold, we are slaves. 
16O	9	37	125490	 And its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and over our livestock as they please, and we are in great distress. 
16O	9	38	125500	 "Because of all this we make a firm covenant in writing; on the sealed document are the names of our princes, our Levites, and our priests. 
16O	10	1	125510	 "On the seals are the names of Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, Zedekiah, 
16O	10	2	125520	 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, 
16O	10	3	125530	 Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah, 
16O	10	4	125540	 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, 
16O	10	5	125550	 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, 
16O	10	6	125560	 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, 
16O	10	7	125570	 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, 
16O	10	8	125580	 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these are the priests. 
16O	10	9	125590	 And the Levites: Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel; 
16O	10	10	125600	 and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, 
16O	10	11	125610	 Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah, 
16O	10	12	125620	 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, 
16O	10	13	125630	 Hodiah, Bani, Beninu. 
16O	10	14	125640	 The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani, 
16O	10	15	125650	 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, 
16O	10	16	125660	 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, 
16O	10	17	125670	 Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur, 
16O	10	18	125680	 Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai, 
16O	10	19	125690	 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai, 
16O	10	20	125700	 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, 
16O	10	21	125710	 Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua, 
16O	10	22	125720	 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, 
16O	10	23	125730	 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub, 
16O	10	24	125740	 Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek, 
16O	10	25	125750	 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, 
16O	10	26	125760	 Ahiah, Hanan, Anan, 
16O	10	27	125770	 Malluch, Harim, Baanah. 
16O	10	28	125780	 "The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding, 
16O	10	29	125790	 join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his rules and his statutes. 
16O	10	30	125800	 We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons. 
16O	10	31	125810	 And if the peoples of the land bring in goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. And we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt. 
16O	10	32	125820	 "We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly a third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God: 
16O	10	33	125830	 for the showbread, the regular grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed feasts, the holy things, and the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God. 
16O	10	34	125840	 We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, have likewise cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the Law. 
16O	10	35	125850	 We obligate ourselves to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the LORD; 
16O	10	36	125860	 also to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God, the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks; 
16O	10	37	125870	 and to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our towns where we labor. 
16O	10	38	125880	 And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes. And the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers of the storehouse. 
16O	10	39	125890	 For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of grain, wine, and oil to the chambers, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, as well as the priests who minister, and the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the house of our God." 
16O	11	1	125900	 Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem. And the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city, while nine out of ten remained in the other towns. 
16O	11	2	125910	 And the people blessed all the men who willingly offered to live in Jerusalem. 
16O	11	3	125920	 These are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem; but in the towns of Judah everyone lived on his property in their towns: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the descendants of Solomon's servants. 
16O	11	4	125930	 And in Jerusalem lived certain of the sons of Judah and of the sons of Benjamin. Of the sons of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, son of Zechariah, son of Amariah, son of Shephatiah, son of Mahalalel, of the sons of Perez; 
16O	11	5	125940	 and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, son of Col-hozeh, son of Hazaiah, son of Adaiah, son of Joiarib, son of Zechariah, son of the Shilonite. 
16O	11	6	125950	 All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were 468 valiant men. 
16O	11	7	125960	 And these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, son of Joed, son of Pedaiah, son of Kolaiah, son of Maaseiah, son of Ithiel, son of Jeshaiah, 
16O	11	8	125970	 and his brothers, men of valor, 928. 
16O	11	9	125980	 Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassenuah was second over the city. 
16O	11	10	125990	 Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin, 
16O	11	11	126000	 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub, ruler of the house of God, 
16O	11	12	126010	 and their brothers who did the work of the house, 822; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, son of Pelaliah, son of Amzi, son of Zechariah, son of Pashhur, son of Malchijah, 
16O	11	13	126020	 and his brothers, heads of fathers' houses, 242; and Amashsai, the son of Azarel, son of Ahzai, son of Meshillemoth, son of Immer, 
16O	11	14	126030	 and their brothers, mighty men of valor, 128; their overseer was Zabdiel the son of Haggedolim. 
16O	11	15	126040	 And of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, son of Bunni; 
16O	11	16	126050	 and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were over the outside work of the house of God; 
16O	11	17	126060	 and Mattaniah the son of Mica, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, who was the leader of the praise, who gave thanks, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and Abda the son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun. 
16O	11	18	126070	 All the Levites in the holy city were 284. 
16O	11	19	126080	 The gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were 172. 
16O	11	20	126090	 And the rest of Israel, and of the priests and the Levites, were in all the towns of Judah, every one in his inheritance. 
16O	11	21	126100	 But the temple servants lived on Ophel; and Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple servants. 
16O	11	22	126110	 The overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the work of the house of God. 
16O	11	23	126120	 For there was a command from the king concerning them, and a fixed provision for the singers, as every day required. 
16O	11	24	126130	 And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the sons of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's side in all matters concerning the people. 
16O	11	25	126140	 And as for the villages, with their fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kiriath-arba and its villages, and in Dibon and its villages, and in Jekabzeel and its villages, 
16O	11	26	126150	 and in Jeshua and in Moladah and Beth-pelet, 
16O	11	27	126160	 in Hazar-shual, in Beersheba and its villages, 
16O	11	28	126170	 in Ziklag, in Meconah and its villages, 
16O	11	29	126180	 in En-rimmon, in Zorah, in Jarmuth, 
16O	11	30	126190	 Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and its villages. So they encamped from Beersheba to the Valley of Hinnom. 
16O	11	31	126200	 The people of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages, 
16O	11	32	126210	 Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah, 
16O	11	33	126220	 Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim, 
16O	11	34	126230	 Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat, 
16O	11	35	126240	 Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen. 
16O	11	36	126250	 And certain divisions of the Levites in Judah were assigned to Benjamin. 
16O	12	1	126260	 These are the priests and the Levites who came up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, 
16O	12	2	126270	 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush, 
16O	12	3	126280	 Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth, 
16O	12	4	126290	 Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah, 
16O	12	5	126300	 Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah, 
16O	12	6	126310	 Shemaiah, Joiarib, Jedaiah, 
16O	12	7	126320	 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua. 
16O	12	8	126330	 And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who with his brothers was in charge of the songs of thanksgiving. 
16O	12	9	126340	 And Bakbukiah and Unni and their brothers stood opposite them in the service. 
16O	12	10	126350	 And Jeshua was the father of Joiakim, Joiakim the father of Eliashib, Eliashib the father of Joiada, 
16O	12	11	126360	 Joiada the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan the father of Jaddua. 
16O	12	12	126370	 And in the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers' houses: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah; 
16O	12	13	126380	 of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan; 
16O	12	14	126390	 of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph; 
16O	12	15	126400	 of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai; 
16O	12	16	126410	 of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; 
16O	12	17	126420	 of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai; 
16O	12	18	126430	 of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan; 
16O	12	19	126440	 of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi; 
16O	12	20	126450	 of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber; 
16O	12	21	126460	 of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel. 
16O	12	22	126470	 In the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua, the Levites were recorded as heads of fathers' houses; so too were the priests in the reign of Darius the Persian. 
16O	12	23	126480	 As for the sons of Levi, their heads of fathers' houses were written in the Book of the Chronicles until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib. 
16O	12	24	126490	 And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers who stood opposite them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch by watch. 
16O	12	25	126500	 Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers standing guard at the storehouses of the gates. 
16O	12	26	126510	 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and of Ezra, the priest and scribe. 
16O	12	27	126520	 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, with thanksgivings and with singing, with cymbals, harps, and lyres. 
16O	12	28	126530	 And the sons of the singers gathered together from the district surrounding Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites; 
16O	12	29	126540	 also from Beth-gilgal and from the region of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built for themselves villages around Jerusalem. 
16O	12	30	126550	 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people and the gates and the wall. 
16O	12	31	126560	 Then I brought the leaders of Judah up onto the wall and appointed two great choirs that gave thanks. One went to the south on the wall to the Dung Gate. 
16O	12	32	126570	 And after them went Hoshaiah and half of the leaders of Judah, 
16O	12	33	126580	 and Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam, 
16O	12	34	126590	 Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, and Jeremiah, 
16O	12	35	126600	 and certain of the priests' sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, son of Shemaiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micaiah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph; 
16O	12	36	126610	 and his relatives, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God. And Ezra the scribe went before them. 
16O	12	37	126620	 At the Fountain Gate they went up straight before them by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, to the Water Gate on the east. 
16O	12	38	126630	 The other choir of those who gave thanks went to the north, and I followed them with half of the people, on the wall, above the Tower of the Ovens, to the Broad Wall, 
16O	12	39	126640	 and above the Gate of Ephraim, and by the Gate of Yeshanah, and by the Fish Gate and the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate; and they came to a halt at the Gate of the Guard. 
16O	12	40	126650	 So both choirs of those who gave thanks stood in the house of God, and I and half of the officials with me; 
16O	12	41	126660	 and the priests Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets; 
16O	12	42	126670	 and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang with Jezrahiah as their leader. 
16O	12	43	126680	 And they offered great sacrifices that day and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and children also rejoiced. And the joy of Jerusalem was heard far away. 
16O	12	44	126690	 On that day men were appointed over the storerooms, the contributions, the firstfruits, and the tithes, to gather into them the portions required by the Law for the priests and for the Levites according to the fields of the towns, for Judah rejoiced over the priests and the Levites who ministered. 
16O	12	45	126700	 And they performed the service of their God and the service of purification, as did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the command of David and his son Solomon. 
16O	12	46	126710	 For long ago in the days of David and Asaph there were directors of the singers, and there were songs of praise and thanksgiving to God. 
16O	12	47	126720	 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the daily portions for the singers and the gatekeepers; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron. 
16O	13	1	126730	 On that day they read from the Book of Moses in the hearing of the people. And in it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God, 
16O	13	2	126740	 for they did not meet the people of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them--yet our God turned the curse into a blessing. 
16O	13	3	126750	 As soon as the people heard the law, they separated from Israel all those of foreign descent. 
16O	13	4	126760	 Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, and who was related to Tobiah, 
16O	13	5	126770	 prepared for Tobiah a large chamber where they had previously put the grain offering, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of grain, wine, and oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests. 
16O	13	6	126780	 While this was taking place, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king. And after some time I asked leave of the king 
16O	13	7	126790	 and came to Jerusalem, and I then discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, preparing for him a chamber in the courts of the house of God. 
16O	13	8	126800	 And I was very angry, and I threw all the household furniture of Tobiah out of the chamber. 
16O	13	9	126810	 Then I gave orders, and they cleansed the chambers, and I brought back there the vessels of the house of God, with the grain offering and the frankincense. 
16O	13	10	126820	 I also found out that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each to his field. 
16O	13	11	126830	 So I confronted the officials and said, "Why is the house of God forsaken?" And I gathered them together and set them in their stations. 
16O	13	12	126840	 Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, wine, and oil into the storehouses. 
16O	13	13	126850	 And I appointed as treasurers over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, and as their assistant Hanan the son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, for they were considered reliable, and their duty was to distribute to their brothers. 
16O	13	14	126860	 Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God and for his service. 
16O	13	15	126870	 In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food. 
16O	13	16	126880	 Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of goods and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah, in Jerusalem itself! 
16O	13	17	126890	 Then I confronted the nobles of Judah and said to them, "What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day? 
16O	13	18	126900	 Did not your fathers act in this way, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Now you are bringing more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath." 
16O	13	19	126910	 As soon as it began to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day. 
16O	13	20	126920	 Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice. 
16O	13	21	126930	 But I warned them and said to them, "Why do you lodge outside the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you." From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath. 
16O	13	22	126940	 Then I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your steadfast love. 
16O	13	23	126950	 In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. 
16O	13	24	126960	 And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people. 
16O	13	25	126970	 And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. And I made them take oath in the name of God, saying, "You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves. 
16O	13	26	126980	 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin. 
16O	13	27	126990	 Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?" 
16O	13	28	127000	 And one of the sons of Jehoiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I chased him from me. 
16O	13	29	127010	 Remember them, O my God, because they have desecrated the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites. 
16O	13	30	127020	 Thus I cleansed them from everything foreign, and I established the duties of the priests and Levites, each in his work; 
16O	13	31	127030	 and I provided for the wood offering at appointed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good. 
17O	1	1	127040	 Now in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over 127 provinces, 
17O	1	2	127050	 in those days when King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in Susa, the capital, 
17O	1	3	127060	 in the third year of his reign he gave a feast for all his officials and servants. The army of Persia and Media and the nobles and governors of the provinces were before him, 
17O	1	4	127070	 while he showed the riches of his royal glory and the splendor and pomp of his greatness for many days, 180 days. 
17O	1	5	127080	 And when these days were completed, the king gave for all the people present in Susa, the citadel, both great and small, a feast lasting for seven days in the court of the garden of the king's palace. 
17O	1	6	127090	 There were white cotton curtains and violet hangings fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rods and marble pillars, and also couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and precious stones. 
17O	1	7	127100	 Drinks were served in golden vessels, vessels of different kinds, and the royal wine was lavished according to the bounty of the king. 
17O	1	8	127110	 And drinking was according to this edict: "There is no compulsion." For the king had given orders to all the staff of his palace to do as each man desired. 
17O	1	9	127120	 Queen Vashti also gave a feast for the women in the palace that belonged to King Ahasuerus. 
17O	1	10	127130	 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha and Abagtha, Zethar and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus, 
17O	1	11	127140	 to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown, in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty, for she was lovely to look at. 
17O	1	12	127150	 But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king's command delivered by the eunuchs. At this the king became enraged, and his anger burned within him. 
17O	1	13	127160	 Then the king said to the wise men who knew the times (for this was the king's procedure toward all who were versed in law and judgment, 
17O	1	14	127170	 the men next to him being Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom): 
17O	1	15	127180	 "According to the law, what is to be done to Queen Vashti, because she has not performed the command of King Ahasuerus delivered by the eunuchs?" 
17O	1	16	127190	 Then Memucan said in the presence of the king and the officials, "Not only against the king has Queen Vashti done wrong, but also against all the officials and all the peoples who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus. 
17O	1	17	127200	 For the queen's behavior will be made known to all women, causing them to look at their husbands with contempt, since they will say, 'King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, and she did not come.' 
17O	1	18	127210	 This very day the noble women of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen's behavior will say the same to all the king's officials, and there will be contempt and wrath in plenty. 
17O	1	19	127220	 If it please the king, let a royal order go out from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes so that it may not be repealed, that Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus. And let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she. 
17O	1	20	127230	 So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, for it is vast, all women will give honor to their husbands, high and low alike." 
17O	1	21	127240	 This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did as Memucan proposed. 
17O	1	22	127250	 He sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, that every man be master in his own household and speak according to the language of his people. 
17O	2	1	127260	 After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus had abated, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her. 
17O	2	2	127270	 Then the king's young men who attended him said, "Let beautiful young virgins be sought out for the king. 
17O	2	3	127280	 And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom to gather all the beautiful young virgins to the harem in Susa the capital, under custody of Hegai, the king's eunuch, who is in charge of the women. Let their cosmetics be given them. 
17O	2	4	127290	 And let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." This pleased the king, and he did so. 
17O	2	5	127300	 Now there was a Jew in Susa the citadel whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite, 
17O	2	6	127310	 who had been carried away from Jerusalem among the captives carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away. 
17O	2	7	127320	 He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter. 
17O	2	8	127330	 So when the king's order and his edict were proclaimed, and when many young women were gathered in Susa the citadel in custody of Hegai, Esther also was taken into the king's palace and put in custody of Hegai, who had charge of the women. 
17O	2	9	127340	 And the young woman pleased him and won his favor. And he quickly provided her with her cosmetics and her portion of food, and with seven chosen young women from the king's palace, and advanced her and her young women to the best place in the harem. 
17O	2	10	127350	 Esther had not made known her people or kindred, for Mordecai had commanded her not to make it known. 
17O	2	11	127360	 And every day Mordecai walked in front of the court of the harem to learn how Esther was and what was happening to her. 
17O	2	12	127370	 Now when the turn came for each young woman to go in to King Ahasuerus, after being twelve months under the regulations for the women, since this was the regular period of their beautifying, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and ointments for women-- 
17O	2	13	127380	 when the young woman went in to the king in this way, she was given whatever she desired to take with her from the harem to the king's palace. 
17O	2	14	127390	 In the evening she would go in, and in the morning she would return to the second harem in custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch, who was in charge of the concubines. She would not go in to the king again, unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name. 
17O	2	15	127400	 When the turn came for Esther the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his own daughter, to go in to the king, she asked for nothing except what Hegai the king's eunuch, who had charge of the women, advised. Now Esther was winning favor in the eyes of all who saw her. 
17O	2	16	127410	 And when Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign, 
17O	2	17	127420	 the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti. 
17O	2	18	127430	 Then the king gave a great feast for all his officials and servants; it was Esther's feast. He also granted a remission of taxes to the provinces and gave gifts with royal generosity. 
17O	2	19	127440	 Now when the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate. 
17O	2	20	127450	 Esther had not made known her kindred or her people, as Mordecai had commanded her, for Esther obeyed Mordecai just as when she was brought up by him. 
17O	2	21	127460	 In those days, as Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. 
17O	2	22	127470	 And this came to the knowledge of Mordecai, and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told the king in the name of Mordecai. 
17O	2	23	127480	 When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows. And it was recorded in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king. 
17O	3	1	127490	 After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, and advanced him and set his throne above all the officials who were with him. 
17O	3	2	127500	 And all the king's servants who were at the king's gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage. 
17O	3	3	127510	 Then the king's servants who were at the king's gate said to Mordecai, "Why do you transgress the king's command?" 
17O	3	4	127520	 And when they spoke to him day after day and he would not listen to them, they told Haman, in order to see whether Mordecai's words would stand, for he had told them that he was a Jew. 
17O	3	5	127530	 And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage to him, Haman was filled with fury. 
17O	3	6	127540	 But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus. 
17O	3	7	127550	 In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, they cast lots) before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar. 
17O	3	8	127560	 Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king's laws, so that it is not to the king's profit to tolerate them. 
17O	3	9	127570	 If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king's business, that they may put it into the king's treasuries." 
17O	3	10	127580	 So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews. 
17O	3	11	127590	 And the king said to Haman, "The money is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you." 
17O	3	12	127600	 Then the king's scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king's satraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the officials of all the peoples, to every province in its own script and every people in its own language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king's signet ring. 
17O	3	13	127610	 Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces with instruction to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods. 
17O	3	14	127620	 A copy of the document was to be issued as a decree in every province by proclamation to all the peoples to be ready for that day. 
17O	3	15	127630	 The couriers went out hurriedly by order of the king, and the decree was issued in Susa the citadel. And the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was thrown into confusion. 
17O	4	1	127640	 When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry. 
17O	4	2	127650	 He went up to the entrance of the king's gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king's gate clothed in sackcloth. 
17O	4	3	127660	 And in every province, wherever the king's command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes. 
17O	4	4	127670	 When Esther's young women and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them. 
17O	4	5	127680	 Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs, who had been appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this was and why it was. 
17O	4	6	127690	 Hathach went out to Mordecai in the open square of the city in front of the king's gate, 
17O	4	7	127700	 and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king's treasuries for the destruction of the Jews. 
17O	4	8	127710	 Mordecai also gave him a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their destruction, that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her and command her to go to the king to beg his favor and plead with him on behalf of her people. 
17O	4	9	127720	 And Hathach went and told Esther what Mordecai had said. 
17O	4	10	127730	 Then Esther spoke to Hathach and commanded him to go to Mordecai and say, 
17O	4	11	127740	 "All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is but one law--to be put to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live. But as for me, I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days." 
17O	4	12	127750	 And they told Mordecai what Esther had said. 
17O	4	13	127760	 Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, "Do not think to yourself that in the king's palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. 
17O	4	14	127770	 For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" 
17O	4	15	127780	 Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai, 
17O	4	16	127790	 "Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish." 
17O	4	17	127800	 Mordecai then went away and did everything as Esther had ordered him. 
17O	5	1	127810	 On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king's palace, in front of the king's quarters, while the king was sitting on his royal throne inside the throne room opposite the entrance to the palace. 
17O	5	2	127820	 And when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she won favor in his sight, and he held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter. 
17O	5	3	127830	 And the king said to her, "What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you, even to the half of my kingdom." 
17O	5	4	127840	 And Esther said, "If it please the king, let the king and Haman come today to a feast that I have prepared for the king." 
17O	5	5	127850	 Then the king said, "Bring Haman quickly, so that we may do as Esther has asked." So the king and Haman came to the feast that Esther had prepared. 
17O	5	6	127860	 And as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king said to Esther, "What is your wish? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled." 
17O	5	7	127870	 Then Esther answered, "My wish and my request is: 
17O	5	8	127880	 If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my wish and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast that I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said." 
17O	5	9	127890	 And Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai. 
17O	5	10	127900	 Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and brought his friends and his wife Zeresh. 
17O	5	11	127910	 And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the servants of the king. 
17O	5	12	127920	 Then Haman said, "Even Queen Esther let no one but me come with the king to the feast she prepared. And tomorrow also I am invited by her together with the king. 
17O	5	13	127930	 Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate." 
17O	5	14	127940	 Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hanged upon it. Then go joyfully with the king to the feast." This idea pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made. 
17O	6	1	127950	 On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king. 
17O	6	2	127960	 And it was found written how Mordecai had told about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, and who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. 
17O	6	3	127970	 And the king said, "What honor or distinction has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?" The king's young men who attended him said, "Nothing has been done for him." 
17O	6	4	127980	 And the king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king's palace to speak to the king about having Mordecai hanged on the gallows that he had prepared for him. 
17O	6	5	127990	 And the king's young men told him, "Haman is there, standing in the court." And the king said, "Let him come in." 
17O	6	6	128000	 So Haman came in, and the king said to him, "What should be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?" And Haman said to himself, "Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?" 
17O	6	7	128010	 And Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor, 
17O	6	8	128020	 let royal robes be brought, which the king has worn, and the horse that the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown is set. 
17O	6	9	128030	 And let the robes and the horse be handed over to one of the king's most noble officials. Let them dress the man whom the king delights to honor, and let them lead him on the horse through the square of the city, proclaiming before him: 'Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.'" 
17O	6	10	128040	 Then the king said to Haman, "Hurry; take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate. Leave out nothing that you have mentioned." 
17O	6	11	128050	 So Haman took the robes and the horse, and he dressed Mordecai and led him through the square of the city, proclaiming before him, "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor." 
17O	6	12	128060	 Then Mordecai returned to the king's gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered. 
17O	6	13	128070	 And Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the Jewish people, you will not overcome him but will surely fall before him." 
17O	6	14	128080	 While they were yet talking with him, the king's eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman to the feast that Esther had prepared. 
17O	7	1	128090	 So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. 
17O	7	2	128100	 And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, "What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled." 
17O	7	3	128110	 Then Queen Esther answered, "If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request. 
17O	7	4	128120	 For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king." 
17O	7	5	128130	 Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who has dared to do this?" 
17O	7	6	128140	 And Esther said, "A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!" Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen. 
17O	7	7	128150	 And the king arose in his wrath from the wine-drinking and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm was determined against him by the king. 
17O	7	8	128160	 And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. And the king said, "Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?" As the word left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman's face. 
17O	7	9	128170	 Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, "Moreover, the gallows that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing at Haman's house, fifty cubits high." 
17O	7	10	128180	 And the king said, "Hang him on that." So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated. 
17O	8	1	128190	 On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her. 
17O	8	2	128200	 And the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. 
17O	8	3	128210	 Then Esther spoke again to the king. She fell at his feet and wept and pleaded with him to avert the evil plan of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews. 
17O	8	4	128220	 When the king held out the golden scepter to Esther, 
17O	8	5	128230	 Esther rose and stood before the king. And she said, "If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king. 
17O	8	6	128240	 For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?" 
17O	8	7	128250	 Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, "Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he intended to lay hands on the Jews. 
17O	8	8	128260	 But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king's ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's ring cannot be revoked." 
17O	8	9	128270	 The king's scribes were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day. And an edict was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded concerning the Jews, to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to each province in its own script and to each people in its own language, and also to the Jews in their script and their language. 
17O	8	10	128280	 And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king's signet ring. Then he sent the letters by mounted couriers riding on swift horses that were used in the king's service, bred from the royal stud, 
17O	8	11	128290	 saying that the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to gather and defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, and to plunder their goods, 
17O	8	12	128300	 on one day throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar. 
17O	8	13	128310	 A copy of what was written was to be issued as a decree in every province, being publicly displayed to all peoples, and the Jews were to be ready on that day to take vengeance on their enemies. 
17O	8	14	128320	 So the couriers, mounted on their swift horses that were used in the king's service, rode out hurriedly, urged by the king's command. And the decree was issued in Susa the citadel. 
17O	8	15	128330	 Then Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal robes of blue and white, with a great golden crown and a robe of fine linen and purple, and the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced. 
17O	8	16	128340	 The Jews had light and gladness and joy and honor. 
17O	8	17	128350	 And in every province and in every city, wherever the king's command and his edict reached, there was gladness and joy among the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many from the peoples of the country declared themselves Jews, for fear of the Jews had fallen on them. 
17O	9	1	128360	 Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's command and edict were about to be carried out, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, the reverse occurred: the Jews gained mastery over those who hated them. 
17O	9	2	128370	 The Jews gathered in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who sought their harm. And no one could stand against them, for the fear of them had fallen on all peoples. 
17O	9	3	128380	 All the officials of the provinces and the satraps and the governors and the royal agents also helped the Jews, for the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them. 
17O	9	4	128390	 For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces, for the man Mordecai grew more and more powerful. 
17O	9	5	128400	 The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them. 
17O	9	6	128410	 In Susa the citadel itself the Jews killed and destroyed 500 men, 
17O	9	7	128420	 and also killed Parshandatha and Dalphon and Aspatha 
17O	9	8	128430	 and Poratha and Adalia and Aridatha 
17O	9	9	128440	 and Parmashta and Arisai and Aridai and Vaizatha, 
17O	9	10	128450	 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they laid no hand on the plunder. 
17O	9	11	128460	 That very day the number of those killed in Susa the citadel was reported to the king. 
17O	9	12	128470	 And the king said to Queen Esther, "In Susa the citadel the Jews have killed and destroyed 500 men and also the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your wish? It shall be granted you. And what further is your request? It shall be fulfilled." 
17O	9	13	128480	 And Esther said, "If it please the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed tomorrow also to do according to this day's edict. And let the ten sons of Haman be hanged on the gallows." 
17O	9	14	128490	 So the king commanded this to be done. A decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged. 
17O	9	15	128500	 The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they killed 300 men in Susa, but they laid no hands on the plunder. 
17O	9	16	128510	 Now the rest of the Jews who were in the king's provinces also gathered to defend their lives, and got relief from their enemies and killed 75,000 of those who hated them, but they laid no hands on the plunder. 
17O	9	17	128520	 This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness. 
17O	9	18	128530	 But the Jews who were in Susa gathered on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth, and rested on the fifteenth day, making that a day of feasting and gladness. 
17O	9	19	128540	 Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the rural towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting, as a holiday, and as a day on which they send gifts of food to one another. 
17O	9	20	128550	 And Mordecai recorded these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, 
17O	9	21	128560	 obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year, 
17O	9	22	128570	 as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor. 
17O	9	23	128580	 So the Jews accepted what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them. 
17O	9	24	128590	 For Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to destroy them. 
17O	9	25	128600	 But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. 
17O	9	26	128610	 Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term Pur. Therefore, because of all that was written in this letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had happened to them, 
17O	9	27	128620	 the Jews firmly obligated themselves and their offspring and all who joined them, that without fail they would keep these two days according to what was written and at the time appointed every year, 
17O	9	28	128630	 that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, in every clan, province, and city, and that these days of Purim should never fall into disuse among the Jews, nor should the commemoration of these days cease among their descendants. 
17O	9	29	128640	 Then Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew gave full written authority, confirming this second letter about Purim. 
17O	9	30	128650	 Letters were sent to all the Jews, to the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, in words of peace and truth, 
17O	9	31	128660	 that these days of Purim should be observed at their appointed seasons, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther obligated them, and as they had obligated themselves and their offspring, with regard to their fasts and their lamenting. 
17O	9	32	128670	 The command of Queen Esther confirmed these practices of Purim, and it was recorded in writing. 
17O	10	1	128680	 King Ahasuerus imposed tax on the land and on the coastlands of the sea. 
17O	10	2	128690	 And all the acts of his power and might, and the full account of the high honor of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? 
17O	10	3	128700	 For Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people. 
18O	1	1	128710	 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. 
18O	1	2	128720	 There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. 
18O	1	3	128730	 He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east. 
18O	1	4	128740	 His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 
18O	1	5	128750	 And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did continually. 
18O	1	6	128760	 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them. 
18O	1	7	128770	 The LORD said to Satan, "From where have you come?" Satan answered the LORD and said, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it." 
18O	1	8	128780	 And the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?" 
18O	1	9	128790	 Then Satan answered the LORD and said, "Does Job fear God for no reason? 
18O	1	10	128800	 Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. 
18O	1	11	128810	 But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face." 
18O	1	12	128820	 And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand." So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD. 
18O	1	13	128830	 Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, 
18O	1	14	128840	 and there came a messenger to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, 
18O	1	15	128850	 and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you." 
18O	1	16	128860	 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, "The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you." 
18O	1	17	128870	 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, "The Chaldeans formed three groups and made a raid on the camels and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you." 
18O	1	18	128880	 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, 
18O	1	19	128890	 and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you." 
18O	1	20	128900	 Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. 
18O	1	21	128910	 And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." 
18O	1	22	128920	 In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong. 
18O	2	1	128930	 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD. 
18O	2	2	128940	 And the LORD said to Satan, "From where have you come?" Satan answered the LORD and said, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it." 
18O	2	3	128950	 And the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason." 
18O	2	4	128960	 Then Satan answered the LORD and said, "Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life. 
18O	2	5	128970	 But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face." 
18O	2	6	128980	 And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life." 
18O	2	7	128990	 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. 
18O	2	8	129000	 And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes. 
18O	2	9	129010	 Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die." 
18O	2	10	129020	 But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips. 
18O	2	11	129030	 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him. 
18O	2	12	129040	 And when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads toward heaven. 
18O	2	13	129050	 And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great. 
18O	3	1	129060	 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 
18O	3	2	129070	 And Job said: 
18O	3	3	129080	 "Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man is conceived.' 
18O	3	4	129090	 Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it. 
18O	3	5	129100	 Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. 
18O	3	6	129110	 That night--let thick darkness seize it! Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. 
18O	3	7	129120	 Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry enter it. 
18O	3	8	129130	 Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan. 
18O	3	9	129140	 Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning, 
18O	3	10	129150	 because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes. 
18O	3	11	129160	 "Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire? 
18O	3	12	129170	 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse? 
18O	3	13	129180	 For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest, 
18O	3	14	129190	 with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves, 
18O	3	15	129200	 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver. 
18O	3	16	129210	 Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light? 
18O	3	17	129220	 There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. 
18O	3	18	129230	 There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster. 
18O	3	19	129240	 The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master. 
18O	3	20	129250	 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul, 
18O	3	21	129260	 who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, 
18O	3	22	129270	 who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave? 
18O	3	23	129280	 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in? 
18O	3	24	129290	 For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water. 
18O	3	25	129300	 For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me. 
18O	3	26	129310	 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but trouble comes." 
18O	4	1	129320	 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: 
18O	4	2	129330	 "If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking? 
18O	4	3	129340	 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. 
18O	4	4	129350	 Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees. 
18O	4	5	129360	 But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed. 
18O	4	6	129370	 Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope? 
18O	4	7	129380	 "Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off? 
18O	4	8	129390	 As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same. 
18O	4	9	129400	 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed. 
18O	4	10	129410	 The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken. 
18O	4	11	129420	 The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. 
18O	4	12	129430	 "Now a word was brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it. 
18O	4	13	129440	 Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, 
18O	4	14	129450	 dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. 
18O	4	15	129460	 A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up. 
18O	4	16	129470	 It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice: 
18O	4	17	129480	 'Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker? 
18O	4	18	129490	 Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error; 
18O	4	19	129500	 how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth. 
18O	4	20	129510	 Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. 
18O	4	21	129520	 Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?' 
18O	5	1	129530	 "Call now; is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn? 
18O	5	2	129540	 Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple. 
18O	5	3	129550	 I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling. 
18O	5	4	129560	 His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them. 
18O	5	5	129570	 The hungry eat his harvest, and he takes it even out of thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth. 
18O	5	6	129580	 For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground, 
18O	5	7	129590	 but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. 
18O	5	8	129600	 "As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause, 
18O	5	9	129610	 who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number: 
18O	5	10	129620	 he gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields; 
18O	5	11	129630	 he sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety. 
18O	5	12	129640	 He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success. 
18O	5	13	129650	 He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end. 
18O	5	14	129660	 They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night. 
18O	5	15	129670	 But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth and from the hand of the mighty. 
18O	5	16	129680	 So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth. 
18O	5	17	129690	 "Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty. 
18O	5	18	129700	 For he wounds, but he binds up; he shatters, but his hands heal. 
18O	5	19	129710	 He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven no evil shall touch you. 
18O	5	20	129720	 In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword. 
18O	5	21	129730	 You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes. 
18O	5	22	129740	 At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the beasts of the earth. 
18O	5	23	129750	 For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you. 
18O	5	24	129760	 You shall know that your tent is at peace, and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing. 
18O	5	25	129770	 You shall know also that your offspring shall be many, and your descendants as the grass of the earth. 
18O	5	26	129780	 You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season. 
18O	5	27	129790	 Behold, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your good." 
18O	6	1	129800	 Then Job answered and said: 
18O	6	2	129810	 "Oh that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! 
18O	6	3	129820	 For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash. 
18O	6	4	129830	 For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me. 
18O	6	5	129840	 Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass, or the ox low over his fodder? 
18O	6	6	129850	 Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow? 
18O	6	7	129860	 My appetite refuses to touch them; they are as food that is loathsome to me. 
18O	6	8	129870	 "Oh that I might have my request, and that God would fulfill my hope, 
18O	6	9	129880	 that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off! 
18O	6	10	129890	 This would be my comfort; I would even exult in pain unsparing, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One. 
18O	6	11	129900	 What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient? 
18O	6	12	129910	 Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze? 
18O	6	13	129920	 Have I any help in me, when resource is driven from me? 
18O	6	14	129930	 "He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty. 
18O	6	15	129940	 My brothers are treacherous as a torrent-bed, as torrential streams that pass away, 
18O	6	16	129950	 which are dark with ice, and where the snow hides itself. 
18O	6	17	129960	 When they melt, they disappear; when it is hot, they vanish from their place. 
18O	6	18	129970	 The caravans turn aside from their course; they go up into the waste and perish. 
18O	6	19	129980	 The caravans of Tema look, the travelers of Sheba hope. 
18O	6	20	129990	 They are ashamed because they were confident; they come there and are disappointed. 
18O	6	21	130000	 For you have now become nothing; you see my calamity and are afraid. 
18O	6	22	130010	 Have I said, 'Make me a gift'? Or, 'From your wealth offer a bribe for me'? 
18O	6	23	130020	 Or, 'Deliver me from the adversary's hand'? Or, 'Redeem me from the hand of the ruthless'? 
18O	6	24	130030	 "Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have gone astray. 
18O	6	25	130040	 How forceful are upright words! But what does reproof from you reprove? 
18O	6	26	130050	 Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind? 
18O	6	27	130060	 You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend. 
18O	6	28	130070	 "But now, be pleased to look at me, for I will not lie to your face. 
18O	6	29	130080	 Please turn; let no injustice be done. Turn now; my vindication is at stake. 
18O	6	30	130090	 Is there any injustice on my tongue? Cannot my palate discern the cause of calamity? 
18O	7	1	130100	 "Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand? 
18O	7	2	130110	 Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages, 
18O	7	3	130120	 so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me. 
18O	7	4	130130	 When I lie down I say, 'When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn. 
18O	7	5	130140	 My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh. 
18O	7	6	130150	 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope. 
18O	7	7	130160	 "Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good. 
18O	7	8	130170	 The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone. 
18O	7	9	130180	 As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up; 
18O	7	10	130190	 he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him anymore. 
18O	7	11	130200	 "Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. 
18O	7	12	130210	 Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me? 
18O	7	13	130220	 When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,' 
18O	7	14	130230	 then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions, 
18O	7	15	130240	 so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones. 
18O	7	16	130250	 I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath. 
18O	7	17	130260	 What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him, 
18O	7	18	130270	 visit him every morning and test him every moment? 
18O	7	19	130280	 How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit? 
18O	7	20	130290	 If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made me your mark? Why have I become a burden to you? 
18O	7	21	130300	 Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be." 
18O	8	1	130310	 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: 
18O	8	2	130320	 "How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind? 
18O	8	3	130330	 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right? 
18O	8	4	130340	 If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression. 
18O	8	5	130350	 If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy, 
18O	8	6	130360	 if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation. 
18O	8	7	130370	 And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great. 
18O	8	8	130380	 "For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out. 
18O	8	9	130390	 For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow. 
18O	8	10	130400	 Will they not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their understanding? 
18O	8	11	130410	 "Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water? 
18O	8	12	130420	 While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant. 
18O	8	13	130430	 Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish. 
18O	8	14	130440	 His confidence is severed, and his trust is a spider's web. 
18O	8	15	130450	 He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure. 
18O	8	16	130460	 He is a lush plant before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden. 
18O	8	17	130470	 His roots entwine the stone heap; he looks upon a house of stones. 
18O	8	18	130480	 If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, 'I have never seen you.' 
18O	8	19	130490	 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the soil others will spring. 
18O	8	20	130500	 "Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers. 
18O	8	21	130510	 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting. 
18O	8	22	130520	 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more." 
18O	9	1	130530	 Then Job answered and said: 
18O	9	2	130540	 "Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God? 
18O	9	3	130550	 If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times. 
18O	9	4	130560	 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength --who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?-- 
18O	9	5	130570	 he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger, 
18O	9	6	130580	 who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble; 
18O	9	7	130590	 who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars; 
18O	9	8	130600	 who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea; 
18O	9	9	130610	 who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south; 
18O	9	10	130620	 who does great things beyond searching out, and marvelous things beyond number. 
18O	9	11	130630	 Behold, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him. 
18O	9	12	130640	 Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, 'What are you doing?' 
18O	9	13	130650	 "God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab. 
18O	9	14	130660	 How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him? 
18O	9	15	130670	 Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser. 
18O	9	16	130680	 If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice. 
18O	9	17	130690	 For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause; 
18O	9	18	130700	 he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness. 
18O	9	19	130710	 If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him? 
18O	9	20	130720	 Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse. 
18O	9	21	130730	 I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life. 
18O	9	22	130740	 It is all one; therefore I say, He destroys both the blameless and the wicked. 
18O	9	23	130750	 When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent. 
18O	9	24	130760	 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges-- if it is not he, who then is it? 
18O	9	25	130770	 "My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good. 
18O	9	26	130780	 They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey. 
18O	9	27	130790	 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and be of good cheer,' 
18O	9	28	130800	 I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent. 
18O	9	29	130810	 I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain? 
18O	9	30	130820	 If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye, 
18O	9	31	130830	 yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me. 
18O	9	32	130840	 For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together. 
18O	9	33	130850	 There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both. 
18O	9	34	130860	 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me. 
18O	9	35	130870	 Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself. 
18O	10	1	130880	 "I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. 
18O	10	2	130890	 I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me. 
18O	10	3	130900	 Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked? 
18O	10	4	130910	 Have you eyes of flesh? Do you see as man sees? 
18O	10	5	130920	 Are your days as the days of man, or your years as a man's years, 
18O	10	6	130930	 that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin, 
18O	10	7	130940	 although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand? 
18O	10	8	130950	 Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether. 
18O	10	9	130960	 Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust? 
18O	10	10	130970	 Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? 
18O	10	11	130980	 You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. 
18O	10	12	130990	 You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit. 
18O	10	13	131000	 Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose. 
18O	10	14	131010	 If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity. 
18O	10	15	131020	 If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction. 
18O	10	16	131030	 And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion and again work wonders against me. 
18O	10	17	131040	 You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me. 
18O	10	18	131050	 "Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me 
18O	10	19	131060	 and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave. 
18O	10	20	131070	 Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer 
18O	10	21	131080	 before I go--and I shall not return-- to the land of darkness and deep shadow, 
18O	10	22	131090	 the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness." 
18O	11	1	131100	 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said: 
18O	11	2	131110	 "Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and a man full of talk be judged right? 
18O	11	3	131120	 Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you? 
18O	11	4	131130	 For you say, 'My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's eyes.' 
18O	11	5	131140	 But oh, that God would speak and open his lips to you, 
18O	11	6	131150	 and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves. 
18O	11	7	131160	 "Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty? 
18O	11	8	131170	 It is higher than heaven--what can you do? Deeper than Sheol--what can you know? 
18O	11	9	131180	 Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea. 
18O	11	10	131190	 If he passes through and imprisons and summons the court, who can turn him back? 
18O	11	11	131200	 For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it? 
18O	11	12	131210	 But a stupid man will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born a man! 
18O	11	13	131220	 "If you prepare your heart, you will stretch out your hands toward him. 
18O	11	14	131230	 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not injustice dwell in your tents. 
18O	11	15	131240	 Surely then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be secure and will not fear. 
18O	11	16	131250	 You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away. 
18O	11	17	131260	 And your life will be brighter than the noonday; its darkness will be like the morning. 
18O	11	18	131270	 And you will feel secure, because there is hope; you will look around and take your rest in security. 
18O	11	19	131280	 You will lie down, and none will make you afraid; many will court your favor. 
18O	11	20	131290	 But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last." 
18O	12	1	131300	 Then Job answered and said: 
18O	12	2	131310	 "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you. 
18O	12	3	131320	 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these? 
18O	12	4	131330	 I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock. 
18O	12	5	131340	 In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip. 
18O	12	6	131350	 The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand. 
18O	12	7	131360	 "But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; 
18O	12	8	131370	 or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. 
18O	12	9	131380	 Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? 
18O	12	10	131390	 In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind. 
18O	12	11	131400	 Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food? 
18O	12	12	131410	 Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days. 
18O	12	13	131420	 "With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding. 
18O	12	14	131430	 If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open. 
18O	12	15	131440	 If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land. 
18O	12	16	131450	 With him are strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his. 
18O	12	17	131460	 He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools. 
18O	12	18	131470	 He looses the bonds of kings and binds a waistcloth on their hips. 
18O	12	19	131480	 He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty. 
18O	12	20	131490	 He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders. 
18O	12	21	131500	 He pours contempt on princes and loosens the belt of the strong. 
18O	12	22	131510	 He uncovers the deeps out of darkness and brings deep darkness to light. 
18O	12	23	131520	 He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away. 
18O	12	24	131530	 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth and makes them wander in a pathless waste. 
18O	12	25	131540	 They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them stagger like a drunken man. 
18O	13	1	131550	 "Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it. 
18O	13	2	131560	 What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you. 
18O	13	3	131570	 But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God. 
18O	13	4	131580	 As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all. 
18O	13	5	131590	 Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom! 
18O	13	6	131600	 Hear now my argument and listen to the pleadings of my lips. 
18O	13	7	131610	 Will you speak falsely for God and speak deceitfully for him? 
18O	13	8	131620	 Will you show partiality toward him? Will you plead the case for God? 
18O	13	9	131630	 Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man? 
18O	13	10	131640	 He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality. 
18O	13	11	131650	 Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you? 
18O	13	12	131660	 Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay. 
18O	13	13	131670	 "Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may. 
18O	13	14	131680	 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand? 
18O	13	15	131690	 Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face. 
18O	13	16	131700	 This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him. 
18O	13	17	131710	 Keep listening to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears. 
18O	13	18	131720	 Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right. 
18O	13	19	131730	 Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die. 
18O	13	20	131740	 Only grant me two things, then I will not hide myself from your face: 
18O	13	21	131750	 withdraw your hand far from me, and let not dread of you terrify me. 
18O	13	22	131760	 Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me. 
18O	13	23	131770	 How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin. 
18O	13	24	131780	 Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy? 
18O	13	25	131790	 Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff? 
18O	13	26	131800	 For you write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth. 
18O	13	27	131810	 You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; you set a limit for the soles of my feet. 
18O	13	28	131820	 Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten. 
18O	14	1	131830	 "Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. 
18O	14	2	131840	 He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not. 
18O	14	3	131850	 And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you? 
18O	14	4	131860	 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one. 
18O	14	5	131870	 Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass, 
18O	14	6	131880	 look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day. 
18O	14	7	131890	 "For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease. 
18O	14	8	131900	 Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil, 
18O	14	9	131910	 yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant. 
18O	14	10	131920	 But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he? 
18O	14	11	131930	 As waters fail from a lake and a river wastes away and dries up, 
18O	14	12	131940	 so a man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake or be roused out of his sleep. 
18O	14	13	131950	 Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me! 
18O	14	14	131960	 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come. 
18O	14	15	131970	 You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands. 
18O	14	16	131980	 For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin; 
18O	14	17	131990	 my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity. 
18O	14	18	132000	 "But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place; 
18O	14	19	132010	 the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of man. 
18O	14	20	132020	 You prevail forever against him, and he passes; you change his countenance, and send him away. 
18O	14	21	132030	 His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not. 
18O	14	22	132040	 He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself." 
18O	15	1	132050	 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: 
18O	15	2	132060	 "Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? 
18O	15	3	132070	 Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good? 
18O	15	4	132080	 But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God. 
18O	15	5	132090	 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. 
18O	15	6	132100	 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you. 
18O	15	7	132110	 "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills? 
18O	15	8	132120	 Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself? 
18O	15	9	132130	 What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us? 
18O	15	10	132140	 Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father. 
18O	15	11	132150	 Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you? 
18O	15	12	132160	 Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash, 
18O	15	13	132170	 that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth? 
18O	15	14	132180	 What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous? 
18O	15	15	132190	 Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight; 
18O	15	16	132200	 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water! 
18O	15	17	132210	 "I will show you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare 
18O	15	18	132220	 (what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers, 
18O	15	19	132230	 to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them). 
18O	15	20	132240	 The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless. 
18O	15	21	132250	 Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him. 
18O	15	22	132260	 He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword. 
18O	15	23	132270	 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand; 
18O	15	24	132280	 distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle. 
18O	15	25	132290	 Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty, 
18O	15	26	132300	 running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield; 
18O	15	27	132310	 because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist 
18O	15	28	132320	 and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins; 
18O	15	29	132330	 he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the earth; 
18O	15	30	132340	 he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart. 
18O	15	31	132350	 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment. 
18O	15	32	132360	 It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green. 
18O	15	33	132370	 He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree. 
18O	15	34	132380	 For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery. 
18O	15	35	132390	 They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit." 
18O	16	1	132400	 Then Job answered and said: 
18O	16	2	132410	 "I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all. 
18O	16	3	132420	 Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? 
18O	16	4	132430	 I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you. 
18O	16	5	132440	 I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain. 
18O	16	6	132450	 "If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me? 
18O	16	7	132460	 Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company. 
18O	16	8	132470	 And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face. 
18O	16	9	132480	 He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me. 
18O	16	10	132490	 Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me. 
18O	16	11	132500	 God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked. 
18O	16	12	132510	 I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target; 
18O	16	13	132520	 his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground. 
18O	16	14	132530	 He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior. 
18O	16	15	132540	 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust. 
18O	16	16	132550	 My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness, 
18O	16	17	132560	 although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. 
18O	16	18	132570	 "O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place. 
18O	16	19	132580	 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high. 
18O	16	20	132590	 My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God, 
18O	16	21	132600	 that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor. 
18O	16	22	132610	 For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return. 
18O	17	1	132620	 "My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me. 
18O	17	2	132630	 Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation. 
18O	17	3	132640	 "Lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is there who will put up security for me? 
18O	17	4	132650	 Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph. 
18O	17	5	132660	 He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property-- the eyes of his children will fail. 
18O	17	6	132670	 "He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit. 
18O	17	7	132680	 My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow. 
18O	17	8	132690	 The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless. 
18O	17	9	132700	 Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger. 
18O	17	10	132710	 But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you. 
18O	17	11	132720	 My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart. 
18O	17	12	132730	 They make night into day: 'The light,' they say, 'is near to the darkness.' 
18O	17	13	132740	 If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness, 
18O	17	14	132750	 if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My mother,' or 'My sister,' 
18O	17	15	132760	 where then is my hope? Who will see my hope? 
18O	17	16	132770	 Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?" 
18O	18	1	132780	 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: 
18O	18	2	132790	 "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak. 
18O	18	3	132800	 Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight? 
18O	18	4	132810	 You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place? 
18O	18	5	132820	 "Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine. 
18O	18	6	132830	 The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out. 
18O	18	7	132840	 His strong steps are shortened, and his own schemes throw him down. 
18O	18	8	132850	 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh. 
18O	18	9	132860	 A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare lays hold of him. 
18O	18	10	132870	 A rope is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path. 
18O	18	11	132880	 Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels. 
18O	18	12	132890	 His strength is famished, and calamity is ready for his stumbling. 
18O	18	13	132900	 It consumes the parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs. 
18O	18	14	132910	 He is torn from the tent in which he trusted and is brought to the king of terrors. 
18O	18	15	132920	 In his tent dwells that which is none of his; sulfur is scattered over his habitation. 
18O	18	16	132930	 His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above. 
18O	18	17	132940	 His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street. 
18O	18	18	132950	 He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world. 
18O	18	19	132960	 He has no posterity or progeny among his people, and no survivor where he used to live. 
18O	18	20	132970	 They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east. 
18O	18	21	132980	 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, such is the place of him who knows not God." 
18O	19	1	132990	 Then Job answered and said: 
18O	19	2	133000	 "How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words? 
18O	19	3	133010	 These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me? 
18O	19	4	133020	 And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. 
18O	19	5	133030	 If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me, 
18O	19	6	133040	 know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me. 
18O	19	7	133050	 Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice. 
18O	19	8	133060	 He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths. 
18O	19	9	133070	 He has stripped from me my glory and taken the crown from my head. 
18O	19	10	133080	 He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree. 
18O	19	11	133090	 He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary. 
18O	19	12	133100	 His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent. 
18O	19	13	133110	 "He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me. 
18O	19	14	133120	 My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me. 
18O	19	15	133130	 The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes. 
18O	19	16	133140	 I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy. 
18O	19	17	133150	 My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother. 
18O	19	18	133160	 Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me. 
18O	19	19	133170	 All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me. 
18O	19	20	133180	 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. 
18O	19	21	133190	 Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me! 
18O	19	22	133200	 Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh? 
18O	19	23	133210	 "Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! 
18O	19	24	133220	 Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever! 
18O	19	25	133230	 For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. 
18O	19	26	133240	 And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, 
18O	19	27	133250	 whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me! 
18O	19	28	133260	 If you say, 'How we will pursue him!' and, 'The root of the matter is found in him,' 
18O	19	29	133270	 be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment." 
18O	20	1	133280	 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said: 
18O	20	2	133290	 "Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me. 
18O	20	3	133300	 I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me. 
18O	20	4	133310	 Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed on earth, 
18O	20	5	133320	 that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment? 
18O	20	6	133330	 Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds, 
18O	20	7	133340	 he will perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?' 
18O	20	8	133350	 He will fly away like a dream and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night. 
18O	20	9	133360	 The eye that saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him. 
18O	20	10	133370	 His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will give back his wealth. 
18O	20	11	133380	 His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust. 
18O	20	12	133390	 "Though evil is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue, 
18O	20	13	133400	 though he is loath to let it go and holds it in his mouth, 
18O	20	14	133410	 yet his food is turned in his stomach; it is the venom of cobras within him. 
18O	20	15	133420	 He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly. 
18O	20	16	133430	 He will suck the poison of cobras; the tongue of a viper will kill him. 
18O	20	17	133440	 He will not look upon the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and curds. 
18O	20	18	133450	 He will give back the fruit of his toil and will not swallow it down; from the profit of his trading he will get no enjoyment. 
18O	20	19	133460	 For he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he did not build. 
18O	20	20	133470	 "Because he knew no contentment in his belly, he will not let anything in which he delights escape him. 
18O	20	21	133480	 There was nothing left after he had eaten; therefore his prosperity will not endure. 
18O	20	22	133490	 In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in distress; the hand of everyone in misery will come against him. 
18O	20	23	133500	 To fill his belly to the full, God will send his burning anger against him and rain it upon him into his body. 
18O	20	24	133510	 He will flee from an iron weapon; a bronze arrow will strike him through. 
18O	20	25	133520	 It is drawn forth and comes out of his body; the glittering point comes out of his gallbladder; terrors come upon him. 
18O	20	26	133530	 Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not fanned will devour him; what is left in his tent will be consumed. 
18O	20	27	133540	 The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him. 
18O	20	28	133550	 The possessions of his house will be carried away, dragged off in the day of God's wrath. 
18O	20	29	133560	 This is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God." 
18O	21	1	133570	 Then Job answered and said: 
18O	21	2	133580	 "Keep listening to my words, and let this be your comfort. 
18O	21	3	133590	 Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on. 
18O	21	4	133600	 As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient? 
18O	21	5	133610	 Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth. 
18O	21	6	133620	 When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh. 
18O	21	7	133630	 Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power? 
18O	21	8	133640	 Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes. 
18O	21	9	133650	 Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them. 
18O	21	10	133660	 Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry. 
18O	21	11	133670	 They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance. 
18O	21	12	133680	 They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe. 
18O	21	13	133690	 They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol. 
18O	21	14	133700	 They say to God, 'Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways. 
18O	21	15	133710	 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?' 
18O	21	16	133720	 Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me. 
18O	21	17	133730	 "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger? 
18O	21	18	133740	 That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away? 
18O	21	19	133750	 You say, 'God stores up their iniquity for their children.' Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it. 
18O	21	20	133760	 Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty. 
18O	21	21	133770	 For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off? 
18O	21	22	133780	 Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high? 
18O	21	23	133790	 One dies in his full vigor, being wholly at ease and secure, 
18O	21	24	133800	 his pails full of milk and the marrow of his bones moist. 
18O	21	25	133810	 Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of prosperity. 
18O	21	26	133820	 They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them. 
18O	21	27	133830	 "Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me. 
18O	21	28	133840	 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?' 
18O	21	29	133850	 Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony 
18O	21	30	133860	 that the evil man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath? 
18O	21	31	133870	 Who declares his way to his face, and who repays him for what he has done? 
18O	21	32	133880	 When he is carried to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb. 
18O	21	33	133890	 The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable. 
18O	21	34	133900	 How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood." 
18O	22	1	133910	 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: 
18O	22	2	133920	 "Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself. 
18O	22	3	133930	 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless? 
18O	22	4	133940	 Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you? 
18O	22	5	133950	 Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities. 
18O	22	6	133960	 For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing and stripped the naked of their clothing. 
18O	22	7	133970	 You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. 
18O	22	8	133980	 The man with power possessed the land, and the favored man lived in it. 
18O	22	9	133990	 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed. 
18O	22	10	134000	 Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you, 
18O	22	11	134010	 or darkness, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you. 
18O	22	12	134020	 "Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are! 
18O	22	13	134030	 But you say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness? 
18O	22	14	134040	 Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.' 
18O	22	15	134050	 Will you keep to the old way that wicked men have trod? 
18O	22	16	134060	 They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away. 
18O	22	17	134070	 They said to God, 'Depart from us,' and 'What can the Almighty do to us?' 
18O	22	18	134080	 Yet he filled their houses with good things-- but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 
18O	22	19	134090	 The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent one mocks at them, 
18O	22	20	134100	 saying, 'Surely our adversaries are cut off, and what they left the fire has consumed.' 
18O	22	21	134110	 "Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you. 
18O	22	22	134120	 Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart. 
18O	22	23	134130	 If you return to the Almighty you will be built up; if you remove injustice far from your tents, 
18O	22	24	134140	 if you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed, 
18O	22	25	134150	 then the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver. 
18O	22	26	134160	 For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty and lift up your face to God. 
18O	22	27	134170	 You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows. 
18O	22	28	134180	 You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways. 
18O	22	29	134190	 For when they are humbled you say, 'It is because of pride'; but he saves the lowly. 
18O	22	30	134200	 He delivers even the one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands." 
18O	23	1	134210	 Then Job answered and said: 
18O	23	2	134220	 "Today also my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy on account of my groaning. 
18O	23	3	134230	 Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat! 
18O	23	4	134240	 I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments. 
18O	23	5	134250	 I would know what he would answer me and understand what he would say to me. 
18O	23	6	134260	 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No; he would pay attention to me. 
18O	23	7	134270	 There an upright man could argue with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge. 
18O	23	8	134280	 "Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I do not perceive him; 
18O	23	9	134290	 on the left hand when he is working, I do not behold him; he turns to the right hand, but I do not see him. 
18O	23	10	134300	 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold. 
18O	23	11	134310	 My foot has held fast to his steps; I have kept his way and have not turned aside. 
18O	23	12	134320	 I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food. 
18O	23	13	134330	 But he is unchangeable, and who can turn him back? What he desires, that he does. 
18O	23	14	134340	 For he will complete what he appoints for me, and many such things are in his mind. 
18O	23	15	134350	 Therefore I am terrified at his presence; when I consider, I am in dread of him. 
18O	23	16	134360	 God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me; 
18O	23	17	134370	 yet I am not silenced because of the darkness, nor because thick darkness covers my face. 
18O	24	1	134380	 "Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days? 
18O	24	2	134390	 Some move landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them. 
18O	24	3	134400	 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge. 
18O	24	4	134410	 They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves. 
18O	24	5	134420	 Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children. 
18O	24	6	134430	 They gather their fodder in the field, and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man. 
18O	24	7	134440	 They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold. 
18O	24	8	134450	 They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for lack of shelter. 
18O	24	9	134460	 (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.) 
18O	24	10	134470	 They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves; 
18O	24	11	134480	 among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst. 
18O	24	12	134490	 From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong. 
18O	24	13	134500	 "There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths. 
18O	24	14	134510	 The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief. 
18O	24	15	134520	 The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye will see me'; and he veils his face. 
18O	24	16	134530	 In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light. 
18O	24	17	134540	 For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness. 
18O	24	18	134550	 "You say, 'Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards. 
18O	24	19	134560	 Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned. 
18O	24	20	134570	 The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.' 
18O	24	21	134580	 "They wrong the barren, childless woman, and do no good to the widow. 
18O	24	22	134590	 Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life. 
18O	24	23	134600	 He gives them security, and they are supported, and his eyes are upon their ways. 
18O	24	24	134610	 They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like the heads of grain. 
18O	24	25	134620	 If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?" 
18O	25	1	134630	 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: 
18O	25	2	134640	 "Dominion and fear are with God; he makes peace in his high heaven. 
18O	25	3	134650	 Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise? 
18O	25	4	134660	 How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure? 
18O	25	5	134670	 Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes; 
18O	25	6	134680	 how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!" 
18O	26	1	134690	 Then Job answered and said: 
18O	26	2	134700	 "How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength! 
18O	26	3	134710	 How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge! 
18O	26	4	134720	 With whose help have you uttered words, and whose breath has come out from you? 
18O	26	5	134730	 The dead tremble under the waters and their inhabitants. 
18O	26	6	134740	 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering. 
18O	26	7	134750	 He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing. 
18O	26	8	134760	 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them. 
18O	26	9	134770	 He covers the face of the full moon and spreads over it his cloud. 
18O	26	10	134780	 He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness. 
18O	26	11	134790	 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astounded at his rebuke. 
18O	26	12	134800	 By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered Rahab. 
18O	26	13	134810	 By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent. 
18O	26	14	134820	 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?" 
18O	27	1	134830	 And Job again took up his discourse, and said: 
18O	27	2	134840	 "As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter, 
18O	27	3	134850	 as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils, 
18O	27	4	134860	 my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit. 
18O	27	5	134870	 Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me. 
18O	27	6	134880	 I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days. 
18O	27	7	134890	 "Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous. 
18O	27	8	134900	 For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life? 
18O	27	9	134910	 Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him? 
18O	27	10	134920	 Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times? 
18O	27	11	134930	 I will teach you concerning the hand of God; what is with the Almighty I will not conceal. 
18O	27	12	134940	 Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain? 
18O	27	13	134950	 "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty: 
18O	27	14	134960	 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and his descendants have not enough bread. 
18O	27	15	134970	 Those who survive him the pestilence buries, and his widows do not weep. 
18O	27	16	134980	 Though he heap up silver like dust, and pile up clothing like clay, 
18O	27	17	134990	 he may pile it up, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver. 
18O	27	18	135000	 He builds his house like a moth's, like a booth that a watchman makes. 
18O	27	19	135010	 He goes to bed rich, but will do so no more; he opens his eyes, and his wealth is gone. 
18O	27	20	135020	 Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off. 
18O	27	21	135030	 The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place. 
18O	27	22	135040	 It hurls at him without pity; he flees from its power in headlong flight. 
18O	27	23	135050	 It claps its hands at him and hisses at him from its place. 
18O	28	1	135060	 "Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold that they refine. 
18O	28	2	135070	 Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from the ore. 
18O	28	3	135080	 Man puts an end to darkness and searches out to the farthest limit the ore in gloom and deep darkness. 
18O	28	4	135090	 He opens shafts in a valley away from where anyone lives; they are forgotten by travelers; they hang in the air, far away from mankind; they swing to and fro. 
18O	28	5	135100	 As for the earth, out of it comes bread, but underneath it is turned up as by fire. 
18O	28	6	135110	 Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold. 
18O	28	7	135120	 "That path no bird of prey knows, and the falcon's eye has not seen it. 
18O	28	8	135130	 The proud beasts have not trodden it; the lion has not passed over it. 
18O	28	9	135140	 "Man puts his hand to the flinty rock and overturns mountains by the roots. 
18O	28	10	135150	 He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing. 
18O	28	11	135160	 He dams up the streams so that they do not trickle, and the thing that is hidden he brings out to light. 
18O	28	12	135170	 "But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? 
18O	28	13	135180	 Man does not know its worth, and it is not found in the land of the living. 
18O	28	14	135190	 The deep says, 'It is not in me,' and the sea says, 'It is not with me.' 
18O	28	15	135200	 It cannot be bought for gold, and silver cannot be weighed as its price. 
18O	28	16	135210	 It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire. 
18O	28	17	135220	 Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold. 
18O	28	18	135230	 No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; the price of wisdom is above pearls. 
18O	28	19	135240	 The topaz of Ethiopia cannot equal it, nor can it be valued in pure gold. 
18O	28	20	135250	 "From where, then, does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding? 
18O	28	21	135260	 It is hidden from the eyes of all living and concealed from the birds of the air. 
18O	28	22	135270	 Abaddon and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.' 
18O	28	23	135280	 "God understands the way to it, and he knows its place. 
18O	28	24	135290	 For he looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens. 
18O	28	25	135300	 When he gave to the wind its weight and apportioned the waters by measure, 
18O	28	26	135310	 when he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder, 
18O	28	27	135320	 then he saw it and declared it; he established it, and searched it out. 
18O	28	28	135330	 And he said to man, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.'" 
18O	29	1	135340	 And Job again took up his discourse, and said: 
18O	29	2	135350	 "Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me, 
18O	29	3	135360	 when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness, 
18O	29	4	135370	 as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent, 
18O	29	5	135380	 when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were all around me, 
18O	29	6	135390	 when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil! 
18O	29	7	135400	 When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square, 
18O	29	8	135410	 the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose and stood; 
18O	29	9	135420	 the princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth; 
18O	29	10	135430	 the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth. 
18O	29	11	135440	 When the ear heard, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw, it approved, 
18O	29	12	135450	 because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him. 
18O	29	13	135460	 The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 
18O	29	14	135470	 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban. 
18O	29	15	135480	 I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. 
18O	29	16	135490	 I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know. 
18O	29	17	135500	 I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made him drop his prey from his teeth. 
18O	29	18	135510	 Then I thought, 'I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand, 
18O	29	19	135520	 my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches, 
18O	29	20	135530	 my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.' 
18O	29	21	135540	 "Men listened to me and waited and kept silence for my counsel. 
18O	29	22	135550	 After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them. 
18O	29	23	135560	 They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain. 
18O	29	24	135570	 I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and the light of my face they did not cast down. 
18O	29	25	135580	 I chose their way and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners. 
18O	30	1	135590	 "But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. 
18O	30	2	135600	 What could I gain from the strength of their hands, men whose vigor is gone? 
18O	30	3	135610	 Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation; 
18O	30	4	135620	 they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes, and the roots of the broom tree for their food. 
18O	30	5	135630	 They are driven out from human company; they shout after them as after a thief. 
18O	30	6	135640	 In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks. 
18O	30	7	135650	 Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together. 
18O	30	8	135660	 A senseless, a nameless brood, they have been whipped out of the land. 
18O	30	9	135670	 "And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them. 
18O	30	10	135680	 They abhor me; they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me. 
18O	30	11	135690	 Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence. 
18O	30	12	135700	 On my right hand the rabble rise; they push away my feet; they cast up against me their ways of destruction. 
18O	30	13	135710	 They break up my path; they promote my calamity; they need no one to help them. 
18O	30	14	135720	 As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on. 
18O	30	15	135730	 Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud. 
18O	30	16	135740	 "And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me. 
18O	30	17	135750	 The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest. 
18O	30	18	135760	 With great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic. 
18O	30	19	135770	 God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. 
18O	30	20	135780	 I cry to you for help and you do not answer me; I stand, and you only look at me. 
18O	30	21	135790	 You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me. 
18O	30	22	135800	 You lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it, and you toss me about in the roar of the storm. 
18O	30	23	135810	 For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living. 
18O	30	24	135820	 "Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help? 
18O	30	25	135830	 Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy? 
18O	30	26	135840	 But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came. 
18O	30	27	135850	 My inward parts are in turmoil and never still; days of affliction come to meet me. 
18O	30	28	135860	 I go about darkened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help. 
18O	30	29	135870	 I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches. 
18O	30	30	135880	 My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat. 
18O	30	31	135890	 My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep. 
18O	31	1	135900	 "I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin? 
18O	31	2	135910	 What would be my portion from God above and my heritage from the Almighty on high? 
18O	31	3	135920	 Is not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for the workers of iniquity? 
18O	31	4	135930	 Does not he see my ways and number all my steps? 
18O	31	5	135940	 "If I have walked with falsehood and my foot has hastened to deceit; 
18O	31	6	135950	 (Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!) 
18O	31	7	135960	 if my step has turned aside from the way and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has stuck to my hands, 
18O	31	8	135970	 then let me sow, and another eat, and let what grows for me be rooted out. 
18O	31	9	135980	 "If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door, 
18O	31	10	135990	 then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down on her. 
18O	31	11	136000	 For that would be a heinous crime; that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; 
18O	31	12	136010	 for that would be a fire that consumes as far as Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my increase. 
18O	31	13	136020	 "If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me, 
18O	31	14	136030	 what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? 
18O	31	15	136040	 Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? 
18O	31	16	136050	 "If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, 
18O	31	17	136060	 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it 
18O	31	18	136070	 (for from my youth the fatherless grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother's womb I guided the widow), 
18O	31	19	136080	 if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or the needy without covering, 
18O	31	20	136090	 if his body has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep, 
18O	31	21	136100	 if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate, 
18O	31	22	136110	 then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket. 
18O	31	23	136120	 For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty. 
18O	31	24	136130	 "If I have made gold my trust or called fine gold my confidence, 
18O	31	25	136140	 if I have rejoiced because my wealth was abundant or because my hand had found much, 
18O	31	26	136150	 if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor, 
18O	31	27	136160	 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand, 
18O	31	28	136170	 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have been false to God above. 
18O	31	29	136180	 "If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him who hated me, or exulted when evil overtook him 
18O	31	30	136190	 (I have not let my mouth sin by asking for his life with a curse), 
18O	31	31	136200	 if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who is there that has not been filled with his meat?' 
18O	31	32	136210	 (the sojourner has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the traveler), 
18O	31	33	136220	 if I have concealed my transgressions as others do by hiding my iniquity in my bosom, 
18O	31	34	136230	 because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors-- 
18O	31	35	136240	 Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary! 
18O	31	36	136250	 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me as a crown; 
18O	31	37	136260	 I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him. 
18O	31	38	136270	 "If my land has cried out against me and its furrows have wept together, 
18O	31	39	136280	 if I have eaten its yield without payment and made its owners breathe their last, 
18O	31	40	136290	 let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley." The words of Job are ended. 
18O	32	1	136300	 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. 
18O	32	2	136310	 Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God. 
18O	32	3	136320	 He burned with anger also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong. 
18O	32	4	136330	 Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he. 
18O	32	5	136340	 And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, he burned with anger. 
18O	32	6	136350	 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: "I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you. 
18O	32	7	136360	 I said, 'Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.' 
18O	32	8	136370	 But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand. 
18O	32	9	136380	 It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right. 
18O	32	10	136390	 Therefore I say, 'Listen to me; let me also declare my opinion.' 
18O	32	11	136400	 "Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your wise sayings, while you searched out what to say. 
18O	32	12	136410	 I gave you my attention, and, behold, there was none among you who refuted Job or who answered his words. 
18O	32	13	136420	 Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not a man.' 
18O	32	14	136430	 He has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your speeches. 
18O	32	15	136440	 "They are dismayed; they answer no more; they have not a word to say. 
18O	32	16	136450	 And shall I wait, because they do not speak, because they stand there, and answer no more? 
18O	32	17	136460	 I also will answer with my share; I also will declare my opinion. 
18O	32	18	136470	 For I am full of words; the spirit within me constrains me. 
18O	32	19	136480	 Behold, my belly is like wine that has no vent; like new wineskins ready to burst. 
18O	32	20	136490	 I must speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer. 
18O	32	21	136500	 I will not show partiality to any man or use flattery toward any person. 
18O	32	22	136510	 For I do not know how to flatter, else my Maker would soon take me away. 
18O	33	1	136520	 "But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words. 
18O	33	2	136530	 Behold, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks. 
18O	33	3	136540	 My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely. 
18O	33	4	136550	 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life. 
18O	33	5	136560	 Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand. 
18O	33	6	136570	 Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay. 
18O	33	7	136580	 Behold, no fear of me need terrify you; my pressure will not be heavy upon you. 
18O	33	8	136590	 "Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard the sound of your words. 
18O	33	9	136600	 You say, 'I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me. 
18O	33	10	136610	 Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy, 
18O	33	11	136620	 he puts my feet in the stocks and watches all my paths.' 
18O	33	12	136630	 "Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you, for God is greater than man. 
18O	33	13	136640	 Why do you contend against him, saying, 'He will answer none of man's words'? 
18O	33	14	136650	 For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it. 
18O	33	15	136660	 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds, 
18O	33	16	136670	 then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings, 
18O	33	17	136680	 that he may turn man aside from his deed and conceal pride from a man; 
18O	33	18	136690	 he keeps back his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword. 
18O	33	19	136700	 "Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed and with continual strife in his bones, 
18O	33	20	136710	 so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite the choicest food. 
18O	33	21	136720	 His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out. 
18O	33	22	136730	 His soul draws near the pit, and his life to those who bring death. 
18O	33	23	136740	 If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him, 
18O	33	24	136750	 and he is merciful to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom; 
18O	33	25	136760	 let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor'; 
18O	33	26	136770	 then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness. 
18O	33	27	136780	 He sings before men and says: 'I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me. 
18O	33	28	136790	 He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit, and my life shall look upon the light.' 
18O	33	29	136800	 "Behold, God does all these things, twice, three times, with a man, 
18O	33	30	136810	 to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be lighted with the light of life. 
18O	33	31	136820	 Pay attention, O Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak. 
18O	33	32	136830	 If you have any words, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you. 
18O	33	33	136840	 If not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom." 
18O	34	1	136850	 Then Elihu answered and said: 
18O	34	2	136860	 "Hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me, you who know; 
18O	34	3	136870	 for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food. 
18O	34	4	136880	 Let us choose what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good. 
18O	34	5	136890	 For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right; 
18O	34	6	136900	 in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.' 
18O	34	7	136910	 What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water, 
18O	34	8	136920	 who travels in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men? 
18O	34	9	136930	 For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.' 
18O	34	10	136940	 "Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding: far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong. 
18O	34	11	136950	 For according to the work of a man he will repay him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him. 
18O	34	12	136960	 Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice. 
18O	34	13	136970	 Who gave him charge over the earth, and who laid on him the whole world? 
18O	34	14	136980	 If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath, 
18O	34	15	136990	 all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust. 
18O	34	16	137000	 "If you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I say. 
18O	34	17	137010	 Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty, 
18O	34	18	137020	 who says to a king, 'Worthless one,' and to nobles, 'Wicked man,' 
18O	34	19	137030	 who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands? 
18O	34	20	137040	 In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand. 
18O	34	21	137050	 "For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps. 
18O	34	22	137060	 There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves. 
18O	34	23	137070	 For God has no need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment. 
18O	34	24	137080	 He shatters the mighty without investigation and sets others in their place. 
18O	34	25	137090	 Thus, knowing their works, he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed. 
18O	34	26	137100	 He strikes them for their wickedness in a place for all to see, 
18O	34	27	137110	 because they turned aside from following him and had no regard for any of his ways, 
18O	34	28	137120	 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted-- 
18O	34	29	137130	 When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?-- 
18O	34	30	137140	 that a godless man should not reign, that he should not ensnare the people. 
18O	34	31	137150	 "For has anyone said to God, 'I have borne punishment; I will not offend any more; 
18O	34	32	137160	 teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'? 
18O	34	33	137170	 Will he then make repayment to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know. 
18O	34	34	137180	 Men of understanding will say to me, and the wise man who hears me will say: 
18O	34	35	137190	 'Job speaks without knowledge; his words are without insight.' 
18O	34	36	137200	 Would that Job were tried to the end, because he answers like wicked men. 
18O	34	37	137210	 For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God." 
18O	35	1	137220	 And Elihu answered and said: 
18O	35	2	137230	 "Do you think this to be just? Do you say, 'It is my right before God,' 
18O	35	3	137240	 that you ask, 'What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?' 
18O	35	4	137250	 I will answer you and your friends with you. 
18O	35	5	137260	 Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you. 
18O	35	6	137270	 If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? 
18O	35	7	137280	 If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand? 
18O	35	8	137290	 Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man. 
18O	35	9	137300	 "Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty. 
18O	35	10	137310	 But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night, 
18O	35	11	137320	 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?' 
18O	35	12	137330	 There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men. 
18O	35	13	137340	 Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it. 
18O	35	14	137350	 How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him! 
18O	35	15	137360	 And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not take much note of transgression, 
18O	35	16	137370	 Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge." 
18O	36	1	137380	 And Elihu continued, and said: 
18O	36	2	137390	 "Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God's behalf. 
18O	36	3	137400	 I will get my knowledge from afar and ascribe righteousness to my Maker. 
18O	36	4	137410	 For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you. 
18O	36	5	137420	 "Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding. 
18O	36	6	137430	 He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right. 
18O	36	7	137440	 He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them forever, and they are exalted. 
18O	36	8	137450	 And if they are bound in chains and caught in the cords of affliction, 
18O	36	9	137460	 then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly. 
18O	36	10	137470	 He opens their ears to instruction and commands that they return from iniquity. 
18O	36	11	137480	 If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness. 
18O	36	12	137490	 But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword and die without knowledge. 
18O	36	13	137500	 "The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them. 
18O	36	14	137510	 They die in youth, and their life ends among the cult prostitutes. 
18O	36	15	137520	 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity. 
18O	36	16	137530	 He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness. 
18O	36	17	137540	 "But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; judgment and justice seize you. 
18O	36	18	137550	 Beware lest wrath entice you into scoffing, and let not the greatness of the ransom turn you aside. 
18O	36	19	137560	 Will your cry for help avail to keep you from distress, or all the force of your strength? 
18O	36	20	137570	 Do not long for the night, when peoples vanish in their place. 
18O	36	21	137580	 Take care; do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction. 
18O	36	22	137590	 Behold, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him? 
18O	36	23	137600	 Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, 'You have done wrong'? 
18O	36	24	137610	 "Remember to extol his work, of which men have sung. 
18O	36	25	137620	 All mankind has looked on it; man beholds it from afar. 
18O	36	26	137630	 Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable. 
18O	36	27	137640	 For he draws up the drops of water; they distill his mist in rain, 
18O	36	28	137650	 which the skies pour down and drop on mankind abundantly. 
18O	36	29	137660	 Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion? 
18O	36	30	137670	 Behold, he scatters his lightning about him and covers the roots of the sea. 
18O	36	31	137680	 For by these he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance. 
18O	36	32	137690	 He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark. 
18O	36	33	137700	 Its crashing declares his presence; the cattle also declare that he rises. 
18O	37	1	137710	 "At this also my heart trembles and leaps out of its place. 
18O	37	2	137720	 Keep listening to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth. 
18O	37	3	137730	 Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth. 
18O	37	4	137740	 After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard. 
18O	37	5	137750	 God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend. 
18O	37	6	137760	 For to the snow he says, 'Fall on the earth,' likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour. 
18O	37	7	137770	 He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he made may know it. 
18O	37	8	137780	 Then the beasts go into their lairs, and remain in their dens. 
18O	37	9	137790	 From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds. 
18O	37	10	137800	 By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast. 
18O	37	11	137810	 He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning. 
18O	37	12	137820	 They turn around and around by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world. 
18O	37	13	137830	 Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen. 
18O	37	14	137840	 "Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God. 
18O	37	15	137850	 Do you know how God lays his command upon them and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine? 
18O	37	16	137860	 Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge, 
18O	37	17	137870	 you whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind? 
18O	37	18	137880	 Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast metal mirror? 
18O	37	19	137890	 Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness. 
18O	37	20	137900	 Shall it be told him that I would speak? Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up? 
18O	37	21	137910	 "And now no one looks on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them. 
18O	37	22	137920	 Out of the north comes golden splendor; God is clothed with awesome majesty. 
18O	37	23	137930	 The Almighty--we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate. 
18O	37	24	137940	 Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit." 
18O	38	1	137950	 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: 
18O	38	2	137960	 "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? 
18O	38	3	137970	 Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me. 
18O	38	4	137980	 "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. 
18O	38	5	137990	 Who determined its measurements--surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? 
18O	38	6	138000	 On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, 
18O	38	7	138010	 when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 
18O	38	8	138020	 "Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb, 
18O	38	9	138030	 when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, 
18O	38	10	138040	 and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors, 
18O	38	11	138050	 and said, 'Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed'? 
18O	38	12	138060	 "Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place, 
18O	38	13	138070	 that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it? 
18O	38	14	138080	 It is changed like clay under the seal, and its features stand out like a garment. 
18O	38	15	138090	 From the wicked their light is withheld, and their uplifted arm is broken. 
18O	38	16	138100	 "Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep? 
18O	38	17	138110	 Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness? 
18O	38	18	138120	 Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this. 
18O	38	19	138130	 "Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness, 
18O	38	20	138140	 that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home? 
18O	38	21	138150	 You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great! 
18O	38	22	138160	 "Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail, 
18O	38	23	138170	 which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war? 
18O	38	24	138180	 What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth? 
18O	38	25	138190	 "Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain and a way for the thunderbolt, 
18O	38	26	138200	 to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man, 
18O	38	27	138210	 to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground sprout with grass? 
18O	38	28	138220	 "Has the rain a father, or who has begotten the drops of dew? 
18O	38	29	138230	 From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the frost of heaven? 
18O	38	30	138240	 The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. 
18O	38	31	138250	 "Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loose the cords of Orion? 
18O	38	32	138260	 Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children? 
18O	38	33	138270	 Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth? 
18O	38	34	138280	 "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you? 
18O	38	35	138290	 Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, 'Here we are'? 
18O	38	36	138300	 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts or given understanding to the mind? 
18O	38	37	138310	 Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens, 
18O	38	38	138320	 when the dust runs into a mass and the clods stick fast together? 
18O	38	39	138330	 "Can you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions, 
18O	38	40	138340	 when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in their thicket? 
18O	38	41	138350	 Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, and wander about for lack of food? 
18O	39	1	138360	 "Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the does? 
18O	39	2	138370	 Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth, 
18O	39	3	138380	 when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young? 
18O	39	4	138390	 Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them. 
18O	39	5	138400	 "Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey, 
18O	39	6	138410	 to whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place? 
18O	39	7	138420	 He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver. 
18O	39	8	138430	 He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing. 
18O	39	9	138440	 "Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your manger? 
18O	39	10	138450	 Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you? 
18O	39	11	138460	 Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor? 
18O	39	12	138470	 Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain and gather it to your threshing floor? 
18O	39	13	138480	 "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love? 
18O	39	14	138490	 For she leaves her eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground, 
18O	39	15	138500	 forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them. 
18O	39	16	138510	 She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear, 
18O	39	17	138520	 because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding. 
18O	39	18	138530	 When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider. 
18O	39	19	138540	 "Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane? 
18O	39	20	138550	 Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrifying. 
18O	39	21	138560	 He paws in the valley and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons. 
18O	39	22	138570	 He laughs at fear and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword. 
18O	39	23	138580	 Upon him rattle the quiver, the flashing spear, and the javelin. 
18O	39	24	138590	 With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet. 
18O	39	25	138600	 When the trumpet sounds, he says 'Aha!' He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. 
18O	39	26	138610	 "Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings toward the south? 
18O	39	27	138620	 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high? 
18O	39	28	138630	 On the rock he dwells and makes his home, on the rocky crag and stronghold. 
18O	39	29	138640	 From there he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it from far away. 
18O	39	30	138650	 His young ones suck up blood, and where the slain are, there is he." 
18O	40	1	138660	 And the LORD said to Job: 
18O	40	2	138670	 "Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it." 
18O	40	3	138680	 Then Job answered the LORD and said: 
18O	40	4	138690	 "Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. 
18O	40	5	138700	 I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further." 
18O	40	6	138710	 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: 
18O	40	7	138720	 "Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me. 
18O	40	8	138730	 Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right? 
18O	40	9	138740	 Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his? 
18O	40	10	138750	 "Adorn yourself with majesty and dignity; clothe yourself with glory and splendor. 
18O	40	11	138760	 Pour out the overflowings of your anger, and look on everyone who is proud and abase him. 
18O	40	12	138770	 Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand. 
18O	40	13	138780	 Hide them all in the dust together; bind their faces in the world below. 
18O	40	14	138790	 Then will I also acknowledge to you that your own right hand can save you. 
18O	40	15	138800	 "Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox. 
18O	40	16	138810	 Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly. 
18O	40	17	138820	 He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together. 
18O	40	18	138830	 His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron. 
18O	40	19	138840	 "He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword! 
18O	40	20	138850	 For the mountains yield food for him where all the wild beasts play. 
18O	40	21	138860	 Under the lotus plants he lies, in the shelter of the reeds and in the marsh. 
18O	40	22	138870	 For his shade the lotus trees cover him; the willows of the brook surround him. 
18O	40	23	138880	 Behold, if the river is turbulent he is not frightened; he is confident though Jordan rushes against his mouth. 
18O	40	24	138890	 Can one take him by his eyes, or pierce his nose with a snare? 
18O	41	1	138900	 "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord? 
18O	41	2	138910	 Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? 
18O	41	3	138920	 Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words? 
18O	41	4	138930	 Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever? 
18O	41	5	138940	 Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls? 
18O	41	6	138950	 Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants? 
18O	41	7	138960	 Can you fill his skin with harpoons or his head with fishing spears? 
18O	41	8	138970	 Lay your hands on him; remember the battle--you will not do it again! 
18O	41	9	138980	 Behold, the hope of a man is false; he is laid low even at the sight of him. 
18O	41	10	138990	 No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me? 
18O	41	11	139000	 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine. 
18O	41	12	139010	 "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame. 
18O	41	13	139020	 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come near him with a bridle? 
18O	41	14	139030	 Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror. 
18O	41	15	139040	 His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal. 
18O	41	16	139050	 One is so near to another that no air can come between them. 
18O	41	17	139060	 They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated. 
18O	41	18	139070	 His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn. 
18O	41	19	139080	 Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth. 
18O	41	20	139090	 Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes. 
18O	41	21	139100	 His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth. 
18O	41	22	139110	 In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him. 
18O	41	23	139120	 The folds of his flesh stick together, firmly cast on him and immovable. 
18O	41	24	139130	 His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone. 
18O	41	25	139140	 When he raises himself up the mighty are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves. 
18O	41	26	139150	 Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail, nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin. 
18O	41	27	139160	 He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. 
18O	41	28	139170	 The arrow cannot make him flee; for him sling stones are turned to stubble. 
18O	41	29	139180	 Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins. 
18O	41	30	139190	 His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire. 
18O	41	31	139200	 He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment. 
18O	41	32	139210	 Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be white-haired. 
18O	41	33	139220	 On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear. 
18O	41	34	139230	 He sees everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride." 
18O	42	1	139240	 Then Job answered the LORD and said: 
18O	42	2	139250	 "I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. 
18O	42	3	139260	 'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. 
18O	42	4	139270	 'Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.' 
18O	42	5	139280	 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; 
18O	42	6	139290	 therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes." 
18O	42	7	139300	 After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite: "My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. 
18O	42	8	139310	 Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has." 
18O	42	9	139320	 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the LORD had told them, and the LORD accepted Job's prayer. 
18O	42	10	139330	 And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. 
18O	42	11	139340	 Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold. 
18O	42	12	139350	 And the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. 
18O	42	13	139360	 He had also seven sons and three daughters. 
18O	42	14	139370	 And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch. 
18O	42	15	139380	 And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. 
18O	42	16	139390	 And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations. 
18O	42	17	139400	 And Job died, an old man, and full of days. 
19O	1	1	139410	 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; 
19O	1	2	139420	 but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. 
19O	1	3	139430	 He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. 
19O	1	4	139440	 The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. 
19O	1	5	139450	 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; 
19O	1	6	139460	 for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. 
19O	2	1	139470	 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? 
19O	2	2	139480	 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying, 
19O	2	3	139490	 "Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us." 
19O	2	4	139500	 He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision. 
19O	2	5	139510	 Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying, 
19O	2	6	139520	 "As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill." 
19O	2	7	139530	 I will tell of the decree: The LORD said to me, "You are my Son; today I have begotten you. 
19O	2	8	139540	 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession. 
19O	2	9	139550	 You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel." 
19O	2	10	139560	 Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth. 
19O	2	11	139570	 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. 
19O	2	12	139580	 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him. 
19O	3	1	139590	 A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. O LORD, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me; 
19O	3	2	139600	 many are saying of my soul, there is no salvation for him in God. Selah 
19O	3	3	139610	 But you, O LORD, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. 
19O	3	4	139620	 I cried aloud to the LORD, and he answered me from his holy hill. Selah 
19O	3	5	139630	 I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the LORD sustained me. 
19O	3	6	139640	 I will not be afraid of many thousands of people who have set themselves against me all around. 
19O	3	7	139650	 Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked. 
19O	3	8	139660	 Salvation belongs to the LORD; your blessing be on your people! Selah 
19O	4	1	139670	 To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer! 
19O	4	2	139680	 O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame? How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah 
19O	4	3	139690	 But know that the LORD has set apart the godly for himself; the LORD hears when I call to him. 
19O	4	4	139700	 Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah 
19O	4	5	139710	 Offer right sacrifices, and put your trust in the LORD. 
19O	4	6	139720	 There are many who say, "Who will show us some good? Lift up the light of your face upon us, O LORD!" 
19O	4	7	139730	 You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound. 
19O	4	8	139740	 In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety. 
19O	5	1	139750	 To the choirmaster: for the flutes. A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O LORD; consider my groaning. 
19O	5	2	139760	 Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you do I pray. 
19O	5	3	139770	 O LORD, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch. 
19O	5	4	139780	 For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you. 
19O	5	5	139790	 The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers. 
19O	5	6	139800	 You destroy those who speak lies; the LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. 
19O	5	7	139810	 But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you. 
19O	5	8	139820	 Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before me. 
19O	5	9	139830	 For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue. 
19O	5	10	139840	 Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you. 
19O	5	11	139850	 But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy, and spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may exult in you. 
19O	5	12	139860	 For you bless the righteous, O LORD; you cover him with favor as with a shield. 
19O	6	1	139870	 To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath. 
19O	6	2	139880	 Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am languishing; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are troubled. 
19O	6	3	139890	 My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O LORD--how long? 
19O	6	4	139900	 Turn, O LORD, deliver my life; save me for the sake of your steadfast love. 
19O	6	5	139910	 For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise? 
19O	6	6	139920	 I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping. 
19O	6	7	139930	 My eye wastes away because of grief; it grows weak because of all my foes. 
19O	6	8	139940	 Depart from me, all you workers of evil, for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping. 
19O	6	9	139950	 The LORD has heard my plea; the LORD accepts my prayer. 
19O	6	10	139960	 All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled; they shall turn back and be put to shame in a moment. 
19O	7	1	139970	 A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite. O LORD my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me, 
19O	7	2	139980	 lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver. 
19O	7	3	139990	 O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, 
19O	7	4	140000	 if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause, 
19O	7	5	140010	 let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah 
19O	7	6	140020	 Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment. 
19O	7	7	140030	 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high. 
19O	7	8	140040	 The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me. 
19O	7	9	140050	 Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous-- you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God! 
19O	7	10	140060	 My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart. 
19O	7	11	140070	 God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day. 
19O	7	12	140080	 If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow; 
19O	7	13	140090	 he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts. 
19O	7	14	140100	 Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies. 
19O	7	15	140110	 He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made. 
19O	7	16	140120	 His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends. 
19O	7	17	140130	 I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High. 
19O	8	1	140140	 To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. 
19O	8	2	140150	 Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. 
19O	8	3	140160	 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 
19O	8	4	140170	 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? 
19O	8	5	140180	 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. 
19O	8	6	140190	 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, 
19O	8	7	140200	 all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, 
19O	8	8	140210	 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. 
19O	8	9	140220	 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! 
19O	9	1	140230	 To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds. 
19O	9	2	140240	 I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High. 
19O	9	3	140250	 When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish before your presence. 
19O	9	4	140260	 For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment. 
19O	9	5	140270	 You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever. 
19O	9	6	140280	 The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins; their cities you rooted out; the very memory of them has perished. 
19O	9	7	140290	 But the LORD sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice, 
19O	9	8	140300	 and he judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with uprightness. 
19O	9	9	140310	 The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. 
19O	9	10	140320	 And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you. 
19O	9	11	140330	 Sing praises to the LORD, who sits enthroned in Zion! Tell among the peoples his deeds! 
19O	9	12	140340	 For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted. 
19O	9	13	140350	 Be gracious to me, O LORD! See my affliction from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gates of death, 
19O	9	14	140360	 that I may recount all your praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in your salvation. 
19O	9	15	140370	 The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught. 
19O	9	16	140380	 The LORD has made himself known; he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah 
19O	9	17	140390	 The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God. 
19O	9	18	140400	 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever. 
19O	9	19	140410	 Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before you! 
19O	9	20	140420	 Put them in fear, O LORD! Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah 
19O	10	1	140430	 Why, O LORD, do you stand far away? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? 
19O	10	2	140440	 In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised. 
19O	10	3	140450	 For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the LORD. 
19O	10	4	140460	 In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, "There is no God." 
19O	10	5	140470	 His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them. 
19O	10	6	140480	 He says in his heart, "I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity." 
19O	10	7	140490	 His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity. 
19O	10	8	140500	 He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless; 
19O	10	9	140510	 he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket; he lurks that he may seize the poor; he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net. 
19O	10	10	140520	 The helpless are crushed, sink down, and fall by his might. 
19O	10	11	140530	 He says in his heart, "God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it." 
19O	10	12	140540	 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted. 
19O	10	13	140550	 Why does the wicked renounce God and say in his heart, "You will not call to account"? 
19O	10	14	140560	 But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless. 
19O	10	15	140570	 Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call his wickedness to account till you find none. 
19O	10	16	140580	 The LORD is king forever and ever; the nations perish from his land. 
19O	10	17	140590	 O LORD, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear 
19O	10	18	140600	 to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more. 
19O	11	1	140610	 To the choirmaster. Of David. In the LORD I take refuge; how can you say to my soul, "Flee like a bird to your mountain, 
19O	11	2	140620	 for behold, the wicked bend the bow; they have fitted their arrow to the string to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart; 
19O	11	3	140630	 if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?" 
19O	11	4	140640	 The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD's throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man. 
19O	11	5	140650	 The LORD tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence. 
19O	11	6	140660	 Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup. 
19O	11	7	140670	 For the LORD is righteous; he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face. 
19O	12	1	140680	 To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Save, O LORD, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man. 
19O	12	2	140690	 Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak. 
19O	12	3	140700	 May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts, 
19O	12	4	140710	 those who say, "With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is master over us?" 
19O	12	5	140720	 "Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise," says the LORD; "I will place him in the safety for which he longs." 
19O	12	6	140730	 The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times. 
19O	12	7	140740	 You, O LORD, will keep them; you will guard us from this generation forever. 
19O	12	8	140750	 On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the children of man. 
19O	13	1	140760	 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 
19O	13	2	140770	 How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? 
19O	13	3	140780	 Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death, 
19O	13	4	140790	 lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed over him," lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken. 
19O	13	5	140800	 But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. 
19O	13	6	140810	 I will sing to the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me. 
19O	14	1	140820	 To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good. 
19O	14	2	140830	 The LORD looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. 
19O	14	3	140840	 They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one. 
19O	14	4	140850	 Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the LORD? 
19O	14	5	140860	 There they are in great terror, for God is with the generation of the righteous. 
19O	14	6	140870	 You would shame the plans of the poor, but the LORD is his refuge. 
19O	14	7	140880	 Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad. 
19O	15	1	140890	 A Psalm of David. O LORD, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? 
19O	15	2	140900	 He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart; 
19O	15	3	140910	 who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend; 
19O	15	4	140920	 in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honors those who fear the LORD; who swears to his own hurt and does not change; 
19O	15	5	140930	 who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved. 
19O	16	1	140940	 A Miktam of David. Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge. 
19O	16	2	140950	 I say to the LORD, "You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you." 
19O	16	3	140960	 As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight. 
19O	16	4	140970	 The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply; their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names on my lips. 
19O	16	5	140980	 The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot. 
19O	16	6	140990	 The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. 
19O	16	7	141000	 I bless the LORD who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me. 
19O	16	8	141010	 I have set the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. 
19O	16	9	141020	 Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure. 
19O	16	10	141030	 For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption. 
19O	16	11	141040	 You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. 
19O	17	1	141050	 A Prayer of David. Hear a just cause, O LORD; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit! 
19O	17	2	141060	 From your presence let my vindication come! Let your eyes behold the right! 
19O	17	3	141070	 You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress. 
19O	17	4	141080	 With regard to the works of man, by the word of your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent. 
19O	17	5	141090	 My steps have held fast to your paths; my feet have not slipped. 
19O	17	6	141100	 I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God; incline your ear to me; hear my words. 
19O	17	7	141110	 Wondrously show your steadfast love, O Savior of those who seek refuge from their adversaries at your right hand. 
19O	17	8	141120	 Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings, 
19O	17	9	141130	 from the wicked who do me violence, my deadly enemies who surround me. 
19O	17	10	141140	 They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly. 
19O	17	11	141150	 They have now surrounded our steps; they set their eyes to cast us to the ground. 
19O	17	12	141160	 He is like a lion eager to tear, as a young lion lurking in ambush. 
19O	17	13	141170	 Arise, O LORD! Confront him, subdue him! Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword, 
19O	17	14	141180	 from men by your hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in this life. You fill their womb with treasure; they are satisfied with children, and they leave their abundance to their infants. 
19O	17	15	141190	 As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness. 
19O	18	1	141200	 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who addressed the words of this song to the LORD on the day when the LORD rescued him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, O LORD, my strength. 
19O	18	2	141210	 The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. 
19O	18	3	141220	 I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies. 
19O	18	4	141230	 The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of destruction assailed me; 
19O	18	5	141240	 the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me. 
19O	18	6	141250	 In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears. 
19O	18	7	141260	 Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked, because he was angry. 
19O	18	8	141270	 Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him. 
19O	18	9	141280	 He bowed the heavens and came down; thick darkness was under his feet. 
19O	18	10	141290	 He rode on a cherub and flew; he came swiftly on the wings of the wind. 
19O	18	11	141300	 He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him, thick clouds dark with water. 
19O	18	12	141310	 Out of the brightness before him hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds. 
19O	18	13	141320	 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire. 
19O	18	14	141330	 And he sent out his arrows and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings and routed them. 
19O	18	15	141340	 Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils. 
19O	18	16	141350	 He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters. 
19O	18	17	141360	 He rescued me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me. 
19O	18	18	141370	 They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support. 
19O	18	19	141380	 He brought me out into a broad place; he rescued me, because he delighted in me. 
19O	18	20	141390	 The LORD dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me. 
19O	18	21	141400	 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 
19O	18	22	141410	 For all his rules were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me. 
19O	18	23	141420	 I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from my guilt. 
19O	18	24	141430	 So the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight. 
19O	18	25	141440	 With the merciful you show yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless; 
19O	18	26	141450	 with the purified you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous. 
19O	18	27	141460	 For you save a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down. 
19O	18	28	141470	 For it is you who light my lamp; the LORD my God lightens my darkness. 
19O	18	29	141480	 For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall. 
19O	18	30	141490	 This God--his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him. 
19O	18	31	141500	 For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?-- 
19O	18	32	141510	 the God who equipped me with strength and made my way blameless. 
19O	18	33	141520	 He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights. 
19O	18	34	141530	 He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. 
19O	18	35	141540	 You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your gentleness made me great. 
19O	18	36	141550	 You gave a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip. 
19O	18	37	141560	 I pursued my enemies and overtook them, and did not turn back till they were consumed. 
19O	18	38	141570	 I thrust them through, so that they were not able to rise; they fell under my feet. 
19O	18	39	141580	 For you equipped me with strength for the battle; you made those who rise against me sink under me. 
19O	18	40	141590	 You made my enemies turn their backs to me, and those who hated me I destroyed. 
19O	18	41	141600	 They cried for help, but there was none to save; they cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them. 
19O	18	42	141610	 I beat them fine as dust before the wind; I cast them out like the mire of the streets. 
19O	18	43	141620	 You delivered me from strife with the people; you made me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me. 
19O	18	44	141630	 As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me; foreigners came cringing to me. 
19O	18	45	141640	 Foreigners lost heart and came trembling out of their fortresses. 
19O	18	46	141650	 The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation-- 
19O	18	47	141660	 the God who gave me vengeance and subdued peoples under me, 
19O	18	48	141670	 who delivered me from my enemies; yes, you exalted me above those who rose against me; you rescued me from the man of violence. 
19O	18	49	141680	 For this I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations, and sing to your name. 
19O	18	50	141690	 Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever. 
19O	19	1	141700	 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. 
19O	19	2	141710	 Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. 
19O	19	3	141720	 There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. 
19O	19	4	141730	 Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, 
19O	19	5	141740	 which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy. 
19O	19	6	141750	 Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat. 
19O	19	7	141760	 The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple; 
19O	19	8	141770	 the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes; 
19O	19	9	141780	 the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether. 
19O	19	10	141790	 More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb. 
19O	19	11	141800	 Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward. 
19O	19	12	141810	 Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults. 
19O	19	13	141820	 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression. 
19O	19	14	141830	 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer. 
19O	20	1	141840	 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob protect you! 
19O	20	2	141850	 May he send you help from the sanctuary and give you support from Zion! 
19O	20	3	141860	 May he remember all your offerings and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! Selah 
19O	20	4	141870	 May he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans! 
19O	20	5	141880	 May we shout for joy over your salvation, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May the LORD fulfill all your petitions! 
19O	20	6	141890	 Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving might of his right hand. 
19O	20	7	141900	 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God. 
19O	20	8	141910	 They collapse and fall, but we rise and stand upright. 
19O	20	9	141920	 O LORD, save the king! May he answer us when we call. 
19O	21	1	141930	 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, in your strength the king rejoices, and in your salvation how greatly he exults! 
19O	21	2	141940	 You have given him his heart's desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah 
19O	21	3	141950	 For you meet him with rich blessings; you set a crown of fine gold upon his head. 
19O	21	4	141960	 He asked life of you; you gave it to him, length of days forever and ever. 
19O	21	5	141970	 His glory is great through your salvation; splendor and majesty you bestow on him. 
19O	21	6	141980	 For you make him most blessed forever; you make him glad with the joy of your presence. 
19O	21	7	141990	 For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be moved. 
19O	21	8	142000	 Your hand will find out all your enemies; your right hand will find out those who hate you. 
19O	21	9	142010	 You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them. 
19O	21	10	142020	 You will destroy their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from among the children of man. 
19O	21	11	142030	 Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed. 
19O	21	12	142040	 For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows. 
19O	21	13	142050	 Be exalted, O LORD, in your strength! We will sing and praise your power. 
19O	22	1	142060	 To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? 
19O	22	2	142070	 O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. 
19O	22	3	142080	 Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. 
19O	22	4	142090	 In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. 
19O	22	5	142100	 To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. 
19O	22	6	142110	 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people. 
19O	22	7	142120	 All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads; 
19O	22	8	142130	 "He trusts in the LORD; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, for he delights in him!" 
19O	22	9	142140	 Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother's breasts. 
19O	22	10	142150	 On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother's womb you have been my God. 
19O	22	11	142160	 Be not far from me, for trouble is near, and there is none to help. 
19O	22	12	142170	 Many bulls encompass me; strong bulls of Bashan surround me; 
19O	22	13	142180	 they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion. 
19O	22	14	142190	 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast; 
19O	22	15	142200	 my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death. 
19O	22	16	142210	 For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet-- 
19O	22	17	142220	 I can count all my bones-- they stare and gloat over me; 
19O	22	18	142230	 they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots. 
19O	22	19	142240	 But you, O LORD, do not be far off! O you my help, come quickly to my aid! 
19O	22	20	142250	 Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog! 
19O	22	21	142260	 Save me from the mouth of the lion! You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen! 
19O	22	22	142270	 I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you: 
19O	22	23	142280	 You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel! 
19O	22	24	142290	 For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him. 
19O	22	25	142300	 From you comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will perform before those who fear him. 
19O	22	26	142310	 The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the LORD! May your hearts live forever! 
19O	22	27	142320	 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you. 
19O	22	28	142330	 For kingship belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations. 
19O	22	29	142340	 All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, even the one who could not keep himself alive. 
19O	22	30	142350	 Posterity shall serve him; it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation; 
19O	22	31	142360	 they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that he has done it. 
19O	23	1	142370	 A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. 
19O	23	2	142380	 He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. 
19O	23	3	142390	 He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 
19O	23	4	142400	 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. 
19O	23	5	142410	 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. 
19O	23	6	142420	 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever. 
19O	24	1	142430	 A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein, 
19O	24	2	142440	 for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. 
19O	24	3	142450	 Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in his holy place? 
19O	24	4	142460	 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully. 
19O	24	5	142470	 He will receive blessing from the LORD and righteousness from the God of his salvation. 
19O	24	6	142480	 Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob. Selah 
19O	24	7	142490	 Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. 
19O	24	8	142500	 Who is this King of glory? The LORD, strong and mighty, the LORD, mighty in battle! 
19O	24	9	142510	 Lift up your heads, O gates! And lift them up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. 
19O	24	10	142520	 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory! Selah 
19O	25	1	142530	 Of David. To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul. 
19O	25	2	142540	 O my God, in you I trust; let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me. 
19O	25	3	142550	 Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous. 
19O	25	4	142560	 Make me to know your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths. 
19O	25	5	142570	 Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long. 
19O	25	6	142580	 Remember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old. 
19O	25	7	142590	 Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O LORD! 
19O	25	8	142600	 Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in the way. 
19O	25	9	142610	 He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way. 
19O	25	10	142620	 All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies. 
19O	25	11	142630	 For your name's sake, O LORD, pardon my guilt, for it is great. 
19O	25	12	142640	 Who is the man who fears the LORD? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose. 
19O	25	13	142650	 His soul shall abide in well-being, and his offspring shall inherit the land. 
19O	25	14	142660	 The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant. 
19O	25	15	142670	 My eyes are ever toward the LORD, for he will pluck my feet out of the net. 
19O	25	16	142680	 Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. 
19O	25	17	142690	 The troubles of my heart are enlarged; bring me out of my distresses. 
19O	25	18	142700	 Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins. 
19O	25	19	142710	 Consider how many are my foes, and with what violent hatred they hate me. 
19O	25	20	142720	 Oh, guard my soul, and deliver me! Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you. 
19O	25	21	142730	 May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you. 
19O	25	22	142740	 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. 
19O	26	1	142750	 Of David. Vindicate me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering. 
19O	26	2	142760	 Prove me, O LORD, and try me; test my heart and my mind. 
19O	26	3	142770	 For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in your faithfulness. 
19O	26	4	142780	 I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites. 
19O	26	5	142790	 I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked. 
19O	26	6	142800	 I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O LORD, 
19O	26	7	142810	 proclaiming thanksgiving aloud, and telling all your wondrous deeds. 
19O	26	8	142820	 O LORD, I love the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells. 
19O	26	9	142830	 Do not sweep my soul away with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men, 
19O	26	10	142840	 in whose hands are evil devices, and whose right hands are full of bribes. 
19O	26	11	142850	 But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity; redeem me, and be gracious to me. 
19O	26	12	142860	 My foot stands on level ground; in the great assembly I will bless the LORD. 
19O	27	1	142870	 Of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 
19O	27	2	142880	 When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall. 
19O	27	3	142890	 Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident. 
19O	27	4	142900	 One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple. 
19O	27	5	142910	 For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock. 
19O	27	6	142920	 And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me, and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make melody to the LORD. 
19O	27	7	142930	 Hear, O LORD, when I cry aloud; be gracious to me and answer me! 
19O	27	8	142940	 You have said, "Seek my face." My heart says to you, "Your face, LORD, do I seek." 
19O	27	9	142950	 Hide not your face from me. Turn not your servant away in anger, O you who have been my help. Cast me not off; forsake me not, O God of my salvation! 
19O	27	10	142960	 For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the LORD will take me in. 
19O	27	11	142970	 Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies. 
19O	27	12	142980	 Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence. 
19O	27	13	142990	 I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living! 
19O	27	14	143000	 Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD! 
19O	28	1	143010	 Of David. To you, O LORD, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit. 
19O	28	2	143020	 Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy, when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary. 
19O	28	3	143030	 Do not drag me off with the wicked, with the workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors while evil is in their hearts. 
19O	28	4	143040	 Give to them according to their work and according to the evil of their deeds; give to them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward. 
19O	28	5	143050	 Because they do not regard the works of the LORD or the work of his hands, he will tear them down and build them up no more. 
19O	28	6	143060	 Blessed be the LORD! For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy. 
19O	28	7	143070	 The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him. 
19O	28	8	143080	 The LORD is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed. 
19O	28	9	143090	 Oh, save your people and bless your heritage! Be their shepherd and carry them forever. 
19O	29	1	143100	 A Psalm of David. Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength. 
19O	29	2	143110	 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness. 
19O	29	3	143120	 The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD, over many waters. 
19O	29	4	143130	 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty. 
19O	29	5	143140	 The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon. 
19O	29	6	143150	 He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox. 
19O	29	7	143160	 The voice of the LORD flashes forth flames of fire. 
19O	29	8	143170	 The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. 
19O	29	9	143180	 The voice of the LORD makes the deer give birth and strips the forests bare, and in his temple all cry, "Glory!" 
19O	29	10	143190	 The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD sits enthroned as king forever. 
19O	29	11	143200	 May the LORD give strength to his people! May the LORD bless his people with peace! 
19O	30	1	143210	 A Psalm of David. A song at the dedication of the temple. I will extol you, O LORD, for you have drawn me up and have not let my foes rejoice over me. 
19O	30	2	143220	 O LORD my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me. 
19O	30	3	143230	 O LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit. 
19O	30	4	143240	 Sing praises to the LORD, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name. 
19O	30	5	143250	 For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning. 
19O	30	6	143260	 As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved." 
19O	30	7	143270	 By your favor, O LORD, you made my mountain stand strong; you hid your face; I was dismayed. 
19O	30	8	143280	 To you, O LORD, I cry, and to the Lord I plead for mercy: 
19O	30	9	143290	 "What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness? 
19O	30	10	143300	 Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me! O LORD, be my helper!" 
19O	30	11	143310	 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, 
19O	30	12	143320	 that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever! 
19O	31	1	143330	 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me! 
19O	31	2	143340	 Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily! Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me! 
19O	31	3	143350	 For you are my rock and my fortress; and for your name's sake you lead me and guide me; 
19O	31	4	143360	 you take me out of the net they have hidden for me, for you are my refuge. 
19O	31	5	143370	 Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God. 
19O	31	6	143380	 I hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the LORD. 
19O	31	7	143390	 I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distress of my soul, 
19O	31	8	143400	 and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place. 
19O	31	9	143410	 Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also. 
19O	31	10	143420	 For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away. 
19O	31	11	143430	 Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me. 
19O	31	12	143440	 I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel. 
19O	31	13	143450	 For I hear the whispering of many-- terror on every side!-- as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life. 
19O	31	14	143460	 But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God." 
19O	31	15	143470	 My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors! 
19O	31	16	143480	 Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your steadfast love! 
19O	31	17	143490	 O LORD, let me not be put to shame, for I call upon you; let the wicked be put to shame; let them go silently to Sheol. 
19O	31	18	143500	 Let the lying lips be mute, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt. 
19O	31	19	143510	 Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind! 
19O	31	20	143520	 In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men; you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues. 
19O	31	21	143530	 Blessed be the LORD, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was in a besieged city. 
19O	31	22	143540	 I had said in my alarm, "I am cut off from your sight." But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy when I cried to you for help. 
19O	31	23	143550	 Love the LORD, all you his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride. 
19O	31	24	143560	 Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD! 
19O	32	1	143570	 A Maskil of David. Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 
19O	32	2	143580	 Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. 
19O	32	3	143590	 For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. 
19O	32	4	143600	 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah 
19O	32	5	143610	 I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD," and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah 
19O	32	6	143620	 Therefore let everyone who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found; surely in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him. 
19O	32	7	143630	 You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah 
19O	32	8	143640	 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. 
19O	32	9	143650	 Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you. 
19O	32	10	143660	 Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the LORD. 
19O	32	11	143670	 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart! 
19O	33	1	143680	 Shout for joy in the LORD, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright. 
19O	33	2	143690	 Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre; make melody to him with the harp of ten strings! 
19O	33	3	143700	 Sing to him a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts. 
19O	33	4	143710	 For the word of the LORD is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness. 
19O	33	5	143720	 He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD. 
19O	33	6	143730	 By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host. 
19O	33	7	143740	 He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses. 
19O	33	8	143750	 Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him! 
19O	33	9	143760	 For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm. 
19O	33	10	143770	 The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples. 
19O	33	11	143780	 The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations. 
19O	33	12	143790	 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage! 
19O	33	13	143800	 The LORD looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man; 
19O	33	14	143810	 from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, 
19O	33	15	143820	 he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds. 
19O	33	16	143830	 The king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength. 
19O	33	17	143840	 The war horse is a false hope for salvation, and by its great might it cannot rescue. 
19O	33	18	143850	 Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love, 
19O	33	19	143860	 that he may deliver their soul from death and keep them alive in famine. 
19O	33	20	143870	 Our soul waits for the LORD; he is our help and our shield. 
19O	33	21	143880	 For our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name. 
19O	33	22	143890	 Let your steadfast love, O LORD, be upon us, even as we hope in you. 
19O	34	1	143900	 Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 
19O	34	2	143910	 My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the humble hear and be glad. 
19O	34	3	143920	 Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together! 
19O	34	4	143930	 I sought the LORD, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. 
19O	34	5	143940	 Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed. 
19O	34	6	143950	 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. 
19O	34	7	143960	 The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them. 
19O	34	8	143970	 Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him! 
19O	34	9	143980	 Oh, fear the LORD, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack! 
19O	34	10	143990	 The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing. 
19O	34	11	144000	 Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD. 
19O	34	12	144010	 What man is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good? 
19O	34	13	144020	 Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. 
19O	34	14	144030	 Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. 
19O	34	15	144040	 The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry. 
19O	34	16	144050	 The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth. 
19O	34	17	144060	 When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. 
19O	34	18	144070	 The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. 
19O	34	19	144080	 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all. 
19O	34	20	144090	 He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken. 
19O	34	21	144100	 Affliction will slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be condemned. 
19O	34	22	144110	 The LORD redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned. 
19O	35	1	144120	 Of David. Contend, O LORD, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me! 
19O	35	2	144130	 Take hold of shield and buckler and rise for my help! 
19O	35	3	144140	 Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers! Say to my soul, "I am your salvation!" 
19O	35	4	144150	 Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life! Let them be turned back and disappointed who devise evil against me! 
19O	35	5	144160	 Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the LORD driving them away! 
19O	35	6	144170	 Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of the LORD pursuing them! 
19O	35	7	144180	 For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life. 
19O	35	8	144190	 Let destruction come upon him when he does not know it! And let the net that he hid ensnare him; let him fall into it--to his destruction! 
19O	35	9	144200	 Then my soul will rejoice in the LORD, exulting in his salvation. 
19O	35	10	144210	 All my bones shall say, "O LORD, who is like you, delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, the poor and needy from him who robs him?" 
19O	35	11	144220	 Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I do not know. 
19O	35	12	144230	 They repay me evil for good; my soul is bereft. 
19O	35	13	144240	 But I, when they were sick-- I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest. 
19O	35	14	144250	 I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning. 
19O	35	15	144260	 But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing; 
19O	35	16	144270	 like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth. 
19O	35	17	144280	 How long, O Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from the lions! 
19O	35	18	144290	 I will thank you in the great congregation; in the mighty throng I will praise you. 
19O	35	19	144300	 Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause. 
19O	35	20	144310	 For they do not speak peace, but against those who are quiet in the land they devise words of deceit. 
19O	35	21	144320	 They open wide their mouths against me; they say, "Aha, Aha! Our eyes have seen it!" 
19O	35	22	144330	 You have seen, O LORD; be not silent! O Lord, be not far from me! 
19O	35	23	144340	 Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication, for my cause, my God and my Lord! 
19O	35	24	144350	 Vindicate me, O LORD, my God, according to your righteousness, and let them not rejoice over me! 
19O	35	25	144360	 Let them not say in their hearts, "Aha, our heart's desire!" Let them not say, "We have swallowed him up." 
19O	35	26	144370	 Let them be put to shame and disappointed altogether who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me! 
19O	35	27	144380	 Let those who delight in my righteousness shout for joy and be glad and say evermore, "Great is the LORD, who delights in the welfare of his servant!" 
19O	35	28	144390	 Then my tongue shall tell of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long. 
19O	36	1	144400	 To the choirmaster. Of David, the servant of the LORD. Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes. 
19O	36	2	144410	 For he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated. 
19O	36	3	144420	 The words of his mouth are trouble and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good. 
19O	36	4	144430	 He plots trouble while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject evil. 
19O	36	5	144440	 Your steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. 
19O	36	6	144450	 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD. 
19O	36	7	144460	 How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings. 
19O	36	8	144470	 They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights. 
19O	36	9	144480	 For with you is the fountain of life; in your light do we see light. 
19O	36	10	144490	 Oh, continue your steadfast love to those who know you, and your righteousness to the upright of heart! 
19O	36	11	144500	 Let not the foot of arrogance come upon me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away. 
19O	36	12	144510	 There the evildoers lie fallen; they are thrust down, unable to rise. 
19O	37	1	144520	 Of David. Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! 
19O	37	2	144530	 For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb. 
19O	37	3	144540	 Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. 
19O	37	4	144550	 Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. 
19O	37	5	144560	 Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act. 
19O	37	6	144570	 He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday. 
19O	37	7	144580	 Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices! 
19O	37	8	144590	 Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil. 
19O	37	9	144600	 For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land. 
19O	37	10	144610	 In just a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there. 
19O	37	11	144620	 But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant peace. 
19O	37	12	144630	 The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him, 
19O	37	13	144640	 but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming. 
19O	37	14	144650	 The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose way is upright; 
19O	37	15	144660	 their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken. 
19O	37	16	144670	 Better is the little that the righteous has than the abundance of many wicked. 
19O	37	17	144680	 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous. 
19O	37	18	144690	 The LORD knows the days of the blameless, and their heritage will remain forever; 
19O	37	19	144700	 they are not put to shame in evil times; in the days of famine they have abundance. 
19O	37	20	144710	 But the wicked will perish; the enemies of the LORD are like the glory of the pastures; they vanish--like smoke they vanish away. 
19O	37	21	144720	 The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives; 
19O	37	22	144730	 for those blessed by the LORD shall inherit the land, but those cursed by him shall be cut off. 
19O	37	23	144740	 The steps of a man are established by the LORD, when he delights in his way; 
19O	37	24	144750	 though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong, for the LORD upholds his hand. 
19O	37	25	144760	 I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread. 
19O	37	26	144770	 He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing. 
19O	37	27	144780	 Turn away from evil and do good; so shall you dwell forever. 
19O	37	28	144790	 For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off. 
19O	37	29	144800	 The righteous shall inherit the land and dwell upon it forever. 
19O	37	30	144810	 The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice. 
19O	37	31	144820	 The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not slip. 
19O	37	32	144830	 The wicked watches for the righteous and seeks to put him to death. 
19O	37	33	144840	 The LORD will not abandon him to his power or let him be condemned when he is brought to trial. 
19O	37	34	144850	 Wait for the LORD and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land; you will look on when the wicked are cut off. 
19O	37	35	144860	 I have seen a wicked, ruthless man, spreading himself like a green laurel tree. 
19O	37	36	144870	 But he passed away, and behold, he was no more; though I sought him, he could not be found. 
19O	37	37	144880	 Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace. 
19O	37	38	144890	 But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed; the future of the wicked shall be cut off. 
19O	37	39	144900	 The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; he is their stronghold in the time of trouble. 
19O	37	40	144910	 The LORD helps them and delivers them; he delivers them from the wicked and saves them, because they take refuge in him. 
19O	38	1	144920	 A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering. O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath! 
19O	38	2	144930	 For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me. 
19O	38	3	144940	 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin. 
19O	38	4	144950	 For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me. 
19O	38	5	144960	 My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness, 
19O	38	6	144970	 I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning. 
19O	38	7	144980	 For my sides are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. 
19O	38	8	144990	 I am feeble and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart. 
19O	38	9	145000	 O Lord, all my longing is before you; my sighing is not hidden from you. 
19O	38	10	145010	 My heart throbs; my strength fails me, and the light of my eyes--it also has gone from me. 
19O	38	11	145020	 My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my nearest kin stand far off. 
19O	38	12	145030	 Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my hurt speak of ruin and meditate treachery all day long. 
19O	38	13	145040	 But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear, like a mute man who does not open his mouth. 
19O	38	14	145050	 I have become like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes. 
19O	38	15	145060	 But for you, O LORD, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer. 
19O	38	16	145070	 For I said, "Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!" 
19O	38	17	145080	 For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever before me. 
19O	38	18	145090	 I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin. 
19O	38	19	145100	 But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully. 
19O	38	20	145110	 Those who render me evil for good accuse me because I follow after good. 
19O	38	21	145120	 Do not forsake me, O LORD! O my God, be not far from me! 
19O	38	22	145130	 Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation! 
19O	39	1	145140	 To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, "I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence." 
19O	39	2	145150	 I was mute and silent; I held my peace to no avail, and my distress grew worse. 
19O	39	3	145160	 My heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue: 
19O	39	4	145170	 "O LORD, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am! 
19O	39	5	145180	 Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah 
19O	39	6	145190	 Surely a man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather! 
19O	39	7	145200	 "And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you. 
19O	39	8	145210	 Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the scorn of the fool! 
19O	39	9	145220	 I am mute; I do not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it. 
19O	39	10	145230	 Remove your stroke from me; I am spent by the hostility of your hand. 
19O	39	11	145240	 When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah 
19O	39	12	145250	 "Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers. 
19O	39	13	145260	 Look away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more!" 
19O	40	1	145270	 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry. 
19O	40	2	145280	 He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. 
19O	40	3	145290	 He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD. 
19O	40	4	145300	 Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie! 
19O	40	5	145310	 You have multiplied, O LORD my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told. 
19O	40	6	145320	 In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required. 
19O	40	7	145330	 Then I said, "Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me: 
19O	40	8	145340	 I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart." 
19O	40	9	145350	 I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; behold, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O LORD. 
19O	40	10	145360	 I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart; I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation. 
19O	40	11	145370	 As for you, O LORD, you will not restrain your mercy from me; your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me! 
19O	40	12	145380	 For evils have encompassed me beyond number; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me. 
19O	40	13	145390	 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me! O LORD, make haste to help me! 
19O	40	14	145400	 Let those be put to shame and disappointed altogether who seek to snatch away my life; let those be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt! 
19O	40	15	145410	 Let those be appalled because of their shame who say to me, "Aha, Aha!" 
19O	40	16	145420	 But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, "Great is the LORD!" 
19O	40	17	145430	 As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God! 
19O	41	1	145440	 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the LORD delivers him; 
19O	41	2	145450	 the LORD protects him and keeps him alive; he is called blessed in the land; you do not give him up to the will of his enemies. 
19O	41	3	145460	 The LORD sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to full health. 
19O	41	4	145470	 As for me, I said, "O LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against you!" 
19O	41	5	145480	 My enemies say of me in malice, "When will he die, and his name perish?" 
19O	41	6	145490	 And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words, while his heart gathers iniquity; when he goes out, he tells it abroad. 
19O	41	7	145500	 All who hate me whisper together about me; they imagine the worst for me. 
19O	41	8	145510	 They say, "A deadly thing is poured out on him; he will not rise again from where he lies." 
19O	41	9	145520	 Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me. 
19O	41	10	145530	 But you, O LORD, be gracious to me, and raise me up, that I may repay them! 
19O	41	11	145540	 By this I know that you delight in me: my enemy will not shout in triumph over me. 
19O	41	12	145550	 But you have upheld me because of my integrity, and set me in your presence forever. 
19O	41	13	145560	 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen. 
19O	42	1	145570	 To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. 
19O	42	2	145580	 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? 
19O	42	3	145590	 My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?" 
19O	42	4	145600	 These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival. 
19O	42	5	145610	 Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation 
19O	42	6	145620	 and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. 
19O	42	7	145630	 Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me. 
19O	42	8	145640	 By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. 
19O	42	9	145650	 I say to God, my rock: "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?" 
19O	42	10	145660	 As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?" 
19O	42	11	145670	 Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. 
19O	43	1	145680	 Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me! 
19O	43	2	145690	 For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 
19O	43	3	145700	 Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling! 
19O	43	4	145710	 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God. 
19O	43	5	145720	 Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. 
19O	44	1	145730	 To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old: 
19O	44	2	145740	 you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free; 
19O	44	3	145750	 for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm save them, but your right hand and your arm, and the light of your face, for you delighted in them. 
19O	44	4	145760	 You are my King, O God; ordain salvation for Jacob! 
19O	44	5	145770	 Through you we push down our foes; through your name we tread down those who rise up against us. 
19O	44	6	145780	 For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me. 
19O	44	7	145790	 But you have saved us from our foes and have put to shame those who hate us. 
19O	44	8	145800	 In God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah 
19O	44	9	145810	 But you have rejected us and disgraced us and have not gone out with our armies. 
19O	44	10	145820	 You have made us turn back from the foe, and those who hate us have gotten spoil. 
19O	44	11	145830	 You have made us like sheep for slaughter and have scattered us among the nations. 
19O	44	12	145840	 You have sold your people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them. 
19O	44	13	145850	 You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those around us. 
19O	44	14	145860	 You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples. 
19O	44	15	145870	 All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face 
19O	44	16	145880	 at the sound of the taunter and reviler, at the sight of the enemy and the avenger. 
19O	44	17	145890	 All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant. 
19O	44	18	145900	 Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from your way; 
19O	44	19	145910	 yet you have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death. 
19O	44	20	145920	 If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, 
19O	44	21	145930	 would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart. 
19O	44	22	145940	 Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered. 
19O	44	23	145950	 Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever! 
19O	44	24	145960	 Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression? 
19O	44	25	145970	 For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly clings to the ground. 
19O	44	26	145980	 Rise up; come to our help! Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love! 
19O	45	1	145990	 To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah; a love song. My heart overflows with a pleasing theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe. 
19O	45	2	146000	 You are the most handsome of the sons of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever. 
19O	45	3	146010	 Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one, in your splendor and majesty! 
19O	45	4	146020	 In your majesty ride out victoriously for the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness; let your right hand teach you awesome deeds! 
19O	45	5	146030	 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; the peoples fall under you. 
19O	45	6	146040	 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness; 
19O	45	7	146050	 you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions; 
19O	45	8	146060	 your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia. From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad; 
19O	45	9	146070	 daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor; at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir. 
19O	45	10	146080	 Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear: forget your people and your father's house, 
19O	45	11	146090	 and the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow to him. 
19O	45	12	146100	 The people of Tyre will seek your favor with gifts, the richest of the people. 
19O	45	13	146110	 All glorious is the princess in her chamber, with robes interwoven with gold. 
19O	45	14	146120	 In many-colored robes she is led to the king, with her virgin companions following behind her. 
19O	45	15	146130	 With joy and gladness they are led along as they enter the palace of the king. 
19O	45	16	146140	 In place of your fathers shall be your sons; you will make them princes in all the earth. 
19O	45	17	146150	 I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations; therefore nations will praise you forever and ever. 
19O	46	1	146160	 To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 
19O	46	2	146170	 Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, 
19O	46	3	146180	 though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah 
19O	46	4	146190	 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. 
19O	46	5	146200	 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns. 
19O	46	6	146210	 The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts. 
19O	46	7	146220	 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah 
19O	46	8	146230	 Come, behold the works of the LORD, how he has brought desolations on the earth. 
19O	46	9	146240	 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the chariots with fire. 
19O	46	10	146250	 "Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!" 
19O	46	11	146260	 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah 
19O	47	1	146270	 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy! 
19O	47	2	146280	 For the LORD, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth. 
19O	47	3	146290	 He subdued peoples under us, and nations under our feet. 
19O	47	4	146300	 He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah 
19O	47	5	146310	 God has gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet. 
19O	47	6	146320	 Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises! 
19O	47	7	146330	 For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm! 
19O	47	8	146340	 God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne. 
19O	47	9	146350	 The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted! 
19O	48	1	146360	 A Song. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain, 
19O	48	2	146370	 beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King. 
19O	48	3	146380	 Within her citadels God has made himself known as a fortress. 
19O	48	4	146390	 For behold, the kings assembled; they came on together. 
19O	48	5	146400	 As soon as they saw it, they were astounded; they were in panic; they took to flight. 
19O	48	6	146410	 Trembling took hold of them there, anguish as of a woman in labor. 
19O	48	7	146420	 By the east wind you shattered the ships of Tarshish. 
19O	48	8	146430	 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God, which God will establish forever. Selah 
19O	48	9	146440	 We have thought on your steadfast love, O God, in the midst of your temple. 
19O	48	10	146450	 As your name, O God, so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is filled with righteousness. 
19O	48	11	146460	 Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments! 
19O	48	12	146470	 Walk about Zion, go around her, number her towers, 
19O	48	13	146480	 consider well her ramparts, go through her citadels, that you may tell the next generation 
19O	48	14	146490	 that this is God, our God forever and ever. He will guide us forever. 
19O	49	1	146500	 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. Hear this, all peoples! Give ear, all inhabitants of the world, 
19O	49	2	146510	 both low and high, rich and poor together! 
19O	49	3	146520	 My mouth shall speak wisdom; the meditation of my heart shall be understanding. 
19O	49	4	146530	 I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre. 
19O	49	5	146540	 Why should I fear in times of trouble, when the iniquity of those who cheat me surrounds me, 
19O	49	6	146550	 those who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches? 
19O	49	7	146560	 Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life, 
19O	49	8	146570	 for the ransom of their life is costly and can never suffice, 
19O	49	9	146580	 that he should live on forever and never see the pit. 
19O	49	10	146590	 For he sees that even the wise die; the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others. 
19O	49	11	146600	 Their graves are their homes forever, their dwelling places to all generations, though they called lands by their own names. 
19O	49	12	146610	 Man in his pomp will not remain; he is like the beasts that perish. 
19O	49	13	146620	 This is the path of those who have foolish confidence; yet after them people approve of their boasts. Selah 
19O	49	14	146630	 Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; death shall be their shepherd, and the upright shall rule over them in the morning. Their form shall be consumed in Sheol, with no place to dwell. 
19O	49	15	146640	 But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah 
19O	49	16	146650	 Be not afraid when a man becomes rich, when the glory of his house increases. 
19O	49	17	146660	 For when he dies he will carry nothing away; his glory will not go down after him. 
19O	49	18	146670	 For though, while he lives, he counts himself blessed --and though you get praise when you do well for yourself-- 
19O	49	19	146680	 his soul will go to the generation of his fathers, who will never again see light. 
19O	49	20	146690	 Man in his pomp yet without understanding is like the beasts that perish. 
19O	50	1	146700	 A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. 
19O	50	2	146710	 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. 
19O	50	3	146720	 Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest. 
19O	50	4	146730	 He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people: 
19O	50	5	146740	 "Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!" 
19O	50	6	146750	 The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah 
19O	50	7	146760	 "Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God. 
19O	50	8	146770	 Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me. 
19O	50	9	146780	 I will not accept a bull from your house or goats from your folds. 
19O	50	10	146790	 For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. 
19O	50	11	146800	 I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine. 
19O	50	12	146810	 "If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine. 
19O	50	13	146820	 Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? 
19O	50	14	146830	 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High, 
19O	50	15	146840	 and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me." 
19O	50	16	146850	 But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips? 
19O	50	17	146860	 For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you. 
19O	50	18	146870	 If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you keep company with adulterers. 
19O	50	19	146880	 "You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit. 
19O	50	20	146890	 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son. 
19O	50	21	146900	 These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you. 
19O	50	22	146910	 "Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver! 
19O	50	23	146920	 The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!" 
19O	51	1	146930	 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. 
19O	51	2	146940	 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! 
19O	51	3	146950	 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 
19O	51	4	146960	 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. 
19O	51	5	146970	 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. 
19O	51	6	146980	 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. 
19O	51	7	146990	 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 
19O	51	8	147000	 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice. 
19O	51	9	147010	 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. 
19O	51	10	147020	 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. 
19O	51	11	147030	 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. 
19O	51	12	147040	 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. 
19O	51	13	147050	 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you. 
19O	51	14	147060	 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness. 
19O	51	15	147070	 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise. 
19O	51	16	147080	 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. 
19O	51	17	147090	 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. 
19O	51	18	147100	 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; build up the walls of Jerusalem; 
19O	51	19	147110	 then will you delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on your altar. 
19O	52	1	147120	 To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, "David has come to the house of Ahimelech." Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day. 
19O	52	2	147130	 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit. 
19O	52	3	147140	 You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah 
19O	52	4	147150	 You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue. 
19O	52	5	147160	 But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah 
19O	52	6	147170	 The righteous shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying, 
19O	52	7	147180	 "See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches and sought refuge in his own destruction!" 
19O	52	8	147190	 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever. 
19O	52	9	147200	 I will thank you forever, because you have done it. I will wait for your name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly. 
19O	53	1	147210	 To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good. 
19O	53	2	147220	 God looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. 
19O	53	3	147230	 They have all fallen away; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one. 
19O	53	4	147240	 Have those who work evil no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God? 
19O	53	5	147250	 There they are, in great terror, where there is no terror! For God scatters the bones of him who encamps against you; you put them to shame, for God has rejected them. 
19O	53	6	147260	 Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad. 
19O	54	1	147270	 To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David, when the Ziphites went and told Saul, "Is not David hiding among us?" O God, save me by your name, and vindicate me by your might. 
19O	54	2	147280	 O God, hear my prayer; give ear to the words of my mouth. 
19O	54	3	147290	 For strangers have risen against me; ruthless men seek my life; they do not set God before themselves. Selah 
19O	54	4	147300	 Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is the upholder of my life. 
19O	54	5	147310	 He will return the evil to my enemies; in your faithfulness put an end to them. 
19O	54	6	147320	 With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to you; I will give thanks to your name, O LORD, for it is good. 
19O	54	7	147330	 For he has delivered me from every trouble, and my eye has looked in triumph on my enemies. 
19O	55	1	147340	 To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy! 
19O	55	2	147350	 Attend to me, and answer me; I am restless in my complaint and I moan, 
19O	55	3	147360	 because of the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they drop trouble upon me, and in anger they bear a grudge against me. 
19O	55	4	147370	 My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen upon me. 
19O	55	5	147380	 Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me. 
19O	55	6	147390	 And I say, "Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest; 
19O	55	7	147400	 yes, I would wander far away; I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah 
19O	55	8	147410	 I would hurry to find a shelter from the raging wind and tempest." 
19O	55	9	147420	 Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city. 
19O	55	10	147430	 Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it; 
19O	55	11	147440	 ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace. 
19O	55	12	147450	 For it is not an enemy who taunts me-- then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me-- then I could hide from him. 
19O	55	13	147460	 But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend. 
19O	55	14	147470	 We used to take sweet counsel together; within God's house we walked in the throng. 
19O	55	15	147480	 Let death steal over them; let them go down to Sheol alive; for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart. 
19O	55	16	147490	 But I call to God, and the LORD will save me. 
19O	55	17	147500	 Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice. 
19O	55	18	147510	 He redeems my soul in safety from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me. 
19O	55	19	147520	 God will give ear and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old, Selah because they do not change and do not fear God. 
19O	55	20	147530	 My companion stretched out his hand against his friends; he violated his covenant. 
19O	55	21	147540	 His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords. 
19O	55	22	147550	 Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved. 
19O	55	23	147560	 But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you. 
19O	56	1	147570	 To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me; all day long an attacker oppresses me; 
19O	56	2	147580	 my enemies trample on me all day long, for many attack me proudly. 
19O	56	3	147590	 When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. 
19O	56	4	147600	 In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me? 
19O	56	5	147610	 All day long they injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil. 
19O	56	6	147620	 They stir up strife, they lurk; they watch my steps, as they have waited for my life. 
19O	56	7	147630	 For their crime will they escape? In wrath cast down the peoples, O God! 
19O	56	8	147640	 You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book? 
19O	56	9	147650	 Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me. 
19O	56	10	147660	 In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise, 
19O	56	11	147670	 in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me? 
19O	56	12	147680	 I must perform my vows to you, O God; I will render thank offerings to you. 
19O	56	13	147690	 For you have delivered my soul from death, yes, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life. 
19O	57	1	147700	 To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave. Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by. 
19O	57	2	147710	 I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me. 
19O	57	3	147720	 He will send from heaven and save me; he will put to shame him who tramples on me. Selah God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness! 
19O	57	4	147730	 My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts-- the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords. 
19O	57	5	147740	 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth! 
19O	57	6	147750	 They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my way, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah 
19O	57	7	147760	 My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast! I will sing and make melody! 
19O	57	8	147770	 Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn! 
19O	57	9	147780	 I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to you among the nations. 
19O	57	10	147790	 For your steadfast love is great to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. 
19O	57	11	147800	 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth! 
19O	58	1	147810	 To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David. Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly? 
19O	58	2	147820	 No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth. 
19O	58	3	147830	 The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies. 
19O	58	4	147840	 They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear, 
19O	58	5	147850	 so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter. 
19O	58	6	147860	 O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD! 
19O	58	7	147870	 Let them vanish like water that runs away; when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted. 
19O	58	8	147880	 Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun. 
19O	58	9	147890	 Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away! 
19O	58	10	147900	 The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked. 
19O	58	11	147910	 Mankind will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth." 
19O	59	1	147920	 To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David, when Saul sent men to watch his house in order to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise up against me; 
19O	59	2	147930	 deliver me from those who work evil, and save me from bloodthirsty men. 
19O	59	3	147940	 For behold, they lie in wait for my life; fierce men stir up strife against me. For no transgression or sin of mine, O LORD, 
19O	59	4	147950	 for no fault of mine, they run and make ready. Awake, come to meet me, and see! 
19O	59	5	147960	 You, LORD God of hosts, are God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. Selah 
19O	59	6	147970	 Each evening they come back, howling like dogs and prowling about the city. 
19O	59	7	147980	 There they are, bellowing with their mouths with swords in their lips-- for "Who," they think, "will hear us?" 
19O	59	8	147990	 But you, O LORD, laugh at them; you hold all the nations in derision. 
19O	59	9	148000	 O my Strength, I will watch for you, for you, O God, are my fortress. 
19O	59	10	148010	 My God in his steadfast love will meet me; God will let me look in triumph on my enemies. 
19O	59	11	148020	 Kill them not, lest my people forget; make them totter by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield! 
19O	59	12	148030	 For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride. For the cursing and lies that they utter, 
19O	59	13	148040	 consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, that they may know that God rules over Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah 
19O	59	14	148050	 Each evening they come back, howling like dogs and prowling about the city. 
19O	59	15	148060	 They wander about for food and growl if they do not get their fill. 
19O	59	16	148070	 But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress. 
19O	59	17	148080	 O my Strength, I will sing praises to you, for you, O God, are my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love. 
19O	60	1	148090	 To the choirmaster: according to Shushan Eduth. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return struck down twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses; you have been angry; oh, restore us. 
19O	60	2	148100	 You have made the land to quake; you have torn it open; repair its breaches, for it totters. 
19O	60	3	148110	 You have made your people see hard things; you have given us wine to drink that made us stagger. 
19O	60	4	148120	 You have set up a banner for those who fear you, that they may flee to it from the bow. Selah 
19O	60	5	148130	 That your beloved ones may be delivered, give salvation by your right hand and answer us! 
19O	60	6	148140	 God has spoken in his holiness: "With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Vale of Succoth. 
19O	60	7	148150	 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet; Judah is my scepter. 
19O	60	8	148160	 Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph." 
19O	60	9	148170	 Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom? 
19O	60	10	148180	 Have you not rejected us, O God? You do not go forth, O God, with our armies. 
19O	60	11	148190	 Oh, grant us help against the foe, for vain is the salvation of man! 
19O	60	12	148200	 With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes. 
19O	61	1	148210	 To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. Of David. Hear my cry, O God, listen to my prayer; 
19O	61	2	148220	 from the end of the earth I call to you when my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I, 
19O	61	3	148230	 for you have been my refuge, a strong tower against the enemy. 
19O	61	4	148240	 Let me dwell in your tent forever! Let me take refuge under the shelter of your wings! Selah 
19O	61	5	148250	 For you, O God, have heard my vows; you have given me the heritage of those who fear your name. 
19O	61	6	148260	 Prolong the life of the king; may his years endure to all generations! 
19O	61	7	148270	 May he be enthroned forever before God; appoint steadfast love and faithfulness to watch over him! 
19O	61	8	148280	 So will I ever sing praises to your name, as I perform my vows day after day. 
19O	62	1	148290	 To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. 
19O	62	2	148300	 He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken. 
19O	62	3	148310	 How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence? 
19O	62	4	148320	 They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah 
19O	62	5	148330	 For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him. 
19O	62	6	148340	 He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken. 
19O	62	7	148350	 On God rests my salvation and my glory; my mighty rock, my refuge is God. 
19O	62	8	148360	 Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. Selah 
19O	62	9	148370	 Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath. 
19O	62	10	148380	 Put no trust in extortion; set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them. 
19O	62	11	148390	 Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God, 
19O	62	12	148400	 and that to you, O Lord, belongs steadfast love. For you will render to a man according to his work. 
19O	63	1	148410	 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. 
19O	63	2	148420	 So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory. 
19O	63	3	148430	 Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. 
19O	63	4	148440	 So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands. 
19O	63	5	148450	 My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips, 
19O	63	6	148460	 when I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night; 
19O	63	7	148470	 for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy. 
19O	63	8	148480	 My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me. 
19O	63	9	148490	 But those who seek to destroy my life shall go down into the depths of the earth; 
19O	63	10	148500	 they shall be given over to the power of the sword; they shall be a portion for jackals. 
19O	63	11	148510	 But the king shall rejoice in God; all who swear by him shall exult, for the mouths of liars will be stopped. 
19O	64	1	148520	 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy. 
19O	64	2	148530	 Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the throng of evildoers, 
19O	64	3	148540	 who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows, 
19O	64	4	148550	 shooting from ambush at the blameless, shooting at him suddenly and without fear. 
19O	64	5	148560	 They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, "Who can see them?" 
19O	64	6	148570	 They search out injustice, saying, "We have accomplished a diligent search." For the inward mind and heart of a man are deep! 
19O	64	7	148580	 But God shoots his arrow at them; they are wounded suddenly. 
19O	64	8	148590	 They are brought to ruin, with their own tongues turned against them; all who see them will wag their heads. 
19O	64	9	148600	 Then all mankind fears; they tell what God has brought about and ponder what he has done. 
19O	64	10	148610	 Let the righteous one rejoice in the LORD and take refuge in him! Let all the upright in heart exult! 
19O	65	1	148620	 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song. Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall vows be performed. 
19O	65	2	148630	 O you who hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come. 
19O	65	3	148640	 When iniquities prevail against me, you atone for our transgressions. 
19O	65	4	148650	 Blessed is the one you choose and bring near, to dwell in your courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the holiness of your temple! 
19O	65	5	148660	 By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas; 
19O	65	6	148670	 the one who by his strength established the mountains, being girded with might; 
19O	65	7	148680	 who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples, 
19O	65	8	148690	 so that those who dwell at the ends of the earth are in awe at your signs. You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy. 
19O	65	9	148700	 You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it. 
19O	65	10	148710	 You water its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers, and blessing its growth. 
19O	65	11	148720	 You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with abundance. 
19O	65	12	148730	 The pastures of the wilderness overflow, the hills gird themselves with joy, 
19O	65	13	148740	 the meadows clothe themselves with flocks, the valleys deck themselves with grain, they shout and sing together for joy. 
19O	66	1	148750	 To the choirmaster. A Song. A Psalm. Shout for joy to God, all the earth; 
19O	66	2	148760	 sing the glory of his name; give to him glorious praise! 
19O	66	3	148770	 Say to God, "How awesome are your deeds! So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you. 
19O	66	4	148780	 All the earth worships you and sings praises to you; they sing praises to your name." Selah 
19O	66	5	148790	 Come and see what God has done: he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man. 
19O	66	6	148800	 He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the river on foot. There did we rejoice in him, 
19O	66	7	148810	 who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations-- let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah 
19O	66	8	148820	 Bless our God, O peoples; let the sound of his praise be heard, 
19O	66	9	148830	 who has kept our soul among the living and has not let our feet slip. 
19O	66	10	148840	 For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried. 
19O	66	11	148850	 You brought us into the net; you laid a crushing burden on our backs; 
19O	66	12	148860	 you let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance. 
19O	66	13	148870	 I will come into your house with burnt offerings; I will perform my vows to you, 
19O	66	14	148880	 that which my lips uttered and my mouth promised when I was in trouble. 
19O	66	15	148890	 I will offer to you burnt offerings of fattened animals, with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams; I will make an offering of bulls and goats. Selah 
19O	66	16	148900	 Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell what he has done for my soul. 
19O	66	17	148910	 I cried to him with my mouth, and high praise was on my tongue. 
19O	66	18	148920	 If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. 
19O	66	19	148930	 But truly God has listened; he has attended to the voice of my prayer. 
19O	66	20	148940	 Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me! 
19O	67	1	148950	 To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song. May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah 
19O	67	2	148960	 that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations. 
19O	67	3	148970	 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! 
19O	67	4	148980	 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah 
19O	67	5	148990	 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! 
19O	67	6	149000	 The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, shall bless us. 
19O	67	7	149010	 God shall bless us; let all the ends of the earth fear him! 
19O	68	1	149020	 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song. God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered; and those who hate him shall flee before him! 
19O	68	2	149030	 As smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away; as wax melts before fire, so the wicked shall perish before God! 
19O	68	3	149040	 But the righteous shall be glad; they shall exult before God; they shall be jubilant with joy! 
19O	68	4	149050	 Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the LORD; exult before him! 
19O	68	5	149060	 Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation. 
19O	68	6	149070	 God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land. 
19O	68	7	149080	 O God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness, Selah 
19O	68	8	149090	 the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain, before God, the One of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel. 
19O	68	9	149100	 Rain in abundance, O God, you shed abroad; you restored your inheritance as it languished; 
19O	68	10	149110	 your flock found a dwelling in it; in your goodness, O God, you provided for the needy. 
19O	68	11	149120	 The Lord gives the word; the women who announce the news are a great host: 
19O	68	12	149130	 "The kings of the armies--they flee, they flee!" The women at home divide the spoil-- 
19O	68	13	149140	 though you men lie among the sheepfolds-- the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with shimmering gold. 
19O	68	14	149150	 When the Almighty scatters kings there, let snow fall on Zalmon. 
19O	68	15	149160	 O mountain of God, mountain of Bashan; O many-peaked mountain, mountain of Bashan! 
19O	68	16	149170	 Why do you look with hatred, O many-peaked mountain, at the mount that God desired for his abode, yes, where the LORD will dwell forever? 
19O	68	17	149180	 The chariots of God are twice ten thousand, thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them; Sinai is now in the sanctuary. 
19O	68	18	149190	 You ascended on high, leading a host of captives in your train and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there. 
19O	68	19	149200	 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. Selah 
19O	68	20	149210	 Our God is a God of salvation, and to GOD, the Lord, belong deliverances from death. 
19O	68	21	149220	 But God will strike the heads of his enemies, the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways. 
19O	68	22	149230	 The Lord said, "I will bring them back from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea, 
19O	68	23	149240	 that you may strike your feet in their blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe." 
19O	68	24	149250	 Your procession is seen, O God, the procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary-- 
19O	68	25	149260	 the singers in front, the musicians last, between them virgins playing tambourines: 
19O	68	26	149270	 "Bless God in the great congregation, the LORD, O you who are of Israel's fountain!" 
19O	68	27	149280	 There is Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead, the princes of Judah in their throng, the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali. 
19O	68	28	149290	 Summon your power, O God, the power, O God, by which you have worked for us. 
19O	68	29	149300	 Because of your temple at Jerusalem kings shall bear gifts to you. 
19O	68	30	149310	 Rebuke the beasts that dwell among the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples. Trample underfoot those who lust after tribute; scatter the peoples who delight in war. 
19O	68	31	149320	 Nobles shall come from Egypt; Cush shall hasten to stretch out her hands to God. 
19O	68	32	149330	 O kingdoms of the earth, sing to God; sing praises to the Lord, Selah 
19O	68	33	149340	 to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens; behold, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice. 
19O	68	34	149350	 Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, and whose power is in the skies. 
19O	68	35	149360	 Awesome is God from his sanctuary; the God of Israel--he is the one who gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God! 
19O	69	1	149370	 To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. Of David. Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck. 
19O	69	2	149380	 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me. 
19O	69	3	149390	 I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God. 
19O	69	4	149400	 More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore? 
19O	69	5	149410	 O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you. 
19O	69	6	149420	 Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel. 
19O	69	7	149430	 For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach, that dishonor has covered my face. 
19O	69	8	149440	 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's sons. 
19O	69	9	149450	 For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. 
19O	69	10	149460	 When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach. 
19O	69	11	149470	 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. 
19O	69	12	149480	 I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me. 
19O	69	13	149490	 But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness. 
19O	69	14	149500	 Deliver me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters. 
19O	69	15	149510	 Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me. 
19O	69	16	149520	 Answer me, O LORD, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me. 
19O	69	17	149530	 Hide not your face from your servant; for I am in distress; make haste to answer me. 
19O	69	18	149540	 Draw near to my soul, redeem me; ransom me because of my enemies! 
19O	69	19	149550	 You know my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to you. 
19O	69	20	149560	 Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none. 
19O	69	21	149570	 They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink. 
19O	69	22	149580	 Let their own table before them become a snare; and when they are at peace, let it become a trap. 
19O	69	23	149590	 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually. 
19O	69	24	149600	 Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your burning anger overtake them. 
19O	69	25	149610	 May their camp be a desolation; let no one dwell in their tents. 
19O	69	26	149620	 For they persecute him whom you have struck down, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded. 
19O	69	27	149630	 Add to them punishment upon punishment; may they have no acquittal from you. 
19O	69	28	149640	 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous. 
19O	69	29	149650	 But I am afflicted and in pain; let your salvation, O God, set me on high! 
19O	69	30	149660	 I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving. 
19O	69	31	149670	 This will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs. 
19O	69	32	149680	 When the humble see it they will be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive. 
19O	69	33	149690	 For the LORD hears the needy and does not despise his own people who are prisoners. 
19O	69	34	149700	 Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them. 
19O	69	35	149710	 For God will save Zion and build up the cities of Judah, and people shall dwell there and possess it; 
19O	69	36	149720	 the offspring of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it. 
19O	70	1	149730	 To the choirmaster. Of David, for the memorial offering. Make haste, O God, to deliver me! O LORD, make haste to help me! 
19O	70	2	149740	 Let them be put to shame and confusion who seek my life! Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt! 
19O	70	3	149750	 Let them turn back because of their shame who say, "Aha, Aha!" 
19O	70	4	149760	 May all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you! May those who love your salvation say evermore, "God is great!" 
19O	70	5	149770	 But I am poor and needy; hasten to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay! 
19O	71	1	149780	 In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame! 
19O	71	2	149790	 In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me! 
19O	71	3	149800	 Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. 
19O	71	4	149810	 Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man. 
19O	71	5	149820	 For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O LORD, from my youth. 
19O	71	6	149830	 Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of you. 
19O	71	7	149840	 I have been as a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge. 
19O	71	8	149850	 My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the day. 
19O	71	9	149860	 Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent. 
19O	71	10	149870	 For my enemies speak concerning me; those who watch for my life consult together 
19O	71	11	149880	 and say, "God has forsaken him; pursue and seize him, for there is none to deliver him." 
19O	71	12	149890	 O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me! 
19O	71	13	149900	 May my accusers be put to shame and consumed; with scorn and disgrace may they be covered who seek my hurt. 
19O	71	14	149910	 But I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more. 
19O	71	15	149920	 My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge. 
19O	71	16	149930	 With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come; I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone. 
19O	71	17	149940	 O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. 
19O	71	18	149950	 So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come. 
19O	71	19	149960	 Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you? 
19O	71	20	149970	 You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again. 
19O	71	21	149980	 You will increase my greatness and comfort me again. 
19O	71	22	149990	 I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel. 
19O	71	23	150000	 My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed. 
19O	71	24	150010	 And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disappointed who sought to do me hurt. 
19O	72	1	150020	 Of Solomon. Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son! 
19O	72	2	150030	 May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice! 
19O	72	3	150040	 Let the mountains bear prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness! 
19O	72	4	150050	 May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor! 
19O	72	5	150060	 May they fear you while the sun endures, and as long as the moon, throughout all generations! 
19O	72	6	150070	 May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth! 
19O	72	7	150080	 In his days may the righteous flourish, and peace abound, till the moon be no more! 
19O	72	8	150090	 May he have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth! 
19O	72	9	150100	 May desert tribes bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust! 
19O	72	10	150110	 May the kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands render him tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts! 
19O	72	11	150120	 May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him! 
19O	72	12	150130	 For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper. 
19O	72	13	150140	 He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy. 
19O	72	14	150150	 From oppression and violence he redeems their life, and precious is their blood in his sight. 
19O	72	15	150160	 Long may he live; may gold of Sheba be given to him! May prayer be made for him continually, and blessings invoked for him all the day! 
19O	72	16	150170	 May there be abundance of grain in the land; on the tops of the mountains may it wave; may its fruit be like Lebanon; and may people blossom in the cities like the grass of the field! 
19O	72	17	150180	 May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed! 
19O	72	18	150190	 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things. 
19O	72	19	150200	 Blessed be his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and Amen! 
19O	72	20	150210	 The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended. 
19O	73	1	150220	 A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. 
19O	73	2	150230	 But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had nearly slipped. 
19O	73	3	150240	 For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 
19O	73	4	150250	 For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek. 
19O	73	5	150260	 They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind. 
19O	73	6	150270	 Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment. 
19O	73	7	150280	 Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies. 
19O	73	8	150290	 They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression. 
19O	73	9	150300	 They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth. 
19O	73	10	150310	 Therefore his people turn back to them, and find no fault in them. 
19O	73	11	150320	 And they say, "How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?" 
19O	73	12	150330	 Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches. 
19O	73	13	150340	 All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence. 
19O	73	14	150350	 For all the day long I have been stricken and rebuked every morning. 
19O	73	15	150360	 If I had said, "I will speak thus," I would have betrayed the generation of your children. 
19O	73	16	150370	 But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task, 
19O	73	17	150380	 until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end. 
19O	73	18	150390	 Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin. 
19O	73	19	150400	 How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors! 
19O	73	20	150410	 Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms. 
19O	73	21	150420	 When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart, 
19O	73	22	150430	 I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you. 
19O	73	23	150440	 Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. 
19O	73	24	150450	 You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. 
19O	73	25	150460	 Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. 
19O	73	26	150470	 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. 
19O	73	27	150480	 For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you. 
19O	73	28	150490	 But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all your works. 
19O	74	1	150500	 A Maskil of Asaph. O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture? 
19O	74	2	150510	 Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt. 
19O	74	3	150520	 Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary! 
19O	74	4	150530	 Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they set up their own signs for signs. 
19O	74	5	150540	 They were like those who swing axes in a forest of trees. 
19O	74	6	150550	 And all its carved wood they broke down with hatchets and hammers. 
19O	74	7	150560	 They set your sanctuary on fire; they profaned the dwelling place of your name, bringing it down to the ground. 
19O	74	8	150570	 They said to themselves, "We will utterly subdue them"; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land. 
19O	74	9	150580	 We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long. 
19O	74	10	150590	 How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name forever? 
19O	74	11	150600	 Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it from the fold of your garment and destroy them! 
19O	74	12	150610	 Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. 
19O	74	13	150620	 You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters. 
19O	74	14	150630	 You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness. 
19O	74	15	150640	 You split open springs and brooks; you dried up ever-flowing streams. 
19O	74	16	150650	 Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun. 
19O	74	17	150660	 You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth; you have made summer and winter. 
19O	74	18	150670	 Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy scoffs, and a foolish people reviles your name. 
19O	74	19	150680	 Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of your poor forever. 
19O	74	20	150690	 Have regard for the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence. 
19O	74	21	150700	 Let not the downtrodden turn back in shame; let the poor and needy praise your name. 
19O	74	22	150710	 Arise, O God, defend your cause; remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day! 
19O	74	23	150720	 Do not forget the clamor of your foes, the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually! 
19O	75	1	150730	 To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song. We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, for your name is near. We recount your wondrous deeds. 
19O	75	2	150740	 "At the set time that I appoint I will judge with equity. 
19O	75	3	150750	 When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars. Selah 
19O	75	4	150760	 I say to the boastful, 'Do not boast,' and to the wicked, 'Do not lift up your horn; 
19O	75	5	150770	 do not lift up your horn on high, or speak with haughty neck.'" 
19O	75	6	150780	 For not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up, 
19O	75	7	150790	 but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another. 
19O	75	8	150800	 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup with foaming wine, well mixed, and he pours out from it, and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs. 
19O	75	9	150810	 But I will declare it forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. 
19O	75	10	150820	 All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up. 
19O	76	1	150830	 To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song. In Judah God is known; his name is great in Israel. 
19O	76	2	150840	 His abode has been established in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion. 
19O	76	3	150850	 There he broke the flashing arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah 
19O	76	4	150860	 Glorious are you, more majestic than the mountains of prey. 
19O	76	5	150870	 The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; all the men of war were unable to use their hands. 
19O	76	6	150880	 At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both rider and horse lay stunned. 
19O	76	7	150890	 But you, you are to be feared! Who can stand before you when once your anger is roused? 
19O	76	8	150900	 From the heavens you uttered judgment; the earth feared and was still, 
19O	76	9	150910	 when God arose to establish judgment, to save all the humble of the earth. Selah 
19O	76	10	150920	 Surely the wrath of man shall praise you; the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt. 
19O	76	11	150930	 Make your vows to the LORD your God and perform them; let all around him bring gifts to him who is to be feared, 
19O	76	12	150940	 who cuts off the spirit of princes, who is to be feared by the kings of the earth. 
19O	77	1	150950	 To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph. I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, and he will hear me. 
19O	77	2	150960	 In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted. 
19O	77	3	150970	 When I remember God, I moan; when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah 
19O	77	4	150980	 You hold my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak. 
19O	77	5	150990	 I consider the days of old, the years long ago. 
19O	77	6	151000	 I said, "Let me remember my song in the night; let me meditate in my heart." Then my spirit made a diligent search: 
19O	77	7	151010	 "Will the Lord spurn forever, and never again be favorable? 
19O	77	8	151020	 Has his steadfast love forever ceased? Are his promises at an end for all time? 
19O	77	9	151030	 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his compassion?" Selah 
19O	77	10	151040	 Then I said, "I will appeal to this, to the years of the right hand of the Most High." 
19O	77	11	151050	 I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your wonders of old. 
19O	77	12	151060	 I will ponder all your work, and meditate on your mighty deeds. 
19O	77	13	151070	 Your way, O God, is holy. What god is great like our God? 
19O	77	14	151080	 You are the God who works wonders; you have made known your might among the peoples. 
19O	77	15	151090	 You with your arm redeemed your people, the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah 
19O	77	16	151100	 When the waters saw you, O God, when the waters saw you, they were afraid; indeed, the deep trembled. 
19O	77	17	151110	 The clouds poured out water; the skies gave forth thunder; your arrows flashed on every side. 
19O	77	18	151120	 The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind; your lightnings lighted up the world; the earth trembled and shook. 
19O	77	19	151130	 Your way was through the sea, your path through the great waters; yet your footprints were unseen. 
19O	77	20	151140	 You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. 
19O	78	1	151150	 A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth! 
19O	78	2	151160	 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old, 
19O	78	3	151170	 things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. 
19O	78	4	151180	 We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders that he has done. 
19O	78	5	151190	 He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, 
19O	78	6	151200	 that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, 
19O	78	7	151210	 so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments; 
19O	78	8	151220	 and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God. 
19O	78	9	151230	 The Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle. 
19O	78	10	151240	 They did not keep God's covenant, but refused to walk according to his law. 
19O	78	11	151250	 They forgot his works and the wonders that he had shown them. 
19O	78	12	151260	 In the sight of their fathers he performed wonders in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan. 
19O	78	13	151270	 He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap. 
19O	78	14	151280	 In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a fiery light. 
19O	78	15	151290	 He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep. 
19O	78	16	151300	 He made streams come out of the rock and caused waters to flow down like rivers. 
19O	78	17	151310	 Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert. 
19O	78	18	151320	 They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved. 
19O	78	19	151330	 They spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table in the wilderness? 
19O	78	20	151340	 He struck the rock so that water gushed out and streams overflowed. Can he also give bread or provide meat for his people?" 
19O	78	21	151350	 Therefore, when the LORD heard, he was full of wrath; a fire was kindled against Jacob; his anger rose against Israel, 
19O	78	22	151360	 because they did not believe in God and did not trust his saving power. 
19O	78	23	151370	 Yet he commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven, 
19O	78	24	151380	 and he rained down on them manna to eat and gave them the grain of heaven. 
19O	78	25	151390	 Man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance. 
19O	78	26	151400	 He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens, and by his power he led out the south wind; 
19O	78	27	151410	 he rained meat on them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas; 
19O	78	28	151420	 he let them fall in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings. 
19O	78	29	151430	 And they ate and were well filled, for he gave them what they craved. 
19O	78	30	151440	 But before they had satisfied their craving, while the food was still in their mouths, 
19O	78	31	151450	 the anger of God rose against them, and he killed the strongest of them and laid low the young men of Israel. 
19O	78	32	151460	 In spite of all this, they still sinned; despite his wonders, they did not believe. 
19O	78	33	151470	 So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror. 
19O	78	34	151480	 When he killed them, they sought him; they repented and sought God earnestly. 
19O	78	35	151490	 They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer. 
19O	78	36	151500	 But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues. 
19O	78	37	151510	 Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not faithful to his covenant. 
19O	78	38	151520	 Yet he, being compassionate, atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often and did not stir up all his wrath. 
19O	78	39	151530	 He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again. 
19O	78	40	151540	 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert! 
19O	78	41	151550	 They tested God again and again and provoked the Holy One of Israel. 
19O	78	42	151560	 They did not remember his power or the day when he redeemed them from the foe, 
19O	78	43	151570	 when he performed his signs in Egypt and his marvels in the fields of Zoan. 
19O	78	44	151580	 He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams. 
19O	78	45	151590	 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them. 
19O	78	46	151600	 He gave their crops to the destroying locust and the fruit of their labor to the locust. 
19O	78	47	151610	 He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamores with frost. 
19O	78	48	151620	 He gave over their cattle to the hail and their flocks to thunderbolts. 
19O	78	49	151630	 He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels. 
19O	78	50	151640	 He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague. 
19O	78	51	151650	 He struck down every firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham. 
19O	78	52	151660	 Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 
19O	78	53	151670	 He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. 
19O	78	54	151680	 And he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had won. 
19O	78	55	151690	 He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents. 
19O	78	56	151700	 Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God and did not keep his testimonies, 
19O	78	57	151710	 but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow. 
19O	78	58	151720	 For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols. 
19O	78	59	151730	 When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel. 
19O	78	60	151740	 He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among mankind, 
19O	78	61	151750	 and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe. 
19O	78	62	151760	 He gave his people over to the sword and vented his wrath on his heritage. 
19O	78	63	151770	 Fire devoured their young men, and their young women had no marriage song. 
19O	78	64	151780	 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation. 
19O	78	65	151790	 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine. 
19O	78	66	151800	 And he put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting shame. 
19O	78	67	151810	 He rejected the tent of Joseph; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim, 
19O	78	68	151820	 but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves. 
19O	78	69	151830	 He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever. 
19O	78	70	151840	 He chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds; 
19O	78	71	151850	 from following the nursing ewes he brought him to shepherd Jacob his people, Israel his inheritance. 
19O	78	72	151860	 With upright heart he shepherded them and guided them with his skillful hand. 
19O	79	1	151870	 A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins. 
19O	79	2	151880	 They have given the bodies of your servants to the birds of the heavens for food, the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth. 
19O	79	3	151890	 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them. 
19O	79	4	151900	 We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us. 
19O	79	5	151910	 How long, O LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire? 
19O	79	6	151920	 Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call upon your name! 
19O	79	7	151930	 For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his habitation. 
19O	79	8	151940	 Do not remember against us our former iniquities; let your compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low. 
19O	79	9	151950	 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; deliver us, and atone for our sins, for your name's sake! 
19O	79	10	151960	 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes! 
19O	79	11	151970	 Let the groans of the prisoners come before you; according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die! 
19O	79	12	151980	 Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord! 
19O	79	13	151990	 But we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise. 
19O	80	1	152000	 To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony. Of Asaph, a Psalm. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock! You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth. 
19O	80	2	152010	 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might and come to save us! 
19O	80	3	152020	 Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved! 
19O	80	4	152030	 O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people's prayers? 
19O	80	5	152040	 You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure. 
19O	80	6	152050	 You make us an object of contention for our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves. 
19O	80	7	152060	 Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! 
19O	80	8	152070	 You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it. 
19O	80	9	152080	 You cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land. 
19O	80	10	152090	 The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches. 
19O	80	11	152100	 It sent out its branches to the sea and its shoots to the River. 
19O	80	12	152110	 Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit? 
19O	80	13	152120	 The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it. 
19O	80	14	152130	 Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine, 
19O	80	15	152140	 the stock that your right hand planted, and for the son whom you made strong for yourself. 
19O	80	16	152150	 They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your face! 
19O	80	17	152160	 But let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself! 
19O	80	18	152170	 Then we shall not turn back from you; give us life, and we will call upon your name! 
19O	80	19	152180	 Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved! 
19O	81	1	152190	 To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. Of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob! 
19O	81	2	152200	 Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp. 
19O	81	3	152210	 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. 
19O	81	4	152220	 For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob. 
19O	81	5	152230	 He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known: 
19O	81	6	152240	 "I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket. 
19O	81	7	152250	 In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah 
19O	81	8	152260	 Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me! 
19O	81	9	152270	 There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god. 
19O	81	10	152280	 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. 
19O	81	11	152290	 "But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me. 
19O	81	12	152300	 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels. 
19O	81	13	152310	 Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! 
19O	81	14	152320	 I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes. 
19O	81	15	152330	 Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever. 
19O	81	16	152340	 But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you." 
19O	82	1	152350	 A Psalm of Asaph. God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: 
19O	82	2	152360	 "How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah 
19O	82	3	152370	 Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. 
19O	82	4	152380	 Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked." 
19O	82	5	152390	 They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. 
19O	82	6	152400	 I said, "You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; 
19O	82	7	152410	 nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince." 
19O	82	8	152420	 Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations! 
19O	83	1	152430	 A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God! 
19O	83	2	152440	 For behold, your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have raised their heads. 
19O	83	3	152450	 They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones. 
19O	83	4	152460	 They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!" 
19O	83	5	152470	 For they conspire with one accord; against you they make a covenant-- 
19O	83	6	152480	 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites, 
19O	83	7	152490	 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; 
19O	83	8	152500	 Asshur also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah 
19O	83	9	152510	 Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon, 
19O	83	10	152520	 who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground. 
19O	83	11	152530	 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, 
19O	83	12	152540	 who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God." 
19O	83	13	152550	 O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind. 
19O	83	14	152560	 As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze, 
19O	83	15	152570	 so may you pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your hurricane! 
19O	83	16	152580	 Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O LORD. 
19O	83	17	152590	 Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever; let them perish in disgrace, 
19O	83	18	152600	 that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth. 
19O	84	1	152610	 To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts! 
19O	84	2	152620	 My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God. 
19O	84	3	152630	 Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God. 
19O	84	4	152640	 Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise! Selah 
19O	84	5	152650	 Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion. 
19O	84	6	152660	 As they go through the Valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools. 
19O	84	7	152670	 They go from strength to strength; each one appears before God in Zion. 
19O	84	8	152680	 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah 
19O	84	9	152690	 Behold our shield, O God; look on the face of your anointed! 
19O	84	10	152700	 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness. 
19O	84	11	152710	 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly. 
19O	84	12	152720	 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the one who trusts in you! 
19O	85	1	152730	 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. LORD, you were favorable to your land; you restored the fortunes of Jacob. 
19O	85	2	152740	 You forgave the iniquity of your people; you covered all their sin. Selah 
19O	85	3	152750	 You withdrew all your wrath; you turned from your hot anger. 
19O	85	4	152760	 Restore us again, O God of our salvation, and put away your indignation toward us! 
19O	85	5	152770	 Will you be angry with us forever? Will you prolong your anger to all generations? 
19O	85	6	152780	 Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you? 
19O	85	7	152790	 Show us your steadfast love, O LORD, and grant us your salvation. 
19O	85	8	152800	 Let me hear what God the LORD will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly. 
19O	85	9	152810	 Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land. 
19O	85	10	152820	 Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other. 
19O	85	11	152830	 Faithfulness springs up from the ground, and righteousness looks down from the sky. 
19O	85	12	152840	 Yes, the LORD will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase. 
19O	85	13	152850	 Righteousness will go before him and make his footsteps a way. 
19O	86	1	152860	 A Prayer of David. Incline your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. 
19O	86	2	152870	 Preserve my life, for I am godly; save your servant, who trusts in you--you are my God. 
19O	86	3	152880	 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for to you do I cry all the day. 
19O	86	4	152890	 Gladden the soul of your servant, for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. 
19O	86	5	152900	 For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you. 
19O	86	6	152910	 Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer; listen to my plea for grace. 
19O	86	7	152920	 In the day of my trouble I call upon you, for you answer me. 
19O	86	8	152930	 There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours. 
19O	86	9	152940	 All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name. 
19O	86	10	152950	 For you are great and do wondrous things; you alone are God. 
19O	86	11	152960	 Teach me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name. 
19O	86	12	152970	 I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever. 
19O	86	13	152980	 For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol. 
19O	86	14	152990	 O God, insolent men have risen up against me; a band of ruthless men seeks my life, and they do not set you before them. 
19O	86	15	153000	 But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. 
19O	86	16	153010	 Turn to me and be gracious to me; give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your maidservant. 
19O	86	17	153020	 Show me a sign of your favor, that those who hate me may see and be put to shame because you, LORD, have helped me and comforted me. 
19O	87	1	153030	 A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. A Song. On the holy mount stands the city he founded; 
19O	87	2	153040	 the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob. 
19O	87	3	153050	 Glorious things of you are spoken, O city of God. Selah 
19O	87	4	153060	 Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Cush-- "This one was born there," they say. 
19O	87	5	153070	 And of Zion it shall be said, "This one and that one were born in her"; for the Most High himself will establish her. 
19O	87	6	153080	 The LORD records as he registers the peoples, "This one was born there." Selah 
19O	87	7	153090	 Singers and dancers alike say, "All my springs are in you." 
19O	88	1	153100	 A Song. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, God of my salvation; I cry out day and night before you. 
19O	88	2	153110	 Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry! 
19O	88	3	153120	 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. 
19O	88	4	153130	 I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength, 
19O	88	5	153140	 like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand. 
19O	88	6	153150	 You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep. 
19O	88	7	153160	 Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. Selah 
19O	88	8	153170	 You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape; 
19O	88	9	153180	 my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon you, O LORD; I spread out my hands to you. 
19O	88	10	153190	 Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah 
19O	88	11	153200	 Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon? 
19O	88	12	153210	 Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 
19O	88	13	153220	 But I, O LORD, cry to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you. 
19O	88	14	153230	 O LORD, why do you cast my soul away? Why do you hide your face from me? 
19O	88	15	153240	 Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless. 
19O	88	16	153250	 Your wrath has swept over me; your dreadful assaults destroy me. 
19O	88	17	153260	 They surround me like a flood all day long; they close in on me together. 
19O	88	18	153270	 You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness. 
19O	89	1	153280	 A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the steadfast love of the LORD, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. 
19O	89	2	153290	 For I said, "Steadfast love will be built up forever; in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness." 
19O	89	3	153300	 You have said, "I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to David my servant: 
19O	89	4	153310	 'I will establish your offspring forever, and build your throne for all generations.'" Selah 
19O	89	5	153320	 Let the heavens praise your wonders, O LORD, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones! 
19O	89	6	153330	 For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD, 
19O	89	7	153340	 a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him? 
19O	89	8	153350	 O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, O LORD, with your faithfulness all around you? 
19O	89	9	153360	 You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them. 
19O	89	10	153370	 You crushed Rahab like a carcass; you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm. 
19O	89	11	153380	 The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours; the world and all that is in it, you have founded them. 
19O	89	12	153390	 The north and the south, you have created them; Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name. 
19O	89	13	153400	 You have a mighty arm; strong is your hand, high your right hand. 
19O	89	14	153410	 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you. 
19O	89	15	153420	 Blessed are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O LORD, in the light of your face, 
19O	89	16	153430	 who exult in your name all the day and in your righteousness are exalted. 
19O	89	17	153440	 For you are the glory of their strength; by your favor our horn is exalted. 
19O	89	18	153450	 For our shield belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel. 
19O	89	19	153460	 Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one, and said: "I have granted help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people. 
19O	89	20	153470	 I have found David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him, 
19O	89	21	153480	 so that my hand shall be established with him; my arm also shall strengthen him. 
19O	89	22	153490	 The enemy shall not outwit him; the wicked shall not humble him. 
19O	89	23	153500	 I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him. 
19O	89	24	153510	 My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted. 
19O	89	25	153520	 I will set his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers. 
19O	89	26	153530	 He shall cry to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.' 
19O	89	27	153540	 And I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. 
19O	89	28	153550	 My steadfast love I will keep for him forever, and my covenant will stand firm for him. 
19O	89	29	153560	 I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens. 
19O	89	30	153570	 If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my rules, 
19O	89	31	153580	 if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments, 
19O	89	32	153590	 then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes, 
19O	89	33	153600	 but I will not remove from him my steadfast love or be false to my faithfulness. 
19O	89	34	153610	 I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips. 
19O	89	35	153620	 Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David. 
19O	89	36	153630	 His offspring shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before me. 
19O	89	37	153640	 Like the moon it shall be established forever, a faithful witness in the skies." Selah 
19O	89	38	153650	 But now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. 
19O	89	39	153660	 You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. 
19O	89	40	153670	 You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. 
19O	89	41	153680	 All who pass by plunder him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors. 
19O	89	42	153690	 You have exalted the right hand of his foes; you have made all his enemies rejoice. 
19O	89	43	153700	 You have also turned back the edge of his sword, and you have not made him stand in battle. 
19O	89	44	153710	 You have made his splendor to cease and cast his throne to the ground. 
19O	89	45	153720	 You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame. Selah 
19O	89	46	153730	 How long, O LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire? 
19O	89	47	153740	 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man! 
19O	89	48	153750	 What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah 
19O	89	49	153760	 Lord, where is your steadfast love of old, which by your faithfulness you swore to David? 
19O	89	50	153770	 Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked, and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations, 
19O	89	51	153780	 with which your enemies mock, O LORD, with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed. 
19O	89	52	153790	 Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and Amen. 
19O	90	1	153800	 A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. 
19O	90	2	153810	 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. 
19O	90	3	153820	 You return man to dust and say, "Return, O children of man!" 
19O	90	4	153830	 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night. 
19O	90	5	153840	 You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning: 
19O	90	6	153850	 in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers. 
19O	90	7	153860	 For we are brought to an end by your anger; by your wrath we are dismayed. 
19O	90	8	153870	 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 
19O	90	9	153880	 For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh. 
19O	90	10	153890	 The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away. 
19O	90	11	153900	 Who considers the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear of you? 
19O	90	12	153910	 So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. 
19O	90	13	153920	 Return, O LORD! How long? Have pity on your servants! 
19O	90	14	153930	 Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 
19O	90	15	153940	 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen evil. 
19O	90	16	153950	 Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children. 
19O	90	17	153960	 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands! 
19O	91	1	153970	 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. 
19O	91	2	153980	 I will say to the LORD, "My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust." 
19O	91	3	153990	 For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. 
19O	91	4	154000	 He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. 
19O	91	5	154010	 You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, 
19O	91	6	154020	 nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday. 
19O	91	7	154030	 A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. 
19O	91	8	154040	 You will only look with your eyes and see the recompense of the wicked. 
19O	91	9	154050	 Because you have made the LORD your dwelling place-- the Most High, who is my refuge-- 
19O	91	10	154060	 no evil shall be allowed to befall you, no plague come near your tent. 
19O	91	11	154070	 For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. 
19O	91	12	154080	 On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone. 
19O	91	13	154090	 You will tread on the lion and the adder; the young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot. 
19O	91	14	154100	 "Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name. 
19O	91	15	154110	 When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him. 
19O	91	16	154120	 With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation." 
19O	92	1	154130	 A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath. It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name, O Most High; 
19O	92	2	154140	 to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night, 
19O	92	3	154150	 to the music of the lute and the harp, to the melody of the lyre. 
19O	92	4	154160	 For you, O LORD, have made me glad by your work; at the works of your hands I sing for joy. 
19O	92	5	154170	 How great are your works, O LORD! Your thoughts are very deep! 
19O	92	6	154180	 The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this: 
19O	92	7	154190	 that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever; 
19O	92	8	154200	 but you, O LORD, are on high forever. 
19O	92	9	154210	 For behold, your enemies, O LORD, for behold, your enemies shall perish; all evildoers shall be scattered. 
19O	92	10	154220	 But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox; you have poured over me fresh oil. 
19O	92	11	154230	 My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies; my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants. 
19O	92	12	154240	 The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 
19O	92	13	154250	 They are planted in the house of the LORD; they flourish in the courts of our God. 
19O	92	14	154260	 They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green, 
19O	92	15	154270	 to declare that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. 
19O	93	1	154280	 The LORD reigns; he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed; he has put on strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved. 
19O	93	2	154290	 Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting. 
19O	93	3	154300	 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring. 
19O	93	4	154310	 Mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, the LORD on high is mighty! 
19O	93	5	154320	 Your decrees are very trustworthy; holiness befits your house, O LORD, forevermore. 
19O	94	1	154330	 O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth! 
19O	94	2	154340	 Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve! 
19O	94	3	154350	 O LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult? 
19O	94	4	154360	 They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast. 
19O	94	5	154370	 They crush your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage. 
19O	94	6	154380	 They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless; 
19O	94	7	154390	 and they say, "The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive." 
19O	94	8	154400	 Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise? 
19O	94	9	154410	 He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see? 
19O	94	10	154420	 He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge-- 
19O	94	11	154430	 the LORD--knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath. 
19O	94	12	154440	 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O LORD, and whom you teach out of your law, 
19O	94	13	154450	 to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked. 
19O	94	14	154460	 For the LORD will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage; 
19O	94	15	154470	 for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it. 
19O	94	16	154480	 Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers? 
19O	94	17	154490	 If the LORD had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence. 
19O	94	18	154500	 When I thought, "My foot slips," your steadfast love, O LORD, held me up. 
19O	94	19	154510	 When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul. 
19O	94	20	154520	 Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who frame injustice by statute? 
19O	94	21	154530	 They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death. 
19O	94	22	154540	 But the LORD has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge. 
19O	94	23	154550	 He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the LORD our God will wipe them out. 
19O	95	1	154560	 Oh come, let us sing to the LORD; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! 
19O	95	2	154570	 Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise! 
19O	95	3	154580	 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods. 
19O	95	4	154590	 In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also. 
19O	95	5	154600	 The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. 
19O	95	6	154610	 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker! 
19O	95	7	154620	 For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice, 
19O	95	8	154630	 do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness, 
19O	95	9	154640	 when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work. 
19O	95	10	154650	 For forty years I loathed that generation and said, "They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways." 
19O	95	11	154660	 Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They shall not enter my rest." 
19O	96	1	154670	 Oh sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth! 
19O	96	2	154680	 Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day. 
19O	96	3	154690	 Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples! 
19O	96	4	154700	 For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods. 
19O	96	5	154710	 For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the LORD made the heavens. 
19O	96	6	154720	 Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. 
19O	96	7	154730	 Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength! 
19O	96	8	154740	 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come into his courts! 
19O	96	9	154750	 Worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness; tremble before him, all the earth! 
19O	96	10	154760	 Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity." 
19O	96	11	154770	 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it; 
19O	96	12	154780	 let the field exult, and everything in it! Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy 
19O	96	13	154790	 before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness. 
19O	97	1	154800	 The LORD reigns, let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad! 
19O	97	2	154810	 Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. 
19O	97	3	154820	 Fire goes before him and burns up his adversaries all around. 
19O	97	4	154830	 His lightnings light up the world; the earth sees and trembles. 
19O	97	5	154840	 The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth. 
19O	97	6	154850	 The heavens proclaim his righteousness, and all the peoples see his glory. 
19O	97	7	154860	 All worshipers of images are put to shame, who make their boast in worthless idols; worship him, all you gods! 
19O	97	8	154870	 Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of your judgments, O LORD. 
19O	97	9	154880	 For you, O LORD, are most high over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods. 
19O	97	10	154890	 O you who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked. 
19O	97	11	154900	 Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart. 
19O	97	12	154910	 Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous, and give thanks to his holy name! 
19O	98	1	154920	 A Psalm. Oh sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him. 
19O	98	2	154930	 The LORD has made known his salvation; he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations. 
19O	98	3	154940	 He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. 
19O	98	4	154950	 Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth; break forth into joyous song and sing praises! 
19O	98	5	154960	 Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of melody! 
19O	98	6	154970	 With trumpets and the sound of the horn make a joyful noise before the King, the LORD! 
19O	98	7	154980	 Let the sea roar, and all that fills it; the world and those who dwell in it! 
19O	98	8	154990	 Let the rivers clap their hands; let the hills sing for joy together 
19O	98	9	155000	 before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity. 
19O	99	1	155010	 The LORD reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake! 
19O	99	2	155020	 The LORD is great in Zion; he is exalted over all the peoples. 
19O	99	3	155030	 Let them praise your great and awesome name! Holy is he! 
19O	99	4	155040	 The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob. 
19O	99	5	155050	 Exalt the LORD our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he! 
19O	99	6	155060	 Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel also was among those who called upon his name. They called to the LORD, and he answered them. 
19O	99	7	155070	 In the pillar of the cloud he spoke to them; they kept his testimonies and the statute that he gave them. 
19O	99	8	155080	 O LORD our God, you answered them; you were a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrongdoings. 
19O	99	9	155090	 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for the LORD our God is holy! 
19O	100	1	155100	 A Psalm for giving thanks. Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth! 
19O	100	2	155110	 Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! 
19O	100	3	155120	 Know that the LORD, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 
19O	100	4	155130	 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! 
19O	100	5	155140	 For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations. 
19O	101	1	155150	 A Psalm of David. I will sing of steadfast love and justice; to you, O LORD, I will make music. 
19O	101	2	155160	 I will ponder the way that is blameless. Oh when will you come to me? I will walk with integrity of heart within my house; 
19O	101	3	155170	 I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me. 
19O	101	4	155180	 A perverse heart shall be far from me; I will know nothing of evil. 
19O	101	5	155190	 Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure. 
19O	101	6	155200	 I will look with favor on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the way that is blameless shall minister to me. 
19O	101	7	155210	 No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes. 
19O	101	8	155220	 Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land, cutting off all the evildoers from the city of the LORD. 
19O	102	1	155230	 A Prayer of one afflicted, when he is faint and pours out his complaint before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry come to you! 
19O	102	2	155240	 Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress! Incline your ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call! 
19O	102	3	155250	 For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace. 
19O	102	4	155260	 My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread. 
19O	102	5	155270	 Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my flesh. 
19O	102	6	155280	 I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places; 
19O	102	7	155290	 I lie awake; I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop. 
19O	102	8	155300	 All the day my enemies taunt me; those who deride me use my name for a curse. 
19O	102	9	155310	 For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink, 
19O	102	10	155320	 because of your indignation and anger; for you have taken me up and thrown me down. 
19O	102	11	155330	 My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass. 
19O	102	12	155340	 But you, O LORD, are enthroned forever; you are remembered throughout all generations. 
19O	102	13	155350	 You will arise and have pity on Zion; it is the time to favor her; the appointed time has come. 
19O	102	14	155360	 For your servants hold her stones dear and have pity on her dust. 
19O	102	15	155370	 Nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory. 
19O	102	16	155380	 For the LORD builds up Zion; he appears in his glory; 
19O	102	17	155390	 he regards the prayer of the destitute and does not despise their prayer. 
19O	102	18	155400	 Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet to be created may praise the LORD: 
19O	102	19	155410	 that he looked down from his holy height; from heaven the LORD looked at the earth, 
19O	102	20	155420	 to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die, 
19O	102	21	155430	 that they may declare in Zion the name of the LORD, and in Jerusalem his praise, 
19O	102	22	155440	 when peoples gather together, and kingdoms, to worship the LORD. 
19O	102	23	155450	 He has broken my strength in midcourse; he has shortened my days. 
19O	102	24	155460	 "O my God," I say, "take me not away in the midst of my days-- you whose years endure throughout all generations!" 
19O	102	25	155470	 Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. 
19O	102	26	155480	 They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away, 
19O	102	27	155490	 but you are the same, and your years have no end. 
19O	102	28	155500	 The children of your servants shall dwell secure; their offspring shall be established before you. 
19O	103	1	155510	 Of David. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! 
19O	103	2	155520	 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, 
19O	103	3	155530	 who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, 
19O	103	4	155540	 who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, 
19O	103	5	155550	 who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. 
19O	103	6	155560	 The LORD works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed. 
19O	103	7	155570	 He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the people of Israel. 
19O	103	8	155580	 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. 
19O	103	9	155590	 He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever. 
19O	103	10	155600	 He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. 
19O	103	11	155610	 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; 
19O	103	12	155620	 as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. 
19O	103	13	155630	 As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him. 
19O	103	14	155640	 For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust. 
19O	103	15	155650	 As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; 
19O	103	16	155660	 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more. 
19O	103	17	155670	 But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children, 
19O	103	18	155680	 to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments. 
19O	103	19	155690	 The LORD has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all. 
19O	103	20	155700	 Bless the LORD, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, obeying the voice of his word! 
19O	103	21	155710	 Bless the LORD, all his hosts, his ministers, who do his will! 
19O	103	22	155720	 Bless the LORD, all his works, in all places of his dominion. Bless the LORD, O my soul! 
19O	104	1	155730	 Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty, 
19O	104	2	155740	 covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent. 
19O	104	3	155750	 He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind; 
19O	104	4	155760	 he makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire. 
19O	104	5	155770	 He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. 
19O	104	6	155780	 You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. 
19O	104	7	155790	 At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they took to flight. 
19O	104	8	155800	 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them. 
19O	104	9	155810	 You set a boundary that they may not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth. 
19O	104	10	155820	 You make springs gush forth in the valleys; they flow between the hills; 
19O	104	11	155830	 they give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst. 
19O	104	12	155840	 Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell; they sing among the branches. 
19O	104	13	155850	 From your lofty abode you water the mountains; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work. 
19O	104	14	155860	 You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth 
19O	104	15	155870	 and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man's heart. 
19O	104	16	155880	 The trees of the LORD are watered abundantly, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted. 
19O	104	17	155890	 In them the birds build their nests; the stork has her home in the fir trees. 
19O	104	18	155900	 The high mountains are for the wild goats; the rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers. 
19O	104	19	155910	 He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting. 
19O	104	20	155920	 You make darkness, and it is night, when all the beasts of the forest creep about. 
19O	104	21	155930	 The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God. 
19O	104	22	155940	 When the sun rises, they steal away and lie down in their dens. 
19O	104	23	155950	 Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening. 
19O	104	24	155960	 O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. 
19O	104	25	155970	 Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great. 
19O	104	26	155980	 There go the ships, and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it. 
19O	104	27	155990	 These all look to you, to give them their food in due season. 
19O	104	28	156000	 When you give it to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are filled with good things. 
19O	104	29	156010	 When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust. 
19O	104	30	156020	 When you send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground. 
19O	104	31	156030	 May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in his works, 
19O	104	32	156040	 who looks on the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke! 
19O	104	33	156050	 I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being. 
19O	104	34	156060	 May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the LORD. 
19O	104	35	156070	 Let sinners be consumed from the earth, and let the wicked be no more! Bless the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD! 
19O	105	1	156080	 Oh give thanks to the LORD; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples! 
19O	105	2	156090	 Sing to him, sing praises to him; tell of all his wondrous works! 
19O	105	3	156100	 Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice! 
19O	105	4	156110	 Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his presence continually! 
19O	105	5	156120	 Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered, 
19O	105	6	156130	 O offspring of Abraham, his servant, children of Jacob, his chosen ones! 
19O	105	7	156140	 He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth. 
19O	105	8	156150	 He remembers his covenant forever, the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations, 
19O	105	9	156160	 the covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac, 
19O	105	10	156170	 which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant, 
19O	105	11	156180	 saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan as your portion for an inheritance." 
19O	105	12	156190	 When they were few in number, of little account, and sojourners in it, 
19O	105	13	156200	 wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people, 
19O	105	14	156210	 he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their account, 
19O	105	15	156220	 saying, "Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!" 
19O	105	16	156230	 When he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread, 
19O	105	17	156240	 he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave. 
19O	105	18	156250	 His feet were hurt with fetters; his neck was put in a collar of iron; 
19O	105	19	156260	 until what he had said came to pass, the word of the LORD tested him. 
19O	105	20	156270	 The king sent and released him; the ruler of the peoples set him free; 
19O	105	21	156280	 he made him lord of his house and ruler of all his possessions, 
19O	105	22	156290	 to bind his princes at his pleasure and to teach his elders wisdom. 
19O	105	23	156300	 Then Israel came to Egypt; Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. 
19O	105	24	156310	 And the LORD made his people very fruitful and made them stronger than their foes. 
19O	105	25	156320	 He turned their hearts to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants. 
19O	105	26	156330	 He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen. 
19O	105	27	156340	 They performed his signs among them and miracles in the land of Ham. 
19O	105	28	156350	 He sent darkness, and made the land dark; they did not rebel against his words. 
19O	105	29	156360	 He turned their waters into blood and caused their fish to die. 
19O	105	30	156370	 Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the chambers of their kings. 
19O	105	31	156380	 He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country. 
19O	105	32	156390	 He gave them hail for rain, and fiery lightning bolts through their land. 
19O	105	33	156400	 He struck down their vines and fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country. 
19O	105	34	156410	 He spoke, and the locusts came, young locusts without number, 
19O	105	35	156420	 which devoured all the vegetation in their land and ate up the fruit of their ground. 
19O	105	36	156430	 He struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their strength. 
19O	105	37	156440	 Then he brought out Israel with silver and gold, and there was none among his tribes who stumbled. 
19O	105	38	156450	 Egypt was glad when they departed, for dread of them had fallen upon it. 
19O	105	39	156460	 He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light by night. 
19O	105	40	156470	 They asked, and he brought quail, and gave them bread from heaven in abundance. 
19O	105	41	156480	 He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed through the desert like a river. 
19O	105	42	156490	 For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham, his servant. 
19O	105	43	156500	 So he brought his people out with joy, his chosen ones with singing. 
19O	105	44	156510	 And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples' toil, 
19O	105	45	156520	 that they might keep his statutes and observe his laws. Praise the LORD! 
19O	106	1	156530	 Praise the LORD! Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever! 
19O	106	2	156540	 Who can utter the mighty deeds of the LORD, or declare all his praise? 
19O	106	3	156550	 Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times! 
19O	106	4	156560	 Remember me, O LORD, when you show favor to your people; help me when you save them, 
19O	106	5	156570	 that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance. 
19O	106	6	156580	 Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness. 
19O	106	7	156590	 Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wondrous works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea. 
19O	106	8	156600	 Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his mighty power. 
19O	106	9	156610	 He rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry, and he led them through the deep as through a desert. 
19O	106	10	156620	 So he saved them from the hand of the foe and redeemed them from the power of the enemy. 
19O	106	11	156630	 And the waters covered their adversaries; not one of them was left. 
19O	106	12	156640	 Then they believed his words; they sang his praise. 
19O	106	13	156650	 But they soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel. 
19O	106	14	156660	 But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the desert; 
19O	106	15	156670	 he gave them what they asked, but sent a wasting disease among them. 
19O	106	16	156680	 When men in the camp were jealous of Moses and Aaron, the holy one of the LORD, 
19O	106	17	156690	 the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. 
19O	106	18	156700	 Fire also broke out in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. 
19O	106	19	156710	 They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped a metal image. 
19O	106	20	156720	 They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass. 
19O	106	21	156730	 They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt, 
19O	106	22	156740	 wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea. 
19O	106	23	156750	 Therefore he said he would destroy them-- had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them. 
19O	106	24	156760	 Then they despised the pleasant land, having no faith in his promise. 
19O	106	25	156770	 They murmured in their tents, and did not obey the voice of the LORD. 
19O	106	26	156780	 Therefore he raised his hand and swore to them that he would make them fall in the wilderness, 
19O	106	27	156790	 and would make their offspring fall among the nations, scattering them among the lands. 
19O	106	28	156800	 Then they yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead; 
19O	106	29	156810	 they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them. 
19O	106	30	156820	 Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was stayed. 
19O	106	31	156830	 And that was counted to him as righteousness from generation to generation forever. 
19O	106	32	156840	 They angered him at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account, 
19O	106	33	156850	 for they made his spirit bitter, and he spoke rashly with his lips. 
19O	106	34	156860	 They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them, 
19O	106	35	156870	 but they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did. 
19O	106	36	156880	 They served their idols, which became a snare to them. 
19O	106	37	156890	 They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons; 
19O	106	38	156900	 they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood. 
19O	106	39	156910	 Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds. 
19O	106	40	156920	 Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against his people, and he abhorred his heritage; 
19O	106	41	156930	 he gave them into the hand of the nations, so that those who hated them ruled over them. 
19O	106	42	156940	 Their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their power. 
19O	106	43	156950	 Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their purposes and were brought low through their iniquity. 
19O	106	44	156960	 Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry. 
19O	106	45	156970	 For their sake he remembered his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love. 
19O	106	46	156980	 He caused them to be pitied by all those who held them captive. 
19O	106	47	156990	 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise. 
19O	106	48	157000	 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! And let all the people say, "Amen!" Praise the LORD! 
19O	107	1	157010	 Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever! 
19O	107	2	157020	 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from trouble 
19O	107	3	157030	 and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. 
19O	107	4	157040	 Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in; 
19O	107	5	157050	 hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them. 
19O	107	6	157060	 Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. 
19O	107	7	157070	 He led them by a straight way till they reached a city to dwell in. 
19O	107	8	157080	 Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man! 
19O	107	9	157090	 For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things. 
19O	107	10	157100	 Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons, 
19O	107	11	157110	 for they had rebelled against the words of God, and spurned the counsel of the Most High. 
19O	107	12	157120	 So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor; they fell down, with none to help. 
19O	107	13	157130	 Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. 
19O	107	14	157140	 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and burst their bonds apart. 
19O	107	15	157150	 Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man! 
19O	107	16	157160	 For he shatters the doors of bronze and cuts in two the bars of iron. 
19O	107	17	157170	 Some were fools through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction; 
19O	107	18	157180	 they loathed any kind of food, and they drew near to the gates of death. 
19O	107	19	157190	 Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. 
19O	107	20	157200	 He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction. 
19O	107	21	157210	 Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man! 
19O	107	22	157220	 And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of his deeds in songs of joy! 
19O	107	23	157230	 Some went down to the sea in ships, doing business on the great waters; 
19O	107	24	157240	 they saw the deeds of the LORD, his wondrous works in the deep. 
19O	107	25	157250	 For he commanded and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea. 
19O	107	26	157260	 They mounted up to heaven; they went down to the depths; their courage melted away in their evil plight; 
19O	107	27	157270	 they reeled and staggered like drunken men and were at their wits' end. 
19O	107	28	157280	 Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. 
19O	107	29	157290	 He made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed. 
19O	107	30	157300	 Then they were glad that the waters were quiet, and he brought them to their desired haven. 
19O	107	31	157310	 Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man! 
19O	107	32	157320	 Let them extol him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders. 
19O	107	33	157330	 He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into thirsty ground, 
19O	107	34	157340	 a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants. 
19O	107	35	157350	 He turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water. 
19O	107	36	157360	 And there he lets the hungry dwell, and they establish a city to live in; 
19O	107	37	157370	 they sow fields and plant vineyards and get a fruitful yield. 
19O	107	38	157380	 By his blessing they multiply greatly, and he does not let their livestock diminish. 
19O	107	39	157390	 When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, evil, and sorrow, 
19O	107	40	157400	 he pours contempt on princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes; 
19O	107	41	157410	 but he raises up the needy out of affliction and makes their families like flocks. 
19O	107	42	157420	 The upright see it and are glad, and all wickedness shuts its mouth. 
19O	107	43	157430	 Whoever is wise, let him attend to these things; let them consider the steadfast love of the LORD. 
19O	108	1	157440	 A Song. A Psalm of David. My heart is steadfast, O God! I will sing and make melody with all my being! 
19O	108	2	157450	 Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn! 
19O	108	3	157460	 I will give thanks to you, O LORD, among the peoples; I will sing praises to you among the nations. 
19O	108	4	157470	 For your steadfast love is great above the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. 
19O	108	5	157480	 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth! 
19O	108	6	157490	 That your beloved ones may be delivered, give salvation by your right hand and answer me! 
19O	108	7	157500	 God has promised in his holiness: "With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Valley of Succoth. 
19O	108	8	157510	 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet, Judah my scepter. 
19O	108	9	157520	 Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph." 
19O	108	10	157530	 Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom? 
19O	108	11	157540	 Have you not rejected us, O God? You do not go out, O God, with our armies. 
19O	108	12	157550	 Oh grant us help against the foe, for vain is the salvation of man! 
19O	108	13	157560	 With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes. 
19O	109	1	157570	 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Be not silent, O God of my praise! 
19O	109	2	157580	 For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues. 
19O	109	3	157590	 They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause. 
19O	109	4	157600	 In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer. 
19O	109	5	157610	 So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love. 
19O	109	6	157620	 Appoint a wicked man against him; let an accuser stand at his right hand. 
19O	109	7	157630	 When he is tried, let him come forth guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin! 
19O	109	8	157640	 May his days be few; may another take his office! 
19O	109	9	157650	 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow! 
19O	109	10	157660	 May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit! 
19O	109	11	157670	 May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil! 
19O	109	12	157680	 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children! 
19O	109	13	157690	 May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation! 
19O	109	14	157700	 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out! 
19O	109	15	157710	 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth! 
19O	109	16	157720	 For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted, to put them to death. 
19O	109	17	157730	 He loved to curse; let curses come upon him! He did not delight in blessing; may it be far from him! 
19O	109	18	157740	 He clothed himself with cursing as his coat; may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones! 
19O	109	19	157750	 May it be like a garment that he wraps around him, like a belt that he puts on every day! 
19O	109	20	157760	 May this be the reward of my accusers from the LORD, of those who speak evil against my life! 
19O	109	21	157770	 But you, O GOD my Lord, deal on my behalf for your name's sake; because your steadfast love is good, deliver me! 
19O	109	22	157780	 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me. 
19O	109	23	157790	 I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust. 
19O	109	24	157800	 My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt, with no fat. 
19O	109	25	157810	 I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they wag their heads. 
19O	109	26	157820	 Help me, O LORD my God! Save me according to your steadfast love! 
19O	109	27	157830	 Let them know that this is your hand; you, O LORD, have done it! 
19O	109	28	157840	 Let them curse, but you will bless! They arise and are put to shame, but your servant will be glad! 
19O	109	29	157850	 May my accusers be clothed with dishonor; may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a cloak! 
19O	109	30	157860	 With my mouth I will give great thanks to the LORD; I will praise him in the midst of the throng. 
19O	109	31	157870	 For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death. 
19O	110	1	157880	 A Psalm of David. The LORD says to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool." 
19O	110	2	157890	 The LORD sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your enemies! 
19O	110	3	157900	 Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power, in holy garments; from the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours. 
19O	110	4	157910	 The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind, "You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek." 
19O	110	5	157920	 The Lord is at your right hand; he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath. 
19O	110	6	157930	 He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth. 
19O	110	7	157940	 He will drink from the brook by the way; therefore he will lift up his head. 
19O	111	1	157950	 Praise the LORD! I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation. 
19O	111	2	157960	 Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all who delight in them. 
19O	111	3	157970	 Full of splendor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures forever. 
19O	111	4	157980	 He has caused his wondrous works to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and merciful. 
19O	111	5	157990	 He provides food for those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever. 
19O	111	6	158000	 He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the inheritance of the nations. 
19O	111	7	158010	 The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy; 
19O	111	8	158020	 they are established forever and ever, to be performed with faithfulness and uprightness. 
19O	111	9	158030	 He sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant forever. Holy and awesome is his name! 
19O	111	10	158040	 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever! 
19O	112	1	158050	 Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commandments! 
19O	112	2	158060	 His offspring will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed. 
19O	112	3	158070	 Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever. 
19O	112	4	158080	 Light dawns in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious, merciful, and righteous. 
19O	112	5	158090	 It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice. 
19O	112	6	158100	 For the righteous will never be moved; he will be remembered forever. 
19O	112	7	158110	 He is not afraid of bad news; his heart is firm, trusting in the LORD. 
19O	112	8	158120	 His heart is steady; he will not be afraid, until he looks in triumph on his adversaries. 
19O	112	9	158130	 He has distributed freely; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn is exalted in honor. 
19O	112	10	158140	 The wicked man sees it and is angry; he gnashes his teeth and melts away; the desire of the wicked will perish! 
19O	113	1	158150	 Praise the LORD! Praise, O servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD! 
19O	113	2	158160	 Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and forevermore! 
19O	113	3	158170	 From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the LORD is to be praised! 
19O	113	4	158180	 The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens! 
19O	113	5	158190	 Who is like the LORD our God, who is seated on high, 
19O	113	6	158200	 who looks far down on the heavens and the earth? 
19O	113	7	158210	 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap, 
19O	113	8	158220	 to make them sit with princes, with the princes of his people. 
19O	113	9	158230	 He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the LORD! 
19O	114	1	158240	 When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, 
19O	114	2	158250	 Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. 
19O	114	3	158260	 The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back. 
19O	114	4	158270	 The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. 
19O	114	5	158280	 What ails you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back? 
19O	114	6	158290	 O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs? 
19O	114	7	158300	 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, 
19O	114	8	158310	 who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water. 
19O	115	1	158320	 Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness! 
19O	115	2	158330	 Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" 
19O	115	3	158340	 Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases. 
19O	115	4	158350	 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. 
19O	115	5	158360	 They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see. 
19O	115	6	158370	 They have ears, but do not hear; noses, but do not smell. 
19O	115	7	158380	 They have hands, but do not feel; feet, but do not walk; and they do not make a sound in their throat. 
19O	115	8	158390	 Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them. 
19O	115	9	158400	 O Israel, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield. 
19O	115	10	158410	 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield. 
19O	115	11	158420	 You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield. 
19O	115	12	158430	 The LORD has remembered us; he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron; 
19O	115	13	158440	 he will bless those who fear the LORD, both the small and the great. 
19O	115	14	158450	 May the LORD give you increase, you and your children! 
19O	115	15	158460	 May you be blessed by the LORD, who made heaven and earth! 
19O	115	16	158470	 The heavens are the LORD's heavens, but the earth he has given to the children of man. 
19O	115	17	158480	 The dead do not praise the LORD, nor do any who go down into silence. 
19O	115	18	158490	 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and forevermore. Praise the LORD! 
19O	116	1	158500	 I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. 
19O	116	2	158510	 Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. 
19O	116	3	158520	 The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish. 
19O	116	4	158530	 Then I called on the name of the LORD: "O LORD, I pray, deliver my soul!" 
19O	116	5	158540	 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; our God is merciful. 
19O	116	6	158550	 The LORD preserves the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me. 
19O	116	7	158560	 Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you. 
19O	116	8	158570	 For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling; 
19O	116	9	158580	 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. 
19O	116	10	158590	 I believed, even when I spoke, "I am greatly afflicted"; 
19O	116	11	158600	 I said in my alarm, "All mankind are liars." 
19O	116	12	158610	 What shall I render to the LORD for all his benefits to me? 
19O	116	13	158620	 I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD, 
19O	116	14	158630	 I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people. 
19O	116	15	158640	 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. 
19O	116	16	158650	 O LORD, I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds. 
19O	116	17	158660	 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD. 
19O	116	18	158670	 I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people, 
19O	116	19	158680	 in the courts of the house of the LORD, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the LORD! 
19O	117	1	158690	 Praise the LORD, all nations! Extol him, all peoples! 
19O	117	2	158700	 For great is his steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD! 
19O	118	1	158710	 Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! 
19O	118	2	158720	 Let Israel say, "His steadfast love endures forever." 
19O	118	3	158730	 Let the house of Aaron say, "His steadfast love endures forever." 
19O	118	4	158740	 Let those who fear the LORD say, "His steadfast love endures forever." 
19O	118	5	158750	 Out of my distress I called on the LORD; the LORD answered me and set me free. 
19O	118	6	158760	 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me? 
19O	118	7	158770	 The LORD is on my side as my helper; I shall look in triumph on those who hate me. 
19O	118	8	158780	 It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man. 
19O	118	9	158790	 It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes. 
19O	118	10	158800	 All nations surrounded me; in the name of the LORD I cut them off! 
19O	118	11	158810	 They surrounded me, surrounded me on every side; in the name of the LORD I cut them off! 
19O	118	12	158820	 They surrounded me like bees; they went out like a fire among thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off! 
19O	118	13	158830	 I was pushed hard, so that I was falling, but the LORD helped me. 
19O	118	14	158840	 The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. 
19O	118	15	158850	 Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous: "The right hand of the LORD does valiantly, 
19O	118	16	158860	 the right hand of the LORD exalts, the right hand of the LORD does valiantly!" 
19O	118	17	158870	 I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the LORD. 
19O	118	18	158880	 The LORD has disciplined me severely, but he has not given me over to death. 
19O	118	19	158890	 Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the LORD. 
19O	118	20	158900	 This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous shall enter through it. 
19O	118	21	158910	 I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation. 
19O	118	22	158920	 The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. 
19O	118	23	158930	 This is the LORD's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. 
19O	118	24	158940	 This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. 
19O	118	25	158950	 Save us, we pray, O LORD! O LORD, we pray, give us success! 
19O	118	26	158960	 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD! We bless you from the house of the LORD. 
19O	118	27	158970	 The LORD is God, and he has made his light to shine upon us. Bind the festal sacrifice with cords, up to the horns of the altar! 
19O	118	28	158980	 You are my God, and I will give thanks to you; you are my God; I will extol you. 
19O	118	29	158990	 Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! 
19O	119	1	159000	 Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD! 
19O	119	2	159010	 Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, 
19O	119	3	159020	 who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! 
19O	119	4	159030	 You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. 
19O	119	5	159040	 Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! 
19O	119	6	159050	 Then I shall not be put to shame, having my eyes fixed on all your commandments. 
19O	119	7	159060	 I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules. 
19O	119	8	159070	 I will keep your statutes; do not utterly forsake me! 
19O	119	9	159080	 How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. 
19O	119	10	159090	 With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! 
19O	119	11	159100	 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. 
19O	119	12	159110	 Blessed are you, O LORD; teach me your statutes! 
19O	119	13	159120	 With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth. 
19O	119	14	159130	 In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches. 
19O	119	15	159140	 I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. 
19O	119	16	159150	 I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word. 
19O	119	17	159160	 Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and keep your word. 
19O	119	18	159170	 Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. 
19O	119	19	159180	 I am a sojourner on the earth; hide not your commandments from me! 
19O	119	20	159190	 My soul is consumed with longing for your rules at all times. 
19O	119	21	159200	 You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones, who wander from your commandments. 
19O	119	22	159210	 Take away from me scorn and contempt, for I have kept your testimonies. 
19O	119	23	159220	 Even though princes sit plotting against me, your servant will meditate on your statutes. 
19O	119	24	159230	 Your testimonies are my delight; they are my counselors. 
19O	119	25	159240	 My soul clings to the dust; give me life according to your word! 
19O	119	26	159250	 When I told of my ways, you answered me; teach me your statutes! 
19O	119	27	159260	 Make me understand the way of your precepts, and I will meditate on your wondrous works. 
19O	119	28	159270	 My soul melts away for sorrow; strengthen me according to your word! 
19O	119	29	159280	 Put false ways far from me and graciously teach me your law! 
19O	119	30	159290	 I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your rules before me. 
19O	119	31	159300	 I cling to your testimonies, O LORD; let me not be put to shame! 
19O	119	32	159310	 I will run in the way of your commandments when you enlarge my heart! 
19O	119	33	159320	 Teach me, O LORD, the way of your statutes; and I will keep it to the end. 
19O	119	34	159330	 Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart. 
19O	119	35	159340	 Lead me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in it. 
19O	119	36	159350	 Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain! 
19O	119	37	159360	 Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways. 
19O	119	38	159370	 Confirm to your servant your promise, that you may be feared. 
19O	119	39	159380	 Turn away the reproach that I dread, for your rules are good. 
19O	119	40	159390	 Behold, I long for your precepts; in your righteousness give me life! 
19O	119	41	159400	 Let your steadfast love come to me, O LORD, your salvation according to your promise; 
19O	119	42	159410	 then shall I have an answer for him who taunts me, for I trust in your word. 
19O	119	43	159420	 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in your rules. 
19O	119	44	159430	 I will keep your law continually, forever and ever, 
19O	119	45	159440	 and I shall walk in a wide place, for I have sought your precepts. 
19O	119	46	159450	 I will also speak of your testimonies before kings and shall not be put to shame, 
19O	119	47	159460	 for I find my delight in your commandments, which I love. 
19O	119	48	159470	 I will lift up my hands toward your commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes. 
19O	119	49	159480	 Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope. 
19O	119	50	159490	 This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life. 
19O	119	51	159500	 The insolent utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from your law. 
19O	119	52	159510	 When I think of your rules from of old, I take comfort, O LORD. 
19O	119	53	159520	 Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked, who forsake your law. 
19O	119	54	159530	 Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning. 
19O	119	55	159540	 I remember your name in the night, O LORD, and keep your law. 
19O	119	56	159550	 This blessing has fallen to me, that I have kept your precepts. 
19O	119	57	159560	 The LORD is my portion; I promise to keep your words. 
19O	119	58	159570	 I entreat your favor with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise. 
19O	119	59	159580	 When I think on my ways, I turn my feet to your testimonies; 
19O	119	60	159590	 I hasten and do not delay to keep your commandments. 
19O	119	61	159600	 Though the cords of the wicked ensnare me, I do not forget your law. 
19O	119	62	159610	 At midnight I rise to praise you, because of your righteous rules. 
19O	119	63	159620	 I am a companion of all who fear you, of those who keep your precepts. 
19O	119	64	159630	 The earth, O LORD, is full of your steadfast love; teach me your statutes! 
19O	119	65	159640	 You have dealt well with your servant, O LORD, according to your word. 
19O	119	66	159650	 Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments. 
19O	119	67	159660	 Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word. 
19O	119	68	159670	 You are good and do good; teach me your statutes. 
19O	119	69	159680	 The insolent smear me with lies, but with my whole heart I keep your precepts; 
19O	119	70	159690	 their heart is unfeeling like fat, but I delight in your law. 
19O	119	71	159700	 It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes. 
19O	119	72	159710	 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces. 
19O	119	73	159720	 Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments. 
19O	119	74	159730	 Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice, because I have hoped in your word. 
19O	119	75	159740	 I know, O LORD, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me. 
19O	119	76	159750	 Let your steadfast love comfort me according to your promise to your servant. 
19O	119	77	159760	 Let your mercy come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight. 
19O	119	78	159770	 Let the insolent be put to shame, because they have wronged me with falsehood; as for me, I will meditate on your precepts. 
19O	119	79	159780	 Let those who fear you turn to me, that they may know your testimonies. 
19O	119	80	159790	 May my heart be blameless in your statutes, that I may not be put to shame! 
19O	119	81	159800	 My soul longs for your salvation; I hope in your word. 
19O	119	82	159810	 My eyes long for your promise; I ask, "When will you comfort me?" 
19O	119	83	159820	 For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes. 
19O	119	84	159830	 How long must your servant endure? When will you judge those who persecute me? 
19O	119	85	159840	 The insolent have dug pitfalls for me; they do not live according to your law. 
19O	119	86	159850	 All your commandments are sure; they persecute me with falsehood; help me! 
19O	119	87	159860	 They have almost made an end of me on earth, but I have not forsaken your precepts. 
19O	119	88	159870	 In your steadfast love give me life, that I may keep the testimonies of your mouth. 
19O	119	89	159880	 Forever, O LORD, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens. 
19O	119	90	159890	 Your faithfulness endures to all generations; you have established the earth, and it stands fast. 
19O	119	91	159900	 By your appointment they stand this day, for all things are your servants. 
19O	119	92	159910	 If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction. 
19O	119	93	159920	 I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have given me life. 
19O	119	94	159930	 I am yours; save me, for I have sought your precepts. 
19O	119	95	159940	 The wicked lie in wait to destroy me, but I consider your testimonies. 
19O	119	96	159950	 I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commandment is exceedingly broad. 
19O	119	97	159960	 Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. 
19O	119	98	159970	 Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. 
19O	119	99	159980	 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. 
19O	119	100	159990	 I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts. 
19O	119	101	160000	 I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word. 
19O	119	102	160010	 I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me. 
19O	119	103	160020	 How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 
19O	119	104	160030	 Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. 
19O	119	105	160040	 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. 
19O	119	106	160050	 I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to keep your righteous rules. 
19O	119	107	160060	 I am severely afflicted; give me life, O LORD, according to your word! 
19O	119	108	160070	 Accept my freewill offerings of praise, O LORD, and teach me your rules. 
19O	119	109	160080	 I hold my life in my hand continually, but I do not forget your law. 
19O	119	110	160090	 The wicked have laid a snare for me, but I do not stray from your precepts. 
19O	119	111	160100	 Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart. 
19O	119	112	160110	 I incline my heart to perform your statutes forever, to the end. 
19O	119	113	160120	 I hate the double-minded, but I love your law. 
19O	119	114	160130	 You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in your word. 
19O	119	115	160140	 Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God. 
19O	119	116	160150	 Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live, and let me not be put to shame in my hope! 
19O	119	117	160160	 Hold me up, that I may be safe and have regard for your statutes continually! 
19O	119	118	160170	 You spurn all who go astray from your statutes, for their cunning is in vain. 
19O	119	119	160180	 All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross, therefore I love your testimonies. 
19O	119	120	160190	 My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments. 
19O	119	121	160200	 I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors. 
19O	119	122	160210	 Give your servant a pledge of good; let not the insolent oppress me. 
19O	119	123	160220	 My eyes long for your salvation and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise. 
19O	119	124	160230	 Deal with your servant according to your steadfast love, and teach me your statutes. 
19O	119	125	160240	 I am your servant; give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies! 
19O	119	126	160250	 It is time for the LORD to act, for your law has been broken. 
19O	119	127	160260	 Therefore I love your commandments above gold, above fine gold. 
19O	119	128	160270	 Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right; I hate every false way. 
19O	119	129	160280	 Your testimonies are wonderful; therefore my soul keeps them. 
19O	119	130	160290	 The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple. 
19O	119	131	160300	 I open my mouth and pant, because I long for your commandments. 
19O	119	132	160310	 Turn to me and be gracious to me, as is your way with those who love your name. 
19O	119	133	160320	 Keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me. 
19O	119	134	160330	 Redeem me from man's oppression, that I may keep your precepts. 
19O	119	135	160340	 Make your face shine upon your servant, and teach me your statutes. 
19O	119	136	160350	 My eyes shed streams of tears, because people do not keep your law. 
19O	119	137	160360	 Righteous are you, O LORD, and right are your rules. 
19O	119	138	160370	 You have appointed your testimonies in righteousness and in all faithfulness. 
19O	119	139	160380	 My zeal consumes me, because my foes forget your words. 
19O	119	140	160390	 Your promise is well tried, and your servant loves it. 
19O	119	141	160400	 I am small and despised, yet I do not forget your precepts. 
19O	119	142	160410	 Your righteousness is righteous forever, and your law is true. 
19O	119	143	160420	 Trouble and anguish have found me out, but your commandments are my delight. 
19O	119	144	160430	 Your testimonies are righteous forever; give me understanding that I may live. 
19O	119	145	160440	 With my whole heart I cry; answer me, O LORD! I will keep your statutes. 
19O	119	146	160450	 I call to you; save me, that I may observe your testimonies. 
19O	119	147	160460	 I rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in your words. 
19O	119	148	160470	 My eyes are awake before the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promise. 
19O	119	149	160480	 Hear my voice according to your steadfast love; O LORD, according to your justice give me life. 
19O	119	150	160490	 They draw near who persecute me with evil purpose; they are far from your law. 
19O	119	151	160500	 But you are near, O LORD, and all your commandments are true. 
19O	119	152	160510	 Long have I known from your testimonies that you have founded them forever. 
19O	119	153	160520	 Look on my affliction and deliver me, for I do not forget your law. 
19O	119	154	160530	 Plead my cause and redeem me; give me life according to your promise! 
19O	119	155	160540	 Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek your statutes. 
19O	119	156	160550	 Great is your mercy, O LORD; give me life according to your rules. 
19O	119	157	160560	 Many are my persecutors and my adversaries, but I do not swerve from your testimonies. 
19O	119	158	160570	 I look at the faithless with disgust, because they do not keep your commands. 
19O	119	159	160580	 Consider how I love your precepts! Give me life according to your steadfast love. 
19O	119	160	160590	 The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever. 
19O	119	161	160600	 Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words. 
19O	119	162	160610	 I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil. 
19O	119	163	160620	 I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love your law. 
19O	119	164	160630	 Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous rules. 
19O	119	165	160640	 Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble. 
19O	119	166	160650	 I hope for your salvation, O LORD, and I do your commandments. 
19O	119	167	160660	 My soul keeps your testimonies; I love them exceedingly. 
19O	119	168	160670	 I keep your precepts and testimonies, for all my ways are before you. 
19O	119	169	160680	 Let my cry come before you, O LORD; give me understanding according to your word! 
19O	119	170	160690	 Let my plea come before you; deliver me according to your word. 
19O	119	171	160700	 My lips will pour forth praise, for you teach me your statutes. 
19O	119	172	160710	 My tongue will sing of your word, for all your commandments are right. 
19O	119	173	160720	 Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts. 
19O	119	174	160730	 I long for your salvation, O LORD, and your law is my delight. 
19O	119	175	160740	 Let my soul live and praise you, and let your rules help me. 
19O	119	176	160750	 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments. 
19O	120	1	160760	 A Song of Ascents. In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me. 
19O	120	2	160770	 Deliver me, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. 
19O	120	3	160780	 What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done to you, you deceitful tongue? 
19O	120	4	160790	 A warrior's sharp arrows, with glowing coals of the broom tree! 
19O	120	5	160800	 Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar! 
19O	120	6	160810	 Too long have I had my dwelling among those who hate peace. 
19O	120	7	160820	 I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war! 
19O	121	1	160830	 A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? 
19O	121	2	160840	 My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. 
19O	121	3	160850	 He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. 
19O	121	4	160860	 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. 
19O	121	5	160870	 The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand. 
19O	121	6	160880	 The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. 
19O	121	7	160890	 The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. 
19O	121	8	160900	 The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore. 
19O	122	1	160910	 A Song of Ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, "Let us go to the house of the LORD!" 
19O	122	2	160920	 Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem! 
19O	122	3	160930	 Jerusalem--built as a city that is bound firmly together, 
19O	122	4	160940	 to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD. 
19O	122	5	160950	 There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David. 
19O	122	6	160960	 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! "May they be secure who love you! 
19O	122	7	160970	 Peace be within your walls and security within your towers!" 
19O	122	8	160980	 For my brothers and companions' sake I will say, "Peace be within you!" 
19O	122	9	160990	 For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good. 
19O	123	1	161000	 A Song of Ascents. To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens! 
19O	123	2	161010	 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till he has mercy upon us. 
19O	123	3	161020	 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we have had more than enough of contempt. 
19O	123	4	161030	 Our soul has had more than enough of the scorn of those who are at ease, of the contempt of the proud. 
19O	124	1	161040	 A Song of Ascents. Of David. If it had not been the LORD who was on our side-- let Israel now say-- 
19O	124	2	161050	 if it had not been the LORD who was on our side when people rose up against us, 
19O	124	3	161060	 then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us; 
19O	124	4	161070	 then the flood would have swept us away, the torrent would have gone over us; 
19O	124	5	161080	 then over us would have gone the raging waters. 
19O	124	6	161090	 Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth! 
19O	124	7	161100	 We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped! 
19O	124	8	161110	 Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. 
19O	125	1	161120	 A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever. 
19O	125	2	161130	 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people, from this time forth and forevermore. 
19O	125	3	161140	 For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous stretch out their hands to do wrong. 
19O	125	4	161150	 Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, and to those who are upright in their hearts! 
19O	125	5	161160	 But those who turn aside to their crooked ways the LORD will lead away with evildoers! Peace be upon Israel! 
19O	126	1	161170	 A Song of Ascents. When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. 
19O	126	2	161180	 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them." 
19O	126	3	161190	 The LORD has done great things for us; we are glad. 
19O	126	4	161200	 Restore our fortunes, O LORD, like streams in the Negeb! 
19O	126	5	161210	 Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy! 
19O	126	6	161220	 He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him. 
19O	127	1	161230	 A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. 
19O	127	2	161240	 It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep. 
19O	127	3	161250	 Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward. 
19O	127	4	161260	 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. 
19O	127	5	161270	 Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate. 
19O	128	1	161280	 A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways! 
19O	128	2	161290	 You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you. 
19O	128	3	161300	 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table. 
19O	128	4	161310	 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD. 
19O	128	5	161320	 The LORD bless you from Zion! May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life! 
19O	128	6	161330	 May you see your children's children! Peace be upon Israel! 
19O	129	1	161340	 A Song of Ascents. "Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth"-- let Israel now say-- 
19O	129	2	161350	 "Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me. 
19O	129	3	161360	 The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows." 
19O	129	4	161370	 The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked. 
19O	129	5	161380	 May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward! 
19O	129	6	161390	 Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up, 
19O	129	7	161400	 with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor the binder of sheaves his arms, 
19O	129	8	161410	 nor do those who pass by say, "The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!" 
19O	130	1	161420	 A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD! 
19O	130	2	161430	 O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy! 
19O	130	3	161440	 If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? 
19O	130	4	161450	 But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. 
19O	130	5	161460	 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; 
19O	130	6	161470	 my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning. 
19O	130	7	161480	 O Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption. 
19O	130	8	161490	 And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities. 
19O	131	1	161500	 A Song of Ascents. Of David. O LORD, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. 
19O	131	2	161510	 But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me. 
19O	131	3	161520	 O Israel, hope in the LORD from this time forth and forevermore. 
19O	132	1	161530	 A Song of Ascents. Remember, O LORD, in David's favor, all the hardships he endured, 
19O	132	2	161540	 how he swore to the LORD and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob, 
19O	132	3	161550	 "I will not enter my house or get into my bed, 
19O	132	4	161560	 I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids, 
19O	132	5	161570	 until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob." 
19O	132	6	161580	 Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah; we found it in the fields of Jaar. 
19O	132	7	161590	 "Let us go to his dwelling place; let us worship at his footstool!" 
19O	132	8	161600	 Arise, O LORD, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might. 
19O	132	9	161610	 Let your priests be clothed with righteousness, and let your saints shout for joy. 
19O	132	10	161620	 For the sake of your servant David, do not turn away the face of your anointed one. 
19O	132	11	161630	 The LORD swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back: "One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne. 
19O	132	12	161640	 If your sons keep my covenant and my testimonies that I shall teach them, their sons also forever shall sit on your throne." 
19O	132	13	161650	 For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his dwelling place: 
19O	132	14	161660	 "This is my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it. 
19O	132	15	161670	 I will abundantly bless her provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread. 
19O	132	16	161680	 Her priests I will clothe with salvation, and her saints will shout for joy. 
19O	132	17	161690	 There I will make a horn to sprout for David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed. 
19O	132	18	161700	 His enemies I will clothe with shame, but on him his crown will shine." 
19O	133	1	161710	 A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity! 
19O	133	2	161720	 It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes! 
19O	133	3	161730	 It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the LORD has commanded the blessing, life forevermore. 
19O	134	1	161740	 A Song of Ascents. Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the house of the LORD! 
19O	134	2	161750	 Lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the LORD! 
19O	134	3	161760	 May the LORD bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth! 
19O	135	1	161770	 Praise the LORD! Praise the name of the LORD, give praise, O servants of the LORD, 
19O	135	2	161780	 who stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God! 
19O	135	3	161790	 Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good; sing to his name, for it is pleasant! 
19O	135	4	161800	 For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his own possession. 
19O	135	5	161810	 For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods. 
19O	135	6	161820	 Whatever the LORD pleases, he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps. 
19O	135	7	161830	 He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses. 
19O	135	8	161840	 He it was who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and of beast; 
19O	135	9	161850	 who in your midst, O Egypt, sent signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants; 
19O	135	10	161860	 who struck down many nations and killed mighty kings, 
19O	135	11	161870	 Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan, 
19O	135	12	161880	 and gave their land as a heritage, a heritage to his people Israel. 
19O	135	13	161890	 Your name, O LORD, endures forever, your renown, O LORD, throughout all ages. 
19O	135	14	161900	 For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants. 
19O	135	15	161910	 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands. 
19O	135	16	161920	 They have mouths, but do not speak; they have eyes, but do not see; 
19O	135	17	161930	 they have ears, but do not hear, nor is there any breath in their mouths. 
19O	135	18	161940	 Those who make them become like them, so do all who trust in them! 
19O	135	19	161950	 O house of Israel, bless the LORD! O house of Aaron, bless the LORD! 
19O	135	20	161960	 O house of Levi, bless the LORD! You who fear the LORD, bless the LORD! 
19O	135	21	161970	 Blessed be the LORD from Zion, he who dwells in Jerusalem! Praise the LORD! 
19O	136	1	161980	 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever. 
19O	136	2	161990	 Give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever. 
19O	136	3	162000	 Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever; 
19O	136	4	162010	 to him who alone does great wonders, for his steadfast love endures forever; 
19O	136	5	162020	 to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures forever; 
19O	136	6	162030	 to him who spread out the earth above the waters, for his steadfast love endures forever; 
19O	136	7	162040	 to him who made the great lights, for his steadfast love endures forever; 
19O	136	8	162050	 the sun to rule over the day, for his steadfast love endures forever; 
19O	136	9	162060	 the moon and stars to rule over the night, for his steadfast love endures forever; 
19O	136	10	162070	 to him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, for his steadfast love endures forever; 
19O	136	11	162080	 and brought Israel out from among them, for his steadfast love endures forever; 
19O	136	12	162090	 with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for his steadfast love endures forever; 
19O	136	13	162100	 to him who divided the Red Sea in two, for his steadfast love endures forever; 
19O	136	14	162110	 and made Israel pass through the midst of it, for his steadfast love endures forever; 
19O	136	15	162120	 but overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea, for his steadfast love endures forever; 
19O	136	16	162130	 to him who led his people through the wilderness, for his steadfast love endures forever; 
19O	136	17	162140	 to him who struck down great kings, for his steadfast love endures forever; 
19O	136	18	162150	 and killed mighty kings, for his steadfast love endures forever; 
19O	136	19	162160	 Sihon, king of the Amorites, for his steadfast love endures forever; 
19O	136	20	162170	 and Og, king of Bashan, for his steadfast love endures forever; 
19O	136	21	162180	 and gave their land as a heritage, for his steadfast love endures forever; 
19O	136	22	162190	 a heritage to Israel his servant, for his steadfast love endures forever. 
19O	136	23	162200	 It is he who remembered us in our low estate, for his steadfast love endures forever; 
19O	136	24	162210	 and rescued us from our foes, for his steadfast love endures forever; 
19O	136	25	162220	 he who gives food to all flesh, for his steadfast love endures forever. 
19O	136	26	162230	 Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever. 
19O	137	1	162240	 By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. 
19O	137	2	162250	 On the willows there we hung up our lyres. 
19O	137	3	162260	 For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!" 
19O	137	4	162270	 How shall we sing the LORD's song in a foreign land? 
19O	137	5	162280	 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill! 
19O	137	6	162290	 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy! 
19O	137	7	162300	 Remember, O LORD, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, "Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations!" 
19O	137	8	162310	 O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us! 
19O	137	9	162320	 Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock! 
19O	138	1	162330	 Of David. I give you thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing your praise; 
19O	138	2	162340	 I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word. 
19O	138	3	162350	 On the day I called, you answered me; my strength of soul you increased. 
19O	138	4	162360	 All the kings of the earth shall give you thanks, O LORD, for they have heard the words of your mouth, 
19O	138	5	162370	 and they shall sing of the ways of the LORD, for great is the glory of the LORD. 
19O	138	6	162380	 For though the LORD is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar. 
19O	138	7	162390	 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me. 
19O	138	8	162400	 The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O LORD, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands. 
19O	139	1	162410	 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, you have searched me and known me! 
19O	139	2	162420	 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. 
19O	139	3	162430	 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 
19O	139	4	162440	 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. 
19O	139	5	162450	 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. 
19O	139	6	162460	 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. 
19O	139	7	162470	 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? 
19O	139	8	162480	 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! 
19O	139	9	162490	 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, 
19O	139	10	162500	 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. 
19O	139	11	162510	 If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night," 
19O	139	12	162520	 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. 
19O	139	13	162530	 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. 
19O	139	14	162540	 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 
19O	139	15	162550	 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 
19O	139	16	162560	 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. 
19O	139	17	162570	 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 
19O	139	18	162580	 If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you. 
19O	139	19	162590	 Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me! 
19O	139	20	162600	 They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain! 
19O	139	21	162610	 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? 
19O	139	22	162620	 I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies. 
19O	139	23	162630	 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! 
19O	139	24	162640	 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! 
19O	140	1	162650	 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O LORD, from evil men; preserve me from violent men, 
19O	140	2	162660	 who plan evil things in their heart and stir up wars continually. 
19O	140	3	162670	 They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah 
19O	140	4	162680	 Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from violent men, who have planned to trip up my feet. 
19O	140	5	162690	 The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net; beside the way they have set snares for me. Selah 
19O	140	6	162700	 I say to the LORD, You are my God; give ear to the voice of my pleas for mercy, O LORD! 
19O	140	7	162710	 O LORD, my Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle. 
19O	140	8	162720	 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; do not further their evil plot, or they will be exalted! Selah 
19O	140	9	162730	 As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their lips overwhelm them! 
19O	140	10	162740	 Let burning coals fall upon them! Let them be cast into fire, into miry pits, no more to rise! 
19O	140	11	162750	 Let not the slanderer be established in the land; let evil hunt down the violent man speedily! 
19O	140	12	162760	 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy. 
19O	140	13	162770	 Surely the righteous shall give thanks to your name; the upright shall dwell in your presence. 
19O	141	1	162780	 A Psalm of David. O LORD, I call upon you; hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to you! 
19O	141	2	162790	 Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice! 
19O	141	3	162800	 Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips! 
19O	141	4	162810	 Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies! 
19O	141	5	162820	 Let a righteous man strike me--it is a kindness; let him rebuke me--it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds. 
19O	141	6	162830	 When their judges are thrown over the cliff, then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant. 
19O	141	7	162840	 As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol. 
19O	141	8	162850	 But my eyes are toward you, O GOD, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless! 
19O	141	9	162860	 Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers! 
19O	141	10	162870	 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely. 
19O	142	1	162880	 A Maskil of David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer. With my voice I cry out to the LORD; with my voice I plead for mercy to the LORD. 
19O	142	2	162890	 I pour out my complaint before him; I tell my trouble before him. 
19O	142	3	162900	 When my spirit faints within me, you know my way! In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me. 
19O	142	4	162910	 Look to the right and see: there is none who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no one cares for my soul. 
19O	142	5	162920	 I cry to you, O LORD; I say, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living." 
19O	142	6	162930	 Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low! Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me! 
19O	142	7	162940	 Bring me out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name! The righteous will surround me, for you will deal bountifully with me. 
19O	143	1	162950	 A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O LORD; give ear to my pleas for mercy! In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness! 
19O	143	2	162960	 Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you. 
19O	143	3	162970	 For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead. 
19O	143	4	162980	 Therefore my spirit faints within me; my heart within me is appalled. 
19O	143	5	162990	 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands. 
19O	143	6	163000	 I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah 
19O	143	7	163010	 Answer me quickly, O LORD! My spirit fails! Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit. 
19O	143	8	163020	 Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. 
19O	143	9	163030	 Deliver me from my enemies, O LORD! I have fled to you for refuge! 
19O	143	10	163040	 Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground! 
19O	143	11	163050	 For your name's sake, O LORD, preserve my life! In your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble! 
19O	143	12	163060	 And in your steadfast love you will cut off my enemies, and you will destroy all the adversaries of my soul, for I am your servant. 
19O	144	1	163070	 Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; 
19O	144	2	163080	 he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. 
19O	144	3	163090	 O LORD, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him? 
19O	144	4	163100	 Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. 
19O	144	5	163110	 Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down! Touch the mountains so that they smoke! 
19O	144	6	163120	 Flash forth the lightning and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them! 
19O	144	7	163130	 Stretch out your hand from on high; rescue me and deliver me from the many waters, from the hand of foreigners, 
19O	144	8	163140	 whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. 
19O	144	9	163150	 I will sing a new song to you, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to you, 
19O	144	10	163160	 who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the cruel sword. 
19O	144	11	163170	 Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. 
19O	144	12	163180	 May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace; 
19O	144	13	163190	 may our granaries be full, providing all kinds of produce; may our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields; 
19O	144	14	163200	 may our cattle be heavy with young, suffering no mishap or failure in bearing; may there be no cry of distress in our streets! 
19O	144	15	163210	 Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall! Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD! 
19O	145	1	163220	 A Song of Praise. Of David. I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever. 
19O	145	2	163230	 Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever. 
19O	145	3	163240	 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable. 
19O	145	4	163250	 One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts. 
19O	145	5	163260	 On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate. 
19O	145	6	163270	 They shall speak of the might of your awesome deeds, and I will declare your greatness. 
19O	145	7	163280	 They shall pour forth the fame of your abundant goodness and shall sing aloud of your righteousness. 
19O	145	8	163290	 The LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. 
19O	145	9	163300	 The LORD is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made. 
19O	145	10	163310	 All your works shall give thanks to you, O LORD, and all your saints shall bless you! 
19O	145	11	163320	 They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom and tell of your power, 
19O	145	12	163330	 to make known to the children of man your mighty deeds, and the glorious splendor of your kingdom. 
19O	145	13	163340	 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations. (The LORD is faithful in all his words and kind in all his works.) 
19O	145	14	163350	 The LORD upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down. 
19O	145	15	163360	 The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season. 
19O	145	16	163370	 You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing. 
19O	145	17	163380	 The LORD is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works. 
19O	145	18	163390	 The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. 
19O	145	19	163400	 He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them. 
19O	145	20	163410	 The LORD preserves all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy. 
19O	145	21	163420	 My mouth will speak the praise of the LORD, and let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever. 
19O	146	1	163430	 Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! 
19O	146	2	163440	 I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. 
19O	146	3	163450	 Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. 
19O	146	4	163460	 When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish. 
19O	146	5	163470	 Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God, 
19O	146	6	163480	 who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps faith forever; 
19O	146	7	163490	 who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free; 
19O	146	8	163500	 the LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous. 
19O	146	9	163510	 The LORD watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin. 
19O	146	10	163520	 The LORD will reign forever, your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD! 
19O	147	1	163530	 Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting. 
19O	147	2	163540	 The LORD builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the outcasts of Israel. 
19O	147	3	163550	 He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. 
19O	147	4	163560	 He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names. 
19O	147	5	163570	 Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure. 
19O	147	6	163580	 The LORD lifts up the humble; he casts the wicked to the ground. 
19O	147	7	163590	 Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; make melody to our God on the lyre! 
19O	147	8	163600	 He covers the heavens with clouds; he prepares rain for the earth; he makes grass grow on the hills. 
19O	147	9	163610	 He gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens that cry. 
19O	147	10	163620	 His delight is not in the strength of the horse, nor his pleasure in the legs of a man, 
19O	147	11	163630	 but the LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love. 
19O	147	12	163640	 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion! 
19O	147	13	163650	 For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your children within you. 
19O	147	14	163660	 He makes peace in your borders; he fills you with the finest of the wheat. 
19O	147	15	163670	 He sends out his command to the earth; his word runs swiftly. 
19O	147	16	163680	 He gives snow like wool; he scatters hoarfrost like ashes. 
19O	147	17	163690	 He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs; who can stand before his cold? 
19O	147	18	163700	 He sends out his word, and melts them; he makes his wind blow and the waters flow. 
19O	147	19	163710	 He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and rules to Israel. 
19O	147	20	163720	 He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the LORD! 
19O	148	1	163730	 Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD from the heavens; praise him in the heights! 
19O	148	2	163740	 Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his hosts! 
19O	148	3	163750	 Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars! 
19O	148	4	163760	 Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens! 
19O	148	5	163770	 Let them praise the name of the LORD! For he commanded and they were created. 
19O	148	6	163780	 And he established them forever and ever; he gave a decree, and it shall not pass away. 
19O	148	7	163790	 Praise the LORD from the earth, you great sea creatures and all deeps, 
19O	148	8	163800	 fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy wind fulfilling his word! 
19O	148	9	163810	 Mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars! 
19O	148	10	163820	 Beasts and all livestock, creeping things and flying birds! 
19O	148	11	163830	 Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all rulers of the earth! 
19O	148	12	163840	 Young men and maidens together, old men and children! 
19O	148	13	163850	 Let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above earth and heaven. 
19O	148	14	163860	 He has raised up a horn for his people, praise for all his saints, for the people of Israel who are near to him. Praise the LORD! 
19O	149	1	163870	 Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly! 
19O	149	2	163880	 Let Israel be glad in his Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King! 
19O	149	3	163890	 Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre! 
19O	149	4	163900	 For the LORD takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation. 
19O	149	5	163910	 Let the godly exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their beds. 
19O	149	6	163920	 Let the high praises of God be in their throats and two-edged swords in their hands, 
19O	149	7	163930	 to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples, 
19O	149	8	163940	 to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron, 
19O	149	9	163950	 to execute on them the judgment written! This is honor for all his godly ones. Praise the LORD! 
19O	150	1	163960	 Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! 
19O	150	2	163970	 Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! 
19O	150	3	163980	 Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! 
19O	150	4	163990	 Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! 
19O	150	5	164000	 Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals! 
19O	150	6	164010	 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD! 
20O	1	1	164020	 The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: 
20O	1	2	164030	 To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, 
20O	1	3	164040	 to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; 
20O	1	4	164050	 to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth-- 
20O	1	5	164060	 Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, 
20O	1	6	164070	 to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles. 
20O	1	7	164080	 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. 
20O	1	8	164090	 Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching, 
20O	1	9	164100	 for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck. 
20O	1	10	164110	 My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. 
20O	1	11	164120	 If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason; 
20O	1	12	164130	 like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit; 
20O	1	13	164140	 we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder; 
20O	1	14	164150	 throw in your lot among us; we will all have one purse"-- 
20O	1	15	164160	 my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths, 
20O	1	16	164170	 for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood. 
20O	1	17	164180	 For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird, 
20O	1	18	164190	 but these men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives. 
20O	1	19	164200	 Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors. 
20O	1	20	164210	 Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice; 
20O	1	21	164220	 at the head of the noisy streets she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks: 
20O	1	22	164230	 "How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge? 
20O	1	23	164240	 If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you; I will make my words known to you. 
20O	1	24	164250	 Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded, 
20O	1	25	164260	 because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof, 
20O	1	26	164270	 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you, 
20O	1	27	164280	 when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you. 
20O	1	28	164290	 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me. 
20O	1	29	164300	 Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD, 
20O	1	30	164310	 would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof, 
20O	1	31	164320	 therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices. 
20O	1	32	164330	 For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them; 
20O	1	33	164340	 but whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of disaster." 
20O	2	1	164350	 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, 
20O	2	2	164360	 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; 
20O	2	3	164370	 yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, 
20O	2	4	164380	 if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, 
20O	2	5	164390	 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. 
20O	2	6	164400	 For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; 
20O	2	7	164410	 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, 
20O	2	8	164420	 guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints. 
20O	2	9	164430	 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path; 
20O	2	10	164440	 for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; 
20O	2	11	164450	 discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you, 
20O	2	12	164460	 delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech, 
20O	2	13	164470	 who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, 
20O	2	14	164480	 who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil, 
20O	2	15	164490	 men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways. 
20O	2	16	164500	 So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words, 
20O	2	17	164510	 who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; 
20O	2	18	164520	 for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed; 
20O	2	19	164530	 none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life. 
20O	2	20	164540	 So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous. 
20O	2	21	164550	 For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it, 
20O	2	22	164560	 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it. 
20O	3	1	164570	 My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, 
20O	3	2	164580	 for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. 
20O	3	3	164590	 Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. 
20O	3	4	164600	 So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. 
20O	3	5	164610	 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 
20O	3	6	164620	 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. 
20O	3	7	164630	 Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil. 
20O	3	8	164640	 It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones. 
20O	3	9	164650	 Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; 
20O	3	10	164660	 then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine. 
20O	3	11	164670	 My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline or be weary of his reproof, 
20O	3	12	164680	 for the LORD reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights. 
20O	3	13	164690	 Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding, 
20O	3	14	164700	 for the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold. 
20O	3	15	164710	 She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. 
20O	3	16	164720	 Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. 
20O	3	17	164730	 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. 
20O	3	18	164740	 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called blessed. 
20O	3	19	164750	 The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens; 
20O	3	20	164760	 by his knowledge the deeps broke open, and the clouds drop down the dew. 
20O	3	21	164770	 My son, do not lose sight of these-- keep sound wisdom and discretion, 
20O	3	22	164780	 and they will be life for your soul and adornment for your neck. 
20O	3	23	164790	 Then you will walk on your way securely, and your foot will not stumble. 
20O	3	24	164800	 If you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet. 
20O	3	25	164810	 Do not be afraid of sudden terror or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes, 
20O	3	26	164820	 for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught. 
20O	3	27	164830	 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. 
20O	3	28	164840	 Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it"--when you have it with you. 
20O	3	29	164850	 Do not plan evil against your neighbor, who dwells trustingly beside you. 
20O	3	30	164860	 Do not contend with a man for no reason, when he has done you no harm. 
20O	3	31	164870	 Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways, 
20O	3	32	164880	 for the devious person is an abomination to the LORD, but the upright are in his confidence. 
20O	3	33	164890	 The LORD's curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous. 
20O	3	34	164900	 Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor. 
20O	3	35	164910	 The wise will inherit honor, but fools get disgrace. 
20O	4	1	164920	 Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, 
20O	4	2	164930	 for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. 
20O	4	3	164940	 When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, 
20O	4	4	164950	 he taught me and said to me, "Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. 
20O	4	5	164960	 Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. 
20O	4	6	164970	 Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you. 
20O	4	7	164980	 The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight. 
20O	4	8	164990	 Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her. 
20O	4	9	165000	 She will place on your head a graceful garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown." 
20O	4	10	165010	 Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many. 
20O	4	11	165020	 I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness. 
20O	4	12	165030	 When you walk, your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble. 
20O	4	13	165040	 Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life. 
20O	4	14	165050	 Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil. 
20O	4	15	165060	 Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on. 
20O	4	16	165070	 For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble. 
20O	4	17	165080	 For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence. 
20O	4	18	165090	 But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. 
20O	4	19	165100	 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble. 
20O	4	20	165110	 My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. 
20O	4	21	165120	 Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. 
20O	4	22	165130	 For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh. 
20O	4	23	165140	 Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. 
20O	4	24	165150	 Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you. 
20O	4	25	165160	 Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. 
20O	4	26	165170	 Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. 
20O	4	27	165180	 Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil. 
20O	5	1	165190	 My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, 
20O	5	2	165200	 that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. 
20O	5	3	165210	 For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, 
20O	5	4	165220	 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 
20O	5	5	165230	 Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; 
20O	5	6	165240	 she does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it. 
20O	5	7	165250	 And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. 
20O	5	8	165260	 Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, 
20O	5	9	165270	 lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless, 
20O	5	10	165280	 lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, 
20O	5	11	165290	 and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed, 
20O	5	12	165300	 and you say, "How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! 
20O	5	13	165310	 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors. 
20O	5	14	165320	 I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation." 
20O	5	15	165330	 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. 
20O	5	16	165340	 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? 
20O	5	17	165350	 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. 
20O	5	18	165360	 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, 
20O	5	19	165370	 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. 
20O	5	20	165380	 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? 
20O	5	21	165390	 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths. 
20O	5	22	165400	 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. 
20O	5	23	165410	 He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray. 
20O	6	1	165420	 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, 
20O	6	2	165430	 if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, 
20O	6	3	165440	 then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor. 
20O	6	4	165450	 Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; 
20O	6	5	165460	 save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler. 
20O	6	6	165470	 Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. 
20O	6	7	165480	 Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, 
20O	6	8	165490	 she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. 
20O	6	9	165500	 How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? 
20O	6	10	165510	 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, 
20O	6	11	165520	 and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man. 
20O	6	12	165530	 A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, 
20O	6	13	165540	 winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger, 
20O	6	14	165550	 with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; 
20O	6	15	165560	 therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing. 
20O	6	16	165570	 There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him: 
20O	6	17	165580	 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 
20O	6	18	165590	 a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, 
20O	6	19	165600	 a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers. 
20O	6	20	165610	 My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching. 
20O	6	21	165620	 Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck. 
20O	6	22	165630	 When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you. 
20O	6	23	165640	 For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life, 
20O	6	24	165650	 to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. 
20O	6	25	165660	 Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes; 
20O	6	26	165670	 for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life. 
20O	6	27	165680	 Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned? 
20O	6	28	165690	 Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched? 
20O	6	29	165700	 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished. 
20O	6	30	165710	 People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry, 
20O	6	31	165720	 but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house. 
20O	6	32	165730	 He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself. 
20O	6	33	165740	 He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will not be wiped away. 
20O	6	34	165750	 For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge. 
20O	6	35	165760	 He will accept no compensation; he will refuse though you multiply gifts. 
20O	7	1	165770	 My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; 
20O	7	2	165780	 keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; 
20O	7	3	165790	 bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. 
20O	7	4	165800	 Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call insight your intimate friend, 
20O	7	5	165810	 to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words. 
20O	7	6	165820	 For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice, 
20O	7	7	165830	 and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense, 
20O	7	8	165840	 passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house 
20O	7	9	165850	 in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness. 
20O	7	10	165860	 And behold, the woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart. 
20O	7	11	165870	 She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home; 
20O	7	12	165880	 now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait. 
20O	7	13	165890	 She seizes him and kisses him, and with bold face she says to him, 
20O	7	14	165900	 "I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows; 
20O	7	15	165910	 so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you. 
20O	7	16	165920	 I have spread my couch with coverings, colored linens from Egyptian linen; 
20O	7	17	165930	 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 
20O	7	18	165940	 Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love. 
20O	7	19	165950	 For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey; 
20O	7	20	165960	 he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home." 
20O	7	21	165970	 With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him. 
20O	7	22	165980	 All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast 
20O	7	23	165990	 till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life. 
20O	7	24	166000	 And now, O sons, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth. 
20O	7	25	166010	 Let not your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths, 
20O	7	26	166020	 for many a victim has she laid low, and all her slain are a mighty throng. 
20O	7	27	166030	 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death. 
20O	8	1	166040	 Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice? 
20O	8	2	166050	 On the heights beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; 
20O	8	3	166060	 beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud: 
20O	8	4	166070	 "To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the children of man. 
20O	8	5	166080	 O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense. 
20O	8	6	166090	 Hear, for I will speak noble things, and from my lips will come what is right, 
20O	8	7	166100	 for my mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips. 
20O	8	8	166110	 All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing twisted or crooked in them. 
20O	8	9	166120	 They are all straight to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge. 
20O	8	10	166130	 Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold, 
20O	8	11	166140	 for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her. 
20O	8	12	166150	 "I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion. 
20O	8	13	166160	 The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate. 
20O	8	14	166170	 I have counsel and sound wisdom; I have insight; I have strength. 
20O	8	15	166180	 By me kings reign, and rulers decree what is just; 
20O	8	16	166190	 by me princes rule, and nobles, all who govern justly. 
20O	8	17	166200	 I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me. 
20O	8	18	166210	 Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness. 
20O	8	19	166220	 My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver. 
20O	8	20	166230	 I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice, 
20O	8	21	166240	 granting an inheritance to those who love me, and filling their treasuries. 
20O	8	22	166250	 "The LORD possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old. 
20O	8	23	166260	 Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. 
20O	8	24	166270	 When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. 
20O	8	25	166280	 Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth, 
20O	8	26	166290	 before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world. 
20O	8	27	166300	 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, 
20O	8	28	166310	 when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, 
20O	8	29	166320	 when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, 
20O	8	30	166330	 then I was beside him, like a master workman, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, 
20O	8	31	166340	 rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man. 
20O	8	32	166350	 "And now, O sons, listen to me: blessed are those who keep my ways. 
20O	8	33	166360	 Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it. 
20O	8	34	166370	 Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors. 
20O	8	35	166380	 For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD, 
20O	8	36	166390	 but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death." 
20O	9	1	166400	 Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars. 
20O	9	2	166410	 She has slaughtered her beasts; she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table. 
20O	9	3	166420	 She has sent out her young women to call from the highest places in the town, 
20O	9	4	166430	 "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" To him who lacks sense she says, 
20O	9	5	166440	 "Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. 
20O	9	6	166450	 Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight." 
20O	9	7	166460	 Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury. 
20O	9	8	166470	 Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you. 
20O	9	9	166480	 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning. 
20O	9	10	166490	 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. 
20O	9	11	166500	 For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life. 
20O	9	12	166510	 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it. 
20O	9	13	166520	 The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing. 
20O	9	14	166530	 She sits at the door of her house; she takes a seat on the highest places of the town, 
20O	9	15	166540	 calling to those who pass by, who are going straight on their way, 
20O	9	16	166550	 "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" And to him who lacks sense she says, 
20O	9	17	166560	 "Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." 
20O	9	18	166570	 But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol. 
20O	10	1	166580	 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother. 
20O	10	2	166590	 Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death. 
20O	10	3	166600	 The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked. 
20O	10	4	166610	 A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich. 
20O	10	5	166620	 He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame. 
20O	10	6	166630	 Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence. 
20O	10	7	166640	 The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot. 
20O	10	8	166650	 The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin. 
20O	10	9	166660	 Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out. 
20O	10	10	166670	 Whoever winks the eye causes trouble, but a babbling fool will come to ruin. 
20O	10	11	166680	 The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence. 
20O	10	12	166690	 Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. 
20O	10	13	166700	 On the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense. 
20O	10	14	166710	 The wise lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near. 
20O	10	15	166720	 A rich man's wealth is his strong city; the poverty of the poor is their ruin. 
20O	10	16	166730	 The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin. 
20O	10	17	166740	 Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray. 
20O	10	18	166750	 The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool. 
20O	10	19	166760	 When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent. 
20O	10	20	166770	 The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; the heart of the wicked is of little worth. 
20O	10	21	166780	 The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense. 
20O	10	22	166790	 The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it. 
20O	10	23	166800	 Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding. 
20O	10	24	166810	 What the wicked dreads will come upon him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted. 
20O	10	25	166820	 When the tempest passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous is established forever. 
20O	10	26	166830	 Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him. 
20O	10	27	166840	 The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short. 
20O	10	28	166850	 The hope of the righteous brings joy, but the expectation of the wicked will perish. 
20O	10	29	166860	 The way of the LORD is a stronghold to the blameless, but destruction to evildoers. 
20O	10	30	166870	 The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land. 
20O	10	31	166880	 The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off. 
20O	10	32	166890	 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse. 
20O	11	1	166900	 A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight. 
20O	11	2	166910	 When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom. 
20O	11	3	166920	 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them. 
20O	11	4	166930	 Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. 
20O	11	5	166940	 The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness. 
20O	11	6	166950	 The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the treacherous are taken captive by their lust. 
20O	11	7	166960	 When the wicked dies, his hope will perish, and the expectation of wealth perishes too. 
20O	11	8	166970	 The righteous is delivered from trouble, and the wicked walks into it instead. 
20O	11	9	166980	 With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered. 
20O	11	10	166990	 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish there are shouts of gladness. 
20O	11	11	167000	 By the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked it is overthrown. 
20O	11	12	167010	 Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent. 
20O	11	13	167020	 Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets, but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered. 
20O	11	14	167030	 Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety. 
20O	11	15	167040	 Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm, but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure. 
20O	11	16	167050	 A gracious woman gets honor, and violent men get riches. 
20O	11	17	167060	 A man who is kind benefits himself, but a cruel man hurts himself. 
20O	11	18	167070	 The wicked earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward. 
20O	11	19	167080	 Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live, but he who pursues evil will die. 
20O	11	20	167090	 Those of crooked heart are an abomination to the LORD, but those of blameless ways are his delight. 
20O	11	21	167100	 Be assured, an evil person will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered. 
20O	11	22	167110	 Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman without discretion. 
20O	11	23	167120	 The desire of the righteous ends only in good; the expectation of the wicked in wrath. 
20O	11	24	167130	 One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. 
20O	11	25	167140	 Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered. 
20O	11	26	167150	 The people curse him who holds back grain, but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it. 
20O	11	27	167160	 Whoever diligently seeks good seeks favor, but evil comes to him who searches for it. 
20O	11	28	167170	 Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf. 
20O	11	29	167180	 Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart. 
20O	11	30	167190	 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and whoever captures souls is wise. 
20O	11	31	167200	 If the righteous is repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner! 
20O	12	1	167210	 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. 
20O	12	2	167220	 A good man obtains favor from the LORD, but a man of evil devices he condemns. 
20O	12	3	167230	 No one is established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved. 
20O	12	4	167240	 An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones. 
20O	12	5	167250	 The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful. 
20O	12	6	167260	 The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers them. 
20O	12	7	167270	 The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand. 
20O	12	8	167280	 A man is commended according to his good sense, but one of twisted mind is despised. 
20O	12	9	167290	 Better to be lowly and have a servant than to play the great man and lack bread. 
20O	12	10	167300	 Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel. 
20O	12	11	167310	 Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense. 
20O	12	12	167320	 Whoever is wicked covets the spoil of evildoers, but the root of the righteous bears fruit. 
20O	12	13	167330	 An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, but the righteous escapes from trouble. 
20O	12	14	167340	 From the fruit of his mouth a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man's hand comes back to him. 
20O	12	15	167350	 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice. 
20O	12	16	167360	 The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult. 
20O	12	17	167370	 Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit. 
20O	12	18	167380	 There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. 
20O	12	19	167390	 Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment. 
20O	12	20	167400	 Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those who plan peace have joy. 
20O	12	21	167410	 No ill befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble. 
20O	12	22	167420	 Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who act faithfully are his delight. 
20O	12	23	167430	 A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims folly. 
20O	12	24	167440	 The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor. 
20O	12	25	167450	 Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad. 
20O	12	26	167460	 One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray. 
20O	12	27	167470	 Whoever is slothful will not roast his game, but the diligent man will get precious wealth. 
20O	12	28	167480	 In the path of righteousness is life, and in its pathway there is no death. 
20O	13	1	167490	 A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke. 
20O	13	2	167500	 From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence. 
20O	13	3	167510	 Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. 
20O	13	4	167520	 The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied. 
20O	13	5	167530	 The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace. 
20O	13	6	167540	 Righteousness guards him whose way is blameless, but sin overthrows the wicked. 
20O	13	7	167550	 One pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth. 
20O	13	8	167560	 The ransom of a man's life is his wealth, but a poor man hears no threat. 
20O	13	9	167570	 The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked will be put out. 
20O	13	10	167580	 By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom. 
20O	13	11	167590	 Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it. 
20O	13	12	167600	 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. 
20O	13	13	167610	 Whoever despises the word brings destruction on himself, but he who reveres the commandment will be rewarded. 
20O	13	14	167620	 The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death. 
20O	13	15	167630	 Good sense wins favor, but the way of the treacherous is their ruin. 
20O	13	16	167640	 In everything the prudent acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts his folly. 
20O	13	17	167650	 A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing. 
20O	13	18	167660	 Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is honored. 
20O	13	19	167670	 A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools. 
20O	13	20	167680	 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm. 
20O	13	21	167690	 Disaster pursues sinners, but the righteous are rewarded with good. 
20O	13	22	167700	 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous. 
20O	13	23	167710	 The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food, but it is swept away through injustice. 
20O	13	24	167720	 Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him. 
20O	13	25	167730	 The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, but the belly of the wicked suffers want. 
20O	14	1	167740	 The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down. 
20O	14	2	167750	 Whoever walks in uprightness fears the LORD, but he who is devious in his ways despises him. 
20O	14	3	167760	 By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them. 
20O	14	4	167770	 Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox. 
20O	14	5	167780	 A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. 
20O	14	6	167790	 A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding. 
20O	14	7	167800	 Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge. 
20O	14	8	167810	 The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving. 
20O	14	9	167820	 Fools mock at the guilt offering, but the upright enjoy acceptance. 
20O	14	10	167830	 The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy. 
20O	14	11	167840	 The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish. 
20O	14	12	167850	 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. 
20O	14	13	167860	 Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief. 
20O	14	14	167870	 The backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways. 
20O	14	15	167880	 The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps. 
20O	14	16	167890	 One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless. 
20O	14	17	167900	 A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated. 
20O	14	18	167910	 The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge. 
20O	14	19	167920	 The evil bow down before the good, the wicked at the gates of the righteous. 
20O	14	20	167930	 The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the rich has many friends. 
20O	14	21	167940	 Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor. 
20O	14	22	167950	 Do they not go astray who devise evil? Those who devise good meet steadfast love and faithfulness. 
20O	14	23	167960	 In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty. 
20O	14	24	167970	 The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the folly of fools brings folly. 
20O	14	25	167980	 A truthful witness saves lives, but one who breathes out lies is deceitful. 
20O	14	26	167990	 In the fear of the LORD one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge. 
20O	14	27	168000	 The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death. 
20O	14	28	168010	 In a multitude of people is the glory of a king, but without people a prince is ruined. 
20O	14	29	168020	 Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly. 
20O	14	30	168030	 A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot. 
20O	14	31	168040	 Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him. 
20O	14	32	168050	 The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing, but the righteous finds refuge in his death. 
20O	14	33	168060	 Wisdom rests in the heart of a man of understanding, but it makes itself known even in the midst of fools. 
20O	14	34	168070	 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. 
20O	14	35	168080	 A servant who deals wisely has the king's favor, but his wrath falls on one who acts shamefully. 
20O	15	1	168090	 A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. 
20O	15	2	168100	 The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly. 
20O	15	3	168110	 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good. 
20O	15	4	168120	 A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit. 
20O	15	5	168130	 A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent. 
20O	15	6	168140	 In the house of the righteous there is much treasure, but trouble befalls the income of the wicked. 
20O	15	7	168150	 The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so the hearts of fools. 
20O	15	8	168160	 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him. 
20O	15	9	168170	 The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but he loves him who pursues righteousness. 
20O	15	10	168180	 There is severe discipline for him who forsakes the way; whoever hates reproof will die. 
20O	15	11	168190	 Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD; how much more the hearts of the children of man! 
20O	15	12	168200	 A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise. 
20O	15	13	168210	 A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed. 
20O	15	14	168220	 The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly. 
20O	15	15	168230	 All the days of the afflicted are evil, but the cheerful of heart has a continual feast. 
20O	15	16	168240	 Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble with it. 
20O	15	17	168250	 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it. 
20O	15	18	168260	 A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention. 
20O	15	19	168270	 The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway. 
20O	15	20	168280	 A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother. 
20O	15	21	168290	 Folly is a joy to him who lacks sense, but a man of understanding walks straight ahead. 
20O	15	22	168300	 Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed. 
20O	15	23	168310	 To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is! 
20O	15	24	168320	 The path of life leads upward for the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol beneath. 
20O	15	25	168330	 The LORD tears down the house of the proud but maintains the widow's boundaries. 
20O	15	26	168340	 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD, but gracious words are pure. 
20O	15	27	168350	 Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live. 
20O	15	28	168360	 The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things. 
20O	15	29	168370	 The LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous. 
20O	15	30	168380	 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and good news refreshes the bones. 
20O	15	31	168390	 The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise. 
20O	15	32	168400	 Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence. 
20O	15	33	168410	 The fear of the LORD is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor. 
20O	16	1	168420	 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD. 
20O	16	2	168430	 All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the spirit. 
20O	16	3	168440	 Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established. 
20O	16	4	168450	 The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. 
20O	16	5	168460	 Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the LORD; be assured, he will not go unpunished. 
20O	16	6	168470	 By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns away from evil. 
20O	16	7	168480	 When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. 
20O	16	8	168490	 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice. 
20O	16	9	168500	 The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps. 
20O	16	10	168510	 An oracle is on the lips of a king; his mouth does not sin in judgment. 
20O	16	11	168520	 A just balance and scales are the LORD's; all the weights in the bag are his work. 
20O	16	12	168530	 It is an abomination to kings to do evil, for the throne is established by righteousness. 
20O	16	13	168540	 Righteous lips are the delight of a king, and he loves him who speaks what is right. 
20O	16	14	168550	 A king's wrath is a messenger of death, and a wise man will appease it. 
20O	16	15	168560	 In the light of a king's face there is life, and his favor is like the clouds that bring the spring rain. 
20O	16	16	168570	 How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. 
20O	16	17	168580	 The highway of the upright turns aside from evil; whoever guards his way preserves his life. 
20O	16	18	168590	 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. 
20O	16	19	168600	 It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud. 
20O	16	20	168610	 Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the LORD. 
20O	16	21	168620	 The wise of heart is called discerning, and sweetness of speech increases persuasiveness. 
20O	16	22	168630	 Good sense is a fountain of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly. 
20O	16	23	168640	 The heart of the wise makes his speech judicious and adds persuasiveness to his lips. 
20O	16	24	168650	 Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body. 
20O	16	25	168660	 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. 
20O	16	26	168670	 A worker's appetite works for him; his mouth urges him on. 
20O	16	27	168680	 A worthless man plots evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire. 
20O	16	28	168690	 A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends. 
20O	16	29	168700	 A man of violence entices his neighbor and leads him in a way that is not good. 
20O	16	30	168710	 Whoever winks his eyes plans dishonest things; he who purses his lips brings evil to pass. 
20O	16	31	168720	 Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life. 
20O	16	32	168730	 Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city. 
20O	16	33	168740	 The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD. 
20O	17	1	168750	 Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife. 
20O	17	2	168760	 A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers. 
20O	17	3	168770	 The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the LORD tests hearts. 
20O	17	4	168780	 An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue. 
20O	17	5	168790	 Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished. 
20O	17	6	168800	 Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers. 
20O	17	7	168810	 Fine speech is not becoming to a fool; still less is false speech to a prince. 
20O	17	8	168820	 A bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of the one who gives it; wherever he turns he prospers. 
20O	17	9	168830	 Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. 
20O	17	10	168840	 A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool. 
20O	17	11	168850	 An evil man seeks only rebellion, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him. 
20O	17	12	168860	 Let a man meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs rather than a fool in his folly. 
20O	17	13	168870	 If anyone returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house. 
20O	17	14	168880	 The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so quit before the quarrel breaks out. 
20O	17	15	168890	 He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the LORD. 
20O	17	16	168900	 Why should a fool have money in his hand to buy wisdom when he has no sense? 
20O	17	17	168910	 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. 
20O	17	18	168920	 One who lacks sense gives a pledge and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor. 
20O	17	19	168930	 Whoever loves transgression loves strife; he who makes his door high seeks destruction. 
20O	17	20	168940	 A man of crooked heart does not discover good, and one with a dishonest tongue falls into calamity. 
20O	17	21	168950	 He who sires a fool gets himself sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy. 
20O	17	22	168960	 A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. 
20O	17	23	168970	 The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice. 
20O	17	24	168980	 The discerning sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth. 
20O	17	25	168990	 A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him. 
20O	17	26	169000	 To impose a fine on a righteous man is not good, nor to strike the noble for their uprightness. 
20O	17	27	169010	 Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding. 
20O	17	28	169020	 Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent. 
20O	18	1	169030	 Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment. 
20O	18	2	169040	 A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion. 
20O	18	3	169050	 When wickedness comes, contempt comes also, and with dishonor comes disgrace. 
20O	18	4	169060	 The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook. 
20O	18	5	169070	 It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice. 
20O	18	6	169080	 A fool's lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating. 
20O	18	7	169090	 A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul. 
20O	18	8	169100	 The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body. 
20O	18	9	169110	 Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys. 
20O	18	10	169120	 The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe. 
20O	18	11	169130	 A rich man's wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall in his imagination. 
20O	18	12	169140	 Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor. 
20O	18	13	169150	 If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame. 
20O	18	14	169160	 A man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear? 
20O	18	15	169170	 An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge. 
20O	18	16	169180	 A man's gift makes room for him and brings him before the great. 
20O	18	17	169190	 The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him. 
20O	18	18	169200	 The lot puts an end to quarrels and decides between powerful contenders. 
20O	18	19	169210	 A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle. 
20O	18	20	169220	 From the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach is satisfied; he is satisfied by the yield of his lips. 
20O	18	21	169230	 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits. 
20O	18	22	169240	 He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD. 
20O	18	23	169250	 The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly. 
20O	18	24	169260	 A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. 
20O	19	1	169270	 Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool. 
20O	19	2	169280	 Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way. 
20O	19	3	169290	 When a man's folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the LORD. 
20O	19	4	169300	 Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend. 
20O	19	5	169310	 A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape. 
20O	19	6	169320	 Many seek the favor of a generous man, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts. 
20O	19	7	169330	 All a poor man's brothers hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues them with words, but does not have them. 
20O	19	8	169340	 Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good. 
20O	19	9	169350	 A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish. 
20O	19	10	169360	 It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury, much less for a slave to rule over princes. 
20O	19	11	169370	 Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense. 
20O	19	12	169380	 A king's wrath is like the growling of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass. 
20O	19	13	169390	 A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain. 
20O	19	14	169400	 House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD. 
20O	19	15	169410	 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger. 
20O	19	16	169420	 Whoever keeps the commandment keeps his life; he who despises his ways will die. 
20O	19	17	169430	 Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his deed. 
20O	19	18	169440	 Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death. 
20O	19	19	169450	 A man of great wrath will pay the penalty, for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again. 
20O	19	20	169460	 Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future. 
20O	19	21	169470	 Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand. 
20O	19	22	169480	 What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar. 
20O	19	23	169490	 The fear of the LORD leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm. 
20O	19	24	169500	 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish and will not even bring it back to his mouth. 
20O	19	25	169510	 Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding, and he will gain knowledge. 
20O	19	26	169520	 He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and reproach. 
20O	19	27	169530	 Cease to hear instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge. 
20O	19	28	169540	 A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity. 
20O	19	29	169550	 Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and beating for the backs of fools. 
20O	20	1	169560	 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise. 
20O	20	2	169570	 The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger forfeits his life. 
20O	20	3	169580	 It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling. 
20O	20	4	169590	 The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing. 
20O	20	5	169600	 The purpose in a man's heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out. 
20O	20	6	169610	 Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find? 
20O	20	7	169620	 The righteous who walks in his integrity-- blessed are his children after him! 
20O	20	8	169630	 A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows all evil with his eyes. 
20O	20	9	169640	 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin"? 
20O	20	10	169650	 Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the LORD. 
20O	20	11	169660	 Even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright. 
20O	20	12	169670	 The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the LORD has made them both. 
20O	20	13	169680	 Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread. 
20O	20	14	169690	 "Bad, bad," says the buyer, but when he goes away, then he boasts. 
20O	20	15	169700	 There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel. 
20O	20	16	169710	 Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for foreigners. 
20O	20	17	169720	 Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel. 
20O	20	18	169730	 Plans are established by counsel; by wise guidance wage war. 
20O	20	19	169740	 Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler. 
20O	20	20	169750	 If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness. 
20O	20	21	169760	 An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end. 
20O	20	22	169770	 Do not say, "I will repay evil"; wait for the LORD, and he will deliver you. 
20O	20	23	169780	 Unequal weights are an abomination to the LORD, and false scales are not good. 
20O	20	24	169790	 A man's steps are from the LORD; how then can man understand his way? 
20O	20	25	169800	 It is a snare to say rashly, "It is holy," and to reflect only after making vows. 
20O	20	26	169810	 A wise king winnows the wicked and drives the wheel over them. 
20O	20	27	169820	 The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all his innermost parts. 
20O	20	28	169830	 Steadfast love and faithfulness preserve the king, and by steadfast love his throne is upheld. 
20O	20	29	169840	 The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair. 
20O	20	30	169850	 Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts. 
20O	21	1	169860	 The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will. 
20O	21	2	169870	 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the heart. 
20O	21	3	169880	 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. 
20O	21	4	169890	 Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin. 
20O	21	5	169900	 The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty. 
20O	21	6	169910	 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death. 
20O	21	7	169920	 The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is just. 
20O	21	8	169930	 The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright. 
20O	21	9	169940	 It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife. 
20O	21	10	169950	 The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes. 
20O	21	11	169960	 When a scoffer is punished, the simple becomes wise; when a wise man is instructed, he gains knowledge. 
20O	21	12	169970	 The Righteous One observes the house of the wicked; he throws the wicked down to ruin. 
20O	21	13	169980	 Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered. 
20O	21	14	169990	 A gift in secret averts anger, and a concealed bribe, strong wrath. 
20O	21	15	170000	 When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers. 
20O	21	16	170010	 One who wanders from the way of good sense will rest in the assembly of the dead. 
20O	21	17	170020	 Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich. 
20O	21	18	170030	 The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, and the traitor for the upright. 
20O	21	19	170040	 It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman. 
20O	21	20	170050	 Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it. 
20O	21	21	170060	 Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor. 
20O	21	22	170070	 A wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the stronghold in which they trust. 
20O	21	23	170080	 Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble. 
20O	21	24	170090	 "Scoffer" is the name of the arrogant, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride. 
20O	21	25	170100	 The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor. 
20O	21	26	170110	 All day long he craves and craves, but the righteous gives and does not hold back. 
20O	21	27	170120	 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent. 
20O	21	28	170130	 A false witness will perish, but the word of a man who hears will endure. 
20O	21	29	170140	 A wicked man puts on a bold face, but the upright gives thought to his ways. 
20O	21	30	170150	 No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the LORD. 
20O	21	31	170160	 The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the LORD. 
20O	22	1	170170	 A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. 
20O	22	2	170180	 The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the maker of them all. 
20O	22	3	170190	 The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. 
20O	22	4	170200	 The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life. 
20O	22	5	170210	 Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them. 
20O	22	6	170220	 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. 
20O	22	7	170230	 The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender. 
20O	22	8	170240	 Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail. 
20O	22	9	170250	 Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor. 
20O	22	10	170260	 Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease. 
20O	22	11	170270	 He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend. 
20O	22	12	170280	 The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the traitor. 
20O	22	13	170290	 The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!" 
20O	22	14	170300	 The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit; he with whom the LORD is angry will fall into it. 
20O	22	15	170310	 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him. 
20O	22	16	170320	 Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty. 
20O	22	17	170330	 Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge, 
20O	22	18	170340	 for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips. 
20O	22	19	170350	 That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made them known to you today, even to you. 
20O	22	20	170360	 Have I not written for you thirty sayings of counsel and knowledge, 
20O	22	21	170370	 to make you know what is right and true, that you may give a true answer to those who sent you? 
20O	22	22	170380	 Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, 
20O	22	23	170390	 for the LORD will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them. 
20O	22	24	170400	 Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, 
20O	22	25	170410	 lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare. 
20O	22	26	170420	 Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts. 
20O	22	27	170430	 If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you? 
20O	22	28	170440	 Do not move the ancient landmark that your fathers have set. 
20O	22	29	170450	 Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men. 
20O	23	1	170460	 When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you, 
20O	23	2	170470	 and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite. 
20O	23	3	170480	 Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food. 
20O	23	4	170490	 Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. 
20O	23	5	170500	 When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven. 
20O	23	6	170510	 Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies, 
20O	23	7	170520	 for he is like one who is inwardly calculating. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you. 
20O	23	8	170530	 You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words. 
20O	23	9	170540	 Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words. 
20O	23	10	170550	 Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless, 
20O	23	11	170560	 for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you. 
20O	23	12	170570	 Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge. 
20O	23	13	170580	 Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. 
20O	23	14	170590	 If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol. 
20O	23	15	170600	 My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad. 
20O	23	16	170610	 My inmost being will exult when your lips speak what is right. 
20O	23	17	170620	 Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the LORD all the day. 
20O	23	18	170630	 Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. 
20O	23	19	170640	 Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way. 
20O	23	20	170650	 Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, 
20O	23	21	170660	 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags. 
20O	23	22	170670	 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. 
20O	23	23	170680	 Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding. 
20O	23	24	170690	 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him. 
20O	23	25	170700	 Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice. 
20O	23	26	170710	 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways. 
20O	23	27	170720	 For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well. 
20O	23	28	170730	 She lies in wait like a robber and increases the traitors among mankind. 
20O	23	29	170740	 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? 
20O	23	30	170750	 Those who tarry long over wine; those who go to try mixed wine. 
20O	23	31	170760	 Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. 
20O	23	32	170770	 In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder. 
20O	23	33	170780	 Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things. 
20O	23	34	170790	 You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast. 
20O	23	35	170800	 "They struck me," you will say, "but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I must have another drink." 
20O	24	1	170810	 Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them, 
20O	24	2	170820	 for their hearts devise violence, and their lips talk of trouble. 
20O	24	3	170830	 By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; 
20O	24	4	170840	 by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. 
20O	24	5	170850	 A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might, 
20O	24	6	170860	 for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory. 
20O	24	7	170870	 Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth. 
20O	24	8	170880	 Whoever plans to do evil will be called a schemer. 
20O	24	9	170890	 The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind. 
20O	24	10	170900	 If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. 
20O	24	11	170910	 Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. 
20O	24	12	170920	 If you say, "Behold, we did not know this," does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work? 
20O	24	13	170930	 My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste. 
20O	24	14	170940	 Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off. 
20O	24	15	170950	 Lie not in wait as a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous; do no violence to his home; 
20O	24	16	170960	 for the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity. 
20O	24	17	170970	 Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles, 
20O	24	18	170980	 lest the LORD see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him. 
20O	24	19	170990	 Fret not yourself because of evildoers, and be not envious of the wicked, 
20O	24	20	171000	 for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out. 
20O	24	21	171010	 My son, fear the LORD and the king, and do not join with those who do otherwise, 
20O	24	22	171020	 for disaster will arise suddenly from them, and who knows the ruin that will come from them both? 
20O	24	23	171030	 These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good. 
20O	24	24	171040	 Whoever says to the wicked, "You are in the right," will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations, 
20O	24	25	171050	 but those who rebuke the wicked will have delight, and a good blessing will come upon them. 
20O	24	26	171060	 Whoever gives an honest answer kisses the lips. 
20O	24	27	171070	 Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house. 
20O	24	28	171080	 Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips. 
20O	24	29	171090	 Do not say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will pay the man back for what he has done." 
20O	24	30	171100	 I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense, 
20O	24	31	171110	 and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. 
20O	24	32	171120	 Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction. 
20O	24	33	171130	 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, 
20O	24	34	171140	 and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man. 
20O	25	1	171150	 These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied. 
20O	25	2	171160	 It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out. 
20O	25	3	171170	 As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the heart of kings is unsearchable. 
20O	25	4	171180	 Take away the dross from the silver, and the smith has material for a vessel; 
20O	25	5	171190	 take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness. 
20O	25	6	171200	 Do not put yourself forward in the king's presence or stand in the place of the great, 
20O	25	7	171210	 for it is better to be told, "Come up here," than to be put lower in the presence of a noble. What your eyes have seen 
20O	25	8	171220	 do not hastily bring into court, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbor puts you to shame? 
20O	25	9	171230	 Argue your case with your neighbor himself, and do not reveal another's secret, 
20O	25	10	171240	 lest he who hears you bring shame upon you, and your ill repute have no end. 
20O	25	11	171250	 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver. 
20O	25	12	171260	 Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear. 
20O	25	13	171270	 Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a faithful messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the soul of his masters. 
20O	25	14	171280	 Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give. 
20O	25	15	171290	 With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone. 
20O	25	16	171300	 If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it. 
20O	25	17	171310	 Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, lest he have his fill of you and hate you. 
20O	25	18	171320	 A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow. 
20O	25	19	171330	 Trusting in a treacherous man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips. 
20O	25	20	171340	 Whoever sings songs to a heavy heart is like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, and like vinegar on soda. 
20O	25	21	171350	 If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink, 
20O	25	22	171360	 for you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you. 
20O	25	23	171370	 The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks. 
20O	25	24	171380	 It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife. 
20O	25	25	171390	 Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. 
20O	25	26	171400	 Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked. 
20O	25	27	171410	 It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one's own glory. 
20O	25	28	171420	 A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls. 
20O	26	1	171430	 Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool. 
20O	26	2	171440	 Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight. 
20O	26	3	171450	 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools. 
20O	26	4	171460	 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. 
20O	26	5	171470	 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes. 
20O	26	6	171480	 Whoever sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off his own feet and drinks violence. 
20O	26	7	171490	 Like a lame man's legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of fools. 
20O	26	8	171500	 Like one who binds the stone in the sling is one who gives honor to a fool. 
20O	26	9	171510	 Like a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of fools. 
20O	26	10	171520	 Like an archer who wounds everyone is one who hires a passing fool or drunkard. 
20O	26	11	171530	 Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly. 
20O	26	12	171540	 Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him. 
20O	26	13	171550	 The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! There is a lion in the streets!" 
20O	26	14	171560	 As a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed. 
20O	26	15	171570	 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth. 
20O	26	16	171580	 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer sensibly. 
20O	26	17	171590	 Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears. 
20O	26	18	171600	 Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death 
20O	26	19	171610	 is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I am only joking!" 
20O	26	20	171620	 For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases. 
20O	26	21	171630	 As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife. 
20O	26	22	171640	 The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body. 
20O	26	23	171650	 Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are fervent lips with an evil heart. 
20O	26	24	171660	 Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart; 
20O	26	25	171670	 when he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart; 
20O	26	26	171680	 though his hatred be covered with deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly. 
20O	26	27	171690	 Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling. 
20O	26	28	171700	 A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin. 
20O	27	1	171710	 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. 
20O	27	2	171720	 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips. 
20O	27	3	171730	 A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both. 
20O	27	4	171740	 Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy? 
20O	27	5	171750	 Better is open rebuke than hidden love. 
20O	27	6	171760	 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy. 
20O	27	7	171770	 One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet. 
20O	27	8	171780	 Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home. 
20O	27	9	171790	 Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel. 
20O	27	10	171800	 Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away. 
20O	27	11	171810	 Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me. 
20O	27	12	171820	 The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. 
20O	27	13	171830	 Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress. 
20O	27	14	171840	 Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing. 
20O	27	15	171850	 A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike; 
20O	27	16	171860	 to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in one's right hand. 
20O	27	17	171870	 Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. 
20O	27	18	171880	 Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored. 
20O	27	19	171890	 As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man. 
20O	27	20	171900	 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man. 
20O	27	21	171910	 The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is tested by his praise. 
20O	27	22	171920	 Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him. 
20O	27	23	171930	 Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds, 
20O	27	24	171940	 for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations? 
20O	27	25	171950	 When the grass is gone and the new growth appears and the vegetation of the mountains is gathered, 
20O	27	26	171960	 the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field. 
20O	27	27	171970	 There will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your girls. 
20O	28	1	171980	 The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. 
20O	28	2	171990	 When a land transgresses, it has many rulers, but with a man of understanding and knowledge, its stability will long continue. 
20O	28	3	172000	 A poor man who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food. 
20O	28	4	172010	 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive against them. 
20O	28	5	172020	 Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it completely. 
20O	28	6	172030	 Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways. 
20O	28	7	172040	 The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father. 
20O	28	8	172050	 Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor. 
20O	28	9	172060	 If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination. 
20O	28	10	172070	 Whoever misleads the upright into an evil way will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance. 
20O	28	11	172080	 A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has understanding will find him out. 
20O	28	12	172090	 When the righteous triumph, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, people hide themselves. 
20O	28	13	172100	 Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy. 
20O	28	14	172110	 Blessed is the one who fears the LORD always, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity. 
20O	28	15	172120	 Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people. 
20O	28	16	172130	 A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor, but he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days. 
20O	28	17	172140	 If one is burdened with the blood of another, he will be a fugitive until death; let no one help him. 
20O	28	18	172150	 Whoever walks in integrity will be delivered, but he who is crooked in his ways will suddenly fall. 
20O	28	19	172160	 Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty. 
20O	28	20	172170	 A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished. 
20O	28	21	172180	 To show partiality is not good, but for a piece of bread a man will do wrong. 
20O	28	22	172190	 A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him. 
20O	28	23	172200	 Whoever rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue. 
20O	28	24	172210	 Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, "That is no transgression," is a companion to a man who destroys. 
20O	28	25	172220	 A greedy man stirs up strife, but the one who trusts in the LORD will be enriched. 
20O	28	26	172230	 Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered. 
20O	28	27	172240	 Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse. 
20O	28	28	172250	 When the wicked rise, people hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase. 
20O	29	1	172260	 He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing. 
20O	29	2	172270	 When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan. 
20O	29	3	172280	 He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth. 
20O	29	4	172290	 By justice a king builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts tears it down. 
20O	29	5	172300	 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet. 
20O	29	6	172310	 An evil man is ensnared in his transgression, but a righteous man sings and rejoices. 
20O	29	7	172320	 A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge. 
20O	29	8	172330	 Scoffers set a city aflame, but the wise turn away wrath. 
20O	29	9	172340	 If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet. 
20O	29	10	172350	 Bloodthirsty men hate one who is blameless and seek the life of the upright. 
20O	29	11	172360	 A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back. 
20O	29	12	172370	 If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked. 
20O	29	13	172380	 The poor man and the oppressor meet together; the LORD gives light to the eyes of both. 
20O	29	14	172390	 If a king faithfully judges the poor, his throne will be established forever. 
20O	29	15	172400	 The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother. 
20O	29	16	172410	 When the wicked increase, transgression increases, but the righteous will look upon their downfall. 
20O	29	17	172420	 Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart. 
20O	29	18	172430	 Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law. 
20O	29	19	172440	 By mere words a servant is not disciplined, for though he understands, he will not respond. 
20O	29	20	172450	 Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him. 
20O	29	21	172460	 Whoever pampers his servant from childhood will in the end find him his heir. 
20O	29	22	172470	 A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression. 
20O	29	23	172480	 One's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor. 
20O	29	24	172490	 The partner of a thief hates his own life; he hears the curse, but discloses nothing. 
20O	29	25	172500	 The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is safe. 
20O	29	26	172510	 Many seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the LORD that a man gets justice. 
20O	29	27	172520	 An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous, but one whose way is straight is an abomination to the wicked. 
20O	30	1	172530	 The words of Agur son of Jakeh. The oracle. The man declares, I am weary, O God; I am weary, O God, and worn out. 
20O	30	2	172540	 Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man. 
20O	30	3	172550	 I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One. 
20O	30	4	172560	 Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name? Surely you know! 
20O	30	5	172570	 Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. 
20O	30	6	172580	 Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar. 
20O	30	7	172590	 Two things I ask of you; deny them not to me before I die: 
20O	30	8	172600	 Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, 
20O	30	9	172610	 lest I be full and deny you and say, "Who is the LORD?" or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God. 
20O	30	10	172620	 Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty. 
20O	30	11	172630	 There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers. 
20O	30	12	172640	 There are those who are clean in their own eyes but are not washed of their filth. 
20O	30	13	172650	 There are those--how lofty are their eyes, how high their eyelids lift! 
20O	30	14	172660	 There are those whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mankind. 
20O	30	15	172670	 The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. Three things are never satisfied; four never say, "Enough": 
20O	30	16	172680	 Sheol, the barren womb, the land never satisfied with water, and the fire that never says, "Enough." 
20O	30	17	172690	 The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures. 
20O	30	18	172700	 Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand: 
20O	30	19	172710	 the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a virgin. 
20O	30	20	172720	 This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, "I have done no wrong." 
20O	30	21	172730	 Under three things the earth trembles; under four it cannot bear up: 
20O	30	22	172740	 a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is filled with food; 
20O	30	23	172750	 an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maidservant when she displaces her mistress. 
20O	30	24	172760	 Four things on earth are small, but they are exceedingly wise: 
20O	30	25	172770	 the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer; 
20O	30	26	172780	 the rock badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the cliffs; 
20O	30	27	172790	 the locusts have no king, yet all of them march in rank; 
20O	30	28	172800	 the lizard you can take in your hands, yet it is in kings' palaces. 
20O	30	29	172810	 Three things are stately in their tread; four are stately in their stride: 
20O	30	30	172820	 the lion, which is mightiest among beasts and does not turn back before any; 
20O	30	31	172830	 the strutting rooster, the he-goat, and a king whose army is with him. 
20O	30	32	172840	 If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth. 
20O	30	33	172850	 For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife. 
20O	31	1	172860	 The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: 
20O	31	2	172870	 What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? 
20O	31	3	172880	 Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. 
20O	31	4	172890	 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, 
20O	31	5	172900	 lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. 
20O	31	6	172910	 Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; 
20O	31	7	172920	 let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more. 
20O	31	8	172930	 Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. 
20O	31	9	172940	 Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy. 
20O	31	10	172950	 An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. 
20O	31	11	172960	 The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. 
20O	31	12	172970	 She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. 
20O	31	13	172980	 She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. 
20O	31	14	172990	 She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. 
20O	31	15	173000	 She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and portions for her maidens. 
20O	31	16	173010	 She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard. 
20O	31	17	173020	 She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong. 
20O	31	18	173030	 She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night. 
20O	31	19	173040	 She puts her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle. 
20O	31	20	173050	 She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy. 
20O	31	21	173060	 She is not afraid of snow for her household, for all her household are clothed in scarlet. 
20O	31	22	173070	 She makes bed coverings for herself; her clothing is fine linen and purple. 
20O	31	23	173080	 Her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land. 
20O	31	24	173090	 She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchant. 
20O	31	25	173100	 Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. 
20O	31	26	173110	 She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. 
20O	31	27	173120	 She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. 
20O	31	28	173130	 Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: 
20O	31	29	173140	 "Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all." 
20O	31	30	173150	 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. 
20O	31	31	173160	 Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates. 
21O	1	1	173170	 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 
21O	1	2	173180	 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. 
21O	1	3	173190	 What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? 
21O	1	4	173200	 A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. 
21O	1	5	173210	 The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. 
21O	1	6	173220	 The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns. 
21O	1	7	173230	 All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again. 
21O	1	8	173240	 All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 
21O	1	9	173250	 What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. 
21O	1	10	173260	 Is there a thing of which it is said, "See, this is new"? It has been already in the ages before us. 
21O	1	11	173270	 There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to be among those who come after. 
21O	1	12	173280	 I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem. 
21O	1	13	173290	 And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. 
21O	1	14	173300	 I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind. 
21O	1	15	173310	 What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted. 
21O	1	16	173320	 I said in my heart, "I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me, and my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge." 
21O	1	17	173330	 And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind. 
21O	1	18	173340	 For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow. 
21O	2	1	173350	 I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself." But behold, this also was vanity. 
21O	2	2	173360	 I said of laughter, "It is mad," and of pleasure, "What use is it?" 
21O	2	3	173370	 I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine--my heart still guiding me with wisdom--and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life. 
21O	2	4	173380	 I made great works. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself. 
21O	2	5	173390	 I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees. 
21O	2	6	173400	 I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees. 
21O	2	7	173410	 I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house. I had also great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem. 
21O	2	8	173420	 I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, the delight of the children of man. 
21O	2	9	173430	 So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me. 
21O	2	10	173440	 And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil. 
21O	2	11	173450	 Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun. 
21O	2	12	173460	 So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done. 
21O	2	13	173470	 Then I saw that there is more gain in wisdom than in folly, as there is more gain in light than in darkness. 
21O	2	14	173480	 The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the same event happens to all of them. 
21O	2	15	173490	 Then I said in my heart, "What happens to the fool will happen to me also. Why then have I been so very wise?" And I said in my heart that this also is vanity. 
21O	2	16	173500	 For of the wise as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool! 
21O	2	17	173510	 So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a striving after wind. 
21O	2	18	173520	 I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me, 
21O	2	19	173530	 and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity. 
21O	2	20	173540	 So I turned about and gave my heart up to despair over all the toil of my labors under the sun, 
21O	2	21	173550	 because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. 
21O	2	22	173560	 What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? 
21O	2	23	173570	 For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity. 
21O	2	24	173580	 There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, 
21O	2	25	173590	 for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? 
21O	2	26	173600	 For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. 
21O	3	1	173610	 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 
21O	3	2	173620	 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 
21O	3	3	173630	 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 
21O	3	4	173640	 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 
21O	3	5	173650	 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 
21O	3	6	173660	 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 
21O	3	7	173670	 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 
21O	3	8	173680	 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. 
21O	3	9	173690	 What gain has the worker from his toil? 
21O	3	10	173700	 I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. 
21O	3	11	173710	 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. 
21O	3	12	173720	 I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; 
21O	3	13	173730	 also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil--this is God's gift to man. 
21O	3	14	173740	 I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him. 
21O	3	15	173750	 That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away. 
21O	3	16	173760	 Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness. 
21O	3	17	173770	 I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work. 
21O	3	18	173780	 I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts. 
21O	3	19	173790	 For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity. 
21O	3	20	173800	 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return. 
21O	3	21	173810	 Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth? 
21O	3	22	173820	 So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him? 
21O	4	1	173830	 Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them. 
21O	4	2	173840	 And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive. 
21O	4	3	173850	 But better than both is he who has not yet been and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun. 
21O	4	4	173860	 Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. 
21O	4	5	173870	 The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh. 
21O	4	6	173880	 Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind. 
21O	4	7	173890	 Again, I saw vanity under the sun: 
21O	4	8	173900	 one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is vanity and an unhappy business. 
21O	4	9	173910	 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. 
21O	4	10	173920	 For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! 
21O	4	11	173930	 Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? 
21O	4	12	173940	 And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him--a threefold cord is not quickly broken. 
21O	4	13	173950	 Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice. 
21O	4	14	173960	 For he went from prison to the throne, though in his own kingdom he had been born poor. 
21O	4	15	173970	 I saw all the living who move about under the sun, along with that youth who was to stand in the king's place. 
21O	4	16	173980	 There was no end of all the people, all of whom he led. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind. 
21O	5	1	173990	 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. 
21O	5	2	174000	 Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. 
21O	5	3	174010	 For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words. 
21O	5	4	174020	 When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow. 
21O	5	5	174030	 It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay. 
21O	5	6	174040	 Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands? 
21O	5	7	174050	 For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear. 
21O	5	8	174060	 If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them. 
21O	5	9	174070	 But this is gain for a land in every way: a king committed to cultivated fields. 
21O	5	10	174080	 He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity. 
21O	5	11	174090	 When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes? 
21O	5	12	174100	 Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep. 
21O	5	13	174110	 There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt, 
21O	5	14	174120	 and those riches were lost in a bad venture. And he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand. 
21O	5	15	174130	 As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand. 
21O	5	16	174140	 This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind? 
21O	5	17	174150	 Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness in much vexation and sickness and anger. 
21O	5	18	174160	 Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot. 
21O	5	19	174170	 Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil--this is the gift of God. 
21O	5	20	174180	 For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart. 
21O	6	1	174190	 There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy on mankind: 
21O	6	2	174200	 a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous evil. 
21O	6	3	174210	 If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he. 
21O	6	4	174220	 For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered. 
21O	6	5	174230	 Moreover, it has not seen the sun or known anything, yet it finds rest rather than he. 
21O	6	6	174240	 Even though he should live a thousand years twice over, yet enjoy no good--do not all go to the one place? 
21O	6	7	174250	 All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied. 
21O	6	8	174260	 For what advantage has the wise man over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living? 
21O	6	9	174270	 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the appetite: this also is vanity and a striving after wind. 
21O	6	10	174280	 Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he. 
21O	6	11	174290	 The more words, the more vanity, and what is the advantage to man? 
21O	6	12	174300	 For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun? 
21O	7	1	174310	 A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth. 
21O	7	2	174320	 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart. 
21O	7	3	174330	 Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad. 
21O	7	4	174340	 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. 
21O	7	5	174350	 It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools. 
21O	7	6	174360	 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fools; this also is vanity. 
21O	7	7	174370	 Surely oppression drives the wise into madness, and a bribe corrupts the heart. 
21O	7	8	174380	 Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. 
21O	7	9	174390	 Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools. 
21O	7	10	174400	 Say not, "Why were the former days better than these?" For it is not from wisdom that you ask this. 
21O	7	11	174410	 Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun. 
21O	7	12	174420	 For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it. 
21O	7	13	174430	 Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked? 
21O	7	14	174440	 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him. 
21O	7	15	174450	 In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing. 
21O	7	16	174460	 Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself? 
21O	7	17	174470	 Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time? 
21O	7	18	174480	 It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them. 
21O	7	19	174490	 Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city. 
21O	7	20	174500	 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins. 
21O	7	21	174510	 Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you. 
21O	7	22	174520	 Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others. 
21O	7	23	174530	 All this I have tested by wisdom. I said, "I will be wise," but it was far from me. 
21O	7	24	174540	 That which has been is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out? 
21O	7	25	174550	 I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness. 
21O	7	26	174560	 And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her. 
21O	7	27	174570	 Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, while adding one thing to another to find the scheme of things-- 
21O	7	28	174580	 which my soul has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found. 
21O	7	29	174590	 See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes. 
21O	8	1	174600	 Who is like the wise? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed. 
21O	8	2	174610	 I say: Keep the king's command, because of God's oath to him. 
21O	8	3	174620	 Be not hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand in an evil cause, for he does whatever he pleases. 
21O	8	4	174630	 For the word of the king is supreme, and who may say to him, "What are you doing?" 
21O	8	5	174640	 Whoever keeps a command will know no evil thing, and the wise heart will know the proper time and the just way. 
21O	8	6	174650	 For there is a time and a way for everything, although man's trouble lies heavy on him. 
21O	8	7	174660	 For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be? 
21O	8	8	174670	 No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death. There is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it. 
21O	8	9	174680	 All this I observed while applying my heart to all that is done under the sun, when man had power over man to his hurt. 
21O	8	10	174690	 Then I saw the wicked buried. They used to go in and out of the holy place and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity. 
21O	8	11	174700	 Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil. 
21O	8	12	174710	 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him. 
21O	8	13	174720	 But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God. 
21O	8	14	174730	 There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity. 
21O	8	15	174740	 And I commend joy, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun. 
21O	8	16	174750	 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one's eyes see sleep, 
21O	8	17	174760	 then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out. 
21O	9	1	174770	 But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him. 
21O	9	2	174780	 It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath. 
21O	9	3	174790	 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead. 
21O	9	4	174800	 But he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion. 
21O	9	5	174810	 For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. 
21O	9	6	174820	 Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun. 
21O	9	7	174830	 Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do. 
21O	9	8	174840	 Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head. 
21O	9	9	174850	 Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun. 
21O	9	10	174860	 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going. 
21O	9	11	174870	 Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all. 
21O	9	12	174880	 For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them. 
21O	9	13	174890	 I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me. 
21O	9	14	174900	 There was a little city with few men in it, and a great king came against it and besieged it, building great siegeworks against it. 
21O	9	15	174910	 But there was found in it a poor, wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man. 
21O	9	16	174920	 But I say that wisdom is better than might, though the poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard. 
21O	9	17	174930	 The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools. 
21O	9	18	174940	 Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good. 
21O	10	1	174950	 Dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor. 
21O	10	2	174960	 A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. 
21O	10	3	174970	 Even when the fool walks on the road, he lacks sense, and he says to everyone that he is a fool. 
21O	10	4	174980	 If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest. 
21O	10	5	174990	 There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were an error proceeding from the ruler: 
21O	10	6	175000	 folly is set in many high places, and the rich sit in a low place. 
21O	10	7	175010	 I have seen slaves on horses, and princes walking on the ground like slaves. 
21O	10	8	175020	 He who digs a pit will fall into it, and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall. 
21O	10	9	175030	 He who quarries stones is hurt by them, and he who splits logs is endangered by them. 
21O	10	10	175040	 If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, he must use more strength, but wisdom helps one to succeed. 
21O	10	11	175050	 If the serpent bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage to the charmer. 
21O	10	12	175060	 The words of a wise man's mouth win him favor, but the lips of a fool consume him. 
21O	10	13	175070	 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is evil madness. 
21O	10	14	175080	 A fool multiplies words, though no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him what will be after him? 
21O	10	15	175090	 The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city. 
21O	10	16	175100	 Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning! 
21O	10	17	175110	 Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of the nobility, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness! 
21O	10	18	175120	 Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the house leaks. 
21O	10	19	175130	 Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything. 
21O	10	20	175140	 Even in your thoughts, do not curse the king, nor in your bedroom curse the rich, for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter. 
21O	11	1	175150	 Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days. 
21O	11	2	175160	 Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what disaster may happen on earth. 
21O	11	3	175170	 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth, and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie. 
21O	11	4	175180	 He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap. 
21O	11	5	175190	 As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything. 
21O	11	6	175200	 In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good. 
21O	11	7	175210	 Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun. 
21O	11	8	175220	 So if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity. 
21O	11	9	175230	 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. 
21O	11	10	175240	 Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity. 
21O	12	1	175250	 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, "I have no pleasure in them"; 
21O	12	2	175260	 before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, 
21O	12	3	175270	 in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed, 
21O	12	4	175280	 and the doors on the street are shut--when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low-- 
21O	12	5	175290	 they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets-- 
21O	12	6	175300	 before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, 
21O	12	7	175310	 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. 
21O	12	8	175320	 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity. 
21O	12	9	175330	 Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs with great care. 
21O	12	10	175340	 The Preacher sought to find words of delight, and uprightly he wrote words of truth. 
21O	12	11	175350	 The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd. 
21O	12	12	175360	 My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh. 
21O	12	13	175370	 The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. 
21O	12	14	175380	 For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil. 
22O	1	1	175390	 The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's. 
22O	1	2	175400	 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine; 
22O	1	3	175410	 your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you. 
22O	1	4	175420	 Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you. 
22O	1	5	175430	 I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. 
22O	1	6	175440	 Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother's sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept! 
22O	1	7	175450	 Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions? 
22O	1	8	175460	 If you do not know, O most beautiful among women, follow in the tracks of the flock, and pasture your young goats beside the shepherds' tents. 
22O	1	9	175470	 I compare you, my love, to a mare among Pharaoh's chariots. 
22O	1	10	175480	 Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels. 
22O	1	11	175490	 We will make for you ornaments of gold, studded with silver. 
22O	1	12	175500	 While the king was on his couch, my nard gave forth its fragrance. 
22O	1	13	175510	 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh that lies between my breasts. 
22O	1	14	175520	 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of Engedi. 
22O	1	15	175530	 Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves. 
22O	1	16	175540	 Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly delightful. Our couch is green; 
22O	1	17	175550	 the beams of our house are cedar; our rafters are pine. 
22O	2	1	175560	 I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. 
22O	2	2	175570	 As a lily among brambles, so is my love among the young women. 
22O	2	3	175580	 As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. 
22O	2	4	175590	 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. 
22O	2	5	175600	 Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love. 
22O	2	6	175610	 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me! 
22O	2	7	175620	 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases. 
22O	2	8	175630	 The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills. 
22O	2	9	175640	 My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, there he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, looking through the lattice. 
22O	2	10	175650	 My beloved speaks and says to me: "Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away, 
22O	2	11	175660	 for behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone. 
22O	2	12	175670	 The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. 
22O	2	13	175680	 The fig tree ripens its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away. 
22O	2	14	175690	 O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the crannies of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely. 
22O	2	15	175700	 Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom." 
22O	2	16	175710	 My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies. 
22O	2	17	175720	 Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a young stag on cleft mountains. 
22O	3	1	175730	 On my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him, but found him not. 
22O	3	2	175740	 I will rise now and go about the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but found him not. 
22O	3	3	175750	 The watchmen found me as they went about in the city. "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?" 
22O	3	4	175760	 Scarcely had I passed them when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her who conceived me. 
22O	3	5	175770	 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases. 
22O	3	6	175780	 What is that coming up from the wilderness like columns of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of a merchant? 
22O	3	7	175790	 Behold, it is the litter of Solomon! Around it are sixty mighty men, some of the mighty men of Israel, 
22O	3	8	175800	 all of them wearing swords and expert in war, each with his sword at his thigh, against terror by night. 
22O	3	9	175810	 King Solomon made himself a carriage from the wood of Lebanon. 
22O	3	10	175820	 He made its posts of silver, its back of gold, its seat of purple; its interior was inlaid with love by the daughters of Jerusalem. 
22O	3	11	175830	 Go out, O daughters of Zion, and look upon King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, on the day of the gladness of his heart. 
22O	4	1	175840	 Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead. 
22O	4	2	175850	 Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that have come up from the washing, all of which bear twins, and not one among them has lost its young. 
22O	4	3	175860	 Your lips are like a scarlet thread, and your mouth is lovely. Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil. 
22O	4	4	175870	 Your neck is like the tower of David, built in rows of stone; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors. 
22O	4	5	175880	 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that graze among the lilies. 
22O	4	6	175890	 Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will go away to the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense. 
22O	4	7	175900	 You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you. 
22O	4	8	175910	 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride; come with me from Lebanon. Depart from the peak of Amana, from the peak of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of lions, from the mountains of leopards. 
22O	4	9	175920	 You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride; you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace. 
22O	4	10	175930	 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice! 
22O	4	11	175940	 Your lips drip nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your tongue; the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon. 
22O	4	12	175950	 A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a spring locked, a fountain sealed. 
22O	4	13	175960	 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates with all choicest fruits, henna with nard, 
22O	4	14	175970	 nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all choice spices-- 
22O	4	15	175980	 a garden fountain, a well of living water, and flowing streams from Lebanon. 
22O	4	16	175990	 Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its spices flow. Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits. 
22O	5	1	176000	 I came to my garden, my sister, my bride, I gathered my myrrh with my spice, I ate my honeycomb with my honey, I drank my wine with my milk. Eat, friends, drink, and be drunk with love! 
22O	5	2	176010	 I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night." 
22O	5	3	176020	 I had put off my garment; how could I put it on? I had bathed my feet; how could I soil them? 
22O	5	4	176030	 My beloved put his hand to the latch, and my heart was thrilled within me. 
22O	5	5	176040	 I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the bolt. 
22O	5	6	176050	 I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer. 
22O	5	7	176060	 The watchmen found me as they went about in the city; they beat me, they bruised me, they took away my veil, those watchmen of the walls. 
22O	5	8	176070	 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love. 
22O	5	9	176080	 What is your beloved more than another beloved, O most beautiful among women? What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you thus adjure us? 
22O	5	10	176090	 My beloved is radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand. 
22O	5	11	176100	 His head is the finest gold; his locks are wavy, black as a raven. 
22O	5	12	176110	 His eyes are like doves beside streams of water, bathed in milk, sitting beside a full pool. 
22O	5	13	176120	 His cheeks are like beds of spices, mounds of sweet-smelling herbs. His lips are lilies, dripping liquid myrrh. 
22O	5	14	176130	 His arms are rods of gold, set with jewels. His body is polished ivory, bedecked with sapphires. 
22O	5	15	176140	 His legs are alabaster columns, set on bases of gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars. 
22O	5	16	176150	 His mouth is most sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. 
22O	6	1	176160	 Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? 
22O	6	2	176170	 My beloved has gone down to his garden to the beds of spices, to graze in the gardens and to gather lilies. 
22O	6	3	176180	 I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies. 
22O	6	4	176190	 You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners. 
22O	6	5	176200	 Turn away your eyes from me, for they overwhelm me-- Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead. 
22O	6	6	176210	 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes that have come up from the washing; all of them bear twins; not one among them has lost its young. 
22O	6	7	176220	 Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil. 
22O	6	8	176230	 There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and virgins without number. 
22O	6	9	176240	 My dove, my perfect one, is the only one, the only one of her mother, pure to her who bore her. The young women saw her and called her blessed; the queens and concubines also, and they praised her. 
22O	6	10	176250	 "Who is this who looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, awesome as an army with banners?" 
22O	6	11	176260	 I went down to the nut orchard to look at the blossoms of the valley, to see whether the vines had budded, whether the pomegranates were in bloom. 
22O	6	12	176270	 Before I was aware, my desire set me among the chariots of my kinsman, a prince. 
22O	6	13	176280	 Return, return, O Shulammite, return, return, that we may look upon you. Why should you look upon the Shulammite, as upon a dance before two armies? 
22O	7	1	176290	 How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O noble daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand. 
22O	7	2	176300	 Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies. 
22O	7	3	176310	 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. 
22O	7	4	176320	 Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, which looks toward Damascus. 
22O	7	5	176330	 Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses. 
22O	7	6	176340	 How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights! 
22O	7	7	176350	 Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters. 
22O	7	8	176360	 I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples, 
22O	7	9	176370	 and your mouth like the best wine. It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth. 
22O	7	10	176380	 I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me. 
22O	7	11	176390	 Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields and lodge in the villages; 
22O	7	12	176400	 let us go out early to the vineyards and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love. 
22O	7	13	176410	 The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and beside our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved. 
22O	8	1	176420	 Oh that you were like a brother to me who nursed at my mother's breasts! If I found you outside, I would kiss you, and none would despise me. 
22O	8	2	176430	 I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother-- she who used to teach me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranate. 
22O	8	3	176440	 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me! 
22O	8	4	176450	 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases. 
22O	8	5	176460	 Who is that coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother was in labor with you; there she who bore you was in labor. 
22O	8	6	176470	 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD. 
22O	8	7	176480	 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised. 
22O	8	8	176490	 We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is spoken for? 
22O	8	9	176500	 If she is a wall, we will build on her a battlement of silver, but if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar. 
22O	8	10	176510	 I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers; then I was in his eyes as one who finds peace. 
22O	8	11	176520	 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver. 
22O	8	12	176530	 My vineyard, my very own, is before me; you, O Solomon, may have the thousand, and the keepers of the fruit two hundred. 
22O	8	13	176540	 O you who dwell in the gardens, with companions listening for your voice; let me hear it. 
22O	8	14	176550	 Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices. 
23O	1	1	176560	 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 
23O	1	2	176570	 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD has spoken: "Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. 
23O	1	3	176580	 The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand." 
23O	1	4	176590	 Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. 
23O	1	5	176600	 Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 
23O	1	6	176610	 From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and raw wounds; they are not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil. 
23O	1	7	176620	 Your country lies desolate; your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence foreigners devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners. 
23O	1	8	176630	 And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a lodge in a cucumber field, like a besieged city. 
23O	1	9	176640	 If the LORD of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah. 
23O	1	10	176650	 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! 
23O	1	11	176660	 "What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats. 
23O	1	12	176670	 "When you come to appear before me, who has required of you this trampling of my courts? 
23O	1	13	176680	 Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations-- I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly. 
23O	1	14	176690	 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. 
23O	1	15	176700	 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood. 
23O	1	16	176710	 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, 
23O	1	17	176720	 learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause. 
23O	1	18	176730	 "Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. 
23O	1	19	176740	 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; 
23O	1	20	176750	 but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken." 
23O	1	21	176760	 How the faithful city has become a whore, she who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. 
23O	1	22	176770	 Your silver has become dross, your best wine mixed with water. 
23O	1	23	176780	 Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them. 
23O	1	24	176790	 Therefore the Lord declares, the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "Ah, I will get relief from my enemies and avenge myself on my foes. 
23O	1	25	176800	 I will turn my hand against you and will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy. 
23O	1	26	176810	 And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city." 
23O	1	27	176820	 Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteousness. 
23O	1	28	176830	 But rebels and sinners shall be broken together, and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed. 
23O	1	29	176840	 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks that you desired; and you shall blush for the gardens that you have chosen. 
23O	1	30	176850	 For you shall be like an oak whose leaf withers, and like a garden without water. 
23O	1	31	176860	 And the strong shall become tinder, and his work a spark, and both of them shall burn together, with none to quench them. 
23O	2	1	176870	 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 
23O	2	2	176880	 It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, 
23O	2	3	176890	 and many peoples shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 
23O	2	4	176900	 He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. 
23O	2	5	176910	 O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the LORD. 
23O	2	6	176920	 For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. 
23O	2	7	176930	 Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots. 
23O	2	8	176940	 Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made. 
23O	2	9	176950	 So man is humbled, and each one is brought low-- do not forgive them! 
23O	2	10	176960	 Enter into the rock and hide in the dust from before the terror of the LORD, and from the splendor of his majesty. 
23O	2	11	176970	 The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. 
23O	2	12	176980	 For the LORD of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up--and it shall be brought low; 
23O	2	13	176990	 against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up; and against all the oaks of Bashan; 
23O	2	14	177000	 against all the lofty mountains, and against all the uplifted hills; 
23O	2	15	177010	 against every high tower, and against every fortified wall; 
23O	2	16	177020	 against all the ships of Tarshish, and against all the beautiful craft. 
23O	2	17	177030	 And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. 
23O	2	18	177040	 And the idols shall utterly pass away. 
23O	2	19	177050	 And people shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth. 
23O	2	20	177060	 In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats, 
23O	2	21	177070	 to enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth. 
23O	2	22	177080	 Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he? 
23O	3	1	177090	 For behold, the Lord GOD of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; 
23O	3	2	177100	 the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, 
23O	3	3	177110	 the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. 
23O	3	4	177120	 And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. 
23O	3	5	177130	 And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. 
23O	3	6	177140	 For a man will take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying: "You have a cloak; you shall be our leader, and this heap of ruins shall be under your rule"; 
23O	3	7	177150	 in that day he will speak out, saying: "I will not be a healer; in my house there is neither bread nor cloak; you shall not make me leader of the people." 
23O	3	8	177160	 For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the LORD, defying his glorious presence. 
23O	3	9	177170	 For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves. 
23O	3	10	177180	 Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds. 
23O	3	11	177190	 Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him. 
23O	3	12	177200	 My people--infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths. 
23O	3	13	177210	 The LORD has taken his place to contend; he stands to judge peoples. 
23O	3	14	177220	 The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses. 
23O	3	15	177230	 What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor?" declares the Lord GOD of hosts. 
23O	3	16	177240	 The LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet, 
23O	3	17	177250	 therefore the Lord will strike with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts. 
23O	3	18	177260	 In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents; 
23O	3	19	177270	 the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves; 
23O	3	20	177280	 the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets; 
23O	3	21	177290	 the signet rings and nose rings; 
23O	3	22	177300	 the festal robes, the mantles, the cloaks, and the handbags; 
23O	3	23	177310	 the mirrors, the linen garments, the turbans, and the veils. 
23O	3	24	177320	 Instead of perfume there will be rottenness; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a skirt of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty. 
23O	3	25	177330	 Your men shall fall by the sword and your mighty men in battle. 
23O	3	26	177340	 And her gates shall lament and mourn; empty, she shall sit on the ground. 
23O	4	1	177350	 And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach." 
23O	4	2	177360	 In that day the branch of the LORD shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and honor of the survivors of Israel. 
23O	4	3	177370	 And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem, 
23O	4	4	177380	 when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning. 
23O	4	5	177390	 Then the LORD will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a canopy. 
23O	4	6	177400	 There will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain. 
23O	5	1	177410	 Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. 
23O	5	2	177420	 He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. 
23O	5	3	177430	 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. 
23O	5	4	177440	 What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes? 
23O	5	5	177450	 And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. 
23O	5	6	177460	 I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 
23O	5	7	177470	 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry! 
23O	5	8	177480	 Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land. 
23O	5	9	177490	 The LORD of hosts has sworn in my hearing: "Surely many houses shall be desolate, large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant. 
23O	5	10	177500	 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah." 
23O	5	11	177510	 Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening as wine inflames them! 
23O	5	12	177520	 They have lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts, but they do not regard the deeds of the LORD, or see the work of his hands. 
23O	5	13	177530	 Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge; their honored men go hungry, and their multitude is parched with thirst. 
23O	5	14	177540	 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure, and the nobility of Jerusalem and her multitude will go down, her revelers and he who exults in her. 
23O	5	15	177550	 Man is humbled, and each one is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are brought low. 
23O	5	16	177560	 But the LORD of hosts is exalted in justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness. 
23O	5	17	177570	 Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture, and nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich. 
23O	5	18	177580	 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes, 
23O	5	19	177590	 who say: "Let him be quick, let him speed his work that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near, and let it come, that we may know it!" 
23O	5	20	177600	 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! 
23O	5	21	177610	 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight! 
23O	5	22	177620	 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink, 
23O	5	23	177630	 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right! 
23O	5	24	177640	 Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 
23O	5	25	177650	 Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them, and the mountains quaked; and their corpses were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still. 
23O	5	26	177660	 He will raise a signal for nations far away, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come! 
23O	5	27	177670	 None is weary, none stumbles, none slumbers or sleeps, not a waistband is loose, not a sandal strap broken; 
23O	5	28	177680	 their arrows are sharp, all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs seem like flint, and their wheels like the whirlwind. 
23O	5	29	177690	 Their roaring is like a lion, like young lions they roar; they growl and seize their prey; they carry it off, and none can rescue. 
23O	5	30	177700	 They will growl over it on that day, like the growling of the sea. And if one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened by its clouds. 
23O	6	1	177710	 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 
23O	6	2	177720	 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 
23O	6	3	177730	 And one called to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!" 
23O	6	4	177740	 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 
23O	6	5	177750	 And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!" 
23O	6	6	177760	 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. 
23O	6	7	177770	 And he touched my mouth and said: "Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for." 
23O	6	8	177780	 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here am I! Send me." 
23O	6	9	177790	 And he said, "Go, and say to this people: "'Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.' 
23O	6	10	177800	 Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed." 
23O	6	11	177810	 Then I said, "How long, O Lord?" And he said: "Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is a desolate waste, 
23O	6	12	177820	 and the LORD removes people far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land. 
23O	6	13	177830	 And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains when it is felled." The holy seed is its stump. 
23O	7	1	177840	 In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not yet mount an attack against it. 
23O	7	2	177850	 When the house of David was told, "Syria is in league with Ephraim," the heart of Ahaz and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind. 
23O	7	3	177860	 And the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer's Field. 
23O	7	4	177870	 And say to him, 'Be careful, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah. 
23O	7	5	177880	 Because Syria, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has devised evil against you, saying, 
23O	7	6	177890	 "Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer it for ourselves, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it," 
23O	7	7	177900	 thus says the Lord GOD: "'It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass. 
23O	7	8	177910	 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. And within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered from being a people. 
23O	7	9	177920	 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all.'" 
23O	7	10	177930	 Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz, 
23O	7	11	177940	 "Ask a sign of the LORD your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven." 
23O	7	12	177950	 But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not put the LORD to the test." 
23O	7	13	177960	 And he said, "Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my God also? 
23O	7	14	177970	 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 
23O	7	15	177980	 He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good. 
23O	7	16	177990	 For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be deserted. 
23O	7	17	178000	 The LORD will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father's house such days as have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah--the king of Assyria." 
23O	7	18	178010	 In that day the LORD will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 
23O	7	19	178020	 And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines, and in the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes, and on all the pastures. 
23O	7	20	178030	 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired beyond the River--with the king of Assyria--the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also. 
23O	7	21	178040	 In that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep, 
23O	7	22	178050	 and because of the abundance of milk that they give, he will eat curds, for everyone who is left in the land will eat curds and honey. 
23O	7	23	178060	 In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns. 
23O	7	24	178070	 With bow and arrows a man will come there, for all the land will be briers and thorns. 
23O	7	25	178080	 And as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear of briers and thorns, but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread. 
23O	8	1	178090	 Then the LORD said to me, "Take a large tablet and write on it in common characters, 'Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.' 
23O	8	2	178100	 And I will get reliable witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, to attest for me." 
23O	8	3	178110	 And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, "Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz; 
23O	8	4	178120	 for before the boy knows how to cry 'My father' or 'My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria." 
23O	8	5	178130	 The LORD spoke to me again: 
23O	8	6	178140	 "Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice over Rezin and the son of Remaliah, 
23O	8	7	178150	 therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks, 
23O	8	8	178160	 and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, reaching even to the neck, and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel." 
23O	8	9	178170	 Be broken, you peoples, and be shattered; give ear, all you far countries; strap on your armor and be shattered; strap on your armor and be shattered. 
23O	8	10	178180	 Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us. 
23O	8	11	178190	 For the LORD spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying: 
23O	8	12	178200	 "Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread. 
23O	8	13	178210	 But the LORD of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. 
23O	8	14	178220	 And he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 
23O	8	15	178230	 And many shall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken." 
23O	8	16	178240	 Bind up the testimony; seal the teaching among my disciples. 
23O	8	17	178250	 I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him. 
23O	8	18	178260	 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion. 
23O	8	19	178270	 And when they say to you, "Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter," should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living? 
23O	8	20	178280	 To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. 
23O	8	21	178290	 They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against their king and their God, and turn their faces upward. 
23O	8	22	178300	 And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into thick darkness. 
23O	9	1	178310	 But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. 
23O	9	2	178320	 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shined. 
23O	9	3	178330	 You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil. 
23O	9	4	178340	 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian. 
23O	9	5	178350	 For every boot of the tramping warrior in battle tumult and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire. 
23O	9	6	178360	 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 
23O	9	7	178370	 Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this. 
23O	9	8	178380	 The Lord has sent a word against Jacob, and it will fall on Israel; 
23O	9	9	178390	 and all the people will know, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart: 
23O	9	10	178400	 "The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place." 
23O	9	11	178410	 But the LORD raises the adversaries of Rezin against him, and stirs up his enemies. 
23O	9	12	178420	 The Syrians on the east and the Philistines on the west devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still. 
23O	9	13	178430	 The people did not turn to him who struck them, nor inquire of the LORD of hosts. 
23O	9	14	178440	 So the LORD cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day-- 
23O	9	15	178450	 the elder and honored man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail; 
23O	9	16	178460	 for those who guide this people have been leading them astray, and those who are guided by them are swallowed up. 
23O	9	17	178470	 Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is godless and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still. 
23O	9	18	178480	 For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke. 
23O	9	19	178490	 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no one spares another. 
23O	9	20	178500	 They slice meat on the right, but are still hungry, and they devour on the left, but are not satisfied; each devours the flesh of his own arm, 
23O	9	21	178510	 Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim devours Manasseh; together they are against Judah. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still. 
23O	10	1	178520	 Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, 
23O	10	2	178530	 to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey! 
23O	10	3	178540	 What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth? 
23O	10	4	178550	 Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still. 
23O	10	5	178560	 Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury! 
23O	10	6	178570	 Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 
23O	10	7	178580	 But he does not so intend, and his heart does not so think; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few; 
23O	10	8	178590	 for he says: "Are not my commanders all kings? 
23O	10	9	178600	 Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? 
23O	10	10	178610	 As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria, 
23O	10	11	178620	 shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her images?" 
23O	10	12	178630	 When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes. 
23O	10	13	178640	 For he says: "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; I remove the boundaries of peoples, and plunder their treasures; like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones. 
23O	10	14	178650	 My hand has found like a nest the wealth of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken, so I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved a wing or opened the mouth or chirped." 
23O	10	15	178660	 Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood! 
23O	10	16	178670	 Therefore the Lord GOD of hosts will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors, and under his glory a burning will be kindled, like the burning of fire. 
23O	10	17	178680	 The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day. 
23O	10	18	178690	 The glory of his forest and of his fruitful land the LORD will destroy, both soul and body, and it will be as when a sick man wastes away. 
23O	10	19	178700	 The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few that a child can write them down. 
23O	10	20	178710	 In that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more lean on him who struck them, but will lean on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 
23O	10	21	178720	 A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God. 
23O	10	22	178730	 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness. 
23O	10	23	178740	 For the Lord GOD of hosts will make a full end, as decreed, in the midst of all the earth. 
23O	10	24	178750	 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD of hosts: "O my people, who dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with the rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did. 
23O	10	25	178760	 For in a very little while my fury will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction. 
23O	10	26	178770	 And the LORD of hosts will wield against them a whip, as when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. And his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it as he did in Egypt. 
23O	10	27	178780	 And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat." 
23O	10	28	178790	 He has come to Aiath; he has passed through Migron; at Michmash he stores his baggage; 
23O	10	29	178800	 they have crossed over the pass; at Geba they lodge for the night; Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul has fled. 
23O	10	30	178810	 Cry aloud, O daughter of Gallim! Give attention, O Laishah! O poor Anathoth! 
23O	10	31	178820	 Madmenah is in flight; the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety. 
23O	10	32	178830	 This very day he will halt at Nob; he will shake his fist at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. 
23O	10	33	178840	 Behold, the Lord GOD of hosts will lop the boughs with terrifying power; the great in height will be hewn down, and the lofty will be brought low. 
23O	10	34	178850	 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe, and Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One. 
23O	11	1	178860	 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. 
23O	11	2	178870	 And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD. 
23O	11	3	178880	 And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide disputes by what his ears hear, 
23O	11	4	178890	 but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked. 
23O	11	5	178900	 Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins. 
23O	11	6	178910	 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. 
23O	11	7	178920	 The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 
23O	11	8	178930	 The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den. 
23O	11	9	178940	 They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. 
23O	11	10	178950	 In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples--of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious. 
23O	11	11	178960	 In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea. 
23O	11	12	178970	 He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. 
23O	11	13	178980	 The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart, and those who harass Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not harass Ephraim. 
23O	11	14	178990	 But they shall swoop down on the shoulder of the Philistines in the west, and together they shall plunder the people of the east. They shall put out their hand against Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites shall obey them. 
23O	11	15	179000	 And the LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt, and will wave his hand over the River with his scorching breath, and strike it into seven channels, and he will lead people across in sandals. 
23O	11	16	179010	 And there will be a highway from Assyria for the remnant that remains of his people, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt. 
23O	12	1	179020	 You will say in that day: "I will give thanks to you, O LORD, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, that you might comfort me. 
23O	12	2	179030	 "Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation." 
23O	12	3	179040	 With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. 
23O	12	4	179050	 And you will say in that day: "Give thanks to the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the peoples, proclaim that his name is exalted. 
23O	12	5	179060	 "Sing praises to the LORD, for he has done gloriously; let this be made known in all the earth. 
23O	12	6	179070	 Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel." 
23O	13	1	179080	 The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw. 
23O	13	2	179090	 On a bare hill raise a signal; cry aloud to them; wave the hand for them to enter the gates of the nobles. 
23O	13	3	179100	 I myself have commanded my consecrated ones, and have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger, my proudly exulting ones. 
23O	13	4	179110	 The sound of a tumult is on the mountains as of a great multitude! The sound of an uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together! The LORD of hosts is mustering a host for battle. 
23O	13	5	179120	 They come from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, the LORD and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. 
23O	13	6	179130	 Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come! 
23O	13	7	179140	 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every human heart will melt. 
23O	13	8	179150	 They will be dismayed: pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame. 
23O	13	9	179160	 Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it. 
23O	13	10	179170	 For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light. 
23O	13	11	179180	 I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless. 
23O	13	12	179190	 I will make people more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir. 
23O	13	13	179200	 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, at the wrath of the LORD of hosts in the day of his fierce anger. 
23O	13	14	179210	 And like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with none to gather them, each will turn to his own people, and each will flee to his own land. 
23O	13	15	179220	 Whoever is found will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword. 
23O	13	16	179230	 Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished. 
23O	13	17	179240	 Behold, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold. 
23O	13	18	179250	 Their bows will slaughter the young men; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not pity children. 
23O	13	19	179260	 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them. 
23O	13	20	179270	 It will never be inhabited or lived in for all generations; no Arab will pitch his tent there; no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there. 
23O	13	21	179280	 But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will dwell, and there wild goats will dance. 
23O	13	22	179290	 Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in the pleasant palaces; its time is close at hand and its days will not be prolonged. 
23O	14	1	179300	 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob. 
23O	14	2	179310	 And the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the LORD's land as male and female slaves. They will take captive those who were their captors, and rule over those who oppressed them. 
23O	14	3	179320	 When the LORD has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve, 
23O	14	4	179330	 you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: "How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased! 
23O	14	5	179340	 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers, 
23O	14	6	179350	 that struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution. 
23O	14	7	179360	 The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing. 
23O	14	8	179370	 The cypresses rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon, saying, 'Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.' 
23O	14	9	179380	 Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations. 
23O	14	10	179390	 All of them will answer and say to you: 'You too have become as weak as we! You have become like us!' 
23O	14	11	179400	 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are laid as a bed beneath you, and worms are your covers. 
23O	14	12	179410	 "How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! 
23O	14	13	179420	 You said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; 
23O	14	14	179430	 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.' 
23O	14	15	179440	 But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit. 
23O	14	16	179450	 Those who see you will stare at you and ponder over you: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms, 
23O	14	17	179460	 who made the world like a desert and overthrew its cities, who did not let his prisoners go home?' 
23O	14	18	179470	 All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb; 
23O	14	19	179480	 but you are cast out, away from your grave, like a loathed branch, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a dead body trampled underfoot. 
23O	14	20	179490	 You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have slain your people. "May the offspring of evildoers nevermore be named! 
23O	14	21	179500	 Prepare slaughter for his sons because of the guilt of their fathers, lest they rise and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities." 
23O	14	22	179510	 "I will rise up against them," declares the LORD of hosts, "and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, descendants and posterity," declares the LORD. 
23O	14	23	179520	 "And I will make it a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," declares the LORD of hosts. 
23O	14	24	179530	 The LORD of hosts has sworn: "As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand, 
23O	14	25	179540	 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains trample him underfoot; and his yoke shall depart from them, and his burden from their shoulder." 
23O	14	26	179550	 This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. 
23O	14	27	179560	 For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back? 
23O	14	28	179570	 In the year that King Ahaz died came this oracle: 
23O	14	29	179580	 Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod that struck you is broken, for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent. 
23O	14	30	179590	 And the firstborn of the poor will graze, and the needy lie down in safety; but I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant it will slay. 
23O	14	31	179600	 Wail, O gate; cry out, O city; melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks. 
23O	14	32	179610	 What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge." 
23O	15	1	179620	 An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone; because Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone. 
23O	15	2	179630	 He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. On every head is baldness; every beard is shorn; 
23O	15	3	179640	 in the streets they wear sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares everyone wails and melts in tears. 
23O	15	4	179650	 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voice is heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembles. 
23O	15	5	179660	 My heart cries out for Moab; her fugitives flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction; 
23O	15	6	179670	 the waters of Nimrim are a desolation; the grass is withered, the vegetation fails, the greenery is no more. 
23O	15	7	179680	 Therefore the abundance they have gained and what they have laid up they carry away over the Brook of the Willows. 
23O	15	8	179690	 For a cry has gone around the land of Moab; her wailing reaches to Eglaim; her wailing reaches to Beer-elim. 
23O	15	9	179700	 For the waters of Dibon are full of blood; for I will bring upon Dibon even more, a lion for those of Moab who escape, for the remnant of the land. 
23O	16	1	179710	 Send the lamb to the ruler of the land, from Sela, by way of the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Zion. 
23O	16	2	179720	 Like fleeing birds, like a scattered nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon. 
23O	16	3	179730	 "Give counsel; grant justice; make your shade like night at the height of noon; shelter the outcasts; do not reveal the fugitive; 
23O	16	4	179740	 let the outcasts of Moab sojourn among you; be a shelter to them from the destroyer. When the oppressor is no more, and destruction has ceased, and he who tramples underfoot has vanished from the land, 
23O	16	5	179750	 then a throne will be established in steadfast love, and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness." 
23O	16	6	179760	 We have heard of the pride of Moab-- how proud he is!-- of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence; in his idle boasting he is not right. 
23O	16	7	179770	 Therefore let Moab wail for Moab, let everyone wail. Mourn, utterly stricken, for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth. 
23O	16	8	179780	 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its branches, which reached to Jazer and strayed to the desert; its shoots spread abroad and passed over the sea. 
23O	16	9	179790	 Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; for over your summer fruit and your harvest the shout has ceased. 
23O	16	10	179800	 And joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful field, and in the vineyards no songs are sung, no cheers are raised; no treader treads out wine in the presses; I have put an end to the shouting. 
23O	16	11	179810	 Therefore my inner parts moan like a lyre for Moab, and my inmost self for Kir-hareseth. 
23O	16	12	179820	 And when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail. 
23O	16	13	179830	 This is the word that the LORD spoke concerning Moab in the past. 
23O	16	14	179840	 But now the LORD has spoken, saying, "In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who remain will be very few and feeble." 
23O	17	1	179850	 An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins. 
23O	17	2	179860	 The cities of Aroer are deserted; they will be for flocks, which will lie down, and none will make them afraid. 
23O	17	3	179870	 The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, declares the LORD of hosts. 
23O	17	4	179880	 And in that day the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will grow lean. 
23O	17	5	179890	 And it shall be as when the reaper gathers standing grain and his arm harvests the ears, and as when one gleans the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim. 
23O	17	6	179900	 Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten-- two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, declares the LORD God of Israel. 
23O	17	7	179910	 In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel. 
23O	17	8	179920	 He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not look on what his own fingers have made, either the Asherim or the altars of incense. 
23O	17	9	179930	 In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation. 
23O	17	10	179940	 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and sow the vine-branch of a stranger, 
23O	17	11	179950	 though you make them grow on the day that you plant them, and make them blossom in the morning that you sow, yet the harvest will flee away in a day of grief and incurable pain. 
23O	17	12	179960	 Ah, the thunder of many peoples; they thunder like the thundering of the sea! Ah, the roar of nations; they roar like the roaring of mighty waters! 
23O	17	13	179970	 The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm. 
23O	17	14	179980	 At evening time, behold, terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us, and the lot of those who plunder us. 
23O	18	1	179990	 Ah, land of whirring wings that is beyond the rivers of Cush, 
23O	18	2	180000	 which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide. 
23O	18	3	180010	 All you inhabitants of the world, you who dwell on the earth, when a signal is raised on the mountains, look! When a trumpet is blown, hear! 
23O	18	4	180020	 For thus the LORD said to me: "I will quietly look from my dwelling like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest." 
23O	18	5	180030	 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches he lops off and clears away. 
23O	18	6	180040	 They shall all of them be left to the birds of prey of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth. And the birds of prey will summer on them, and all the beasts of the earth will winter on them. 
23O	18	7	180050	 At that time tribute will be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the LORD of hosts. 
23O	19	1	180060	 An oracle concerning Egypt. Behold, the LORD is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence, and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them. 
23O	19	2	180070	 And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians, and they will fight, each against another and each against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom; 
23O	19	3	180080	 and the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their counsel; and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the necromancers; 
23O	19	4	180090	 and I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a hard master, and a fierce king will rule over them, declares the Lord GOD of hosts. 
23O	19	5	180100	 And the waters of the sea will be dried up, and the river will be dry and parched, 
23O	19	6	180110	 and its canals will become foul, and the branches of Egypt's Nile will diminish and dry up, reeds and rushes will rot away. 
23O	19	7	180120	 There will be bare places by the Nile, on the brink of the Nile, and all that is sown by the Nile will be parched, will be driven away, and will be no more. 
23O	19	8	180130	 The fishermen will mourn and lament, all who cast a hook in the Nile; and they will languish who spread nets on the water. 
23O	19	9	180140	 The workers in combed flax will be in despair, and the weavers of white cotton. 
23O	19	10	180150	 Those who are the pillars of the land will be crushed, and all who work for pay will be grieved. 
23O	19	11	180160	 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the wisest counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings"? 
23O	19	12	180170	 Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you that they might know what the LORD of hosts has purposed against Egypt. 
23O	19	13	180180	 The princes of Zoan have become fools, and the princes of Memphis are deluded; those who are the cornerstones of her tribes have made Egypt stagger. 
23O	19	14	180190	 The LORD has mingled within her a spirit of confusion, and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit. 
23O	19	15	180200	 And there will be nothing for Egypt that head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do. 
23O	19	16	180210	 In that day the Egyptians will be like women, and tremble with fear before the hand that the LORD of hosts shakes over them. 
23O	19	17	180220	 And the land of Judah will become a terror to the Egyptians. Everyone to whom it is mentioned will fear because of the purpose that the LORD of hosts has purposed against them. 
23O	19	18	180230	 In that day there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of hosts. One of these will be called the City of Destruction. 
23O	19	19	180240	 In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD at its border. 
23O	19	20	180250	 It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry to the LORD because of oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and deliver them. 
23O	19	21	180260	 And the LORD will make himself known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will know the LORD in that day and worship with sacrifice and offering, and they will make vows to the LORD and perform them. 
23O	19	22	180270	 And the LORD will strike Egypt, striking and healing, and they will return to the LORD, and he will listen to their pleas for mercy and heal them. 
23O	19	23	180280	 In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. 
23O	19	24	180290	 In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, 
23O	19	25	180300	 whom the LORD of hosts has blessed, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance." 
23O	20	1	180310	 In the year that the commander in chief, who was sent by Sargon the king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and fought against it and captured it-- 
23O	20	2	180320	 at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet," and he did so, walking naked and barefoot. 
23O	20	3	180330	 Then the LORD said, "As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush, 
23O	20	4	180340	 so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt. 
23O	20	5	180350	 Then they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast. 
23O	20	6	180360	 And the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, 'Behold, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and to whom we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?'" 
23O	21	1	180370	 The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on, it comes from the wilderness, from a terrible land. 
23O	21	2	180380	 A stern vision is told to me; the traitor betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam; lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end. 
23O	21	3	180390	 Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor; I am bowed down so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see. 
23O	21	4	180400	 My heart staggers; horror has appalled me; the twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling. 
23O	21	5	180410	 They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes; oil the shield! 
23O	21	6	180420	 For thus the Lord said to me: "Go, set a watchman; let him announce what he sees. 
23O	21	7	180430	 When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, let him listen diligently, very diligently." 
23O	21	8	180440	 Then he who saw cried out: "Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord, continually by day, and at my post I am stationed whole nights. 
23O	21	9	180450	 And behold, here come riders, horsemen in pairs!" And he answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the carved images of her gods he has shattered to the ground." 
23O	21	10	180460	 O my threshed and winnowed one, what I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, I announce to you. 
23O	21	11	180470	 The oracle concerning Dumah. One is calling to me from Seir, "Watchman, what time of the night? Watchman, what time of the night?" 
23O	21	12	180480	 The watchman says: "Morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; come back again." 
23O	21	13	180490	 The oracle concerning Arabia. In the thickets in Arabia you will lodge, O caravans of Dedanites. 
23O	21	14	180500	 To the thirsty bring water; meet the fugitive with bread, O inhabitants of the land of Tema. 
23O	21	15	180510	 For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the press of battle. 
23O	21	16	180520	 For thus the Lord said to me, "Within a year, according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end. 
23O	21	17	180530	 And the remainder of the archers of the mighty men of the sons of Kedar will be few, for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken." 
23O	22	1	180540	 The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops, 
23O	22	2	180550	 you who are full of shoutings, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain with the sword or dead in battle. 
23O	22	3	180560	 All your leaders have fled together; without the bow they were captured. All of you who were found were captured, though they had fled far away. 
23O	22	4	180570	 Therefore I said: "Look away from me; let me weep bitter tears; do not labor to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people." 
23O	22	5	180580	 For the Lord GOD of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a shouting to the mountains. 
23O	22	6	180590	 And Elam bore the quiver with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. 
23O	22	7	180600	 Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen took their stand at the gates. 
23O	22	8	180610	 He has taken away the covering of Judah. In that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest, 
23O	22	9	180620	 and you saw that the breaches of the city of David were many. You collected the waters of the lower pool, 
23O	22	10	180630	 and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall. 
23O	22	11	180640	 You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it, or see him who planned it long ago. 
23O	22	12	180650	 In that day the Lord GOD of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth; 
23O	22	13	180660	 and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die." 
23O	22	14	180670	 The LORD of hosts has revealed himself in my ears: "Surely this iniquity will not be atoned for you until you die," says the Lord GOD of hosts. 
23O	22	15	180680	 Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, "Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him: 
23O	22	16	180690	 What have you to do here, and whom have you here, that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock? 
23O	22	17	180700	 Behold, the LORD will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. He will seize firm hold on you 
23O	22	18	180710	 and whirl you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a wide land. There you shall die, and there shall be your glorious chariots, you shame of your master's house. 
23O	22	19	180720	 I will thrust you from your office, and you will be pulled down from your station. 
23O	22	20	180730	 In that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, 
23O	22	21	180740	 and I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your sash on him, and will commit your authority to his hand. And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. 
23O	22	22	180750	 And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. 
23O	22	23	180760	 And I will fasten him like a peg in a secure place, and he will become a throne of honor to his father's house. 
23O	22	24	180770	 And they will hang on him the whole honor of his father's house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons. 
23O	22	25	180780	 In that day, declares the LORD of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will be cut off, for the LORD has spoken." 
23O	23	1	180790	 The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor! From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them. 
23O	23	2	180800	 Be still, O inhabitants of the coast; the merchants of Sidon, who cross the sea, have filled you. 
23O	23	3	180810	 And on many waters your revenue was the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile; you were the merchant of the nations. 
23O	23	4	180820	 Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying: "I have neither labored nor given birth, I have neither reared young men nor brought up young women." 
23O	23	5	180830	 When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish over the report about Tyre. 
23O	23	6	180840	 Cross over to Tarshish; wail, O inhabitants of the coast! 
23O	23	7	180850	 Is this your exultant city whose origin is from days of old, whose feet carried her to settle far away? 
23O	23	8	180860	 Who has purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth? 
23O	23	9	180870	 The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to defile the pompous pride of all glory, to dishonor all the honored of the earth. 
23O	23	10	180880	 Cross over your land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint anymore. 
23O	23	11	180890	 He has stretched out his hand over the sea; he has shaken the kingdoms; the LORD has given command concerning Canaan to destroy its strongholds. 
23O	23	12	180900	 And he said: "You will no more exult, O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon; arise, cross over to Cyprus, even there you will have no rest." 
23O	23	13	180910	 Behold the land of the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not; Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin. 
23O	23	14	180920	 Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste. 
23O	23	15	180930	 In that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute: 
23O	23	16	180940	 "Take a harp; go about the city, O forgotten prostitute! Make sweet melody; sing many songs, that you may be remembered." 
23O	23	17	180950	 At the end of seventy years, the LORD will visit Tyre, and she will return to her wages and will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. 
23O	23	18	180960	 Her merchandise and her wages will be holy to the LORD. It will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who dwell before the LORD. 
23O	24	1	180970	 Behold, the LORD will empty the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants. 
23O	24	2	180980	 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor. 
23O	24	3	180990	 The earth shall be utterly empty and utterly plundered; for the LORD has spoken this word. 
23O	24	4	181000	 The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and withers; the highest people of the earth languish. 
23O	24	5	181010	 The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. 
23O	24	6	181020	 Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left. 
23O	24	7	181030	 The wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh. 
23O	24	8	181040	 The mirth of the tambourines is stilled, the noise of the jubilant has ceased, the mirth of the lyre is stilled. 
23O	24	9	181050	 No more do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it. 
23O	24	10	181060	 The wasted city is broken down; every house is shut up so that none can enter. 
23O	24	11	181070	 There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine; all joy has grown dark; the gladness of the earth is banished. 
23O	24	12	181080	 Desolation is left in the city; the gates are battered into ruins. 
23O	24	13	181090	 For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, as at the gleaning when the grape harvest is done. 
23O	24	14	181100	 They lift up their voices, they sing for joy; over the majesty of the LORD they shout from the west. 
23O	24	15	181110	 Therefore in the east give glory to the LORD; in the coastlands of the sea, give glory to the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 
23O	24	16	181120	 From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, "I waste away, I waste away. Woe is me! For the traitors have betrayed, with betrayal the traitors have betrayed." 
23O	24	17	181130	 Terror and the pit and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth! 
23O	24	18	181140	 He who flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. 
23O	24	19	181150	 The earth is utterly broken, the earth is split apart, the earth is violently shaken. 
23O	24	20	181160	 The earth staggers like a drunken man; it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and will not rise again. 
23O	24	21	181170	 On that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven, in heaven, and the kings of the earth, on the earth. 
23O	24	22	181180	 They will be gathered together as prisoners in a pit; they will be shut up in a prison, and after many days they will be punished. 
23O	24	23	181190	 Then the moon will be confounded and the sun ashamed, for the LORD of hosts reigns on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and his glory will be before his elders. 
23O	25	1	181200	 O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure. 
23O	25	2	181210	 For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the foreigners' palace is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt. 
23O	25	3	181220	 Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you. 
23O	25	4	181230	 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall, 
23O	25	5	181240	 like heat in a dry place. You subdue the noise of the foreigners; as heat by the shade of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is put down. 
23O	25	6	181250	 On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined. 
23O	25	7	181260	 And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations. 
23O	25	8	181270	 He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken. 
23O	25	9	181280	 It will be said on that day, "Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the LORD; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation." 
23O	25	10	181290	 For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain, and Moab shall be trampled down in his place, as straw is trampled down in a dunghill. 
23O	25	11	181300	 And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim, but the LORD will lay low his pompous pride together with the skill of his hands. 
23O	25	12	181310	 And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down, lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust. 
23O	26	1	181320	 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks. 
23O	26	2	181330	 Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in. 
23O	26	3	181340	 You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. 
23O	26	4	181350	 Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock. 
23O	26	5	181360	 For he has humbled the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. He lays it low, lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust. 
23O	26	6	181370	 The foot tramples it, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy." 
23O	26	7	181380	 The path of the righteous is level; you make level the way of the righteous. 
23O	26	8	181390	 In the path of your judgments, O LORD, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul. 
23O	26	9	181400	 My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. 
23O	26	10	181410	 If favor is shown to the wicked, he does not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly and does not see the majesty of the LORD. 
23O	26	11	181420	 O LORD, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed. Let the fire for your adversaries consume them. 
23O	26	12	181430	 O LORD, you will ordain peace for us, for you have indeed done for us all our works. 
23O	26	13	181440	 O LORD our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone we bring to remembrance. 
23O	26	14	181450	 They are dead, they will not live; they are shades, they will not arise; to that end you have visited them with destruction and wiped out all remembrance of them. 
23O	26	15	181460	 But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land. 
23O	26	16	181470	 O LORD, in distress they sought you; they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them. 
23O	26	17	181480	 Like a pregnant woman who writhes and cries out in her pangs when she is near to giving birth, so were we because of you, O LORD; 
23O	26	18	181490	 we were pregnant, we writhed, but we have given birth to wind. We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth, and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen. 
23O	26	19	181500	 Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead. 
23O	26	20	181510	 Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by. 
23O	26	21	181520	 For behold, the LORD is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain. 
23O	27	1	181530	 In that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea. 
23O	27	2	181540	 In that day, "A pleasant vineyard, sing of it! 
23O	27	3	181550	 I, the LORD, am its keeper; every moment I water it. Lest anyone punish it, I keep it night and day; 
23O	27	4	181560	 I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would march against them, I would burn them up together. 
23O	27	5	181570	 Or let them lay hold of my protection, let them make peace with me, let them make peace with me." 
23O	27	6	181580	 In days to come Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots and fill the whole world with fruit. 
23O	27	7	181590	 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or have they been slain as their slayers were slain? 
23O	27	8	181600	 Measure by measure, by exile you contended with them; he removed them with his fierce breath in the day of the east wind. 
23O	27	9	181610	 Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces, no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing. 
23O	27	10	181620	 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; there the calf grazes; there it lies down and strips its branches. 
23O	27	11	181630	 When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them; he who formed them will show them no favor. 
23O	27	12	181640	 In that day from the river Euphrates to the Brook of Egypt the LORD will thresh out the grain, and you will be gleaned one by one, O people of Israel. 
23O	27	13	181650	 And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain at Jerusalem. 
23O	28	1	181660	 Ah, the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine! 
23O	28	2	181670	 Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong; like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters, he casts down to the earth with his hand. 
23O	28	3	181680	 The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden underfoot; 
23O	28	4	181690	 and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley, will be like a first-ripe fig before the summer: when someone sees it, he swallows it as soon as it is in his hand. 
23O	28	5	181700	 In that day the LORD of hosts will be a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people, 
23O	28	6	181710	 and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate. 
23O	28	7	181720	 These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment. 
23O	28	8	181730	 For all tables are full of filthy vomit, with no space left. 
23O	28	9	181740	 "To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast? 
23O	28	10	181750	 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little." 
23O	28	11	181760	 For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the LORD will speak to this people, 
23O	28	12	181770	 to whom he has said, "This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose"; yet they would not hear. 
23O	28	13	181780	 And the word of the LORD will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little, that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. 
23O	28	14	181790	 Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers, who rule this people in Jerusalem! 
23O	28	15	181800	 Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement, when the overwhelming whip passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter"; 
23O	28	16	181810	 therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'Whoever believes will not be in haste.' 
23O	28	17	181820	 And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter." 
23O	28	18	181830	 Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be beaten down by it. 
23O	28	19	181840	 As often as it passes through it will take you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be sheer terror to understand the message. 
23O	28	20	181850	 For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in. 
23O	28	21	181860	 For the LORD will rise up as on Mount Perazim; as in the Valley of Gibeon he will be roused; to do his deed--strange is his deed! and to work his work--alien is his work! 
23O	28	22	181870	 Now therefore do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord GOD of hosts against the whole land. 
23O	28	23	181880	 Give ear, and hear my voice; give attention, and hear my speech. 
23O	28	24	181890	 Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground? 
23O	28	25	181900	 When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill, sow cumin, and put in wheat in rows and barley in its proper place, and emmer as the border? 
23O	28	26	181910	 For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him. 
23O	28	27	181920	 Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin, but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod. 
23O	28	28	181930	 Does one crush grain for bread? No, he does not thresh it forever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it. 
23O	28	29	181940	 This also comes from the LORD of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom. 
23O	29	1	181950	 Ah, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts run their round. 
23O	29	2	181960	 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and she shall be to me like an Ariel. 
23O	29	3	181970	 And I will encamp against you all around, and will besiege you with towers and I will raise siegeworks against you. 
23O	29	4	181980	 And you will be brought low; from the earth you shall speak, and from the dust your speech will be bowed down; your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost, and from the dust your speech shall whisper. 
23O	29	5	181990	 But the multitude of your foreign foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly, 
23O	29	6	182000	 you will be visited by the LORD of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire. 
23O	29	7	182010	 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night. 
23O	29	8	182020	 As when a hungry man dreams he is eating and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion. 
23O	29	9	182030	 Astonish yourselves and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with strong drink! 
23O	29	10	182040	 For the LORD has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes (the prophets), and covered your heads (the seers). 
23O	29	11	182050	 And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, "Read this," he says, "I cannot, for it is sealed." 
23O	29	12	182060	 And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, "Read this," he says, "I cannot read." 
23O	29	13	182070	 And the Lord said: "Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men, 
23O	29	14	182080	 therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden." 
23O	29	15	182090	 Ah, you who hide deep from the LORD your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us? Who knows us?" 
23O	29	16	182100	 You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, "He did not make me"; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding"? 
23O	29	17	182110	 Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest? 
23O	29	18	182120	 In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see. 
23O	29	19	182130	 The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the LORD, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel. 
23O	29	20	182140	 For the ruthless shall come to nothing and the scoffer cease, and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off, 
23O	29	21	182150	 who by a word make a man out to be an offender, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right. 
23O	29	22	182160	 Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: "Jacob shall no more be ashamed, no more shall his face grow pale. 
23O	29	23	182170	 For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will sanctify my name; they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and will stand in awe of the God of Israel. 
23O	29	24	182180	 And those who go astray in spirit will come to understanding, and those who murmur will accept instruction." 
23O	30	1	182190	 "Ah, stubborn children," declares the LORD, "who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin; 
23O	30	2	182200	 who set out to go down to Egypt, without asking for my direction, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt! 
23O	30	3	182210	 Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation. 
23O	30	4	182220	 For though his officials are at Zoan and his envoys reach Hanes, 
23O	30	5	182230	 everyone comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor profit, but shame and disgrace." 
23O	30	6	182240	 An oracle on the beasts of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the adder and the flying fiery serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them. 
23O	30	7	182250	 Egypt's help is worthless and empty; therefore I have called her "Rahab who sits still." 
23O	30	8	182260	 And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever. 
23O	30	9	182270	 For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the LORD; 
23O	30	10	182280	 who say to the seers, "Do not see," and to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions, 
23O	30	11	182290	 leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel." 
23O	30	12	182300	 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness and rely on them, 
23O	30	13	182310	 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant; 
23O	30	14	182320	 and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel that is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a shard is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern." 
23O	30	15	182330	 For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, "In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength." But you were unwilling, 
23O	30	16	182340	 and you said, "No! We will flee upon horses"; therefore you shall flee away; and, "We will ride upon swift steeds"; therefore your pursuers shall be swift. 
23O	30	17	182350	 A thousand shall flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill. 
23O	30	18	182360	 Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him. 
23O	30	19	182370	 For a people shall dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you. 
23O	30	20	182380	 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher. 
23O	30	21	182390	 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it," when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. 
23O	30	22	182400	 Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images. You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, "Be gone!" 
23O	30	23	182410	 And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures, 
23O	30	24	182420	 and the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork. 
23O	30	25	182430	 And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. 
23O	30	26	182440	 Moreover, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the LORD binds up the brokenness of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow. 
23O	30	27	182450	 Behold, the name of the LORD comes from afar, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke; his lips are full of fury, and his tongue is like a devouring fire; 
23O	30	28	182460	 his breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck; to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray. 
23O	30	29	182470	 You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel. 
23O	30	30	182480	 And the LORD will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and storm and hailstones. 
23O	30	31	182490	 The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the LORD, when he strikes with his rod. 
23O	30	32	182500	 And every stroke of the appointed staff that the LORD lays on them will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres. Battling with brandished arm, he will fight with them. 
23O	30	33	182510	 For a burning place has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it. 
23O	31	1	182520	 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the LORD! 
23O	31	2	182530	 And yet he is wise and brings disaster; he does not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers and against the helpers of those who work iniquity. 
23O	31	3	182540	 The Egyptians are man, and not God, and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall, and they will all perish together. 
23O	31	4	182550	 For thus the LORD said to me, "As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey, and when a band of shepherds is called out against him he is not terrified by their shouting or daunted at their noise, so the LORD of hosts will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill. 
23O	31	5	182560	 Like birds hovering, so the LORD of hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it; he will spare and rescue it." 
23O	31	6	182570	 Turn to him from whom people have deeply revolted, O children of Israel. 
23O	31	7	182580	 For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you. 
23O	31	8	182590	 "And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man; and a sword, not of man, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be put to forced labor. 
23O	31	9	182600	 His rock shall pass away in terror, and his officers desert the standard in panic," declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and whose furnace is in Jerusalem. 
23O	32	1	182610	 Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice. 
23O	32	2	182620	 Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land. 
23O	32	3	182630	 Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed, and the ears of those who hear will give attention. 
23O	32	4	182640	 The heart of the hasty will understand and know, and the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak distinctly. 
23O	32	5	182650	 The fool will no more be called noble, nor the scoundrel said to be honorable. 
23O	32	6	182660	 For the fool speaks folly, and his heart is busy with iniquity, to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the LORD, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink. 
23O	32	7	182670	 As for the scoundrel--his devices are evil; he plans wicked schemes to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right. 
23O	32	8	182680	 But he who is noble plans noble things, and on noble things he stands. 
23O	32	9	182690	 Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech. 
23O	32	10	182700	 In little more than a year you will shudder, you complacent women; for the grape harvest fails, the fruit harvest will not come. 
23O	32	11	182710	 Tremble, you women who are at ease, shudder, you complacent ones; strip, and make yourselves bare, and tie sackcloth around your waist. 
23O	32	12	182720	 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine, 
23O	32	13	182730	 for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers, yes, for all the joyous houses in the exultant city. 
23O	32	14	182740	 For the palace is forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks; 
23O	32	15	182750	 until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest. 
23O	32	16	182760	 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field. 
23O	32	17	182770	 And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever. 
23O	32	18	182780	 My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. 
23O	32	19	182790	 And it will hail when the forest falls down, and the city will be utterly laid low. 
23O	32	20	182800	 Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free. 
23O	33	1	182810	 Ah, you destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed, you traitor, whom none has betrayed! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you. 
23O	33	2	182820	 O LORD, be gracious to us; we wait for you. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble. 
23O	33	3	182830	 At the tumultuous noise peoples flee; when you lift yourself up, nations are scattered, 
23O	33	4	182840	 and your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, it is leapt upon. 
23O	33	5	182850	 The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness, 
23O	33	6	182860	 and he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is Zion's treasure. 
23O	33	7	182870	 Behold, their heroes cry in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly. 
23O	33	8	182880	 The highways lie waste; the traveler ceases. Covenants are broken; cities are despised; there is no regard for man. 
23O	33	9	182890	 The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves. 
23O	33	10	182900	 "Now I will arise," says the LORD, "now I will lift myself up; now I will be exalted. 
23O	33	11	182910	 You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you. 
23O	33	12	182920	 And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire." 
23O	33	13	182930	 Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and you who are near, acknowledge my might. 
23O	33	14	182940	 The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: "Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?" 
23O	33	15	182950	 He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil, 
23O	33	16	182960	 he will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him; his water will be sure. 
23O	33	17	182970	 Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty; they will see a land that stretches afar. 
23O	33	18	182980	 Your heart will muse on the terror: "Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed the tribute? Where is he who counted the towers?" 
23O	33	19	182990	 You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue that you cannot understand. 
23O	33	20	183000	 Behold Zion, the city of our appointed feasts! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an untroubled habitation, an immovable tent, whose stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken. 
23O	33	21	183010	 But there the LORD in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go, nor majestic ship can pass. 
23O	33	22	183020	 For the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver; the LORD is our king; he will save us. 
23O	33	23	183030	 Your cords hang loose; they cannot hold the mast firm in its place or keep the sail spread out. Then prey and spoil in abundance will be divided; even the lame will take the prey. 
23O	33	24	183040	 And no inhabitant will say, "I am sick"; the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity. 
23O	34	1	183050	 Draw near, O nations, to hear, and give attention, O peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that fills it; the world, and all that comes from it. 
23O	34	2	183060	 For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter. 
23O	34	3	183070	 Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood. 
23O	34	4	183080	 All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree. 
23O	34	5	183090	 For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction. 
23O	34	6	183100	 The LORD has a sword; it is sated with blood; it is gorged with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom. 
23O	34	7	183110	 Wild oxen shall fall with them, and young steers with the mighty bulls. Their land shall drink its fill of blood, and their soil shall be gorged with fat. 
23O	34	8	183120	 For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. 
23O	34	9	183130	 And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and her soil into sulfur; her land shall become burning pitch. 
23O	34	10	183140	 Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever. 
23O	34	11	183150	 But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it, the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness. 
23O	34	12	183160	 Its nobles--there is no one there to call it a kingdom, and all its princes shall be nothing. 
23O	34	13	183170	 Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches. 
23O	34	14	183180	 And wild animals shall meet with hyenas; the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; indeed, there the night bird settles and finds for herself a resting place. 
23O	34	15	183190	 There the owl nests and lays and hatches and gathers her young in her shadow; indeed, there the hawks are gathered, each one with her mate. 
23O	34	16	183200	 Seek and read from the book of the LORD: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the LORD has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them. 
23O	34	17	183210	 He has cast the lot for them; his hand has portioned it out to them with the line; they shall possess it forever; from generation to generation they shall dwell in it. 
23O	35	1	183220	 The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus; 
23O	35	2	183230	 it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the LORD, the majesty of our God. 
23O	35	3	183240	 Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees. 
23O	35	4	183250	 Say to those who have an anxious heart, "Be strong; fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you." 
23O	35	5	183260	 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; 
23O	35	6	183270	 then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing for joy. For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert; 
23O	35	7	183280	 the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; in the haunt of jackals, where they lie down, the grass shall become reeds and rushes. 
23O	35	8	183290	 And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it. It shall belong to those who walk on the way; even if they are fools, they shall not go astray. 
23O	35	9	183300	 No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it; they shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there. 
23O	35	10	183310	 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. 
23O	36	1	183320	 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. 
23O	36	2	183330	 And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem, with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer's Field. 
23O	36	3	183340	 And there came out to him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder. 
23O	36	4	183350	 And the Rabshakeh said to them, "Say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours? 
23O	36	5	183360	 Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me? 
23O	36	6	183370	 Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. 
23O	36	7	183380	 But if you say to me, "We trust in the LORD our God," is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, "You shall worship before this altar"? 
23O	36	8	183390	 Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. 
23O	36	9	183400	 How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 
23O	36	10	183410	 Moreover, is it without the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it.'" 
23O	36	11	183420	 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall." 
23O	36	12	183430	 But the Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?" 
23O	36	13	183440	 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! 
23O	36	14	183450	 Thus says the king: 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you. 
23O	36	15	183460	 Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD by saying, "The LORD will surely deliver us. This city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria." 
23O	36	16	183470	 Do not listen to Hezekiah. For thus says the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me and come out to me. Then each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern, 
23O	36	17	183480	 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 
23O	36	18	183490	 Beware lest Hezekiah mislead you by saying, "The LORD will deliver us." Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 
23O	36	19	183500	 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 
23O	36	20	183510	 Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'" 
23O	36	21	183520	 But they were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's command was, "Do not answer him." 
23O	36	22	183530	 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh. 
23O	37	1	183540	 As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the LORD. 
23O	37	2	183550	 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz. 
23O	37	3	183560	 They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth. 
23O	37	4	183570	 It may be that the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.'" 
23O	37	5	183580	 When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, 
23O	37	6	183590	 Isaiah said to them, "Say to your master, 'Thus says the LORD: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the young men of the king of Assyria have reviled me. 
23O	37	7	183600	 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.'" 
23O	37	8	183610	 The Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish. 
23O	37	9	183620	 Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, "He has set out to fight against you." And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 
23O	37	10	183630	 "Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: 'Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 
23O	37	11	183640	 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered? 
23O	37	12	183650	 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar? 
23O	37	13	183660	 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?'" 
23O	37	14	183670	 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. 
23O	37	15	183680	 And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD: 
23O	37	16	183690	 "O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. 
23O	37	17	183700	 Incline your ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God. 
23O	37	18	183710	 Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands, 
23O	37	19	183720	 and have cast their gods into the fire. For they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed. 
23O	37	20	183730	 So now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the LORD." 
23O	37	21	183740	 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, 
23O	37	22	183750	 this is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: "'She despises you, she scorns you-- the virgin daughter of Zion; she wags her head behind you-- the daughter of Jerusalem. 
23O	37	23	183760	 "'Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel! 
23O	37	24	183770	 By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon, to cut down its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses, to come to its remotest height, its most fruitful forest. 
23O	37	25	183780	 I dug wells and drank waters, to dry up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt. 
23O	37	26	183790	 "'Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins, 
23O	37	27	183800	 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown. 
23O	37	28	183810	 "'I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me. 
23O	37	29	183820	 Because you have raged against me and your complacency has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.' 
23O	37	30	183830	 "And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that. Then in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 
23O	37	31	183840	 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. 
23O	37	32	183850	 For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this. 
23O	37	33	183860	 "Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it. 
23O	37	34	183870	 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the LORD. 
23O	37	35	183880	 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David." 
23O	37	36	183890	 And the angel of the LORD went out and struck down a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 
23O	37	37	183900	 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived at Nineveh. 
23O	37	38	183910	 And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword. And after they escaped into the land of Ararat, Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place. 
23O	38	1	183920	 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: Set your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover." 
23O	38	2	183930	 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, 
23O	38	3	183940	 and said, "Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly. 
23O	38	4	183950	 Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah: 
23O	38	5	183960	 "Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life. 
23O	38	6	183970	 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and will defend this city. 
23O	38	7	183980	 "This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has promised: 
23O	38	8	183990	 Behold, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps." So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined. 
23O	38	9	184000	 A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness: 
23O	38	10	184010	 I said, In the middle of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years. 
23O	38	11	184020	 I said, I shall not see the LORD, the LORD in the land of the living; I shall look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world. 
23O	38	12	184030	 My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end; 
23O	38	13	184040	 I calmed myself until morning; like a lion he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end. 
23O	38	14	184050	 Like a swallow or a crane I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety! 
23O	38	15	184060	 What shall I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. I walk slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul. 
23O	38	16	184070	 O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these is the life of my spirit. Oh restore me to health and make me live! 
23O	38	17	184080	 Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back. 
23O	38	18	184090	 For Sheol does not thank you; death does not praise you; those who go down to the pit do not hope for your faithfulness. 
23O	38	19	184100	 The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness. 
23O	38	20	184110	 The LORD will save me, and we will play my music on stringed instruments all the days of our lives, at the house of the LORD. 
23O	38	21	184120	 Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover." 
23O	38	22	184130	 Hezekiah also had said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?" 
23O	39	1	184140	 At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered. 
23O	39	2	184150	 And Hezekiah welcomed them gladly. And he showed them his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his whole armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them. 
23O	39	3	184160	 Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, "What did these men say? And from where did they come to you?" Hezekiah said, "They have come to me from a far country, from Babylon." 
23O	39	4	184170	 He said, "What have they seen in your house?" Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them." 
23O	39	5	184180	 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD of hosts: 
23O	39	6	184190	 Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the LORD. 
23O	39	7	184200	 And some of your own sons, who will come from you, whom you will father, shall be taken away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon." 
23O	39	8	184210	 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good." For he thought, "There will be peace and security in my days." 
23O	40	1	184220	 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. 
23O	40	2	184230	 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins. 
23O	40	3	184240	 A voice cries: "In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 
23O	40	4	184250	 Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. 
23O	40	5	184260	 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken." 
23O	40	6	184270	 A voice says, "Cry!" And I said, "What shall I cry?" All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. 
23O	40	7	184280	 The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the LORD blows on it; surely the people are grass. 
23O	40	8	184290	 The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. 
23O	40	9	184300	 Get you up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good news; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, "Behold your God!" 
23O	40	10	184310	 Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and his arm rules for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. 
23O	40	11	184320	 He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young. 
23O	40	12	184330	 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance? 
23O	40	13	184340	 Who has measured the Spirit of the LORD, or what man shows him his counsel? 
23O	40	14	184350	 Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding? 
23O	40	15	184360	 Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust. 
23O	40	16	184370	 Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering. 
23O	40	17	184380	 All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness. 
23O	40	18	184390	 To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him? 
23O	40	19	184400	 An idol! A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts for it silver chains. 
23O	40	20	184410	 He who is too impoverished for an offering chooses wood that will not rot; he seeks out a skillful craftsman to set up an idol that will not move. 
23O	40	21	184420	 Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 
23O	40	22	184430	 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in; 
23O	40	23	184440	 who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness. 
23O	40	24	184450	 Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble. 
23O	40	25	184460	 To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One. 
23O	40	26	184470	 Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name, by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing. 
23O	40	27	184480	 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"? 
23O	40	28	184490	 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. 
23O	40	29	184500	 He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. 
23O	40	30	184510	 Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; 
23O	40	31	184520	 but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. 
23O	41	1	184530	 Listen to me in silence, O coastlands; let the peoples renew their strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment. 
23O	41	2	184540	 Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow. 
23O	41	3	184550	 He pursues them and passes on safely, by paths his feet have not trod. 
23O	41	4	184560	 Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he. 
23O	41	5	184570	 The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come. 
23O	41	6	184580	 Everyone helps his neighbor and says to his brother, "Be strong!" 
23O	41	7	184590	 The craftsman strengthens the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good"; and they strengthen it with nails so that it cannot be moved. 
23O	41	8	184600	 But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend; 
23O	41	9	184610	 you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, "You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off"; 
23O	41	10	184620	 fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. 
23O	41	11	184630	 Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish. 
23O	41	12	184640	 You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all. 
23O	41	13	184650	 For I, the LORD your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, "Fear not, I am the one who helps you." 
23O	41	14	184660	 Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I am the one who helps you, declares the LORD; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. 
23O	41	15	184670	 Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff; 
23O	41	16	184680	 you shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the LORD; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory. 
23O	41	17	184690	 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the LORD will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them. 
23O	41	18	184700	 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. 
23O	41	19	184710	 I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive. I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together, 
23O	41	20	184720	 that they may see and know, may consider and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it. 
23O	41	21	184730	 Set forth your case, says the LORD; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob. 
23O	41	22	184740	 Let them bring them, and tell us what is to happen. Tell us the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, that we may know their outcome; or declare to us the things to come. 
23O	41	23	184750	 Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm, that we may be dismayed and terrified. 
23O	41	24	184760	 Behold, you are nothing, and your work is less than nothing; an abomination is he who chooses you. 
23O	41	25	184770	 I stirred up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, and he shall call upon my name; he shall trample on rulers as on mortar, as the potter treads clay. 
23O	41	26	184780	 Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know, and beforehand, that we might say, "He is right"? There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed, none who heard your words. 
23O	41	27	184790	 I was the first to say to Zion, "Behold, here they are!" and I give to Jerusalem a herald of good news. 
23O	41	28	184800	 But when I look, there is no one; among these there is no counselor who, when I ask, gives an answer. 
23O	41	29	184810	 Behold, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their metal images are empty wind. 
23O	42	1	184820	 Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations. 
23O	42	2	184830	 He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street; 
23O	42	3	184840	 a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice. 
23O	42	4	184850	 He will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law. 
23O	42	5	184860	 Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it: 
23O	42	6	184870	 "I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations, 
23O	42	7	184880	 to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness. 
23O	42	8	184890	 I am the LORD; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols. 
23O	42	9	184900	 Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them." 
23O	42	10	184910	 Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants. 
23O	42	11	184920	 Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits; let the habitants of Sela sing for joy, let them shout from the top of the mountains. 
23O	42	12	184930	 Let them give glory to the LORD, and declare his praise in the coastlands. 
23O	42	13	184940	 The LORD goes out like a mighty man, like a man of war he stirs up his zeal; he cries out, he shouts aloud, he shows himself mighty against his foes. 
23O	42	14	184950	 For a long time I have held my peace; I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor; I will gasp and pant. 
23O	42	15	184960	 I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their vegetation; I will turn the rivers into islands, and dry up the pools. 
23O	42	16	184970	 And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them. 
23O	42	17	184980	 They are turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in carved idols, who say to metal images, "You are our gods." 
23O	42	18	184990	 Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see! 
23O	42	19	185000	 Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as my dedicated one, or blind as the servant of the LORD? 
23O	42	20	185010	 He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear. 
23O	42	21	185020	 The LORD was pleased, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious. 
23O	42	22	185030	 But this is a people plundered and looted; they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become plunder with none to rescue, spoil with none to say, "Restore!" 
23O	42	23	185040	 Who among you will give ear to this, will attend and listen for the time to come? 
23O	42	24	185050	 Who gave up Jacob to the looter, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned, in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey? 
23O	42	25	185060	 So he poured on him the heat of his anger and the might of battle; it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand; it burned him up, but he did not take it to heart. 
23O	43	1	185070	 But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. 
23O	43	2	185080	 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. 
23O	43	3	185090	 For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you. 
23O	43	4	185100	 Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life. 
23O	43	5	185110	 Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you. 
23O	43	6	185120	 I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, 
23O	43	7	185130	 everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made." 
23O	43	8	185140	 Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears! 
23O	43	9	185150	 All the nations gather together, and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right, and let them hear and say, It is true. 
23O	43	10	185160	 "You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me. 
23O	43	11	185170	 I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior. 
23O	43	12	185180	 I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and I am God. 
23O	43	13	185190	 Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?" 
23O	43	14	185200	 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "For your sake I send to Babylon and bring them all down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice. 
23O	43	15	185210	 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King." 
23O	43	16	185220	 Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, 
23O	43	17	185230	 who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: 
23O	43	18	185240	 "Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. 
23O	43	19	185250	 Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. 
23O	43	20	185260	 The wild beasts will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches, for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people, 
23O	43	21	185270	 the people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise. 
23O	43	22	185280	 "Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel! 
23O	43	23	185290	 You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings, or honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, or wearied you with frankincense. 
23O	43	24	185300	 You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities. 
23O	43	25	185310	 "I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins. 
23O	43	26	185320	 Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right. 
23O	43	27	185330	 Your first father sinned, and your mediators transgressed against me. 
23O	43	28	185340	 Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary, and deliver Jacob to utter destruction and Israel to reviling. 
23O	44	1	185350	 "But now hear, O Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen! 
23O	44	2	185360	 Thus says the LORD who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen. 
23O	44	3	185370	 For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants. 
23O	44	4	185380	 They shall spring up among the grass like willows by flowing streams. 
23O	44	5	185390	 This one will say, 'I am the LORD's,' another will call on the name of Jacob, and another will write on his hand, 'The LORD's,' and name himself by the name of Israel." 
23O	44	6	185400	 Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god. 
23O	44	7	185410	 Who is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and set it before me, since I appointed an ancient people. Let them declare what is to come, and what will happen. 
23O	44	8	185420	 Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any." 
23O	44	9	185430	 All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame. 
23O	44	10	185440	 Who fashions a god or casts an idol that is profitable for nothing? 
23O	44	11	185450	 Behold, all his companions shall be put to shame, and the craftsmen are only human. Let them all assemble, let them stand forth. They shall be terrified; they shall be put to shame together. 
23O	44	12	185460	 The ironsmith takes a cutting tool and works it over the coals. He fashions it with hammers and works it with his strong arm. He becomes hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water and is faint. 
23O	44	13	185470	 The carpenter stretches a line; he marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes and marks it with a compass. He shapes it into the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house. 
23O	44	14	185480	 He cuts down cedars, or he chooses a cypress tree or an oak and lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a cedar and the rain nourishes it. 
23O	44	15	185490	 Then it becomes fuel for a man. He takes a part of it and warms himself; he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Also he makes a god and worships it; he makes it an idol and falls down before it. 
23O	44	16	185500	 Half of it he burns in the fire. Over the half he eats meat; he roasts it and is satisfied. Also he warms himself and says, "Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire!" 
23O	44	17	185510	 And the rest of it he makes into a god, his idol, and falls down to it and worships it. He prays to it and says, "Deliver me, for you are my god!" 
23O	44	18	185520	 They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand. 
23O	44	19	185530	 No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, "Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?" 
23O	44	20	185540	 He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, "Is there not a lie in my right hand?" 
23O	44	21	185550	 Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant; I formed you; you are my servant; O Israel, you will not be forgotten by me. 
23O	44	22	185560	 I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you. 
23O	44	23	185570	 Sing, O heavens, for the LORD has done it; shout, O depths of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and will be glorified in Israel. 
23O	44	24	185580	 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: "I am the LORD, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself, 
23O	44	25	185590	 who frustrates the signs of liars and makes fools of diviners, who turns wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish, 
23O	44	26	185600	 who confirms the word of his servant and fulfills the counsel of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, 'She shall be inhabited,' and of the cities of Judah, 'They shall be built, and I will raise up their ruins'; 
23O	44	27	185610	 who says to the deep, 'Be dry; I will dry up your rivers'; 
23O	44	28	185620	 who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd, and he shall fulfill all my purpose'; saying of Jerusalem, 'She shall be built,' and of the temple, 'Your foundation shall be laid.'" 
23O	45	1	185630	 Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed: 
23O	45	2	185640	 "I will go before you and level the exalted places, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron, 
23O	45	3	185650	 I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the LORD, the God of Israel, who call you by your name. 
23O	45	4	185660	 For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen, I call you by your name, I name you, though you do not know me. 
23O	45	5	185670	 I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me, 
23O	45	6	185680	 that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other. 
23O	45	7	185690	 I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things. 
23O	45	8	185700	 "Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit; let the earth cause them both to sprout; I the LORD have created it. 
23O	45	9	185710	 "Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, 'What are you making?' or 'Your work has no handles'? 
23O	45	10	185720	 Woe to him who says to a father, 'What are you begetting?' or to a woman, 'With what are you in labor?'" 
23O	45	11	185730	 Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him: "Ask me of things to come; will you command me concerning my children and the work of my hands? 
23O	45	12	185740	 I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host. 
23O	45	13	185750	 I have stirred him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways level; he shall build my city and set my exiles free, not for price or reward," says the LORD of hosts. 
23O	45	14	185760	 Thus says the LORD: "The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you and be yours; they shall follow you; they shall come over in chains and bow down to you. They will plead with you, saying: 'Surely God is in you, and there is no other, no god besides him.'" 
23O	45	15	185770	 Truly, you are a God who hides himself, O God of Israel, the Savior. 
23O	45	16	185780	 All of them are put to shame and confounded; the makers of idols go in confusion together. 
23O	45	17	185790	 But Israel is saved by the LORD with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity. 
23O	45	18	185800	 For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): "I am the LORD, and there is no other. 
23O	45	19	185810	 I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, 'Seek me in vain.' I the LORD speak the truth; I declare what is right. 
23O	45	20	185820	 "Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save. 
23O	45	21	185830	 Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me. 
23O	45	22	185840	 "Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. 
23O	45	23	185850	 By myself I have sworn; from my mouth has gone out in righteousness a word that shall not return: 'To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear allegiance.' 
23O	45	24	185860	 "Only in the LORD, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed all who were incensed against him. 
23O	45	25	185870	 In the LORD all the offspring of Israel shall be justified and shall glory." 
23O	46	1	185880	 Bel bows down; Nebo stoops; their idols are on beasts and livestock; these things you carry are borne as burdens on weary beasts. 
23O	46	2	185890	 They stoop; they bow down together; they cannot save the burden, but themselves go into captivity. 
23O	46	3	185900	 "Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from before your birth, carried from the womb; 
23O	46	4	185910	 even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save. 
23O	46	5	185920	 "To whom will you liken me and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be alike? 
23O	46	6	185930	 Those who lavish gold from the purse, and weigh out silver in the scales, hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god; then they fall down and worship! 
23O	46	7	185940	 They lift it to their shoulders, they carry it, they set it in its place, and it stands there; it cannot move from its place. If one cries to it, it does not answer or save him from his trouble. 
23O	46	8	185950	 "Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors, 
23O	46	9	185960	 remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, 
23O	46	10	185970	 declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,' 
23O	46	11	185980	 calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it. 
23O	46	12	185990	 "Listen to me, you stubborn of heart, you who are far from righteousness: 
23O	46	13	186000	 I bring near my righteousness; it is not far off, and my salvation will not delay; I will put salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory." 
23O	47	1	186010	 Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate. 
23O	47	2	186020	 Take the millstones and grind flour, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers. 
23O	47	3	186030	 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your disgrace shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no one. 
23O	47	4	186040	 Our Redeemer--the LORD of hosts is his name-- is the Holy One of Israel. 
23O	47	5	186050	 Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms. 
23O	47	6	186060	 I was angry with my people; I profaned my heritage; I gave them into your hand; you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy. 
23O	47	7	186070	 You said, "I shall be mistress forever," so that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end. 
23O	47	8	186080	 Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children": 
23O	47	9	186090	 These two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day; the loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments. 
23O	47	10	186100	 You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, "No one sees me"; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me." 
23O	47	11	186110	 But evil shall come upon you, which you will not know how to charm away; disaster shall fall upon you, for which you will not be able to atone; and ruin shall come upon you suddenly, of which you know nothing. 
23O	47	12	186120	 Stand fast in your enchantments and your many sorceries, with which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you may be able to succeed; perhaps you may inspire terror. 
23O	47	13	186130	 You are wearied with your many counsels; let them stand forth and save you, those who divide the heavens, who gaze at the stars, who at the new moons make known what shall come upon you. 
23O	47	14	186140	 Behold, they are like stubble; the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before! 
23O	47	15	186150	 Such to you are those with whom you have labored, who have done business with you from your youth; they wander about, each in his own direction; there is no one to save you. 
23O	48	1	186160	 Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and who came from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD and confess the God of Israel, but not in truth or right. 
23O	48	2	186170	 For they call themselves after the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; the LORD of hosts is his name. 
23O	48	3	186180	 "The former things I declared of old; they went out from my mouth, and I announced them; then suddenly I did them, and they came to pass. 
23O	48	4	186190	 Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass, 
23O	48	5	186200	 I declared them to you from of old, before they came to pass I announced them to you, lest you should say, 'My idol did them, my carved image and my metal image commanded them.' 
23O	48	6	186210	 "You have heard; now see all this; and will you not declare it? From this time forth I announce to you new things, hidden things that you have not known. 
23O	48	7	186220	 They are created now, not long ago; before today you have never heard of them, lest you should say, 'Behold, I knew them.' 
23O	48	8	186230	 You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and that from before birth you were called a rebel. 
23O	48	9	186240	 "For my name's sake I defer my anger, for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off. 
23O	48	10	186250	 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction. 
23O	48	11	186260	 For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another. 
23O	48	12	186270	 "Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am he; I am the first, and I am the last. 
23O	48	13	186280	 My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand forth together. 
23O	48	14	186290	 "Assemble, all of you, and listen! Who among them has declared these things? The LORD loves him; he shall perform his purpose on Babylon, and his arm shall be against the Chaldeans. 
23O	48	15	186300	 I, even I, have spoken and called him; I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way. 
23O	48	16	186310	 Draw near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there." And now the Lord GOD has sent me, and his Spirit. 
23O	48	17	186320	 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go. 
23O	48	18	186330	 Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea; 
23O	48	19	186340	 your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me." 
23O	48	20	186350	 Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it out to the end of the earth; say, "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!" 
23O	48	21	186360	 They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split the rock and the water gushed out. 
23O	48	22	186370	 "There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked." 
23O	49	1	186380	 Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The LORD called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name. 
23O	49	2	186390	 He made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me a polished arrow; in his quiver he hid me away. 
23O	49	3	186400	 And he said to me, "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified." 
23O	49	4	186410	 But I said, "I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God." 
23O	49	5	186420	 And now the LORD says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him; and that Israel might be gathered to him-- for I am honored in the eyes of the LORD, and my God has become my strength-- 
23O	49	6	186430	 he says: "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth." 
23O	49	7	186440	 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation, the servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you." 
23O	49	8	186450	 Thus says the LORD: "In a time of favor I have answered you; in a day of salvation I have helped you; I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages, 
23O	49	9	186460	 saying to the prisoners, 'Come out,' to those who are in darkness, 'Appear.' They shall feed along the ways; on all bare heights shall be their pasture; 
23O	49	10	186470	 they shall not hunger or thirst, neither scorching wind nor sun shall strike them, for he who has pity on them will lead them, and by springs of water will guide them. 
23O	49	11	186480	 And I will make all my mountains a road, and my highways shall be raised up. 
23O	49	12	186490	 Behold, these shall come from afar, and behold, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Syene." 
23O	49	13	186500	 Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the LORD has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted. 
23O	49	14	186510	 But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me." 
23O	49	15	186520	 "Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. 
23O	49	16	186530	 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me. 
23O	49	17	186540	 Your builders make haste; your destroyers and those who laid you waste go out from you. 
23O	49	18	186550	 Lift up your eyes around and see; they all gather, they come to you. As I live, declares the LORD, you shall put them all on as an ornament; you shall bind them on as a bride does. 
23O	49	19	186560	 "Surely your waste and your desolate places and your devastated land-- surely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away. 
23O	49	20	186570	 The children of your bereavement will yet say in your ears: 'The place is too narrow for me; make room for me to dwell in.' 
23O	49	21	186580	 Then you will say in your heart: 'Who has borne me these? I was bereaved and barren, exiled and put away, but who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; from where have these come?'" 
23O	49	22	186590	 Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and raise my signal to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders. 
23O	49	23	186600	 Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame." 
23O	49	24	186610	 Can the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be rescued? 
23O	49	25	186620	 For thus says the LORD: "Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken, and the prey of the tyrant be rescued, for I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children. 
23O	49	26	186630	 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine. Then all flesh shall know that I am the LORD your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob." 
23O	50	1	186640	 Thus says the LORD: "Where is your mother's certificate of divorce, with which I sent her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away. 
23O	50	2	186650	 Why, when I came, was there no man; why, when I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a desert; their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst. 
23O	50	3	186660	 I clothe the heavens with blackness and make sackcloth their covering." 
23O	50	4	186670	 The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. 
23O	50	5	186680	 The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not backward. 
23O	50	6	186690	 I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting. 
23O	50	7	186700	 But the Lord GOD helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame. 
23O	50	8	186710	 He who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me. 
23O	50	9	186720	 Behold, the Lord GOD helps me; who will declare me guilty? Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up. 
23O	50	10	186730	 Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of his servant? Let him who walks in darkness and has no light trust in the name of the LORD and rely on his God. 
23O	50	11	186740	 Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who equip yourselves with burning torches! Walk by the light of your fire, and by the torches that you have kindled! This you have from my hand: you shall lie down in torment. 
23O	51	1	186750	 "Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug. 
23O	51	2	186760	 Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, that I might bless him and multiply him. 
23O	51	3	186770	 For the LORD comforts Zion; he comforts all her waste places and makes her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song. 
23O	51	4	186780	 "Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples. 
23O	51	5	186790	 My righteousness draws near, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me, and for my arm they wait. 
23O	51	6	186800	 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die in like manner; but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will never be dismayed. 
23O	51	7	186810	 "Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear not the reproach of man, nor be dismayed at their revilings. 
23O	51	8	186820	 For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations." 
23O	51	9	186830	 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon? 
23O	51	10	186840	 Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over? 
23O	51	11	186850	 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. 
23O	51	12	186860	 "I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass, 
23O	51	13	186870	 and have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and you fear continually all the day because of the wrath of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the wrath of the oppressor? 
23O	51	14	186880	 He who is bowed down shall speedily be released; he shall not die and go down to the pit, neither shall his bread be lacking. 
23O	51	15	186890	 I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar-- the LORD of hosts is his name. 
23O	51	16	186900	 And I have put my words in your mouth and covered you in the shadow of my hand, establishing the heavens and laying the foundations of the earth, and saying to Zion, 'You are my people.'" 
23O	51	17	186910	 Wake yourself, wake yourself, stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of his wrath, who have drunk to the dregs the bowl, the cup of staggering. 
23O	51	18	186920	 There is none to guide her among all the sons she has borne; there is none to take her by the hand among all the sons she has brought up. 
23O	51	19	186930	 These two things have happened to you-- who will console you?-- devastation and destruction, famine and sword; who will comfort you? 
23O	51	20	186940	 Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God. 
23O	51	21	186950	 Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted, who are drunk, but not with wine: 
23O	51	22	186960	 Thus says your Lord, the LORD, your God who pleads the cause of his people: "Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering; the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more; 
23O	51	23	186970	 and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you, 'Bow down, that we may pass over'; and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to pass over." 
23O	52	1	186980	 Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean. 
23O	52	2	186990	 Shake yourself from the dust and arise; be seated, O Jerusalem; loose the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion. 
23O	52	3	187000	 For thus says the LORD: "You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money." 
23O	52	4	187010	 For thus says the Lord GOD: "My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing. 
23O	52	5	187020	 Now therefore what have I here," declares the LORD, "seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail," declares the LORD, "and continually all the day my name is despised. 
23O	52	6	187030	 Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here am I." 
23O	52	7	187040	 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns." 
23O	52	8	187050	 The voice of your watchmen--they lift up their voice; together they sing for joy; for eye to eye they see the return of the LORD to Zion. 
23O	52	9	187060	 Break forth together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem. 
23O	52	10	187070	 The LORD has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. 
23O	52	11	187080	 Depart, depart, go out from there; touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves, you who bear the vessels of the LORD. 
23O	52	12	187090	 For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. 
23O	52	13	187100	 Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted. 
23O	52	14	187110	 As many were astonished at you-- his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind-- 
23O	52	15	187120	 so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand. 
23O	53	1	187130	 Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 
23O	53	2	187140	 For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. 
23O	53	3	187150	 He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 
23O	53	4	187160	 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 
23O	53	5	187170	 But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. 
23O	53	6	187180	 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned--every one--to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 
23O	53	7	187190	 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. 
23O	53	8	187200	 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people? 
23O	53	9	187210	 And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth. 
23O	53	10	187220	 Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 
23O	53	11	187230	 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. 
23O	53	12	187240	 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors. 
23O	54	1	187250	 "Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married," says the LORD. 
23O	54	2	187260	 "Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes. 
23O	54	3	187270	 For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your offspring will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities. 
23O	54	4	187280	 "Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more. 
23O	54	5	187290	 For your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called. 
23O	54	6	187300	 For the LORD has called you like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit, like a wife of youth when she is cast off, says your God. 
23O	54	7	187310	 For a brief moment I deserted you, but with great compassion I will gather you. 
23O	54	8	187320	 In overflowing anger for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you," says the LORD, your Redeemer. 
23O	54	9	187330	 "This is like the days of Noah to me: as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, and will not rebuke you. 
23O	54	10	187340	 For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed," says the LORD, who has compassion on you. 
23O	54	11	187350	 "O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires. 
23O	54	12	187360	 I will make your pinnacles of agate, your gates of carbuncles, and all your wall of precious stones. 
23O	54	13	187370	 All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children. 
23O	54	14	187380	 In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you. 
23O	54	15	187390	 If anyone stirs up strife, it is not from me; whoever stirs up strife with you shall fall because of you. 
23O	54	16	187400	 Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals and produces a weapon for its purpose. I have also created the ravager to destroy; 
23O	54	17	187410	 no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, declares the LORD." 
23O	55	1	187420	 "Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 
23O	55	2	187430	 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. 
23O	55	3	187440	 Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. 
23O	55	4	187450	 Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. 
23O	55	5	187460	 Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you. 
23O	55	6	187470	 "Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; 
23O	55	7	187480	 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 
23O	55	8	187490	 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. 
23O	55	9	187500	 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. 
23O	55	10	187510	 "For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, 
23O	55	11	187520	 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. 
23O	55	12	187530	 "For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. 
23O	55	13	187540	 Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off." 
23O	56	1	187550	 Thus says the LORD: "Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed. 
23O	56	2	187560	 Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil." 
23O	56	3	187570	 Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, "The LORD will surely separate me from his people"; and let not the eunuch say, "Behold, I am a dry tree." 
23O	56	4	187580	 For thus says the LORD: "To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant, 
23O	56	5	187590	 I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off. 
23O	56	6	187600	 "And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant-- 
23O	56	7	187610	 these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples." 
23O	56	8	187620	 The Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares, "I will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered." 
23O	56	9	187630	 All you beasts of the field, come to devour-- all you beasts in the forest. 
23O	56	10	187640	 His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. 
23O	56	11	187650	 The dogs have a mighty appetite; they never have enough. But they are shepherds who have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each to his own gain, one and all. 
23O	56	12	187660	 "Come," they say, "let me get wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this day, great beyond measure." 
23O	57	1	187670	 The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity; 
23O	57	2	187680	 he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness. 
23O	57	3	187690	 But you, draw near, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman. 
23O	57	4	187700	 Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of deceit, 
23O	57	5	187710	 you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? 
23O	57	6	187720	 Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion; they, they, are your lot; to them you have poured out a drink offering, you have brought a grain offering. Shall I relent for these things? 
23O	57	7	187730	 On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifice. 
23O	57	8	187740	 Behind the door and the doorpost you have set up your memorial; for, deserting me, you have uncovered your bed, you have gone up to it, you have made it wide; and you have made a covenant for yourself with them, you have loved their bed, you have looked on nakedness. 
23O	57	9	187750	 You journeyed to the king with oil and multiplied your perfumes; you sent your envoys far off, and sent down even to Sheol. 
23O	57	10	187760	 You were wearied with the length of your way, but you did not say, "It is hopeless"; you found new life for your strength, and so you were not faint. 
23O	57	11	187770	 Whom did you dread and fear, so that you lied, and did not remember me, did not lay it to heart? Have I not held my peace, even for a long time, and you do not fear me? 
23O	57	12	187780	 I will declare your righteousness and your deeds, but they will not profit you. 
23O	57	13	187790	 When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you! The wind will carry them off, a breath will take them away. But he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land and shall inherit my holy mountain. 
23O	57	14	187800	 And it shall be said, "Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstruction from my people's way." 
23O	57	15	187810	 For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite. 
23O	57	16	187820	 For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry; for the spirit would grow faint before me, and the breath of life that I made. 
23O	57	17	187830	 Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry, I struck him; I hid my face and was angry, but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart. 
23O	57	18	187840	 I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners, 
23O	57	19	187850	 creating the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace, to the far and to the near," says the LORD, "and I will heal him. 
23O	57	20	187860	 But the wicked are like the tossing sea; for it cannot be quiet, and its waters toss up mire and dirt. 
23O	57	21	187870	 There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked." 
23O	58	1	187880	 "Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins. 
23O	58	2	187890	 Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God. 
23O	58	3	187900	 'Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?' Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers. 
23O	58	4	187910	 Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high. 
23O	58	5	187920	 Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the LORD? 
23O	58	6	187930	 "Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? 
23O	58	7	187940	 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? 
23O	58	8	187950	 Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard. 
23O	58	9	187960	 Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, 'Here I am.' If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, 
23O	58	10	187970	 if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. 
23O	58	11	187980	 And the LORD will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail. 
23O	58	12	187990	 And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to dwell in. 
23O	58	13	188000	 "If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the LORD honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly; 
23O	58	14	188010	 then you shall take delight in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken." 
23O	59	1	188020	 Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 
23O	59	2	188030	 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear. 
23O	59	3	188040	 For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness. 
23O	59	4	188050	 No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity. 
23O	59	5	188060	 They hatch adders' eggs; they weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched. 
23O	59	6	188070	 Their webs will not serve as clothing; men will not cover themselves with what they make. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are in their hands. 
23O	59	7	188080	 Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways. 
23O	59	8	188090	 The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace. 
23O	59	9	188100	 Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we hope for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom. 
23O	59	10	188110	 We grope for the wall like the blind; we grope like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men. 
23O	59	11	188120	 We all growl like bears; we moan and moan like doves; we hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us. 
23O	59	12	188130	 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities: 
23O	59	13	188140	 transgressing, and denying the LORD, and turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words. 
23O	59	14	188150	 Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter. 
23O	59	15	188160	 Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice. 
23O	59	16	188170	 He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intercede; then his own arm brought him salvation, and his righteousness upheld him. 
23O	59	17	188180	 He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in zeal as a cloak. 
23O	59	18	188190	 According to their deeds, so will he repay, wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render repayment. 
23O	59	19	188200	 So they shall fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come like a rushing stream, which the wind of the LORD drives. 
23O	59	20	188210	 "And a Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression," declares the LORD. 
23O	59	21	188220	 "And as for me, this is my covenant with them," says the LORD: "My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children's offspring," says the LORD, "from this time forth and forevermore." 
23O	60	1	188230	 Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. 
23O	60	2	188240	 For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the LORD will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you. 
23O	60	3	188250	 And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. 
23O	60	4	188260	 Lift up your eyes all around, and see; they all gather together, they come to you; your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be carried on the hip. 
23O	60	5	188270	 Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall thrill and exult, because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you. 
23O	60	6	188280	 A multitude of camels shall cover you, the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all those from Sheba shall come. They shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall bring good news, the praises of the LORD. 
23O	60	7	188290	 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; they shall come up with acceptance on my altar, and I will beautify my beautiful house. 
23O	60	8	188300	 Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows? 
23O	60	9	188310	 For the coastlands shall hope for me, the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your children from afar, their silver and gold with them, for the name of the LORD your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful. 
23O	60	10	188320	 Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you; for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you. 
23O	60	11	188330	 Your gates shall be open continually; day and night they shall not be shut, that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations, with their kings led in procession. 
23O	60	12	188340	 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste. 
23O	60	13	188350	 The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the pine, to beautify the place of my sanctuary, and I will make the place of my feet glorious. 
23O	60	14	188360	 The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending low to you, and all who despised you shall bow down at your feet; they shall call you the City of the LORD, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel. 
23O	60	15	188370	 Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you majestic forever, a joy from age to age. 
23O	60	16	188380	 You shall suck the milk of nations; you shall nurse at the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. 
23O	60	17	188390	 Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze, instead of stones, iron. I will make your overseers peace and your taskmasters righteousness. 
23O	60	18	188400	 Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise. 
23O	60	19	188410	 The sun shall be no more your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give you light; but the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory. 
23O	60	20	188420	 Your sun shall no more go down, nor your moon withdraw itself; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall be ended. 
23O	60	21	188430	 Your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I might be glorified. 
23O	60	22	188440	 The least one shall become a clan, and the smallest one a mighty nation; I am the LORD; in its time I will hasten it. 
23O	61	1	188450	 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; 
23O	61	2	188460	 to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; 
23O	61	3	188470	 to grant to those who mourn in Zion-- to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified. 
23O	61	4	188480	 They shall build up the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations. 
23O	61	5	188490	 Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks; foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers; 
23O	61	6	188500	 but you shall be called the priests of the LORD; they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory you shall boast. 
23O	61	7	188510	 Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion; instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot; therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion; they shall have everlasting joy. 
23O	61	8	188520	 For I the LORD love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. 
23O	61	9	188530	 Their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring the LORD has blessed. 
23O	61	10	188540	 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. 
23O	61	11	188550	 For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations. 
23O	62	1	188560	 For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch. 
23O	62	2	188570	 The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give. 
23O	62	3	188580	 You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. 
23O	62	4	188590	 You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate, but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for the LORD delights in you, and your land shall be married. 
23O	62	5	188600	 For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you. 
23O	62	6	188610	 On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the LORD in remembrance, take no rest, 
23O	62	7	188620	 and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth. 
23O	62	8	188630	 The LORD has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: "I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you have labored; 
23O	62	9	188640	 but those who garner it shall eat it and praise the LORD, and those who gather it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary." 
23O	62	10	188650	 Go through, go through the gates; prepare the way for the people; build up, build up the highway; clear it of stones; lift up a signal over the peoples. 
23O	62	11	188660	 Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, "Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him." 
23O	62	12	188670	 And they shall be called The Holy People, The Redeemed of the LORD; and you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken. 
23O	63	1	188680	 Who is this who comes from Edom, in crimsoned garments from Bozrah, he who is splendid in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? "It is I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save." 
23O	63	2	188690	 Why is your apparel red, and your garments like his who treads in the winepress? 
23O	63	3	188700	 "I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with me; I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath; their lifeblood spattered on my garments, and stained all my apparel. 
23O	63	4	188710	 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and my year of redemption had come. 
23O	63	5	188720	 I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold; so my own arm brought me salvation, and my wrath upheld me. 
23O	63	6	188730	 I trampled down the peoples in my anger; I made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth." 
23O	63	7	188740	 I will recount the steadfast love of the LORD, the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has granted us, and the great goodness to the house of Israel that he has granted them according to his compassion, according to the abundance of his steadfast love. 
23O	63	8	188750	 For he said, "Surely they are my people, children who will not deal falsely." And he became their Savior. 
23O	63	9	188760	 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old. 
23O	63	10	188770	 But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them. 
23O	63	11	188780	 Then he remembered the days of old, of Moses and his people. Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put in the midst of them his Holy Spirit, 
23O	63	12	188790	 who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name, 
23O	63	13	188800	 who led them through the depths? Like a horse in the desert, they did not stumble. 
23O	63	14	188810	 Like livestock that go down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. So you led your people, to make for yourself a glorious name. 
23O	63	15	188820	 Look down from heaven and see, from your holy and beautiful habitation. Where are your zeal and your might? The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion are held back from me. 
23O	63	16	188830	 For you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name. 
23O	63	17	188840	 O LORD, why do you make us wander from your ways and harden our heart, so that we fear you not? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your heritage. 
23O	63	18	188850	 Your holy people held possession for a little while; our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary. 
23O	63	19	188860	 We have become like those over whom you have never ruled, like those who are not called by your name. 
23O	64	1	188870	 Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence-- 
23O	64	2	188880	 as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil-- to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence! 
23O	64	3	188890	 When you did awesome things that we did not look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence. 
23O	64	4	188900	 From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him. 
23O	64	5	188910	 You meet him who joyfully works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved? 
23O	64	6	188920	 We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. 
23O	64	7	188930	 There is no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities. 
23O	64	8	188940	 But now, O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand. 
23O	64	9	188950	 Be not so terribly angry, O LORD, and remember not iniquity forever. Behold, please look, we are all your people. 
23O	64	10	188960	 Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 
23O	64	11	188970	 Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins. 
23O	64	12	188980	 Will you restrain yourself at these things, O LORD? Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly? 
23O	65	1	188990	 I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, "Here am I, here am I," to a nation that was not called by my name. 
23O	65	2	189000	 I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices; 
23O	65	3	189010	 a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and making offerings on bricks; 
23O	65	4	189020	 who sit in tombs, and spend the night in secret places; who eat pig's flesh, and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels; 
23O	65	5	189030	 who say, "Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am too holy for you." These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all the day. 
23O	65	6	189040	 Behold, it is written before me: "I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will indeed repay into their bosom 
23O	65	7	189050	 both your iniquities and your fathers' iniquities together, says the LORD; because they made offerings on the mountains and insulted me on the hills, I will measure into their bosom payment for their former deeds." 
23O	65	8	189060	 Thus says the LORD: "As the new wine is found in the cluster, and they say, 'Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,' so I will do for my servants' sake, and not destroy them all. 
23O	65	9	189070	 I will bring forth offspring from Jacob, and from Judah possessors of my mountains; my chosen shall possess it, and my servants shall dwell there. 
23O	65	10	189080	 Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down, for my people who have sought me. 
23O	65	11	189090	 But you who forsake the LORD, who forget my holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny, 
23O	65	12	189100	 I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because, when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not listen, but you did what was evil in my eyes and chose what I did not delight in." 
23O	65	13	189110	 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame; 
23O	65	14	189120	 behold, my servants shall sing for gladness of heart, but you shall cry out for pain of heart and shall wail for breaking of spirit. 
23O	65	15	189130	 You shall leave your name to my chosen for a curse, and the Lord GOD will put you to death, but his servants he will call by another name. 
23O	65	16	189140	 So that he who blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of truth, and he who takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten and are hidden from my eyes. 
23O	65	17	189150	 "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. 
23O	65	18	189160	 But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy, and her people to be a gladness. 
23O	65	19	189170	 I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in my people; no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress. 
23O	65	20	189180	 No more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the young man shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed. 
23O	65	21	189190	 They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 
23O	65	22	189200	 They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands. 
23O	65	23	189210	 They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the LORD, and their descendants with them. 
23O	65	24	189220	 Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear. 
23O	65	25	189230	 The wolf and the lamb shall graze together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain," says the LORD. 
23O	66	1	189240	 Thus says the LORD: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest? 
23O	66	2	189250	 All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word. 
23O	66	3	189260	 "He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog's neck; he who presents a grain offering, like one who offers pig's blood; he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations; 
23O	66	4	189270	 I also will choose harsh treatment for them and bring their fears upon them, because when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, they did not listen; but they did what was evil in my eyes and chose that in which I did not delight." 
23O	66	5	189280	 Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at his word: "Your brothers who hate you and cast you out for my name's sake have said, 'Let the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy'; but it is they who shall be put to shame. 
23O	66	6	189290	 "The sound of an uproar from the city! A sound from the temple! The sound of the LORD, rendering recompense to his enemies! 
23O	66	7	189300	 "Before she was in labor she gave birth; before her pain came upon her she delivered a son. 
23O	66	8	189310	 Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her children. 
23O	66	9	189320	 Shall I bring to the point of birth and not cause to bring forth?" says the LORD; "shall I, who cause to bring forth, shut the womb?" says your God. 
23O	66	10	189330	 "Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her; 
23O	66	11	189340	 that you may nurse and be satisfied from her consoling breast; that you may drink deeply with delight from her glorious abundance." 
23O	66	12	189350	 For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip, and bounced upon her knees. 
23O	66	13	189360	 As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. 
23O	66	14	189370	 You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice; your bones shall flourish like the grass; and the hand of the LORD shall be known to his servants, and he shall show his indignation against his enemies. 
23O	66	15	189380	 "For behold, the LORD will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 
23O	66	16	189390	 For by fire will the LORD enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the LORD shall be many. 
23O	66	17	189400	 "Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, eating pig's flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, declares the LORD. 
23O	66	18	189410	 "For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory, 
23O	66	19	189420	 and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands far away, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations. 
23O	66	20	189430	 And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the LORD, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD. 
23O	66	21	189440	 And some of them also I will take for priests and for Levites, says the LORD. 
23O	66	22	189450	 "For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make shall remain before me, says the LORD, so shall your offspring and your name remain. 
23O	66	23	189460	 From new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, declares the LORD. 
23O	66	24	189470	 "And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh." 
24O	1	1	189480	 The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, 
24O	1	2	189490	 to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. 
24O	1	3	189500	 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, and until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month. 
24O	1	4	189510	 Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 
24O	1	5	189520	 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations." 
24O	1	6	189530	 Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth." 
24O	1	7	189540	 But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am only a youth'; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. 
24O	1	8	189550	 Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the LORD." 
24O	1	9	189560	 Then the LORD put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the LORD said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. 
24O	1	10	189570	 See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant." 
24O	1	11	189580	 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, "Jeremiah, what do you see?" And I said, "I see an almond branch." 
24O	1	12	189590	 Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it." 
24O	1	13	189600	 The word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying, "What do you see?" And I said, "I see a boiling pot, facing away from the north." 
24O	1	14	189610	 Then the LORD said to me, "Out of the north disaster shall be let loose upon all the inhabitants of the land. 
24O	1	15	189620	 For behold, I am calling all the tribes of the kingdoms of the north, declares the LORD, and they shall come, and every one shall set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, against all its walls all around and against all the cities of Judah. 
24O	1	16	189630	 And I will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil in forsaking me. They have made offerings to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands. 
24O	1	17	189640	 But you, dress yourself for work; arise, and say to them everything that I command you. Do not be dismayed by them, lest I dismay you before them. 
24O	1	18	189650	 And I, behold, I make you this day a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land. 
24O	1	19	189660	 They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, declares the LORD, to deliver you." 
24O	2	1	189670	 The word of the LORD came to me, saying, 
24O	2	2	189680	 "Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the LORD, "I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown. 
24O	2	3	189690	 Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of his harvest. All who ate of it incurred guilt; disaster came upon them, declares the LORD." 
24O	2	4	189700	 Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the clans of the house of Israel. 
24O	2	5	189710	 Thus says the LORD: "What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless? 
24O	2	6	189720	 They did not say, 'Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?' 
24O	2	7	189730	 And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination. 
24O	2	8	189740	 The priests did not say, 'Where is the LORD?' Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and went after things that do not profit. 
24O	2	9	189750	 "Therefore I still contend with you, declares the LORD, and with your children's children I will contend. 
24O	2	10	189760	 For cross to the coasts of Cyprus and see, or send to Kedar and examine with care; see if there has been such a thing. 
24O	2	11	189770	 Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit. 
24O	2	12	189780	 Be appalled, O heavens, at this; be shocked, be utterly desolate, declares the LORD, 
24O	2	13	189790	 for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water. 
24O	2	14	189800	 "Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become a prey? 
24O	2	15	189810	 The lions have roared against him; they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant. 
24O	2	16	189820	 Moreover, the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have shaved the crown of your head. 
24O	2	17	189830	 Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the LORD your God, when he led you in the way? 
24O	2	18	189840	 And now what do you gain by going to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what do you gain by going to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates? 
24O	2	19	189850	 Your evil will chastise you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the LORD your God; the fear of me is not in you, declares the Lord GOD of hosts. 
24O	2	20	189860	 "For long ago I broke your yoke and burst your bonds; but you said, 'I will not serve.' Yes, on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down like a whore. 
24O	2	21	189870	 Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine? 
24O	2	22	189880	 Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, declares the Lord GOD. 
24O	2	23	189890	 How can you say, 'I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals'? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done-- a restless young camel running here and there, 
24O	2	24	189900	 a wild donkey used to the wilderness, in her heat sniffing the wind! Who can restrain her lust? None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her. 
24O	2	25	189910	 Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is hopeless, for I have loved foreigners, and after them I will go.' 
24O	2	26	189920	 "As a thief is shamed when caught, so the house of Israel shall be shamed: they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets, 
24O	2	27	189930	 who say to a tree, 'You are my father,' and to a stone, 'You gave me birth.' For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they say, 'Arise and save us!' 
24O	2	28	189940	 But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you, in your time of trouble; for as many as your cities are your gods, O Judah. 
24O	2	29	189950	 "Why do you contend with me? You have all transgressed against me, declares the LORD. 
24O	2	30	189960	 In vain have I struck your children; they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion. 
24O	2	31	189970	 And you, O generation, behold the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, 'We are free, we will come no more to you'? 
24O	2	32	189980	 Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number. 
24O	2	33	189990	 "How well you direct your course to seek love! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways. 
24O	2	34	190000	 Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of the guiltless poor; you did not find them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things 
24O	2	35	190010	 you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.' Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, 'I have not sinned.' 
24O	2	36	190020	 How much you go about, changing your way! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria. 
24O	2	37	190030	 From it too you will come away with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them. 
24O	3	1	190040	 "If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the LORD. 
24O	3	2	190050	 Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been ravished? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile whoredom. 
24O	3	3	190060	 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed. 
24O	3	4	190070	 Have you not just now called to me, 'My father, you are the friend of my youth-- 
24O	3	5	190080	 will he be angry forever, will he be indignant to the end?' Behold, you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could." 
24O	3	6	190090	 The LORD said to me in the days of King Josiah: "Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the whore? 
24O	3	7	190100	 And I thought, 'After she has done all this she will return to me,' but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 
24O	3	8	190110	 She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore. 
24O	3	9	190120	 Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree. 
24O	3	10	190130	 Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the LORD." 
24O	3	11	190140	 And the LORD said to me, "Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. 
24O	3	12	190150	 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, "'Return, faithless Israel, declares the LORD. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, declares the LORD; I will not be angry forever. 
24O	3	13	190160	 Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against the LORD your God and scattered your favors among foreigners under every green tree, and that you have not obeyed my voice, declares the LORD. 
24O	3	14	190170	 Return, O faithless children, declares the LORD; for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. 
24O	3	15	190180	 "'And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. 
24O	3	16	190190	 And when you have multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, declares the LORD, they shall no more say, "The ark of the covenant of the LORD." It shall not come to mind or be remembered or missed; it shall not be made again. 
24O	3	17	190200	 At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the LORD, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart. 
24O	3	18	190210	 In those days the house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and together they shall come from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers for a heritage. 
24O	3	19	190220	 "'I said, How I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beautiful of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me. 
24O	3	20	190230	 Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husband, so have you been treacherous to me, O house of Israel, declares the LORD.'" 
24O	3	21	190240	 A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons because they have perverted their way; they have forgotten the LORD their God. 
24O	3	22	190250	 "Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness." "Behold, we come to you, for you are the LORD our God. 
24O	3	23	190260	 Truly the hills are a delusion, the orgies on the mountains. Truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. 
24O	3	24	190270	 "But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our fathers labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. 
24O	3	25	190280	 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us. For we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God." 
24O	4	1	190290	 "If you return, O Israel, declares the LORD, to me you should return. If you remove your detestable things from my presence, and do not waver, 
24O	4	2	190300	 and if you swear, 'As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory." 
24O	4	3	190310	 For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: "Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. 
24O	4	4	190320	 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD; remove the foreskin of your hearts, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds." 
24O	4	5	190330	 Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say, "Blow the trumpet through the land; cry aloud and say, 'Assemble, and let us go into the fortified cities!' 
24O	4	6	190340	 Raise a standard toward Zion, flee for safety, stay not, for I bring disaster from the north, and great destruction. 
24O	4	7	190350	 A lion has gone up from his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone out from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant. 
24O	4	8	190360	 For this put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned back from us." 
24O	4	9	190370	 "In that day, declares the LORD, courage shall fail both king and officials. The priests shall be appalled and the prophets astounded." 
24O	4	10	190380	 Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD, surely you have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, 'It shall be well with you,' whereas the sword has reached their very life." 
24O	4	11	190390	 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A hot wind from the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse, 
24O	4	12	190400	 a wind too full for this comes for me. Now it is I who speak in judgment upon them." 
24O	4	13	190410	 Behold, he comes up like clouds; his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles-- woe to us, for we are ruined! 
24O	4	14	190420	 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil, that you may be saved. How long shall your wicked thoughts lodge within you? 
24O	4	15	190430	 For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims trouble from Mount Ephraim. 
24O	4	16	190440	 Warn the nations that he is coming; announce to Jerusalem, "Besiegers come from a distant land; they shout against the cities of Judah. 
24O	4	17	190450	 Like keepers of a field are they against her all around, because she has rebelled against me, declares the LORD. 
24O	4	18	190460	 Your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart." 
24O	4	19	190470	 My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent, for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. 
24O	4	20	190480	 Crash follows hard on crash; the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are laid waste, my curtains in a moment. 
24O	4	21	190490	 How long must I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet? 
24O	4	22	190500	 "For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are 'wise'--in doing evil! But how to do good they know not." 
24O	4	23	190510	 I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light. 
24O	4	24	190520	 I looked on the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, and all the hills moved to and fro. 
24O	4	25	190530	 I looked, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the air had fled. 
24O	4	26	190540	 I looked, and behold, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the LORD, before his fierce anger. 
24O	4	27	190550	 For thus says the LORD, "The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end. 
24O	4	28	190560	 "For this the earth shall mourn, and the heavens above be dark; for I have spoken; I have purposed; I have not relented, nor will I turn back." 
24O	4	29	190570	 At the noise of horseman and archer every city takes to flight; they enter thickets; they climb among rocks; all the cities are forsaken, and no man dwells in them. 
24O	4	30	190580	 And you, O desolate one, what do you mean that you dress in scarlet, that you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, that you enlarge your eyes with paint? In vain you beautify yourself. Your lovers despise you; they seek your life. 
24O	4	31	190590	 For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor, anguish as of one giving birth to her first child, the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, "Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers." 
24O	5	1	190600	 Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her. 
24O	5	2	190610	 Though they say, "As the LORD lives," yet they swear falsely. 
24O	5	3	190620	 O LORD, do not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent. 
24O	5	4	190630	 Then I said, "These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God. 
24O	5	5	190640	 I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God." But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds. 
24O	5	6	190650	 Therefore a lion from the forest shall strike them down; a wolf from the desert shall devastate them. A leopard is watching their cities; everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great. 
24O	5	7	190660	 "How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me and have sworn by those who are no gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery and trooped to the houses of whores. 
24O	5	8	190670	 They were well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor's wife. 
24O	5	9	190680	 Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this? 
24O	5	10	190690	 "Go up through her vine rows and destroy, but make not a full end; strip away her branches, for they are not the LORD's. 
24O	5	11	190700	 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly treacherous to me, declares the LORD. 
24O	5	12	190710	 They have spoken falsely of the LORD and have said, 'He will do nothing; no disaster will come upon us, nor shall we see sword or famine. 
24O	5	13	190720	 The prophets will become wind; the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them!'" 
24O	5	14	190730	 Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts: "Because you have spoken this word, behold, I am making my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and the fire shall consume them. 
24O	5	15	190740	 Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the LORD. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say. 
24O	5	16	190750	 Their quiver is like an open tomb; they are all mighty warriors. 
24O	5	17	190760	 They shall eat up your harvest and your food; they shall eat up your sons and your daughters; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; your fortified cities in which you trust they shall beat down with the sword." 
24O	5	18	190770	 "But even in those days, declares the LORD, I will not make a full end of you. 
24O	5	19	190780	 And when your people say, 'Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?' you shall say to them, 'As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.'" 
24O	5	20	190790	 Declare this in the house of Jacob; proclaim it in Judah: 
24O	5	21	190800	 "Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not. 
24O	5	22	190810	 Do you not fear me? declares the LORD. Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it. 
24O	5	23	190820	 But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away. 
24O	5	24	190830	 They do not say in their hearts, 'Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.' 
24O	5	25	190840	 Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have kept good from you. 
24O	5	26	190850	 For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men. 
24O	5	27	190860	 Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and rich; 
24O	5	28	190870	 they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy. 
24O	5	29	190880	 Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?" 
24O	5	30	190890	 An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land: 
24O	5	31	190900	 the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes? 
24O	6	1	190910	 Flee for safety, O people of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise a signal on Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms out of the north, and great destruction. 
24O	6	2	190920	 The lovely and delicately bred I will destroy, the daughter of Zion. 
24O	6	3	190930	 Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her; they shall pasture, each in his place. 
24O	6	4	190940	 "Prepare war against her; arise, and let us attack at noon! Woe to us, for the day declines, for the shadows of evening lengthen! 
24O	6	5	190950	 Arise, and let us attack by night and destroy her palaces!" 
24O	6	6	190960	 For thus says the LORD of hosts: "Cut down her trees; cast up a siege mound against Jerusalem. This is the city that must be punished; there is nothing but oppression within her. 
24O	6	7	190970	 As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me. 
24O	6	8	190980	 Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I turn from you in disgust, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land." 
24O	6	9	190990	 Thus says the LORD of hosts: "They shall glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel; like a grape-gatherer pass your hand again over its branches." 
24O	6	10	191000	 To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the LORD is to them an object of scorn; they take no pleasure in it. 
24O	6	11	191010	 Therefore I am full of the wrath of the LORD; I am weary of holding it in. "Pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the gatherings of young men, also; both husband and wife shall be taken, the elderly and the very aged. 
24O	6	12	191020	 Their houses shall be turned over to others, their fields and wives together, for I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land," declares the LORD. 
24O	6	13	191030	 "For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely. 
24O	6	14	191040	 They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace. 
24O	6	15	191050	 Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown," says the LORD. 
24O	6	16	191060	 Thus says the LORD: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.' 
24O	6	17	191070	 I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Pay attention to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not pay attention.' 
24O	6	18	191080	 Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them. 
24O	6	19	191090	 Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing disaster upon this people, the fruit of their devices, because they have not paid attention to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it. 
24O	6	20	191100	 What use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me. 
24O	6	21	191110	 Therefore thus says the LORD: 'Behold, I will lay before this people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble; fathers and sons together, neighbor and friend shall perish.'" 
24O	6	22	191120	 Thus says the LORD: "Behold, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth. 
24O	6	23	191130	 They lay hold on bow and javelin; they are cruel and have no mercy; the sound of them is like the roaring sea; they ride on horses, set in array as a man for battle, against you, O daughter of Zion!" 
24O	6	24	191140	 We have heard the report of it; our hands fall helpless; anguish has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in labor. 
24O	6	25	191150	 Go not out into the field, nor walk on the road, for the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side. 
24O	6	26	191160	 O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us. 
24O	6	27	191170	 "I have made you a tester of metals among my people, that you may know and test their ways. 
24O	6	28	191180	 They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron; all of them act corruptly. 
24O	6	29	191190	 The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed. 
24O	6	30	191200	 Rejected silver they are called, for the LORD has rejected them." 
24O	7	1	191210	 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 
24O	7	2	191220	 "Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all you men of Judah who enter these gates to worship the LORD. 
24O	7	3	191230	 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place. 
24O	7	4	191240	 Do not trust in these deceptive words: 'This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.' 
24O	7	5	191250	 "For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another, 
24O	7	6	191260	 if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, 
24O	7	7	191270	 then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever. 
24O	7	8	191280	 "Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. 
24O	7	9	191290	 Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, 
24O	7	10	191300	 and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, 'We are delivered!'--only to go on doing all these abominations? 
24O	7	11	191310	 Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the LORD. 
24O	7	12	191320	 Go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil of my people Israel. 
24O	7	13	191330	 And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and when I called you, you did not answer, 
24O	7	14	191340	 therefore I will do to the house that is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. 
24O	7	15	191350	 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast out all your kinsmen, all the offspring of Ephraim. 
24O	7	16	191360	 "As for you, do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you. 
24O	7	17	191370	 Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 
24O	7	18	191380	 The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven. And they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger. 
24O	7	19	191390	 Is it I whom they provoke? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves, to their own shame? 
24O	7	20	191400	 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched." 
24O	7	21	191410	 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. 
24O	7	22	191420	 For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. 
24O	7	23	191430	 But this command I gave them: 'Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.' 
24O	7	24	191440	 But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward. 
24O	7	25	191450	 From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day. 
24O	7	26	191460	 Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers. 
24O	7	27	191470	 "So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you. 
24O	7	28	191480	 And you shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips. 
24O	7	29	191490	 "'Cut off your hair and cast it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.' 
24O	7	30	191500	 "For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the LORD. They have set their detestable things in the house that is called by my name, to defile it. 
24O	7	31	191510	 And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind. 
24O	7	32	191520	 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when it will no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; for they will bury in Topheth, because there is no room elsewhere. 
24O	7	33	191530	 And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth, and none will frighten them away. 
24O	7	34	191540	 And I will silence in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land shall become a waste. 
24O	8	1	191550	 "At that time, declares the LORD, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs. 
24O	8	2	191560	 And they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped. And they shall not be gathered or buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. 
24O	8	3	191570	 Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, declares the LORD of hosts. 
24O	8	4	191580	 "You shall say to them, Thus says the LORD: When men fall, do they not rise again? If one turns away, does he not return? 
24O	8	5	191590	 Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return. 
24O	8	6	191600	 I have paid attention and listened, but they have not spoken rightly; no man relents of his evil, saying, 'What have I done?' Everyone turns to his own course, like a horse plunging headlong into battle. 
24O	8	7	191610	 Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the LORD. 
24O	8	8	191620	 "How can you say, 'We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us'? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie. 
24O	8	9	191630	 The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them? 
24O	8	10	191640	 Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors, because from the least to the greatest everyone is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely. 
24O	8	11	191650	 They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace. 
24O	8	12	191660	 Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the LORD. 
24O	8	13	191670	 When I would gather them, declares the LORD, there are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree; even the leaves are withered, and what I gave them has passed away from them." 
24O	8	14	191680	 Why do we sit still? Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us to perish and has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. 
24O	8	15	191690	 We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror. 
24O	8	16	191700	 "The snorting of their horses is heard from Dan; at the sound of the neighing of their stallions the whole land quakes. They come and devour the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it. 
24O	8	17	191710	 For behold, I am sending among you serpents, adders that cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you," declares the LORD. 
24O	8	18	191720	 My joy is gone; grief is upon me; my heart is sick within me. 
24O	8	19	191730	 Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people from the length and breadth of the land: "Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King not in her?" "Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images and with their foreign idols?" 
24O	8	20	191740	 "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved." 
24O	8	21	191750	 For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded; I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me. 
24O	8	22	191760	 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored? 
24O	9	1	191770	 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 
24O	9	2	191780	 Oh that I had in the desert a travelers' lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men. 
24O	9	3	191790	 They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the LORD. 
24O	9	4	191800	 Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer. 
24O	9	5	191810	 Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity. 
24O	9	6	191820	 Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the LORD. 
24O	9	7	191830	 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of my people? 
24O	9	8	191840	 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him. 
24O	9	9	191850	 Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this? 
24O	9	10	191860	 "I will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains, and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled and are gone. 
24O	9	11	191870	 I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant." 
24O	9	12	191880	 Who is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through? 
24O	9	13	191890	 And the LORD says: "Because they have forsaken my law that I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in accord with it, 
24O	9	14	191900	 but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them. 
24O	9	15	191910	 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with bitter food, and give them poisonous water to drink. 
24O	9	16	191920	 I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them." 
24O	9	17	191930	 Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skillful women to come; 
24O	9	18	191940	 let them make haste and raise a wailing over us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids flow with water. 
24O	9	19	191950	 For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion: 'How we are ruined! We are utterly shamed, because we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.'" 
24O	9	20	191960	 Hear, O women, the word of the LORD, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a lament, and each to her neighbor a dirge. 
24O	9	21	191970	 For death has come up into our windows; it has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares. 
24O	9	22	191980	 Speak, "Thus declares the LORD: 'The dead bodies of men shall fall like dung upon the open field, like sheaves after the reaper, and none shall gather them.'" 
24O	9	23	191990	 Thus says the LORD: "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, 
24O	9	24	192000	 but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD." 
24O	9	25	192010	 "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will punish all those who are circumcised merely in the flesh-- 
24O	9	26	192020	 Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all who dwell in the desert who cut the corners of their hair, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart." 
24O	10	1	192030	 Hear the word that the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel. 
24O	10	2	192040	 Thus says the LORD: "Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them, 
24O	10	3	192050	 for the customs of the peoples are vanity. A tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman. 
24O	10	4	192060	 They decorate it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so that it cannot move. 
24O	10	5	192070	 Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good." 
24O	10	6	192080	 There is none like you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is great in might. 
24O	10	7	192090	 Who would not fear you, O King of the nations? For this is your due; for among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like you. 
24O	10	8	192100	 They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood! 
24O	10	9	192110	 Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; their clothing is violet and purple; they are all the work of skilled men. 
24O	10	10	192120	 But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation. 
24O	10	11	192130	 Thus shall you say to them: "The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens." 
24O	10	12	192140	 It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens. 
24O	10	13	192150	 When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses. 
24O	10	14	192160	 Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them. 
24O	10	15	192170	 They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish. 
24O	10	16	192180	 Not like these is he who is the portion of Jacob, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the LORD of hosts is his name. 
24O	10	17	192190	 Gather up your bundle from the ground, O you who dwell under siege! 
24O	10	18	192200	 For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress on them, that they may feel it." 
24O	10	19	192210	 Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is grievous. But I said, "Truly this is an affliction, and I must bear it." 
24O	10	20	192220	 My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken; my children have gone from me, and they are not; there is no one to spread my tent again and to set up my curtains. 
24O	10	21	192230	 For the shepherds are stupid and do not inquire of the LORD; therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered. 
24O	10	22	192240	 A voice, a rumor! Behold, it comes!-- a great commotion out of the north country to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals. 
24O	10	23	192250	 I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps. 
24O	10	24	192260	 Correct me, O LORD, but in justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing. 
24O	10	25	192270	 Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation. 
24O	11	1	192280	 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 
24O	11	2	192290	 "Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 
24O	11	3	192300	 You shall say to them, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who does not hear the words of this covenant 
24O	11	4	192310	 that I commanded your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Listen to my voice, and do all that I command you. So shall you be my people, and I will be your God, 
24O	11	5	192320	 that I may confirm the oath that I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day." Then I answered, "So be it, LORD." 
24O	11	6	192330	 And the LORD said to me, "Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: Hear the words of this covenant and do them. 
24O	11	7	192340	 For I solemnly warned your fathers when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, warning them persistently, even to this day, saying, Obey my voice. 
24O	11	8	192350	 Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not." 
24O	11	9	192360	 Again the LORD said to me, "A conspiracy exists among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 
24O	11	10	192370	 They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words. They have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant that I made with their fathers. 
24O	11	11	192380	 Therefore, thus says the LORD, Behold, I am bringing disaster upon them that they cannot escape. Though they cry to me, I will not listen to them. 
24O	11	12	192390	 Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they make offerings, but they cannot save them in the time of their trouble. 
24O	11	13	192400	 For your gods have become as many as your cities, O Judah, and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to shame, altars to make offerings to Baal. 
24O	11	14	192410	 "Therefore do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble. 
24O	11	15	192420	 What right has my beloved in my house, when she has done many vile deeds? Can even sacrificial flesh avert your doom? Can you then exult? 
24O	11	16	192430	 The LORD once called you 'a green olive tree, beautiful with good fruit.' But with the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it, and its branches will be consumed. 
24O	11	17	192440	 The LORD of hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you, because of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done, provoking me to anger by making offerings to Baal." 
24O	11	18	192450	 The LORD made it known to me and I knew; then you showed me their deeds. 
24O	11	19	192460	 But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more." 
24O	11	20	192470	 But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause. 
24O	11	21	192480	 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, and say, "Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hand"-- 
24O	11	22	192490	 therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine, 
24O	11	23	192500	 and none of them shall be left. For I will bring disaster upon the men of Anathoth, the year of their punishment." 
24O	12	1	192510	 Righteous are you, O LORD, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive? 
24O	12	2	192520	 You plant them, and they take root; they grow and produce fruit; you are near in their mouth and far from their heart. 
24O	12	3	192530	 But you, O LORD, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter. 
24O	12	4	192540	 How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? For the evil of those who dwell in it the beasts and the birds are swept away, because they said, "He will not see our latter end." 
24O	12	5	192550	 "If you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you, how will you compete with horses? And if in a safe land you are so trusting, what will you do in the thicket of the Jordan? 
24O	12	6	192560	 For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; do not believe them, though they speak friendly words to you." 
24O	12	7	192570	 "I have forsaken my house; I have abandoned my heritage; I have given the beloved of my soul into the hands of her enemies. 
24O	12	8	192580	 My heritage has become to me like a lion in the forest; she has lifted up her voice against me; therefore I hate her. 
24O	12	9	192590	 Is my heritage to me like a hyena's lair? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the wild beasts; bring them to devour. 
24O	12	10	192600	 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard; they have trampled down my portion; they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. 
24O	12	11	192610	 They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns to me. The whole land is made desolate, but no man lays it to heart. 
24O	12	12	192620	 Upon all the bare heights in the desert destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the land to the other; no flesh has peace. 
24O	12	13	192630	 They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns; they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD." 
24O	12	14	192640	 Thus says the LORD concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the heritage that I have given my people Israel to inherit: "Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them. 
24O	12	15	192650	 And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land. 
24O	12	16	192660	 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, 'As the LORD lives,' even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people. 
24O	12	17	192670	 But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the LORD." 
24O	13	1	192680	 Thus says the LORD to me, "Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, and do not dip it in water." 
24O	13	2	192690	 So I bought a loincloth according to the word of the LORD, and put it around my waist. 
24O	13	3	192700	 And the word of the LORD came to me a second time, 
24O	13	4	192710	 "Take the loincloth that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a cleft of the rock." 
24O	13	5	192720	 So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me. 
24O	13	6	192730	 And after many days the LORD said to me, "Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there." 
24O	13	7	192740	 Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the loincloth was spoiled; it was good for nothing. 
24O	13	8	192750	 Then the word of the LORD came to me: 
24O	13	9	192760	 "Thus says the LORD: Even so will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. 
24O	13	10	192770	 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing. 
24O	13	11	192780	 For as the loincloth clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, declares the LORD, that they might be for me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen. 
24O	13	12	192790	 "You shall speak to them this word: 'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, "Every jar shall be filled with wine."' And they will say to you, 'Do we not indeed know that every jar will be filled with wine?' 
24O	13	13	192800	 Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will fill with drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land: the kings who sit on David's throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 
24O	13	14	192810	 And I will dash them one against another, fathers and sons together, declares the LORD. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.'" 
24O	13	15	192820	 Hear and give ear; be not proud, for the LORD has spoken. 
24O	13	16	192830	 Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness. 
24O	13	17	192840	 But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock has been taken captive. 
24O	13	18	192850	 Say to the king and the queen mother: "Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head." 
24O	13	19	192860	 The cities of the Negeb are shut up, with none to open them; all Judah is taken into exile, wholly taken into exile. 
24O	13	20	192870	 "Lift up your eyes and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock? 
24O	13	21	192880	 What will you say when they set as head over you those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you? Will not pangs take hold of you like those of a woman in labor? 
24O	13	22	192890	 And if you say in your heart, 'Why have these things come upon me?' it is for the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts are lifted up and you suffer violence. 
24O	13	23	192900	 Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil. 
24O	13	24	192910	 I will scatter you like chaff driven by the wind from the desert. 
24O	13	25	192920	 This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you, declares the LORD, because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies. 
24O	13	26	192930	 I myself will lift up your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen. 
24O	13	27	192940	 I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?" 
24O	14	1	192950	 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought: 
24O	14	2	192960	 "Judah mourns, and her gates languish; her people lament on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up. 
24O	14	3	192970	 Her nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns; they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed and confounded and cover their heads. 
24O	14	4	192980	 Because of the ground that is dismayed, since there is no rain on the land, the farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads. 
24O	14	5	192990	 Even the doe in the field forsakes her newborn fawn because there is no grass. 
24O	14	6	193000	 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no vegetation. 
24O	14	7	193010	 "Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O LORD, for your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you. 
24O	14	8	193020	 O you hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why should you be like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night? 
24O	14	9	193030	 Why should you be like a man confused, like a mighty warrior who cannot save? Yet you, O LORD, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; do not leave us." 
24O	14	10	193040	 Thus says the LORD concerning this people: "They have loved to wander thus; they have not restrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins." 
24O	14	11	193050	 The LORD said to me: "Do not pray for the welfare of this people. 
24O	14	12	193060	 Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence." 
24O	14	13	193070	 Then I said: "Ah, Lord GOD, behold, the prophets say to them, 'You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.'" 
24O	14	14	193080	 And the LORD said to me: "The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds. 
24O	14	15	193090	 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although I did not send them, and who say, 'Sword and famine shall not come upon this land': By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed. 
24O	14	16	193100	 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, with none to bury them--them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their evil upon them. 
24O	14	17	193110	 "You shall say to them this word: 'Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound, with a very grievous blow. 
24O	14	18	193120	 If I go out into the field, behold, those pierced by the sword! And if I enter the city, behold, the diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land and have no knowledge.'" 
24O	14	19	193130	 Have you utterly rejected Judah? Does your soul loathe Zion? Why have you struck us down so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror. 
24O	14	20	193140	 We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against you. 
24O	14	21	193150	 Do not spurn us, for your name's sake; do not dishonor your glorious throne; remember and do not break your covenant with us. 
24O	14	22	193160	 Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O LORD our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things. 
24O	15	1	193170	 Then the LORD said to me, "Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go! 
24O	15	2	193180	 And when they ask you, 'Where shall we go?' you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD: "'Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity.' 
24O	15	3	193190	 I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. 
24O	15	4	193200	 And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem. 
24O	15	5	193210	 "Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, or who will grieve for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare? 
24O	15	6	193220	 You have rejected me, declares the LORD; you keep going backward, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you-- I am weary of relenting. 
24O	15	7	193230	 I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people; they did not turn from their ways. 
24O	15	8	193240	 I have made their widows more in number than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of young men a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon them suddenly. 
24O	15	9	193250	 She who bore seven has grown feeble; she has fainted away; her sun went down while it was yet day; she has been shamed and disgraced. And the rest of them I will give to the sword before their enemies, declares the LORD." 
24O	15	10	193260	 Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me. 
24O	15	11	193270	 The LORD said, "Have I not set you free for their good? Have I not pleaded for you before the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress? 
24O	15	12	193280	 Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze? 
24O	15	13	193290	 "Your wealth and your treasures I will give as spoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory. 
24O	15	14	193300	 I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever." 
24O	15	15	193310	 O LORD, you know; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In your forbearance take me not away; know that for your sake I bear reproach. 
24O	15	16	193320	 Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O LORD, God of hosts. 
24O	15	17	193330	 I did not sit in the company of revelers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone, because your hand was upon me, for you had filled me with indignation. 
24O	15	18	193340	 Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail? 
24O	15	19	193350	 Therefore thus says the LORD: "If you return, I will restore you, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth. They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them. 
24O	15	20	193360	 And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you, declares the LORD. 
24O	15	21	193370	 I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless." 
24O	16	1	193380	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
24O	16	2	193390	 "You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place. 
24O	16	3	193400	 For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning the mothers who bore them and the fathers who fathered them in this land: 
24O	16	4	193410	 They shall die of deadly diseases. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. They shall perish by the sword and by famine, and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth. 
24O	16	5	193420	 "For thus says the LORD: Do not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament or grieve for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, my steadfast love and mercy, declares the LORD. 
24O	16	6	193430	 Both great and small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or cut himself or make himself bald for them. 
24O	16	7	193440	 No one shall break bread for the mourner, to comfort him for the dead, nor shall anyone give him the cup of consolation to drink for his father or his mother. 
24O	16	8	193450	 You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink. 
24O	16	9	193460	 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will silence in this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. 
24O	16	10	193470	 "And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, 'Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?' 
24O	16	11	193480	 then you shall say to them: 'Because your fathers have forsaken me, declares the LORD, and have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law, 
24O	16	12	193490	 and because you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his stubborn, evil will, refusing to listen to me. 
24O	16	13	193500	 Therefore I will hurl you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.' 
24O	16	14	193510	 "Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when it shall no longer be said, 'As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,' 
24O	16	15	193520	 but 'As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.' For I will bring them back to their own land that I gave to their fathers. 
24O	16	16	193530	 "Behold, I am sending for many fishers, declares the LORD, and they shall catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks. 
24O	16	17	193540	 For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes. 
24O	16	18	193550	 But first I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations." 
24O	16	19	193560	 O LORD, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: "Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit. 
24O	16	20	193570	 Can man make for himself gods? Such are not gods!" 
24O	16	21	193580	 "Therefore, behold, I will make them know, this once I will make them know my power and my might, and they shall know that my name is the LORD." 
24O	17	1	193590	 "The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars, 
24O	17	2	193600	 while their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills, 
24O	17	3	193610	 on the mountains in the open country. Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your high places for sin throughout all your territory. 
24O	17	4	193620	 You shall loosen your hand from your heritage that I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever." 
24O	17	5	193630	 Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD. 
24O	17	6	193640	 He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. 
24O	17	7	193650	 "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. 
24O	17	8	193660	 He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit." 
24O	17	9	193670	 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? 
24O	17	10	193680	 "I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds." 
24O	17	11	193690	 Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool. 
24O	17	12	193700	 A glorious throne set on high from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. 
24O	17	13	193710	 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living water. 
24O	17	14	193720	 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise. 
24O	17	15	193730	 Behold, they say to me, "Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come!" 
24O	17	16	193740	 I have not run away from being your shepherd, nor have I desired the day of sickness. You know what came out of my lips; it was before your face. 
24O	17	17	193750	 Be not a terror to me; you are my refuge in the day of disaster. 
24O	17	18	193760	 Let those be put to shame who persecute me, but let me not be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed; bring upon them the day of disaster; destroy them with double destruction! 
24O	17	19	193770	 Thus said the LORD to me: "Go and stand in the People's Gate, by which the kings of Judah enter and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem, 
24O	17	20	193780	 and say: 'Hear the word of the LORD, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter by these gates. 
24O	17	21	193790	 Thus says the LORD: Take care for the sake of your lives, and do not bear a burden on the Sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem. 
24O	17	22	193800	 And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers. 
24O	17	23	193810	 Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck, that they might not hear and receive instruction. 
24O	17	24	193820	 "'But if you listen to me, declares the LORD, and bring in no burden by the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it, 
24O	17	25	193830	 then there shall enter by the gates of this city kings and princes who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their officials, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And this city shall be inhabited forever. 
24O	17	26	193840	 And people shall come from the cities of Judah and the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the Shephelah, from the hill country, and from the Negeb, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense, and bringing thank offerings to the house of the LORD. 
24O	17	27	193850	 But if you do not listen to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.'" 
24O	18	1	193860	 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 
24O	18	2	193870	 "Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words." 
24O	18	3	193880	 So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was working at his wheel. 
24O	18	4	193890	 And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do. 
24O	18	5	193900	 Then the word of the LORD came to me: 
24O	18	6	193910	 "O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the LORD. Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. 
24O	18	7	193920	 If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, 
24O	18	8	193930	 and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. 
24O	18	9	193940	 And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, 
24O	18	10	193950	 and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it. 
24O	18	11	193960	 Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: 'Thus says the LORD, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.' 
24O	18	12	193970	 "But they say, 'That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.' 
24O	18	13	193980	 "Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask among the nations, Who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a very horrible thing. 
24O	18	14	193990	 Does the snow of Lebanon leave the crags of Sirion? Do the mountain waters run dry, the cold flowing streams? 
24O	18	15	194000	 But my people have forgotten me; they make offerings to false gods; they made them stumble in their ways, in the ancient roads, and to walk into side roads, not the highway, 
24O	18	16	194010	 making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. Everyone who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head. 
24O	18	17	194020	 Like the east wind I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back, not my face, in the day of their calamity." 
24O	18	18	194030	 Then they said, "Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words." 
24O	18	19	194040	 Hear me, O LORD, and listen to the voice of my adversaries. 
24O	18	20	194050	 Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them. 
24O	18	21	194060	 Therefore deliver up their children to famine; give them over to the power of the sword; let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be struck down by the sword in battle. 
24O	18	22	194070	 May a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to take me and laid snares for my feet. 
24O	18	23	194080	 Yet you, O LORD, know all their plotting to kill me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from your sight. Let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger. 
24O	19	1	194090	 Thus says the LORD, "Go, buy a potter's earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests, 
24O	19	2	194100	 and go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you. 
24O	19	3	194110	 You shall say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing such disaster upon this place that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle. 
24O	19	4	194120	 Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents, 
24O	19	5	194130	 and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind-- 
24O	19	6	194140	 therefore, behold, days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. 
24O	19	7	194150	 And in this place I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, and will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth. 
24O	19	8	194160	 And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds. 
24O	19	9	194170	 And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.' 
24O	19	10	194180	 "Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you, 
24O	19	11	194190	 and shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, so that it can never be mended. Men shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury. 
24O	19	12	194200	 Thus will I do to this place, declares the LORD, and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth. 
24O	19	13	194210	 The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah--all the houses on whose roofs offerings have been offered to all the host of heaven, and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods--shall be defiled like the place of Topheth.'" 
24O	19	14	194220	 Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the LORD's house and said to all the people: 
24O	19	15	194230	 "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their neck, refusing to hear my words." 
24O	20	1	194240	 Now Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. 
24O	20	2	194250	 Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the LORD. 
24O	20	3	194260	 The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "The LORD does not call your name Pashhur, but Terror On Every Side. 
24O	20	4	194270	 For thus says the LORD: Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon. He shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall strike them down with the sword. 
24O	20	5	194280	 Moreover, I will give all the wealth of the city, all its gains, all its prized belongings, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies, who shall plunder them and seize them and carry them to Babylon. 
24O	20	6	194290	 And you, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity. To Babylon you shall go, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely." 
24O	20	7	194300	 O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; everyone mocks me. 
24O	20	8	194310	 For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, "Violence and destruction!" For the word of the LORD has become for me a reproach and derision all day long. 
24O	20	9	194320	 If I say, "I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name," there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot. 
24O	20	10	194330	 For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! "Denounce him! Let us denounce him!" say all my close friends, watching for my fall. "Perhaps he will be deceived; then we can overcome him and take our revenge on him." 
24O	20	11	194340	 But the LORD is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble; they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten. 
24O	20	12	194350	 O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause. 
24O	20	13	194360	 Sing to the LORD; praise the LORD! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers. 
24O	20	14	194370	 Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed! 
24O	20	15	194380	 Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, "A son is born to you," making him very glad. 
24O	20	16	194390	 Let that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon, 
24O	20	17	194400	 because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great. 
24O	20	18	194410	 Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame? 
24O	21	1	194420	 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, saying, 
24O	21	2	194430	 "Inquire of the LORD for us, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is making war against us. Perhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all his wonderful deeds and will make him withdraw from us." 
24O	21	3	194440	 Then Jeremiah said to them: 
24O	21	4	194450	 "Thus you shall say to Zedekiah, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls. And I will bring them together into the midst of this city. 
24O	21	5	194460	 I myself will fight against you with outstretched hand and strong arm, in anger and in fury and in great wrath. 
24O	21	6	194470	 And I will strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast. They shall die of a great pestilence. 
24O	21	7	194480	 Afterward, declares the LORD, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people in this city who survive the pestilence, sword, and famine into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies, into the hand of those who seek their lives. He shall strike them down with the edge of the sword. He shall not pity them or spare them or have compassion.' 
24O	21	8	194490	 "And to this people you shall say: 'Thus says the LORD: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death. 
24O	21	9	194500	 He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but he who goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you shall live and shall have his life as a prize of war. 
24O	21	10	194510	 For I have set my face against this city for harm and not for good, declares the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.' 
24O	21	11	194520	 "And to the house of the king of Judah say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, 
24O	21	12	194530	 O house of David! Thus says the LORD: "'Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil deeds.'" 
24O	21	13	194540	 "Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, O rock of the plain, declares the LORD; you who say, 'Who shall come down against us, or who shall enter our habitations?' 
24O	21	14	194550	 I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, declares the LORD; I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is around her." 
24O	22	1	194560	 Thus says the LORD: "Go down to the house of the king of Judah and speak there this word, 
24O	22	2	194570	 and say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter these gates. 
24O	22	3	194580	 Thus says the LORD: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place. 
24O	22	4	194590	 For if you will indeed obey this word, then there shall enter the gates of this house kings who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their servants and their people. 
24O	22	5	194600	 But if you will not obey these words, I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation. 
24O	22	6	194610	 For thus says the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah: "'You are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon, yet surely I will make you a desert, an uninhabited city. 
24O	22	7	194620	 I will prepare destroyers against you, each with his weapons, and they shall cut down your choicest cedars and cast them into the fire. 
24O	22	8	194630	 "'And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, "Why has the LORD dealt thus with this great city?" 
24O	22	9	194640	 And they will answer, "Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and worshiped other gods and served them."'" 
24O	22	10	194650	 Weep not for him who is dead, nor grieve for him, but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he shall return no more to see his native land. 
24O	22	11	194660	 For thus says the LORD concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went away from this place: "He shall return here no more, 
24O	22	12	194670	 but in the place where they have carried him captive, there shall he die, and he shall never see this land again." 
24O	22	13	194680	 "Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages, 
24O	22	14	194690	 who says, 'I will build myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,' who cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar and painting it with vermilion. 
24O	22	15	194700	 Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him. 
24O	22	16	194710	 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the LORD. 
24O	22	17	194720	 But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence." 
24O	22	18	194730	 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: "They shall not lament for him, saying, 'Ah, my brother!' or 'Ah, sister!' They shall not lament for him, saying, 'Ah, lord!' or 'Ah, his majesty!' 
24O	22	19	194740	 With the burial of a donkey he shall be buried, dragged and dumped beyond the gates of Jerusalem." 
24O	22	20	194750	 "Go up to Lebanon, and cry out, and lift up your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers are destroyed. 
24O	22	21	194760	 I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, 'I will not listen.' This has been your way from your youth, that you have not obeyed my voice. 
24O	22	22	194770	 The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; then you will be ashamed and confounded because of all your evil. 
24O	22	23	194780	 O inhabitant of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in labor!" 
24O	22	24	194790	 "As I live, declares the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off 
24O	22	25	194800	 and give you into the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 
24O	22	26	194810	 I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die. 
24O	22	27	194820	 But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return." 
24O	22	28	194830	 Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot, a vessel no one cares for? Why are he and his children hurled and cast into a land that they do not know? 
24O	22	29	194840	 O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD! 
24O	22	30	194850	 Thus says the LORD: "Write this man down as childless, a man who shall not succeed in his days, for none of his offspring shall succeed in sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah." 
24O	23	1	194860	 "Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!" declares the LORD. 
24O	23	2	194870	 Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who care for my people: "You have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for your evil deeds, declares the LORD. 
24O	23	3	194880	 Then I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and multiply. 
24O	23	4	194890	 I will set shepherds over them who will care for them, and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be missing, declares the LORD. 
24O	23	5	194900	 "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 
24O	23	6	194910	 In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: 'The LORD is our righteousness.' 
24O	23	7	194920	 "Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they shall no longer say, 'As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,' 
24O	23	8	194930	 but 'As the LORD lives who brought up and led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.' Then they shall dwell in their own land." 
24O	23	9	194940	 Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD and because of his holy words. 
24O	23	10	194950	 For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right. 
24O	23	11	194960	 "Both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in my house I have found their evil, declares the LORD. 
24O	23	12	194970	 Therefore their way shall be to them like slippery paths in the darkness, into which they shall be driven and fall, for I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment, declares the LORD. 
24O	23	13	194980	 In the prophets of Samaria I saw an unsavory thing: they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray. 
24O	23	14	194990	 But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his evil; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah." 
24O	23	15	195000	 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: "Behold, I will feed them with bitter food and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land." 
24O	23	16	195010	 Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD. 
24O	23	17	195020	 They say continually to those who despise the word of the LORD, 'It shall be well with you'; and to everyone who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, 'No disaster shall come upon you.'" 
24O	23	18	195030	 For who among them has stood in the council of the LORD to see and to hear his word, or who has paid attention to his word and listened? 
24O	23	19	195040	 Behold, the storm of the LORD! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked. 
24O	23	20	195050	 The anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it clearly. 
24O	23	21	195060	 "I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied. 
24O	23	22	195070	 But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words to my people, and they would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their deeds. 
24O	23	23	195080	 "Am I a God at hand, declares the LORD, and not a God far away? 
24O	23	24	195090	 Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD. 
24O	23	25	195100	 I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, 'I have dreamed, I have dreamed!' 
24O	23	26	195110	 How long shall there be lies in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart, 
24O	23	27	195120	 who think to make my people forget my name by their dreams that they tell one another, even as their fathers forgot my name for Baal? 
24O	23	28	195130	 Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? declares the LORD. 
24O	23	29	195140	 Is not my word like fire, declares the LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? 
24O	23	30	195150	 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, declares the LORD, who steal my words from one another. 
24O	23	31	195160	 Behold, I am against the prophets, declares the LORD, who use their tongues and declare, 'declares the LORD.' 
24O	23	32	195170	 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, declares the LORD, and who tell them and lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or charge them. So they do not profit this people at all, declares the LORD. 
24O	23	33	195180	 "When one of this people, or a prophet or a priest asks you, 'What is the burden of the LORD?' you shall say to them, 'You are the burden, and I will cast you off, declares the LORD.' 
24O	23	34	195190	 And as for the prophet, priest, or one of the people who says, 'The burden of the LORD,' I will punish that man and his household. 
24O	23	35	195200	 Thus shall you say, every one to his neighbor and every one to his brother, 'What has the LORD answered?' or 'What has the LORD spoken?' 
24O	23	36	195210	 But 'the burden of the LORD' you shall mention no more, for the burden is every man's own word, and you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of hosts, our God. 
24O	23	37	195220	 Thus you shall say to the prophet, 'What has the LORD answered you?' or 'What has the LORD spoken?' 
24O	23	38	195230	 But if you say, 'The burden of the LORD,' thus says the LORD, 'Because you have said these words, "The burden of the LORD," when I sent to you, saying, "You shall not say, 'The burden of the LORD,'" 
24O	23	39	195240	 therefore, behold, I will surely lift you up and cast you away from my presence, you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers. 
24O	23	40	195250	 And I will bring upon you everlasting reproach and perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.'" 
24O	24	1	195260	 After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, together with the officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metal workers, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me this vision: behold, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the LORD. 
24O	24	2	195270	 One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten. 
24O	24	3	195280	 And the LORD said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" I said, "Figs, the good figs very good, and the bad figs very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten." 
24O	24	4	195290	 Then the word of the LORD came to me: 
24O	24	5	195300	 "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. 
24O	24	6	195310	 I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not uproot them. 
24O	24	7	195320	 I will give them a heart to know that I am the LORD, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart. 
24O	24	8	195330	 "But thus says the LORD: Like the bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat Zedekiah the king of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt. 
24O	24	9	195340	 I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them. 
24O	24	10	195350	 And I will send sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers." 
24O	25	1	195360	 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), 
24O	25	2	195370	 which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: 
24O	25	3	195380	 "For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened. 
24O	25	4	195390	 You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the LORD persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets, 
24O	25	5	195400	 saying, 'Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and evil deeds, and dwell upon the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever. 
24O	25	6	195410	 Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.' 
24O	25	7	195420	 Yet you have not listened to me, declares the LORD, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm. 
24O	25	8	195430	 "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words, 
24O	25	9	195440	 behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. 
24O	25	10	195450	 Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 
24O	25	11	195460	 This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 
24O	25	12	195470	 Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste. 
24O	25	13	195480	 I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations. 
24O	25	14	195490	 For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands." 
24O	25	15	195500	 Thus the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: "Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it. 
24O	25	16	195510	 They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of the sword that I am sending among them." 
24O	25	17	195520	 So I took the cup from the LORD's hand, and made all the nations to whom the LORD sent me drink it: 
24O	25	18	195530	 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day; 
24O	25	19	195540	 Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, all his people, 
24O	25	20	195550	 and all the mixed tribes among them; all the kings of the land of Uz and all the kings of the land of the Philistines (Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod); 
24O	25	21	195560	 Edom, Moab, and the sons of Ammon; 
24O	25	22	195570	 all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland across the sea; 
24O	25	23	195580	 Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair; 
24O	25	24	195590	 all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert; 
24O	25	25	195600	 all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media; 
24O	25	26	195610	 all the kings of the north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of Babylon shall drink. 
24O	25	27	195620	 "Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of the sword that I am sending among you.' 
24O	25	28	195630	 "And if they refuse to accept the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts: You must drink! 
24O	25	29	195640	 For behold, I begin to work disaster at the city that is called by my name, and shall you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of hosts.' 
24O	25	30	195650	 "You, therefore, shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them: "'The LORD will roar from on high, and from his holy habitation utter his voice; he will roar mightily against his fold, and shout, like those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. 
24O	25	31	195660	 The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, declares the LORD.' 
24O	25	32	195670	 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, disaster is going forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth! 
24O	25	33	195680	 "And those pierced by the LORD on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground. 
24O	25	34	195690	 "Wail, you shepherds, and cry out, and roll in ashes, you lords of the flock, for the days of your slaughter and dispersion have come, and you shall fall like a choice vessel. 
24O	25	35	195700	 No refuge will remain for the shepherds, nor escape for the lords of the flock. 
24O	25	36	195710	 A voice--the cry of the shepherds, and the wail of the lords of the flock! For the LORD is laying waste their pasture, 
24O	25	37	195720	 and the peaceful folds are devastated because of the fierce anger of the LORD. 
24O	25	38	195730	 Like a lion he has left his lair, for their land has become a waste because of the sword of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger." 
24O	26	1	195740	 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the LORD: 
24O	26	2	195750	 "Thus says the LORD: Stand in the court of the LORD's house, and speak to all the cities of Judah that come to worship in the house of the LORD all the words that I command you to speak to them; do not hold back a word. 
24O	26	3	195760	 It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the disaster that I intend to do to them because of their evil deeds. 
24O	26	4	195770	 You shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have set before you, 
24O	26	5	195780	 and to listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you urgently, though you have not listened, 
24O	26	6	195790	 then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.'" 
24O	26	7	195800	 The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD. 
24O	26	8	195810	 And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, "You shall die! 
24O	26	9	195820	 Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, 'This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant'?" And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of the LORD. 
24O	26	10	195830	 When the officials of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king's house to the house of the LORD and took their seat in the entry of the New Gate of the house of the LORD. 
24O	26	11	195840	 Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, "This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears." 
24O	26	12	195850	 Then Jeremiah spoke to all the officials and all the people, saying, "The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and this city all the words you have heard. 
24O	26	13	195860	 Now therefore mend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, and the LORD will relent of the disaster that he has pronounced against you. 
24O	26	14	195870	 But as for me, behold, I am in your hands. Do with me as seems good and right to you. 
24O	26	15	195880	 Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and its inhabitants, for in truth the LORD sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears." 
24O	26	16	195890	 Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, "This man does not deserve the sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God." 
24O	26	17	195900	 And certain of the elders of the land arose and spoke to all the assembled people, saying, 
24O	26	18	195910	 "Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "'Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.' 
24O	26	19	195920	 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD and entreat the favor of the LORD, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster that he had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great disaster upon ourselves." 
24O	26	20	195930	 There was another man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Uriah the son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land in words like those of Jeremiah. 
24O	26	21	195940	 And when King Jehoiakim, with all his warriors and all the officials, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death. But when Uriah heard of it, he was afraid and fled and escaped to Egypt. 
24O	26	22	195950	 Then King Jehoiakim sent to Egypt certain men, Elnathan the son of Achbor and others with him, 
24O	26	23	195960	 and they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, who struck him down with the sword and dumped his dead body into the burial place of the common people. 
24O	26	24	195970	 But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah so that he was not given over to the people to be put to death. 
24O	27	1	195980	 In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD. 
24O	27	2	195990	 Thus the LORD said to me: "Make yourself straps and yoke-bars, and put them on your neck. 
24O	27	3	196000	 Send word to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the sons of Ammon, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah. 
24O	27	4	196010	 Give them this charge for their masters: 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: This is what you shall say to your masters: 
24O	27	5	196020	 "It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me. 
24O	27	6	196030	 Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him. 
24O	27	7	196040	 All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave. 
24O	27	8	196050	 "'"But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand. 
24O	27	9	196060	 So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, 'You shall not serve the king of Babylon.' 
24O	27	10	196070	 For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish. 
24O	27	11	196080	 But any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, to work it and dwell there, declares the LORD."'" 
24O	27	12	196090	 To Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke in like manner: "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people and live. 
24O	27	13	196100	 Why will you and your people die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as the LORD has spoken concerning any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? 
24O	27	14	196110	 Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are saying to you, 'You shall not serve the king of Babylon,' for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you. 
24O	27	15	196120	 I have not sent them, declares the LORD, but they are prophesying falsely in my name, with the result that I will drive you out and you will perish, you and the prophets who are prophesying to you." 
24O	27	16	196130	 Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, "Thus says the LORD: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, 'Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon,' for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you. 
24O	27	17	196140	 Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a desolation? 
24O	27	18	196150	 If they are prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, then let them intercede with the LORD of hosts, that the vessels that are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon. 
24O	27	19	196160	 For thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, the sea, the stands, and the rest of the vessels that are left in this city, 
24O	27	20	196170	 which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take away, when he took into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem-- 
24O	27	21	196180	 thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem: 
24O	27	22	196190	 They shall be carried to Babylon and remain there until the day when I visit them, declares the LORD. Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place." 
24O	28	1	196200	 In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying, 
24O	28	2	196210	 "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. 
24O	28	3	196220	 Within two years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the LORD's house, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon. 
24O	28	4	196230	 I will also bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon, declares the LORD, for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon." 
24O	28	5	196240	 Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Hananiah the prophet in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the LORD, 
24O	28	6	196250	 and the prophet Jeremiah said, "Amen! May the LORD do so; may the LORD make the words that you have prophesied come true, and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the LORD, and all the exiles. 
24O	28	7	196260	 Yet hear now this word that I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people. 
24O	28	8	196270	 The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms. 
24O	28	9	196280	 As for the prophet who prophesies peace, when the word of that prophet comes to pass, then it will be known that the LORD has truly sent the prophet." 
24O	28	10	196290	 Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke-bars from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke them. 
24O	28	11	196300	 And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, "Thus says the LORD: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations within two years." But Jeremiah the prophet went his way. 
24O	28	12	196310	 Sometime after the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke-bars from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: 
24O	28	13	196320	 "Go, tell Hananiah, 'Thus says the LORD: You have broken wooden bars, but you have made in their place bars of iron. 
24O	28	14	196330	 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.'" 
24O	28	15	196340	 And Jeremiah the prophet said to the prophet Hananiah, "Listen, Hananiah, the LORD has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie. 
24O	28	16	196350	 Therefore thus says the LORD: 'Behold, I will remove you from the face of the earth. This year you shall die, because you have uttered rebellion against the LORD.'" 
24O	28	17	196360	 In that same year, in the seventh month, the prophet Hananiah died. 
24O	29	1	196370	 These are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders of the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. 
24O	29	2	196380	 This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the eunuchs, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metal workers had departed from Jerusalem. 
24O	29	3	196390	 The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. It said: 
24O	29	4	196400	 "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: 
24O	29	5	196410	 Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce. 
24O	29	6	196420	 Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease. 
24O	29	7	196430	 But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare. 
24O	29	8	196440	 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream, 
24O	29	9	196450	 for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you in my name; I did not send them, declares the LORD. 
24O	29	10	196460	 "For thus says the LORD: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. 
24O	29	11	196470	 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. 
24O	29	12	196480	 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. 
24O	29	13	196490	 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. 
24O	29	14	196500	 I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile. 
24O	29	15	196510	 "Because you have said, 'The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,' 
24O	29	16	196520	 thus says the LORD concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your kinsmen who did not go out with you into exile: 
24O	29	17	196530	 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, behold, I am sending on them sword, famine, and pestilence, and I will make them like vile figs that are so rotten they cannot be eaten. 
24O	29	18	196540	 I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, a terror, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them, 
24O	29	19	196550	 because they did not pay attention to my words, declares the LORD, that I persistently sent to you by my servants the prophets, but you would not listen, declares the LORD.' 
24O	29	20	196560	 Hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles whom I sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon: 
24O	29	21	196570	 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall strike them down before your eyes. 
24O	29	22	196580	 Because of them this curse shall be used by all the exiles from Judah in Babylon: "The LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire," 
24O	29	23	196590	 because they have done an outrageous thing in Israel, they have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and they have spoken in my name lying words that I did not command them. I am the one who knows, and I am witness, declares the LORD.'" 
24O	29	24	196600	 To Shemaiah of Nehelam you shall say: 
24O	29	25	196610	 "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: You have sent letters in your name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying, 
24O	29	26	196620	 'The LORD has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to have charge in the house of the LORD over every madman who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and neck irons. 
24O	29	27	196630	 Now why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth who is prophesying to you? 
24O	29	28	196640	 For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, "Your exile will be long; build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their produce."'" 
24O	29	29	196650	 Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet. 
24O	29	30	196660	 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: 
24O	29	31	196670	 "Send to all the exiles, saying, 'Thus says the LORD concerning Shemaiah of Nehelam: Because Shemaiah had prophesied to you when I did not send him, and has made you trust in a lie, 
24O	29	32	196680	 therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah of Nehelam and his descendants. He shall not have anyone living among this people, and he shall not see the good that I will do to my people, declares the LORD, for he has spoken rebellion against the LORD.'" 
24O	30	1	196690	 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 
24O	30	2	196700	 "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you. 
24O	30	3	196710	 For behold, days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will restore the fortunes of my people, Israel and Judah, says the LORD, and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall take possession of it." 
24O	30	4	196720	 These are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and Judah: 
24O	30	5	196730	 "Thus says the LORD: We have heard a cry of panic, of terror, and no peace. 
24O	30	6	196740	 Ask now, and see, can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor? Why has every face turned pale? 
24O	30	7	196750	 Alas! That day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he shall be saved out of it. 
24O	30	8	196760	 "And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and I will burst your bonds, and foreigners shall no more make a servant of him. 
24O	30	9	196770	 But they shall serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them. 
24O	30	10	196780	 "Then fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, nor be dismayed, O Israel; for behold, I will save you from far away, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease, and none shall make him afraid. 
24O	30	11	196790	 For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished. 
24O	30	12	196800	 "For thus says the LORD: Your hurt is incurable, and your wound is grievous. 
24O	30	13	196810	 There is none to uphold your cause, no medicine for your wound, no healing for you. 
24O	30	14	196820	 All your lovers have forgotten you; they care nothing for you; for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy, the punishment of a merciless foe, because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant. 
24O	30	15	196830	 Why do you cry out over your hurt? Your pain is incurable. Because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant, I have done these things to you. 
24O	30	16	196840	 Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured, and all your foes, every one of them, shall go into captivity; those who plunder you shall be plundered, and all who prey on you I will make a prey. 
24O	30	17	196850	 For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the LORD, because they have called you an outcast: 'It is Zion, for whom no one cares!' 
24O	30	18	196860	 "Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob and have compassion on his dwellings; the city shall be rebuilt on its mound, and the palace shall stand where it used to be. 
24O	30	19	196870	 Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving, and the voices of those who celebrate. I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will make them honored, and they shall not be small. 
24O	30	20	196880	 Their children shall be as they were of old, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all who oppress them. 
24O	30	21	196890	 Their prince shall be one of themselves; their ruler shall come out from their midst; I will make him draw near, and he shall approach me, for who would dare of himself to approach me? declares the LORD. 
24O	30	22	196900	 And you shall be my people, and I will be your God." 
24O	30	23	196910	 Behold the storm of the LORD! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked. 
24O	30	24	196920	 The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intentions of his mind. In the latter days you will understand this. 
24O	31	1	196930	 "At that time, declares the LORD, I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they shall be my people." 
24O	31	2	196940	 Thus says the LORD: "The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest, 
24O	31	3	196950	 the LORD appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. 
24O	31	4	196960	 Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers. 
24O	31	5	196970	 Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant and shall enjoy the fruit. 
24O	31	6	196980	 For there shall be a day when watchmen will call in the hill country of Ephraim: 'Arise, and let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God.'" 
24O	31	7	196990	 For thus says the LORD: "Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, 'O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.' 
24O	31	8	197000	 Behold, I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, the pregnant woman and she who is in labor, together; a great company, they shall return here. 
24O	31	9	197010	 With weeping they shall come, and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. 
24O	31	10	197020	 "Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away; say, 'He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.' 
24O	31	11	197030	 For the LORD has ransomed Jacob and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him. 
24O	31	12	197040	 They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion, and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the LORD, over the grain, the wine, and the oil, and over the young of the flock and the herd; their life shall be like a watered garden, and they shall languish no more. 
24O	31	13	197050	 Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow. 
24O	31	14	197060	 I will feast the soul of the priests with abundance, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, declares the LORD." 
24O	31	15	197070	 Thus says the LORD: "A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more." 
24O	31	16	197080	 Thus says the LORD: "Keep your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for there is a reward for your work, declares the LORD, and they shall come back from the land of the enemy. 
24O	31	17	197090	 There is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children shall come back to their own country. 
24O	31	18	197100	 I have heard Ephraim grieving, 'You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for you are the LORD my God. 
24O	31	19	197110	 For after I had turned away, I relented, and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was confounded, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.' 
24O	31	20	197120	 Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he my darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the LORD. 
24O	31	21	197130	 "Set up road markers for yourself; make yourself guideposts; consider well the highway, the road by which you went. Return, O virgin Israel, return to these your cities. 
24O	31	22	197140	 How long will you waver, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing on the earth: a woman encircles a man." 
24O	31	23	197150	 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Once more they shall use these words in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I restore their fortunes: "'The LORD bless you, O habitation of righteousness, O holy hill!' 
24O	31	24	197160	 And Judah and all its cities shall dwell there together, and the farmers and those who wander with their flocks. 
24O	31	25	197170	 For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish." 
24O	31	26	197180	 At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me. 
24O	31	27	197190	 "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast. 
24O	31	28	197200	 And it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring harm, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, declares the LORD. 
24O	31	29	197210	 In those days they shall no longer say: "'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.' 
24O	31	30	197220	 But everyone shall die for his own sin. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge. 
24O	31	31	197230	 "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 
24O	31	32	197240	 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD. 
24O	31	33	197250	 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 
24O	31	34	197260	 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." 
24O	31	35	197270	 Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar-- the LORD of hosts is his name: 
24O	31	36	197280	 "If this fixed order departs from before me, declares the LORD, then shall the offspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever." 
24O	31	37	197290	 Thus says the LORD: "If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, then I will cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done, declares the LORD." 
24O	31	38	197300	 "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when the city shall be rebuilt for the LORD from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. 
24O	31	39	197310	 And the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah. 
24O	31	40	197320	 The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be sacred to the LORD. It shall not be uprooted or overthrown anymore forever." 
24O	32	1	197330	 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. 
24O	32	2	197340	 At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard that was in the palace of the king of Judah. 
24O	32	3	197350	 For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying, "Why do you prophesy and say, 'Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall capture it; 
24O	32	4	197360	 Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye. 
24O	32	5	197370	 And he shall take Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall remain until I visit him, declares the LORD. Though you fight against the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed'?" 
24O	32	6	197380	 Jeremiah said, "The word of the LORD came to me: 
24O	32	7	197390	 Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, 'Buy my field that is at Anathoth, for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.' 
24O	32	8	197400	 Then Hanamel my cousin came to me in the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the LORD, and said to me, 'Buy my field that is at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.' Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD. 
24O	32	9	197410	 "And I bought the field at Anathoth from Hanamel my cousin, and weighed out the money to him, seventeen shekels of silver. 
24O	32	10	197420	 I signed the deed, sealed it, got witnesses, and weighed the money on scales. 
24O	32	11	197430	 Then I took the sealed deed of purchase, containing the terms and conditions and the open copy. 
24O	32	12	197440	 And I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my cousin, in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, and in the presence of all the Judeans who were sitting in the court of the guard. 
24O	32	13	197450	 I charged Baruch in their presence, saying, 
24O	32	14	197460	 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, both this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware vessel, that they may last for a long time. 
24O	32	15	197470	 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land.' 
24O	32	16	197480	 "After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD, saying: 
24O	32	17	197490	 'Ah, Lord GOD! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you. 
24O	32	18	197500	 You show steadfast love to thousands, but you repay the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God, whose name is the LORD of hosts, 
24O	32	19	197510	 great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds. 
24O	32	20	197520	 You have shown signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and to this day in Israel and among all mankind, and have made a name for yourself, as at this day. 
24O	32	21	197530	 You brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and outstretched arm, and with great terror. 
24O	32	22	197540	 And you gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey. 
24O	32	23	197550	 And they entered and took possession of it. But they did not obey your voice or walk in your law. They did nothing of all you commanded them to do. Therefore you have made all this disaster come upon them. 
24O	32	24	197560	 Behold, the siege mounds have come up to the city to take it, and because of sword and famine and pestilence the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What you spoke has come to pass, and behold, you see it. 
24O	32	25	197570	 Yet you, O Lord GOD, have said to me, "Buy the field for money and get witnesses"--though the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.'" 
24O	32	26	197580	 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: 
24O	32	27	197590	 "Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me? 
24O	32	28	197600	 Therefore, thus says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall capture it. 
24O	32	29	197610	 The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city shall come and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs offerings have been made to Baal and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods, to provoke me to anger. 
24O	32	30	197620	 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth. The children of Israel have done nothing but provoke me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD. 
24O	32	31	197630	 This city has aroused my anger and wrath, from the day it was built to this day, so that I will remove it from my sight 
24O	32	32	197640	 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger--their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 
24O	32	33	197650	 They have turned to me their back and not their face. And though I have taught them persistently, they have not listened to receive instruction. 
24O	32	34	197660	 They set up their abominations in the house that is called by my name, to defile it. 
24O	32	35	197670	 They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. 
24O	32	36	197680	 "Now therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, 'It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and by pestilence': 
24O	32	37	197690	 Behold, I will gather them from all the countries to which I drove them in my anger and my wrath and in great indignation. I will bring them back to this place, and I will make them dwell in safety. 
24O	32	38	197700	 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 
24O	32	39	197710	 I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them. 
24O	32	40	197720	 I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me. 
24O	32	41	197730	 I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul. 
24O	32	42	197740	 "For thus says the LORD: Just as I have brought all this great disaster upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good that I promise them. 
24O	32	43	197750	 Fields shall be bought in this land of which you are saying, 'It is a desolation, without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.' 
24O	32	44	197760	 Fields shall be bought for money, and deeds shall be signed and sealed and witnessed, in the land of Benjamin, in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negeb; for I will restore their fortunes, declares the LORD." 
24O	33	1	197770	 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the guard: 
24O	33	2	197780	 "Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it to establish it--the LORD is his name: 
24O	33	3	197790	 Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known. 
24O	33	4	197800	 For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah that were torn down to make a defense against the siege mounds and against the sword: 
24O	33	5	197810	 They are coming in to fight against the Chaldeans and to fill them with the dead bodies of men whom I shall strike down in my anger and my wrath, for I have hidden my face from this city because of all their evil. 
24O	33	6	197820	 Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security. 
24O	33	7	197830	 I will restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel, and rebuild them as they were at first. 
24O	33	8	197840	 I will cleanse them from all the guilt of their sin against me, and I will forgive all the guilt of their sin and rebellion against me. 
24O	33	9	197850	 And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it. 
24O	33	10	197860	 "Thus says the LORD: In this place of which you say, 'It is a waste without man or beast,' in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man or inhabitant or beast, there shall be heard again 
24O	33	11	197870	 the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring thank offerings to the house of the LORD: "'Give thanks to the LORD of hosts, for the LORD is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!' For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the LORD. 
24O	33	12	197880	 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: In this place that is waste, without man or beast, and in all of its cities, there shall again be habitations of shepherds resting their flocks. 
24O	33	13	197890	 In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negeb, in the land of Benjamin, the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, flocks shall again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says the LORD. 
24O	33	14	197900	 "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 
24O	33	15	197910	 In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 
24O	33	16	197920	 In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: 'The LORD is our righteousness.' 
24O	33	17	197930	 "For thus says the LORD: David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel, 
24O	33	18	197940	 and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man in my presence to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to make sacrifices forever." 
24O	33	19	197950	 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: 
24O	33	20	197960	 "Thus says the LORD: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night will not come at their appointed time, 
24O	33	21	197970	 then also my covenant with David my servant may be broken, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and my covenant with the Levitical priests my ministers. 
24O	33	22	197980	 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me." 
24O	33	23	197990	 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: 
24O	33	24	198000	 "Have you not observed that these people are saying, 'The LORD has rejected the two clans that he chose'? Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight. 
24O	33	25	198010	 Thus says the LORD: If I have not established my covenant with day and night and the fixed order of heaven and earth, 
24O	33	26	198020	 then I will reject the offspring of Jacob and David my servant and will not choose one of his offspring to rule over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy on them." 
24O	34	1	198030	 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion and all the peoples were fighting against Jerusalem and all of its cities: 
24O	34	2	198040	 "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and say to him, 'Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire. 
24O	34	3	198050	 You shall not escape from his hand but shall surely be captured and delivered into his hand. You shall see the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak with him face to face. And you shall go to Babylon.' 
24O	34	4	198060	 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah! Thus says the LORD concerning you: 'You shall not die by the sword. 
24O	34	5	198070	 You shall die in peace. And as spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so people shall burn spices for you and lament for you, saying, "Alas, lord!"' For I have spoken the word, declares the LORD." 
24O	34	6	198080	 Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah, in Jerusalem, 
24O	34	7	198090	 when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, Lachish and Azekah, for these were the only fortified cities of Judah that remained. 
24O	34	8	198100	 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty to them, 
24O	34	9	198110	 that everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother. 
24O	34	10	198120	 And they obeyed, all the officials and all the people who had entered into the covenant that everyone would set free his slave, male or female, so that they would not be enslaved again. They obeyed and set them free. 
24O	34	11	198130	 But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves they had set free, and brought them into subjection as slaves. 
24O	34	12	198140	 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 
24O	34	13	198150	 "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I myself made a covenant with your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying, 
24O	34	14	198160	 'At the end of seven years each of you must set free the fellow Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years; you must set him free from your service.' But your fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me. 
24O	34	15	198170	 You recently repented and did what was right in my eyes by proclaiming liberty, each to his neighbor, and you made a covenant before me in the house that is called by my name, 
24O	34	16	198180	 but then you turned around and profaned my name when each of you took back his male and female slaves, whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your slaves. 
24O	34	17	198190	 "Therefore, thus says the LORD: You have not obeyed me by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim to you liberty to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, declares the LORD. I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 
24O	34	18	198200	 And the men who transgressed my covenant and did not keep the terms of the covenant that they made before me, I will make them like the calf that they cut in two and passed between its parts-- 
24O	34	19	198210	 the officials of Judah, the officials of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf. 
24O	34	20	198220	 And I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives. Their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth. 
24O	34	21	198230	 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials I will give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives, into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon which has withdrawn from you. 
24O	34	22	198240	 Behold, I will command, declares the LORD, and will bring them back to this city. And they will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant." 
24O	35	1	198250	 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: 
24O	35	2	198260	 "Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak with them and bring them to the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers; then offer them wine to drink." 
24O	35	3	198270	 So I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, son of Habazziniah and his brothers and all his sons and the whole house of the Rechabites. 
24O	35	4	198280	 I brought them to the house of the LORD into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was near the chamber of the officials, above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, keeper of the threshold. 
24O	35	5	198290	 Then I set before the Rechabites pitchers full of wine, and cups, and I said to them, "Drink wine." 
24O	35	6	198300	 But they answered, "We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, 'You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons forever. 
24O	35	7	198310	 You shall not build a house; you shall not sow seed; you shall not plant or have a vineyard; but you shall live in tents all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.' 
24O	35	8	198320	 We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters, 
24O	35	9	198330	 and not to build houses to dwell in. We have no vineyard or field or seed, 
24O	35	10	198340	 but we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done all that Jonadab our father commanded us. 
24O	35	11	198350	 But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, 'Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and the army of the Syrians.' So we are living in Jerusalem." 
24O	35	12	198360	 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: 
24O	35	13	198370	 "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Go and say to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction and listen to my words? declares the LORD. 
24O	35	14	198380	 The command that Jonadab the son of Rechab gave to his sons, to drink no wine, has been kept, and they drink none to this day, for they have obeyed their father's command. I have spoken to you persistently, but you have not listened to me. 
24O	35	15	198390	 I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, 'Turn now every one of you from his evil way, and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to you and your fathers.' But you did not incline your ear or listen to me. 
24O	35	16	198400	 The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept the command that their father gave them, but this people has not obeyed me. 
24O	35	17	198410	 Therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the disaster that I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them and they have not listened, I have called to them and they have not answered." 
24O	35	18	198420	 But to the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father and kept all his precepts and done all that he commanded you, 
24O	35	19	198430	 therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall never lack a man to stand before me." 
24O	36	1	198440	 In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 
24O	36	2	198450	 "Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today. 
24O	36	3	198460	 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the disaster that I intend to do to them, so that every one may turn from his evil way, and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin." 
24O	36	4	198470	 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD that he had spoken to him. 
24O	36	5	198480	 And Jeremiah ordered Baruch, saying, "I am banned from going to the house of the LORD, 
24O	36	6	198490	 so you are to go, and on a day of fasting in the hearing of all the people in the LORD's house you shall read the words of the LORD from the scroll that you have written at my dictation. You shall read them also in the hearing of all the men of Judah who come out of their cities. 
24O	36	7	198500	 It may be that their plea for mercy will come before the LORD, and that every one will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people." 
24O	36	8	198510	 And Baruch the son of Neriah did all that Jeremiah the prophet ordered him about reading from the scroll the words of the LORD in the LORD's house. 
24O	36	9	198520	 In the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the LORD. 
24O	36	10	198530	 Then, in the hearing of all the people, Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the scroll, in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the secretary, which was in the upper court, at the entry of the New Gate of the LORD's house. 
24O	36	11	198540	 When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the LORD from the scroll, 
24O	36	12	198550	 he went down to the king's house, into the secretary's chamber, and all the officials were sitting there: Elishama the secretary, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the officials. 
24O	36	13	198560	 And Micaiah told them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the scroll in the hearing of the people. 
24O	36	14	198570	 Then all the officials sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, son of Shelemiah, son of Cushi, to say to Baruch, "Take in your hand the scroll that you read in the hearing of the people, and come." So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and came to them. 
24O	36	15	198580	 And they said to him, "Sit down and read it." So Baruch read it to them. 
24O	36	16	198590	 When they heard all the words, they turned one to another in fear. And they said to Baruch, "We must report all these words to the king." 
24O	36	17	198600	 Then they asked Baruch, "Tell us, please, how did you write all these words? Was it at his dictation?" 
24O	36	18	198610	 Baruch answered them, "He dictated all these words to me, while I wrote them with ink on the scroll." 
24O	36	19	198620	 Then the officials said to Baruch, "Go and hide, you and Jeremiah, and let no one know where you are." 
24O	36	20	198630	 So they went into the court to the king, having put the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the secretary, and they reported all the words to the king. 
24O	36	21	198640	 Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the secretary. And Jehudi read it to the king and all the officials who stood beside the king. 
24O	36	22	198650	 It was the ninth month, and the king was sitting in the winter house, and there was a fire burning in the fire pot before him. 
24O	36	23	198660	 As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a knife and throw them into the fire in the fire pot, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the fire pot. 
24O	36	24	198670	 Yet neither the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words was afraid, nor did they tear their garments. 
24O	36	25	198680	 Even when Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them. 
24O	36	26	198690	 And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son and Seraiah the son of Azriel and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the secretary and Jeremiah the prophet, but the LORD hid them. 
24O	36	27	198700	 Now after the king had burned the scroll with the words that Baruch wrote at Jeremiah's dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: 
24O	36	28	198710	 "Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned. 
24O	36	29	198720	 And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, 'Thus says the LORD, You have burned this scroll, saying, "Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cut off from it man and beast?" 
24O	36	30	198730	 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and the frost by night. 
24O	36	31	198740	 And I will punish him and his offspring and his servants for their iniquity. I will bring upon them and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem and upon the people of Judah all the disaster that I have pronounced against them, but they would not hear.'" 
24O	36	32	198750	 Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them. 
24O	37	1	198760	 Zedekiah the son of Josiah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah, reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim. 
24O	37	2	198770	 But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to the words of the LORD that he spoke through Jeremiah the prophet. 
24O	37	3	198780	 King Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "Please pray for us to the LORD our God." 
24O	37	4	198790	 Now Jeremiah was still going in and out among the people, for he had not yet been put in prison. 
24O	37	5	198800	 The army of Pharaoh had come out of Egypt. And when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news about them, they withdrew from Jerusalem. 
24O	37	6	198810	 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet: 
24O	37	7	198820	 "Thus says the LORD, God of Israel: Thus shall you say to the king of Judah who sent you to me to inquire of me, 'Behold, Pharaoh's army that came to help you is about to return to Egypt, to its own land. 
24O	37	8	198830	 And the Chaldeans shall come back and fight against this city. They shall capture it and burn it with fire. 
24O	37	9	198840	 Thus says the LORD, Do not deceive yourselves, saying, "The Chaldeans will surely go away from us," for they will not go away. 
24O	37	10	198850	 For even if you should defeat the whole army of Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and there remained of them only wounded men, every man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.'" 
24O	37	11	198860	 Now when the Chaldean army had withdrawn from Jerusalem at the approach of Pharaoh's army, 
24O	37	12	198870	 Jeremiah set out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to receive his portion there among the people. 
24O	37	13	198880	 When he was at the Benjamin Gate, a sentry there named Irijah the son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "You are deserting to the Chaldeans." 
24O	37	14	198890	 And Jeremiah said, "It is a lie; I am not deserting to the Chaldeans." But Irijah would not listen to him, and seized Jeremiah and brought him to the officials. 
24O	37	15	198900	 And the officials were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for it had been made a prison. 
24O	37	16	198910	 When Jeremiah had come to the dungeon cells and remained there many days, 
24O	37	17	198920	 King Zedekiah sent for him and received him. The king questioned him secretly in his house and said, "Is there any word from the LORD?" Jeremiah said, "There is." Then he said, "You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon." 
24O	37	18	198930	 Jeremiah also said to King Zedekiah, "What wrong have I done to you or your servants or this people, that you have put me in prison? 
24O	37	19	198940	 Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, 'The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land'? 
24O	37	20	198950	 Now hear, please, O my lord the king: let my humble plea come before you and do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, lest I die there." 
24O	37	21	198960	 So King Zedekiah gave orders, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guard. And a loaf of bread was given him daily from the bakers' street, until all the bread of the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard. 
24O	38	1	198970	 Now Shephatiah the son of Mattan, Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchiah heard the words that Jeremiah was saying to all the people, 
24O	38	2	198980	 "Thus says the LORD: He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but he who goes out to the Chaldeans shall live. He shall have his life as a prize of war, and live. 
24O	38	3	198990	 Thus says the LORD: This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon and be taken." 
24O	38	4	199000	 Then the officials said to the king, "Let this man be put to death, for he is weakening the hands of the soldiers who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking the welfare of this people, but their harm." 
24O	38	5	199010	 King Zedekiah said, "Behold, he is in your hands, for the king can do nothing against you." 
24O	38	6	199020	 So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud. 
24O	38	7	199030	 When Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern--the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate-- 
24O	38	8	199040	 Ebed-melech went from the king's house and said to the king, 
24O	38	9	199050	 "My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they did to Jeremiah the prophet by casting him into the cistern, and he will die there of hunger, for there is no bread left in the city." 
24O	38	10	199060	 Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, "Take thirty men with you from here, and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies." 
24O	38	11	199070	 So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the house of the king, to a wardrobe in the storehouse, and took from there old rags and worn-out clothes, which he let down to Jeremiah in the cistern by ropes. 
24O	38	12	199080	 Then Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, "Put the rags and clothes between your armpits and the ropes." Jeremiah did so. 
24O	38	13	199090	 Then they drew Jeremiah up with ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard. 
24O	38	14	199100	 King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance of the temple of the LORD. The king said to Jeremiah, "I will ask you a question; hide nothing from me." 
24O	38	15	199110	 Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "If I tell you, will you not surely put me to death? And if I give you counsel, you will not listen to me." 
24O	38	16	199120	 Then King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, "As the LORD lives, who made our souls, I will not put you to death or deliver you into the hand of these men who seek your life." 
24O	38	17	199130	 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "Thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If you will surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then your life shall be spared, and this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and your house shall live. 
24O	38	18	199140	 But if you do not surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape from their hand." 
24O	38	19	199150	 King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, "I am afraid of the Judeans who have deserted to the Chaldeans, lest I be handed over to them and they deal cruelly with me." 
24O	38	20	199160	 Jeremiah said, "You shall not be given to them. Obey now the voice of the LORD in what I say to you, and it shall be well with you, and your life shall be spared. 
24O	38	21	199170	 But if you refuse to surrender, this is the vision which the LORD has shown to me: 
24O	38	22	199180	 Behold, all the women left in the house of the king of Judah were being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon and were saying, "'Your trusted friends have deceived you and prevailed against you; now that your feet are sunk in the mud, they turn away from you.' 
24O	38	23	199190	 All your wives and your sons shall be led out to the Chaldeans, and you yourself shall not escape from their hand, but shall be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city shall be burned with fire." 
24O	38	24	199200	 Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, "Let no one know of these words, and you shall not die. 
24O	38	25	199210	 If the officials hear that I have spoken with you and come to you and say to you, 'Tell us what you said to the king and what the king said to you; hide nothing from us and we will not put you to death,' 
24O	38	26	199220	 then you shall say to them, 'I made a humble plea to the king that he would not send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.'" 
24O	38	27	199230	 Then all the officials came to Jeremiah and asked him, and he answered them as the king had instructed him. So they stopped speaking with him, for the conversation had not been overheard. 
24O	38	28	199240	 And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken. 
24O	39	1	199250	 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and besieged it. 
24O	39	2	199260	 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city. 
24O	39	3	199270	 Then all the officials of the king of Babylon came and sat in the middle gate: Nergal-sar-ezer, Samgar-nebu, Sar-sekim the Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, with all the rest of the officers of the king of Babylon. 
24O	39	4	199280	 When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled, going out of the city at night by way of the king's garden through the gate between the two walls; and they went toward the Arabah. 
24O	39	5	199290	 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, at Riblah, in the land of Hamath; and he passed sentence on him. 
24O	39	6	199300	 The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah at Riblah before his eyes, and the king of Babylon slaughtered all the nobles of Judah. 
24O	39	7	199310	 He put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon. 
24O	39	8	199320	 The Chaldeans burned the king's house and the house of the people, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem. 
24O	39	9	199330	 Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, carried into exile to Babylon the rest of the people who were left in the city, those who had deserted to him, and the people who remained. 
24O	39	10	199340	 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, left in the land of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time. 
24O	39	11	199350	 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon gave command concerning Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, saying, 
24O	39	12	199360	 "Take him, look after him well, and do him no harm, but deal with him as he tells you." 
24O	39	13	199370	 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, Nebushazban the Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon 
24O	39	14	199380	 sent and took Jeremiah from the court of the guard. They entrusted him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, that he should take him home. So he lived among the people. 
24O	39	15	199390	 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah while he was shut up in the court of the guard: 
24O	39	16	199400	 "Go, and say to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will fulfill my words against this city for harm and not for good, and they shall be accomplished before you on that day. 
24O	39	17	199410	 But I will deliver you on that day, declares the LORD, and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid. 
24O	39	18	199420	 For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but you shall have your life as a prize of war, because you have put your trust in me, declares the LORD.'" 
24O	40	1	199430	 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he took him bound in chains along with all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon. 
24O	40	2	199440	 The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, "The LORD your God pronounced this disaster against this place. 
24O	40	3	199450	 The LORD has brought it about, and has done as he said. Because you sinned against the LORD and did not obey his voice, this thing has come upon you. 
24O	40	4	199460	 Now, behold, I release you today from the chains on your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you well, but if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, do not come. See, the whole land is before you; go wherever you think it good and right to go. 
24O	40	5	199470	 If you remain, then return to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon appointed governor of the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people. Or go wherever you think it right to go." So the captain of the guard gave him an allowance of food and a present, and let him go. 
24O	40	6	199480	 Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah, and lived with him among the people who were left in the land. 
24O	40	7	199490	 When all the captains of the forces in the open country and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land and had committed to him men, women, and children, those of the poorest of the land who had not been taken into exile to Babylon, 
24O	40	8	199500	 they went to Gedaliah at Mizpah--Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men. 
24O	40	9	199510	 Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, swore to them and their men, saying, "Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. 
24O	40	10	199520	 As for me, I will dwell at Mizpah, to represent you before the Chaldeans who will come to us. But as for you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and store them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken." 
24O	40	11	199530	 Likewise, when all the Judeans who were in Moab and among the Ammonites and in Edom and in other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, as governor over them, 
24O	40	12	199540	 then all the Judeans returned from all the places to which they had been driven and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they gathered wine and summer fruits in great abundance. 
24O	40	13	199550	 Now Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces in the open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah 
24O	40	14	199560	 and said to him, "Do you know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?" But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam would not believe them. 
24O	40	15	199570	 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah at Mizpah, "Please let me go and strike down Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why should he take your life, so that all the Judeans who are gathered about you would be scattered, and the remnant of Judah would perish?" 
24O	40	16	199580	 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, "You shall not do this thing, for you are speaking falsely of Ishmael." 
24O	41	1	199590	 In the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family, one of the chief officers of the king, came with ten men to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah. As they ate bread together there at Mizpah, 
24O	41	2	199600	 Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men with him rose up and struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had appointed governor in the land. 
24O	41	3	199610	 Ishmael also struck down all the Judeans who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, and the Chaldean soldiers who happened to be there. 
24O	41	4	199620	 On the day after the murder of Gedaliah, before anyone knew of it, 
24O	41	5	199630	 eighty men arrived from Shechem and Shiloh and Samaria, with their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and their bodies gashed, bringing grain offerings and incense to present at the temple of the LORD. 
24O	41	6	199640	 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah came out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he came. As he met them, he said to them, "Come in to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam." 
24O	41	7	199650	 When they came into the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the men with him slaughtered them and cast them into a cistern. 
24O	41	8	199660	 But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael, "Do not put us to death, for we have stores of wheat, barley, oil, and honey hidden in the fields." So he refrained and did not put them to death with their companions. 
24O	41	9	199670	 Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men whom he had struck down along with Gedaliah was the large cistern that King Asa had made for defense against Baasha king of Israel; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain. 
24O	41	10	199680	 Then Ishmael took captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah, the king's daughters and all the people who were left at Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah took them captive and set out to cross over to the Ammonites. 
24O	41	11	199690	 But when Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces with him heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done, 
24O	41	12	199700	 they took all their men and went to fight against Ishmael the son of Nethaniah. They came upon him at the great pool that is in Gibeon. 
24O	41	13	199710	 And when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces with him, they rejoiced. 
24O	41	14	199720	 So all the people whom Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned around and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah. 
24O	41	15	199730	 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites. 
24O	41	16	199740	 Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces with him took from Mizpah all the rest of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, after he had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam--soldiers, women, children, and eunuchs, whom Johanan brought back from Gibeon. 
24O	41	17	199750	 And they went and stayed at Geruth Chimham near Bethlehem, intending to go to Egypt 
24O	41	18	199760	 because of the Chaldeans. For they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land. 
24O	42	1	199770	 Then all the commanders of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, came near 
24O	42	2	199780	 and said to Jeremiah the prophet, "Let our plea for mercy come before you, and pray to the LORD your God for us, for all this remnant--because we are left with but a few, as your eyes see us-- 
24O	42	3	199790	 that the LORD your God may show us the way we should go, and the thing that we should do." 
24O	42	4	199800	 Jeremiah the prophet said to them, "I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to the LORD your God according to your request, and whatever the LORD answers you I will tell you. I will keep nothing back from you." 
24O	42	5	199810	 Then they said to Jeremiah, "May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act according to all the word with which the LORD your God sends you to us. 
24O	42	6	199820	 Whether it is good or bad, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God to whom we are sending you, that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the LORD our God." 
24O	42	7	199830	 At the end of ten days the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah. 
24O	42	8	199840	 Then he summoned Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest, 
24O	42	9	199850	 and said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your plea for mercy before him: 
24O	42	10	199860	 If you will remain in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I relent of the disaster that I did to you. 
24O	42	11	199870	 Do not fear the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Do not fear him, declares the LORD, for I am with you, to save you and to deliver you from his hand. 
24O	42	12	199880	 I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you and let you remain in your own land. 
24O	42	13	199890	 But if you say, 'We will not remain in this land,' disobeying the voice of the LORD your God 
24O	42	14	199900	 and saying, 'No, we will go to the land of Egypt, where we shall not see war or hear the sound of the trumpet or be hungry for bread, and we will dwell there,' 
24O	42	15	199910	 then hear the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: If you set your faces to enter Egypt and go to live there, 
24O	42	16	199920	 then the sword that you fear shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine of which you are afraid shall follow close after you to Egypt, and there you shall die. 
24O	42	17	199930	 All the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to live there shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. They shall have no remnant or survivor from the disaster that I will bring upon them. 
24O	42	18	199940	 "For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You shall become an execration, a horror, a curse, and a taunt. You shall see this place no more. 
24O	42	19	199950	 The LORD has said to you, O remnant of Judah, 'Do not go to Egypt.' Know for a certainty that I have warned you this day 
24O	42	20	199960	 that you have gone astray at the cost of your lives. For you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, 'Pray for us to the LORD our God, and whatever the LORD our God says declare to us and we will do it.' 
24O	42	21	199970	 And I have this day declared it to you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in anything that he sent me to tell you. 
24O	42	22	199980	 Now therefore know for a certainty that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live." 
24O	43	1	199990	 When Jeremiah finished speaking to all the people all these words of the LORD their God, with which the LORD their God had sent him to them, 
24O	43	2	200000	 Azariah the son of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, "You are telling a lie. The LORD our God did not send you to say, 'Do not go to Egypt to live there,' 
24O	43	3	200010	 but Baruch the son of Neriah has set you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may kill us or take us into exile in Babylon." 
24O	43	4	200020	 So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces and all the people did not obey the voice of the LORD, to remain in the land of Judah. 
24O	43	5	200030	 But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took all the remnant of Judah who had returned to live in the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been driven-- 
24O	43	6	200040	 the men, the women, the children, the princesses, and every person whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan; also Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah. 
24O	43	7	200050	 And they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the LORD. And they arrived at Tahpanhes. 
24O	43	8	200060	 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes: 
24O	43	9	200070	 "Take in your hands large stones and hide them in the mortar in the pavement that is at the entrance to Pharaoh's palace in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah, 
24O	43	10	200080	 and say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden, and he will spread his royal canopy over them. 
24O	43	11	200090	 He shall come and strike the land of Egypt, giving over to the pestilence those who are doomed to the pestilence, to captivity those who are doomed to captivity, and to the sword those who are doomed to the sword. 
24O	43	12	200100	 I shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and carry them away captive. And he shall clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd cleans his cloak of vermin, and he shall go away from there in peace. 
24O	43	13	200110	 He shall break the obelisks of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt, and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with fire.'" 
24O	44	1	200120	 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Judeans who lived in the land of Egypt, at Migdol, at Tahpanhes, at Memphis, and in the land of Pathros, 
24O	44	2	200130	 "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the disaster that I brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah. Behold, this day they are a desolation, and no one dwells in them, 
24O	44	3	200140	 because of the evil that they committed, provoking me to anger, in that they went to make offerings and serve other gods that they knew not, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers. 
24O	44	4	200150	 Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, 'Oh, do not do this abomination that I hate!' 
24O	44	5	200160	 But they did not listen or incline their ear, to turn from their evil and make no offerings to other gods. 
24O	44	6	200170	 Therefore my wrath and my anger were poured out and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became a waste and a desolation, as at this day. 
24O	44	7	200180	 And now thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and child, from the midst of Judah, leaving you no remnant? 
24O	44	8	200190	 Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth? 
24O	44	9	200200	 Have you forgotten the evil of your fathers, the evil of the kings of Judah, the evil of their wives, your own evil, and the evil of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 
24O	44	10	200210	 They have not humbled themselves even to this day, nor have they feared, nor walked in my law and my statutes that I set before you and before your fathers. 
24O	44	11	200220	 "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for harm, to cut off all Judah. 
24O	44	12	200230	 I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to come to the land of Egypt to live, and they shall all be consumed. In the land of Egypt they shall fall; by the sword and by famine they shall be consumed. From the least to the greatest, they shall die by the sword and by famine, and they shall become an oath, a horror, a curse, and a taunt. 
24O	44	13	200240	 I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, 
24O	44	14	200250	 so that none of the remnant of Judah who have come to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive or return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return to dwell there. For they shall not return, except some fugitives." 
24O	44	15	200260	 Then all the men who knew that their wives had made offerings to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who lived in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah: 
24O	44	16	200270	 "As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you. 
24O	44	17	200280	 But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster. 
24O	44	18	200290	 But since we left off making offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine." 
24O	44	19	200300	 And the women said, "When we made offerings to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands' approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out drink offerings to her?" 
24O	44	20	200310	 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, men and women, all the people who had given him this answer: 
24O	44	21	200320	 "As for the offerings that you offered in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your officials, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them? Did it not come into his mind? 
24O	44	22	200330	 The LORD could no longer bear your evil deeds and the abominations that you committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day. 
24O	44	23	200340	 It is because you made offerings and because you sinned against the LORD and did not obey the voice of the LORD or walk in his law and in his statutes and in his testimonies that this disaster has happened to you, as at this day." 
24O	44	24	200350	 Jeremiah said to all the people and all the women, "Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah who are in the land of Egypt. 
24O	44	25	200360	 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: You and your wives have declared with your mouths, and have fulfilled it with your hands, saying, 'We will surely perform our vows that we have made, to make offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.' Then confirm your vows and perform your vows! 
24O	44	26	200370	 Therefore hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says the LORD, that my name shall no more be invoked by the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, 'As the Lord GOD lives.' 
24O	44	27	200380	 Behold, I am watching over them for disaster and not for good. All the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, until there is an end of them. 
24O	44	28	200390	 And those who escape the sword shall return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, who came to the land of Egypt to live, shall know whose word will stand, mine or theirs. 
24O	44	29	200400	 This shall be the sign to you, declares the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, in order that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for harm: 
24O	44	30	200410	 Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of those who seek his life, as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy and sought his life." 
24O	45	1	200420	 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the dictation of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: 
24O	45	2	200430	 "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch: 
24O	45	3	200440	 You said, 'Woe is me! For the LORD has added sorrow to my pain. I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.' 
24O	45	4	200450	 Thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD: Behold, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up--that is, the whole land. 
24O	45	5	200460	 And do you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not, for behold, I am bringing disaster upon all flesh, declares the LORD. But I will give you your life as a prize of war in all places to which you may go." 
24O	46	1	200470	 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations. 
24O	46	2	200480	 About Egypt. Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish and which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: 
24O	46	3	200490	 "Prepare buckler and shield, and advance for battle! 
24O	46	4	200500	 Harness the horses; mount, O horsemen! Take your stations with your helmets, polish your spears, put on your armor! 
24O	46	5	200510	 Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and have turned backward. Their warriors are beaten down and have fled in haste; they look not back-- terror on every side! declares the LORD. 
24O	46	6	200520	 "The swift cannot flee away, nor the warrior escape; in the north by the river Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen. 
24O	46	7	200530	 "Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge? 
24O	46	8	200540	 Egypt rises like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge. He said, 'I will rise, I will cover the earth, I will destroy cities and their inhabitants.' 
24O	46	9	200550	 Advance, O horses, and rage, O chariots! Let the warriors go out: men of Cush and Put who handle the shield, men of Lud, skilled in handling the bow. 
24O	46	10	200560	 That day is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, to avenge himself on his foes. The sword shall devour and be sated and drink its fill of their blood. For the Lord GOD of hosts holds a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates. 
24O	46	11	200570	 Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have used many medicines; there is no healing for you. 
24O	46	12	200580	 The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for warrior has stumbled against warrior; they have both fallen together." 
24O	46	13	200590	 The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt: 
24O	46	14	200600	 "Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol; proclaim in Memphis and Tahpanhes; say, 'Stand ready and be prepared, for the sword shall devour around you.' 
24O	46	15	200610	 Why are your mighty ones face down? They do not stand because the LORD thrust them down. 
24O	46	16	200620	 He made many stumble, and they fell, and they said one to another, 'Arise, and let us go back to our own people and to the land of our birth, because of the sword of the oppressor.' 
24O	46	17	200630	 Call the name of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, 'Noisy one who lets the hour go by.' 
24O	46	18	200640	 "As I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea, shall one come. 
24O	46	19	200650	 Prepare yourselves baggage for exile, O inhabitants of Egypt! For Memphis shall become a waste, a ruin, without inhabitant. 
24O	46	20	200660	 "A beautiful heifer is Egypt, but a biting fly from the north has come upon her. 
24O	46	21	200670	 Even her hired soldiers in her midst are like fattened calves; yes, they have turned and fled together; they did not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment. 
24O	46	22	200680	 "She makes a sound like a serpent gliding away; for her enemies march in force and come against her with axes like those who fell trees. 
24O	46	23	200690	 They shall cut down her forest, declares the LORD, though it is impenetrable, because they are more numerous than locusts; they are without number. 
24O	46	24	200700	 The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of a people from the north." 
24O	46	25	200710	 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, said: "Behold, I am bringing punishment upon Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh and Egypt and her gods and her kings, upon Pharaoh and those who trust in him. 
24O	46	26	200720	 I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their life, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. Afterward Egypt shall be inhabited as in the days of old, declares the LORD. 
24O	46	27	200730	 "But fear not, O Jacob my servant, nor be dismayed, O Israel, for behold, I will save you from far away, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease, and none shall make him afraid. 
24O	46	28	200740	 Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished." 
24O	47	1	200750	 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck down Gaza. 
24O	47	2	200760	 "Thus says the LORD: Behold, waters are rising out of the north, and shall become an overflowing torrent; they shall overflow the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it. Men shall cry out, and every inhabitant of the land shall wail. 
24O	47	3	200770	 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels, the fathers look not back to their children, so feeble are their hands, 
24O	47	4	200780	 because of the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains. For the LORD is destroying the Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor. 
24O	47	5	200790	 Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon has perished. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourselves? 
24O	47	6	200800	 Ah, sword of the LORD! How long till you are quiet? Put yourself into your scabbard; rest and be still! 
24O	47	7	200810	 How can it be quiet when the LORD has given it a charge? Against Ashkelon and against the seashore he has appointed it." 
24O	48	1	200820	 Concerning Moab. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Woe to Nebo, for it is laid waste! Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; the fortress is put to shame and broken down; 
24O	48	2	200830	 the renown of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they planned disaster against her: 'Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!' You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue you. 
24O	48	3	200840	 "A voice! A cry from Horonaim, 'Desolation and great destruction!' 
24O	48	4	200850	 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have made a cry. 
24O	48	5	200860	 For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distressed cry of destruction. 
24O	48	6	200870	 Flee! Save yourselves! You will be like a juniper in the desert! 
24O	48	7	200880	 For, because you trusted in your works and your treasures, you also shall be taken; and Chemosh shall go into exile with his priests and his officials. 
24O	48	8	200890	 The destroyer shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD has spoken. 
24O	48	9	200900	 "Give wings to Moab, for she would fly away; her cities shall become a desolation, with no inhabitant in them. 
24O	48	10	200910	 "Cursed is he who does the work of the LORD with slackness, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed. 
24O	48	11	200920	 "Moab has been at ease from his youth and has settled on his dregs; he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into exile; so his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed. 
24O	48	12	200930	 "Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I shall send to him pourers who will pour him, and empty his vessels and break his jars in pieces. 
24O	48	13	200940	 Then Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence. 
24O	48	14	200950	 "How do you say, 'We are heroes and mighty men of war'? 
24O	48	15	200960	 The destroyer of Moab and his cities has come up, and the choicest of his young men have gone down to slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts. 
24O	48	16	200970	 The calamity of Moab is near at hand, and his affliction hastens swiftly. 
24O	48	17	200980	 Grieve for him, all you who are around him, and all who know his name; say, 'How the mighty scepter is broken, the glorious staff.' 
24O	48	18	200990	 "Come down from your glory, and sit on the parched ground, O inhabitant of Dibon! For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you; he has destroyed your strongholds. 
24O	48	19	201000	 Stand by the way and watch, O inhabitant of Aroer! Ask him who flees and her who escapes; say, 'What has happened?' 
24O	48	20	201010	 Moab is put to shame, for it is broken; wail and cry! Tell it beside the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste. 
24O	48	21	201020	 "Judgment has come upon the tableland, upon Holon, and Jahzah, and Mephaath, 
24O	48	22	201030	 and Dibon, and Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim, 
24O	48	23	201040	 and Kiriathaim, and Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon, 
24O	48	24	201050	 and Kerioth, and Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near. 
24O	48	25	201060	 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, declares the LORD. 
24O	48	26	201070	 "Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against the LORD, so that Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he too shall be held in derision. 
24O	48	27	201080	 Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head? 
24O	48	28	201090	 "Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, O inhabitants of Moab! Be like the dove that nests in the sides of the mouth of a gorge. 
24O	48	29	201100	 We have heard of the pride of Moab-- he is very proud-- of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart. 
24O	48	30	201110	 I know his insolence, declares the LORD; his boasts are false, his deeds are false. 
24O	48	31	201120	 Therefore I wail for Moab; I cry out for all Moab; for the men of Kir-hareseth I mourn. 
24O	48	32	201130	 More than for Jazer I weep for you, O vine of Sibmah! Your branches passed over the sea, reached to the Sea of Jazer; on your summer fruits and your grapes the destroyer has fallen. 
24O	48	33	201140	 Gladness and joy have been taken away from the fruitful land of Moab; I have made the wine cease from the winepresses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; the shouting is not the shout of joy. 
24O	48	34	201150	 "From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, as far as Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. For the waters of Nimrim also have become desolate. 
24O	48	35	201160	 And I will bring to an end in Moab, declares the LORD, him who offers sacrifice in the high place and makes offerings to his god. 
24O	48	36	201170	 Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the men of Kir-hareseth. Therefore the riches they gained have perished. 
24O	48	37	201180	 "For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. On all the hands are gashes, and around the waist is sackcloth. 
24O	48	38	201190	 On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like a vessel for which no one cares, declares the LORD. 
24O	48	39	201200	 How it is broken! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a horror to all that are around him." 
24O	48	40	201210	 For thus says the LORD: "Behold, one shall fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against Moab; 
24O	48	41	201220	 the cities shall be taken and the strongholds seized. The heart of the warriors of Moab shall be in that day like the heart of a woman in her birth pains; 
24O	48	42	201230	 Moab shall be destroyed and be no longer a people, because he magnified himself against the LORD. 
24O	48	43	201240	 Terror, pit, and snare are before you, O inhabitant of Moab! declares the LORD. 
24O	48	44	201250	 He who flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For I will bring these things upon Moab, the year of their punishment, declares the LORD. 
24O	48	45	201260	 "In the shadow of Heshbon fugitives stop without strength, for fire came out from Heshbon, flame from the house of Sihon; it has destroyed the forehead of Moab, the crown of the sons of tumult. 
24O	48	46	201270	 Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh are undone, for your sons have been taken captive, and your daughters into captivity. 
24O	48	47	201280	 Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, declares the LORD." Thus far is the judgment on Moab. 
24O	49	1	201290	 Concerning the Ammonites. Thus says the LORD: "Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then has Milcom dispossessed Gad, and his people settled in its cities? 
24O	49	2	201300	 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will cause the battle cry to be heard against Rabbah of the Ammonites; it shall become a desolate mound, and its villages shall be burned with fire; then Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him, says the LORD. 
24O	49	3	201310	 "Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth, lament, and run to and fro among the hedges! For Milcom shall go into exile, with his priests and his officials. 
24O	49	4	201320	 Why do you boast of your valleys, O faithless daughter, who trusted in her treasures, saying, 'Who will come against me?' 
24O	49	5	201330	 Behold, I will bring terror upon you, declares the Lord GOD of hosts, from all who are around you, and you shall be driven out, every man straight before him, with none to gather the fugitives. 
24O	49	6	201340	 "But afterward I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites, declares the LORD." 
24O	49	7	201350	 Concerning Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished? 
24O	49	8	201360	 Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan! For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time when I punish him. 
24O	49	9	201370	 If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, would they not destroy only enough for themselves? 
24O	49	10	201380	 But I have stripped Esau bare; I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not able to conceal himself. His children are destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more. 
24O	49	11	201390	 Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me." 
24O	49	12	201400	 For thus says the LORD: "If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink. 
24O	49	13	201410	 For I have sworn by myself, declares the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a horror, a taunt, a waste, and a curse, and all her cities shall be perpetual wastes." 
24O	49	14	201420	 I have heard a message from the LORD, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: "Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle! 
24O	49	15	201430	 For behold, I will make you small among the nations, despised among mankind. 
24O	49	16	201440	 The horror you inspire has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle's, I will bring you down from there, declares the LORD. 
24O	49	17	201450	 "Edom shall become a horror. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters. 
24O	49	18	201460	 As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities were overthrown, says the LORD, no man shall dwell there, no man shall sojourn in her. 
24O	49	19	201470	 Behold, like a lion coming up from the jungle of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make him run away from her. And I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me? 
24O	49	20	201480	 Therefore hear the plan that the LORD has made against Edom and the purposes that he has formed against the inhabitants of Teman: Even the little ones of the flock shall be dragged away. Surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate. 
24O	49	21	201490	 At the sound of their fall the earth shall tremble; the sound of their cry shall be heard at the Red Sea. 
24O	49	22	201500	 Behold, one shall mount up and fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against Bozrah, and the heart of the warriors of Edom shall be in that day like the heart of a woman in her birth pains." 
24O	49	23	201510	 Concerning Damascus: "Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard bad news; they melt in fear, they are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet. 
24O	49	24	201520	 Damascus has become feeble, she turned to flee, and panic seized her; anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in labor. 
24O	49	25	201530	 How is the famous city not forsaken, the city of my joy? 
24O	49	26	201540	 Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed in that day, declares the LORD of hosts. 
24O	49	27	201550	 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad." 
24O	49	28	201560	 Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck down. Thus says the LORD: "Rise up, advance against Kedar! Destroy the people of the east! 
24O	49	29	201570	 Their tents and their flocks shall be taken, their curtains and all their goods; their camels shall be led away from them, and men shall cry to them: 'Terror on every side!' 
24O	49	30	201580	 Flee, wander far away, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Hazor! declares the LORD. For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has made a plan against you and formed a purpose against you. 
24O	49	31	201590	 "Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, that dwells securely, declares the LORD, that has no gates or bars, that dwells alone. 
24O	49	32	201600	 Their camels shall become plunder, their herds of livestock a spoil. I will scatter to every wind those who cut the corners of their hair, and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, declares the LORD. 
24O	49	33	201610	 Hazor shall become a haunt of jackals, an everlasting waste; no man shall dwell there; no man shall sojourn in her." 
24O	49	34	201620	 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah. 
24O	49	35	201630	 Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the mainstay of their might. 
24O	49	36	201640	 And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven. And I will scatter them to all those winds, and there shall be no nation to which those driven out of Elam shall not come. 
24O	49	37	201650	 I will terrify Elam before their enemies and before those who seek their life. I will bring disaster upon them, my fierce anger, declares the LORD. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them, 
24O	49	38	201660	 and I will set my throne in Elam and destroy their king and officials, declares the LORD. 
24O	49	39	201670	 "But in the latter days I will restore the fortunes of Elam, declares the LORD." 
24O	50	1	201680	 The word that the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet: 
24O	50	2	201690	 "Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, conceal it not, and say: 'Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.' 
24O	50	3	201700	 "For out of the north a nation has come up against her, which shall make her land a desolation, and none shall dwell in it; both man and beast shall flee away. 
24O	50	4	201710	 "In those days and in that time, declares the LORD, the people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come together, weeping as they come, and they shall seek the LORD their God. 
24O	50	5	201720	 They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, 'Come, let us join ourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.' 
24O	50	6	201730	 "My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone. They have forgotten their fold. 
24O	50	7	201740	 All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, 'We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their habitation of righteousness, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.' 
24O	50	8	201750	 "Flee from the midst of Babylon, and go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as male goats before the flock. 
24O	50	9	201760	 For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a gathering of great nations, from the north country. And they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed. 
24O	50	10	201770	 Chaldea shall be plundered; all who plunder her shall be sated, declares the LORD. 
24O	50	11	201780	 "Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my heritage, though you frolic like a heifer in the pasture, and neigh like stallions, 
24O	50	12	201790	 your mother shall be utterly shamed, and she who bore you shall be disgraced. Behold, she shall be the last of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. 
24O	50	13	201800	 Because of the wrath of the LORD she shall not be inhabited but shall be an utter desolation; everyone who passes by Babylon shall be appalled, and hiss because of all her wounds. 
24O	50	14	201810	 Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the LORD. 
24O	50	15	201820	 Raise a shout against her all around; she has surrendered; her bulwarks have fallen; her walls are thrown down. For this is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance on her; do to her as she has done. 
24O	50	16	201830	 Cut off from Babylon the sower, and the one who handles the sickle in time of harvest; because of the sword of the oppressor, every one shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land. 
24O	50	17	201840	 "Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has gnawed his bones. 
24O	50	18	201850	 Therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing punishment on the king of Babylon and his land, as I punished the king of Assyria. 
24O	50	19	201860	 I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and in Bashan, and his desire shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead. 
24O	50	20	201870	 In those days and in that time, declares the LORD, iniquity shall be sought in Israel, and there shall be none, and sin in Judah, and none shall be found, for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant. 
24O	50	21	201880	 "Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Kill, and devote them to destruction, declares the LORD, and do all that I have commanded you. 
24O	50	22	201890	 The noise of battle is in the land, and great destruction! 
24O	50	23	201900	 How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations! 
24O	50	24	201910	 I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and caught, because you opposed the LORD. 
24O	50	25	201920	 The LORD has opened his armory and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Lord GOD of hosts has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans. 
24O	50	26	201930	 Come against her from every quarter; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain, and devote her to destruction; let nothing be left of her. 
24O	50	27	201940	 Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment. 
24O	50	28	201950	 "A voice! They flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, vengeance for his temple. 
24O	50	29	201960	 "Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her according to all that she has done. For she has proudly defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel. 
24O	50	30	201970	 Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed on that day, declares the LORD. 
24O	50	31	201980	 "Behold, I am against you, O proud one, declares the Lord GOD of hosts, for your day has come, the time when I will punish you. 
24O	50	32	201990	 The proud one shall stumble and fall, with none to raise him up, and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour all that is around him. 
24O	50	33	202000	 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah with them. All who took them captive have held them fast; they refuse to let them go. 
24O	50	34	202010	 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name. He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon. 
24O	50	35	202020	 "A sword against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and against her officials and her wise men! 
24O	50	36	202030	 A sword against the diviners, that they may become fools! A sword against her warriors, that they may be destroyed! 
24O	50	37	202040	 A sword against her horses and against her chariots, and against all the foreign troops in her midst, that they may become women! A sword against all her treasures, that they may be plundered! 
24O	50	38	202050	 A drought against her waters, that they may be dried up! For it is a land of images, and they are mad over idols. 
24O	50	39	202060	 "Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon, and ostriches shall dwell in her. She shall never again have people, nor be inhabited for all generations. 
24O	50	40	202070	 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the LORD, so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her. 
24O	50	41	202080	 "Behold, a people comes from the north; a mighty nation and many kings are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth. 
24O	50	42	202090	 They lay hold of bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy. The sound of them is like the roaring of the sea; they ride on horses, arrayed as a man for battle against you, O daughter of Babylon! 
24O	50	43	202100	 "The king of Babylon heard the report of them, and his hands fell helpless; anguish seized him, pain as of a woman in labor. 
24O	50	44	202110	 "Behold, like a lion coming up from the thicket of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make them run away from her, and I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me? 
24O	50	45	202120	 Therefore hear the plan that the LORD has made against Babylon, and the purposes that he has formed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of their flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate. 
24O	50	46	202130	 At the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall tremble, and her cry shall be heard among the nations." 
24O	51	1	202140	 Thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon, against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai, 
24O	51	2	202150	 and I will send to Babylon winnowers, and they shall winnow her, and they shall empty her land, when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble. 
24O	51	3	202160	 Let not the archer bend his bow, and let him not stand up in his armor. Spare not her young men; devote to destruction all her army. 
24O	51	4	202170	 They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and wounded in her streets. 
24O	51	5	202180	 For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the LORD of hosts, but the land of the Chaldeans is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel. 
24O	51	6	202190	 "Flee from the midst of Babylon; let every one save his life! Be not cut off in her punishment, for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance, the repayment he is rendering her. 
24O	51	7	202200	 Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD's hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine; therefore the nations went mad. 
24O	51	8	202210	 Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed. 
24O	51	9	202220	 We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each to his own country, for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies. 
24O	51	10	202230	 The LORD has brought about our vindication; come, let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God. 
24O	51	11	202240	 "Sharpen the arrows! Take up the shields! The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance for his temple. 
24O	51	12	202250	 "Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon; make the watch strong; set up watchmen; prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has both planned and done what he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. 
24O	51	13	202260	 O you who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut. 
24O	51	14	202270	 The LORD of hosts has sworn by himself: Surely I will fill you with men, as many as locusts, and they shall raise the shout of victory over you. 
24O	51	15	202280	 "It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens. 
24O	51	16	202290	 When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses. 
24O	51	17	202300	 Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them. 
24O	51	18	202310	 They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish. 
24O	51	19	202320	 Not like these is he who is the portion of Jacob, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the LORD of hosts is his name. 
24O	51	20	202330	 "You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms; 
24O	51	21	202340	 with you I break in pieces the horse and his rider; with you I break in pieces the chariot and the charioteer; 
24O	51	22	202350	 with you I break in pieces man and woman; with you I break in pieces the old man and the youth; with you I break in pieces the young man and the young woman; 
24O	51	23	202360	 with you I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; with you I break in pieces the farmer and his team; with you I break in pieces governors and commanders. 
24O	51	24	202370	 "I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the LORD. 
24O	51	25	202380	 "Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, declares the LORD, which destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burnt mountain. 
24O	51	26	202390	 No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, declares the LORD. 
24O	51	27	202400	 "Set up a standard on the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts. 
24O	51	28	202410	 Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion. 
24O	51	29	202420	 The land trembles and writhes in pain, for the LORD's purposes against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant. 
24O	51	30	202430	 The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; her dwellings are on fire; her bars are broken. 
24O	51	31	202440	 One runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every side; 
24O	51	32	202450	 the fords have been seized, the marshes are burned with fire, and the soldiers are in panic. 
24O	51	33	202460	 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come." 
24O	51	34	202470	 "Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his stomach with my delicacies; he has rinsed me out. 
24O	51	35	202480	 The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon," let the inhabitant of Zion say. "My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea," let Jerusalem say. 
24O	51	36	202490	 Therefore thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry, 
24O	51	37	202500	 and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant. 
24O	51	38	202510	 "They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs. 
24O	51	39	202520	 While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, that they may become merry, then sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the LORD. 
24O	51	40	202530	 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and male goats. 
24O	51	41	202540	 "How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations! 
24O	51	42	202550	 The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves. 
24O	51	43	202560	 Her cities have become a horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes. 
24O	51	44	202570	 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen. 
24O	51	45	202580	 "Go out of the midst of her, my people! Let every one save his life from the fierce anger of the LORD! 
24O	51	46	202590	 Let not your heart faint, and be not fearful at the report heard in the land, when a report comes in one year and afterward a report in another year, and violence is in the land, and ruler is against ruler. 
24O	51	47	202600	 "Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the images of Babylon; her whole land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. 
24O	51	48	202610	 Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, shall sing for joy over Babylon, for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north, declares the LORD. 
24O	51	49	202620	 Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel, just as for Babylon have fallen the slain of all the earth. 
24O	51	50	202630	 "You who have escaped from the sword, go, do not stand still! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come into your mind: 
24O	51	51	202640	 'We are put to shame, for we have heard reproach; dishonor has covered our face, for foreigners have come into the holy places of the LORD's house.' 
24O	51	52	202650	 "Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will execute judgment upon her images, and through all her land the wounded shall groan. 
24O	51	53	202660	 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, yet destroyers would come from me against her, declares the LORD. 
24O	51	54	202670	 "A voice! A cry from Babylon! The noise of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans! 
24O	51	55	202680	 For the LORD is laying Babylon waste and stilling her mighty voice. Their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is raised, 
24O	51	56	202690	 for a destroyer has come upon her, upon Babylon; her warriors are taken; their bows are broken in pieces, for the LORD is a God of recompense; he will surely repay. 
24O	51	57	202700	 I will make drunk her officials and her wise men, her governors, her commanders, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts. 
24O	51	58	202710	 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. The peoples labor for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire." 
24O	51	59	202720	 The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the quartermaster. 
24O	51	60	202730	 Jeremiah wrote in a book all the disaster that should come upon Babylon, all these words that are written concerning Babylon. 
24O	51	61	202740	 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: "When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words, 
24O	51	62	202750	 and say, 'O LORD, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate forever.' 
24O	51	63	202760	 When you finish reading this book, tie a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates, 
24O	51	64	202770	 and say, 'Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, and they shall become exhausted.'" Thus far are the words of Jeremiah. 
24O	52	1	202780	 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 
24O	52	2	202790	 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 
24O	52	3	202800	 For because of the anger of the LORD things came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. 
24O	52	4	202810	 And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it. 
24O	52	5	202820	 So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 
24O	52	6	202830	 On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. 
24O	52	7	202840	 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, while the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah. 
24O	52	8	202850	 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And all his army was scattered from him. 
24O	52	9	202860	 Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him. 
24O	52	10	202870	 The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at Riblah. 
24O	52	11	202880	 He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death. 
24O	52	12	202890	 In the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month--that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon--Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who served the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. 
24O	52	13	202900	 And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down. 
24O	52	14	202910	 And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem. 
24O	52	15	202920	 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poorest of the people and the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the artisans. 
24O	52	16	202930	 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen. 
24O	52	17	202940	 And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the LORD, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all the bronze to Babylon. 
24O	52	18	202950	 And they took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the basins and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service; 
24O	52	19	202960	 also the small bowls and the fire pans and the basins and the pots and the lampstands and the dishes for incense and the bowls for drink offerings. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver. 
24O	52	20	202970	 As for the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze bulls that were under the sea, and the stands, which Solomon the king had made for the house of the LORD, the bronze of all these things was beyond weight. 
24O	52	21	202980	 As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, its circumference was twelve cubits, and its thickness was four fingers, and it was hollow. 
24O	52	22	202990	 On it was a capital of bronze. The height of the one capital was five cubits. A network and pomegranates, all of bronze, were around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with pomegranates. 
24O	52	23	203000	 There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network all around. 
24O	52	24	203010	 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold; 
24O	52	25	203020	 and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and seven men of the king's council, who were found in the city; and the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city. 
24O	52	26	203030	 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 
24O	52	27	203040	 And the king of Babylon struck them down, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile out of its land. 
24O	52	28	203050	 This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans; 
24O	52	29	203060	 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem 832 persons; 
24O	52	30	203070	 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Judeans 745 persons; all the persons were 4,600. 
24O	52	31	203080	 And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, graciously freed Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison. 
24O	52	32	203090	 And he spoke kindly to him, and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon. 
24O	52	33	203100	 So Jehoiachin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life he dined regularly at the king's table, 
24O	52	34	203110	 and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king according to his daily need, until the day of his death, as long as he lived. 
25O	1	1	203120	 How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave. 
25O	1	2	203130	 She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies. 
25O	1	3	203140	 Judah has gone into exile because of affliction and hard servitude; she dwells now among the nations, but finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress. 
25O	1	4	203150	 The roads to Zion mourn, for none come to the festival; all her gates are desolate; her priests groan; her virgins have been afflicted, and she herself suffers bitterly. 
25O	1	5	203160	 Her foes have become the head; her enemies prosper, because the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions; her children have gone away, captives before the foe. 
25O	1	6	203170	 From the daughter of Zion all her majesty has departed. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture; they fled without strength before the pursuer. 
25O	1	7	203180	 Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and wandering all the precious things that were hers from days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the foe, and there was none to help her, her foes gloated over her; they mocked at her downfall. 
25O	1	8	203190	 Jerusalem sinned grievously; therefore she became filthy; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns her face away. 
25O	1	9	203200	 Her uncleanness was in her skirts; she took no thought of her future; therefore her fall is terrible; she has no comforter. "O LORD, behold my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!" 
25O	1	10	203210	 The enemy has stretched out his hands over all her precious things; for she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, those whom you forbade to enter your congregation. 
25O	1	11	203220	 All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to revive their strength. "Look, O LORD, and see, for I am despised." 
25O	1	12	203230	 "Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the LORD inflicted on the day of his fierce anger. 
25O	1	13	203240	 "From on high he sent fire; into my bones he made it descend; he spread a net for my feet; he turned me back; he has left me stunned, faint all the day long. 
25O	1	14	203250	 "My transgressions were bound into a yoke; by his hand they were fastened together; they were set upon my neck; he caused my strength to fail; the Lord gave me into the hands of those whom I cannot withstand. 
25O	1	15	203260	 "The Lord rejected all my mighty men in my midst; he summoned an assembly against me to crush my young men; the Lord has trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah. 
25O	1	16	203270	 "For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears; for a comforter is far from me, one to revive my spirit; my children are desolate, for the enemy has prevailed." 
25O	1	17	203280	 Zion stretches out her hands, but there is none to comfort her; the LORD has commanded against Jacob that his neighbors should be his foes; Jerusalem has become a filthy thing among them. 
25O	1	18	203290	 "The LORD is in the right, for I have rebelled against his word; but hear, all you peoples, and see my suffering; my young women and my young men have gone into captivity. 
25O	1	19	203300	 "I called to my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and elders perished in the city, while they sought food to revive their strength. 
25O	1	20	203310	 "Look, O LORD, for I am in distress; my stomach churns; my heart is wrung within me, because I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword bereaves; in the house it is like death. 
25O	1	21	203320	 "They heard my groaning, yet there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it. You have brought the day you announced; now let them be as I am. 
25O	1	22	203330	 "Let all their evildoing come before you, and deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my transgressions; for my groans are many, and my heart is faint." 
25O	2	1	203340	 How the Lord in his anger has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud! He has cast down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. 
25O	2	2	203350	 The Lord has swallowed up without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers. 
25O	2	3	203360	 He has cut down in fierce anger all the might of Israel; he has withdrawn from them his right hand in the face of the enemy; he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob, consuming all around. 
25O	2	4	203370	 He has bent his bow like an enemy, with his right hand set like a foe; and he has killed all who were delightful in our eyes in the tent of the daughter of Zion; he has poured out his fury like fire. 
25O	2	5	203380	 The Lord has become like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all its palaces; he has laid in ruins its strongholds, and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. 
25O	2	6	203390	 He has laid waste his booth like a garden, laid in ruins his meeting place; the LORD has made Zion forget festival and Sabbath, and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest. 
25O	2	7	203400	 The Lord has scorned his altar, disowned his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they raised a clamor in the house of the LORD as on the day of festival. 
25O	2	8	203410	 The LORD determined to lay in ruins the wall of the daughter of Zion; he stretched out the measuring line; he did not restrain his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to lament; they languished together. 
25O	2	9	203420	 Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; the law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the LORD. 
25O	2	10	203430	 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground. 
25O	2	11	203440	 My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babies faint in the streets of the city. 
25O	2	12	203450	 They cry to their mothers, "Where is bread and wine?" as they faint like a wounded man in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out on their mothers' bosom. 
25O	2	13	203460	 What can I say for you, to what compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin is vast as the sea; who can heal you? 
25O	2	14	203470	 Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; they have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes, but have seen for you oracles that are false and misleading. 
25O	2	15	203480	 All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: "Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?" 
25O	2	16	203490	 All your enemies rail against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: "We have swallowed her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; now we have it; we see it!" 
25O	2	17	203500	 The LORD has done what he purposed; he has carried out his word, which he commanded long ago; he has thrown down without pity; he has made the enemy rejoice over you and exalted the might of your foes. 
25O	2	18	203510	 Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears stream down like a torrent day and night! Give yourself no rest, your eyes no respite! 
25O	2	19	203520	 "Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street." 
25O	2	20	203530	 Look, O LORD, and see! With whom have you dealt thus? Should women eat the fruit of their womb, the children of their tender care? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord? 
25O	2	21	203540	 In the dust of the streets lie the young and the old; my young women and my young men have fallen by the sword; you have killed them in the day of your anger, slaughtering without pity. 
25O	2	22	203550	 You summoned as if to a festival day my terrors on every side, and on the day of the anger of the LORD no one escaped or survived; those whom I held and raised my enemy destroyed. 
25O	3	1	203560	 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath; 
25O	3	2	203570	 he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light; 
25O	3	3	203580	 surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long. 
25O	3	4	203590	 He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones; 
25O	3	5	203600	 he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation; 
25O	3	6	203610	 he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago. 
25O	3	7	203620	 He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy; 
25O	3	8	203630	 though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer; 
25O	3	9	203640	 he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked. 
25O	3	10	203650	 He is a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding; 
25O	3	11	203660	 he turned aside my steps and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate; 
25O	3	12	203670	 he bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow. 
25O	3	13	203680	 He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver; 
25O	3	14	203690	 I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the object of their taunts all day long. 
25O	3	15	203700	 He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood. 
25O	3	16	203710	 He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes; 
25O	3	17	203720	 my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is; 
25O	3	18	203730	 so I say, "My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the LORD." 
25O	3	19	203740	 Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! 
25O	3	20	203750	 My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. 
25O	3	21	203760	 But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: 
25O	3	22	203770	 The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; 
25O	3	23	203780	 they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. 
25O	3	24	203790	 "The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "therefore I will hope in him." 
25O	3	25	203800	 The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. 
25O	3	26	203810	 It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. 
25O	3	27	203820	 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. 
25O	3	28	203830	 Let him sit alone in silence when it is laid on him; 
25O	3	29	203840	 let him put his mouth in the dust-- there may yet be hope; 
25O	3	30	203850	 let him give his cheek to the one who strikes, and let him be filled with insults. 
25O	3	31	203860	 For the Lord will not cast off forever, 
25O	3	32	203870	 but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love; 
25O	3	33	203880	 for he does not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men. 
25O	3	34	203890	 To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth, 
25O	3	35	203900	 to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High, 
25O	3	36	203910	 to subvert a man in his lawsuit, the Lord does not approve. 
25O	3	37	203920	 Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it? 
25O	3	38	203930	 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come? 
25O	3	39	203940	 Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins? 
25O	3	40	203950	 Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the LORD! 
25O	3	41	203960	 Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven: 
25O	3	42	203970	 "We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven. 
25O	3	43	203980	 "You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity; 
25O	3	44	203990	 you have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through. 
25O	3	45	204000	 You have made us scum and garbage among the peoples. 
25O	3	46	204010	 "All our enemies open their mouths against us; 
25O	3	47	204020	 panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction; 
25O	3	48	204030	 my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. 
25O	3	49	204040	 "My eyes will flow without ceasing, without respite, 
25O	3	50	204050	 until the LORD from heaven looks down and sees; 
25O	3	51	204060	 my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the daughters of my city. 
25O	3	52	204070	 "I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause; 
25O	3	53	204080	 they flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me; 
25O	3	54	204090	 water closed over my head; I said, 'I am lost.' 
25O	3	55	204100	 "I called on your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit; 
25O	3	56	204110	 you heard my plea, 'Do not close your ear to my cry for help!' 
25O	3	57	204120	 You came near when I called on you; you said, 'Do not fear!' 
25O	3	58	204130	 "You have taken up my cause, O Lord; you have redeemed my life. 
25O	3	59	204140	 You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; judge my cause. 
25O	3	60	204150	 You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me. 
25O	3	61	204160	 "You have heard their taunts, O LORD, all their plots against me. 
25O	3	62	204170	 The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all the day long. 
25O	3	63	204180	 Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the object of their taunts. 
25O	3	64	204190	 "You will repay them, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. 
25O	3	65	204200	 You will give them dullness of heart; your curse will be on them. 
25O	3	66	204210	 You will pursue them in anger and destroy them from under your heavens, O LORD." 
25O	4	1	204220	 How the gold has grown dim, how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street. 
25O	4	2	204230	 The precious sons of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold, how they are regarded as earthen pots, the work of a potter's hands! 
25O	4	3	204240	 Even jackals offer the breast; they nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. 
25O	4	4	204250	 The tongue of the nursing infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them. 
25O	4	5	204260	 Those who once feasted on delicacies perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple embrace ash heaps. 
25O	4	6	204270	 For the chastisement of the daughter of my people has been greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, and no hands were wrung for her. 
25O	4	7	204280	 Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, the beauty of their form was like sapphire. 
25O	4	8	204290	 Now their face is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as wood. 
25O	4	9	204300	 Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of hunger, who wasted away, pierced by lack of the fruits of the field. 
25O	4	10	204310	 The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people. 
25O	4	11	204320	 The LORD gave full vent to his wrath; he poured out his hot anger, and he kindled a fire in Zion that consumed its foundations. 
25O	4	12	204330	 The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any of the inhabitants of the world, that foe or enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem. 
25O	4	13	204340	 This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous. 
25O	4	14	204350	 They wandered, blind, through the streets; they were so defiled with blood that no one was able to touch their garments. 
25O	4	15	204360	 "Away! Unclean!" people cried at them. "Away! Away! Do not touch!" So they became fugitives and wanderers; people said among the nations, "They shall stay with us no longer." 
25O	4	16	204370	 The LORD himself has scattered them; he will regard them no more; no honor was shown to the priests, no favor to the elders. 
25O	4	17	204380	 Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save. 
25O	4	18	204390	 They dogged our steps so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near; our days were numbered, for our end had come. 
25O	4	19	204400	 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles in the heavens; they chased us on the mountains; they lay in wait for us in the wilderness. 
25O	4	20	204410	 The breath of our nostrils, the LORD's anointed, was captured in their pits, of whom we said, "Under his shadow we shall live among the nations." 
25O	4	21	204420	 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup shall pass; you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare. 
25O	4	22	204430	 The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished; he will keep you in exile no longer; but your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will punish; he will uncover your sins. 
25O	5	1	204440	 Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace! 
25O	5	2	204450	 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners. 
25O	5	3	204460	 We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows. 
25O	5	4	204470	 We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought. 
25O	5	5	204480	 Our pursuers are at our necks; we are weary; we are given no rest. 
25O	5	6	204490	 We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough. 
25O	5	7	204500	 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities. 
25O	5	8	204510	 Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand. 
25O	5	9	204520	 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness. 
25O	5	10	204530	 Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine. 
25O	5	11	204540	 Women are raped in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah. 
25O	5	12	204550	 Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders. 
25O	5	13	204560	 Young men are compelled to grind at the mill, and boys stagger under loads of wood. 
25O	5	14	204570	 The old men have left the city gate, the young men their music. 
25O	5	15	204580	 The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning. 
25O	5	16	204590	 The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! 
25O	5	17	204600	 For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim, 
25O	5	18	204610	 for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it. 
25O	5	19	204620	 But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations. 
25O	5	20	204630	 Why do you forget us forever, why do you forsake us for so many days? 
25O	5	21	204640	 Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old-- 
25O	5	22	204650	 unless you have utterly rejected us, and you remain exceedingly angry with us. 
26O	1	1	204660	 In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the Chebar canal, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. 
26O	1	2	204670	 On the fifth day of the month (it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin), 
26O	1	3	204680	 the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the Chebar canal, and the hand of the LORD was upon him there. 
26O	1	4	204690	 As I looked, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, and a great cloud, with brightness around it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming metal. 
26O	1	5	204700	 And from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had a human likeness, 
26O	1	6	204710	 but each had four faces, and each of them had four wings. 
26O	1	7	204720	 Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the sole of a calf's foot. And they sparkled like burnished bronze. 
26O	1	8	204730	 Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. And the four had their faces and their wings thus: 
26O	1	9	204740	 their wings touched one another. Each one of them went straight forward, without turning as they went. 
26O	1	10	204750	 As for the likeness of their faces, each had a human face. The four had the face of a lion on the right side, the four had the face of an ox on the left side, and the four had the face of an eagle. 
26O	1	11	204760	 Such were their faces. And their wings were spread out above. Each creature had two wings, each of which touched the wing of another, while two covered their bodies. 
26O	1	12	204770	 And each went straight forward. Wherever the spirit would go, they went, without turning as they went. 
26O	1	13	204780	 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches moving to and fro among the living creatures. And the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. 
26O	1	14	204790	 And the living creatures darted to and fro, like the appearance of a flash of lightning. 
26O	1	15	204800	 Now as I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, one for each of the four of them. 
26O	1	16	204810	 As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of beryl. And the four had the same likeness, their appearance and construction being as it were a wheel within a wheel. 
26O	1	17	204820	 When they went, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went. 
26O	1	18	204830	 And their rims were tall and awesome, and the rims of all four were full of eyes all around. 
26O	1	19	204840	 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose. 
26O	1	20	204850	 Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went, and the wheels rose along with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. 
26O	1	21	204860	 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those rose from the earth, the wheels rose along with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. 
26O	1	22	204870	 Over the heads of the living creatures there was the likeness of an expanse, shining like awe-inspiring crystal, spread out above their heads. 
26O	1	23	204880	 And under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight, one toward another. And each creature had two wings covering its body. 
26O	1	24	204890	 And when they went, I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of many waters, like the sound of the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army. When they stood still, they let down their wings. 
26O	1	25	204900	 And there came a voice from above the expanse over their heads. When they stood still, they let down their wings. 
26O	1	26	204910	 And above the expanse over their heads there was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like sapphire; and seated above the likeness of a throne was a likeness with a human appearance. 
26O	1	27	204920	 And upward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were gleaming metal, like the appearance of fire enclosed all around. And downward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him. 
26O	1	28	204930	 Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking. 
26O	2	1	204940	 And he said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you." 
26O	2	2	204950	 And as he spoke to me, the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and I heard him speaking to me. 
26O	2	3	204960	 And he said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day. 
26O	2	4	204970	 The descendants also are impudent and stubborn: I send you to them, and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.' 
26O	2	5	204980	 And whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house) they will know that a prophet has been among them. 
26O	2	6	204990	 And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions. Be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house. 
26O	2	7	205000	 And you shall speak my words to them, whether they hear or refuse to hear, for they are a rebellious house. 
26O	2	8	205010	 "But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Be not rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you." 
26O	2	9	205020	 And when I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me, and behold, a scroll of a book was in it. 
26O	2	10	205030	 And he spread it before me. And it had writing on the front and on the back, and there were written on it words of lamentation and mourning and woe. 
26O	3	1	205040	 And he said to me, "Son of man, eat whatever you find here. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel." 
26O	3	2	205050	 So I opened my mouth, and he gave me this scroll to eat. 
26O	3	3	205060	 And he said to me, "Son of man, feed your belly with this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it." Then I ate it, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey. 
26O	3	4	205070	 And he said to me, "Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with my words to them. 
26O	3	5	205080	 For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel-- 
26O	3	6	205090	 not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you. 
26O	3	7	205100	 But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart. 
26O	3	8	205110	 Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. 
26O	3	9	205120	 Like emery harder than flint have I made your forehead. Fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house." 
26O	3	10	205130	 Moreover, he said to me, "Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears. 
26O	3	11	205140	 And go to the exiles, to your people, and speak to them and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD,' whether they hear or refuse to hear." 
26O	3	12	205150	 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great earthquake: "Blessed be the glory of the LORD from its place!" 
26O	3	13	205160	 It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the sound of the wheels beside them, and the sound of a great earthquake. 
26O	3	14	205170	 The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the LORD being strong upon me. 
26O	3	15	205180	 And I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who were dwelling by the Chebar canal, and I sat where they were dwelling. And I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days. 
26O	3	16	205190	 And at the end of seven days, the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	3	17	205200	 "Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. 
26O	3	18	205210	 If I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. 
26O	3	19	205220	 But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul. 
26O	3	20	205230	 Again, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds that he has done shall not be remembered, but his blood I will require at your hand. 
26O	3	21	205240	 But if you warn the righteous person not to sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning, and you will have delivered your soul." 
26O	3	22	205250	 And the hand of the LORD was upon me there. And he said to me, "Arise, go out into the valley, and there I will speak with you." 
26O	3	23	205260	 So I arose and went out into the valley, and behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, like the glory that I had seen by the Chebar canal, and I fell on my face. 
26O	3	24	205270	 But the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and he spoke with me and said to me, "Go, shut yourself within your house. 
26O	3	25	205280	 And you, O son of man, behold, cords will be placed upon you, and you shall be bound with them, so that you cannot go out among the people. 
26O	3	26	205290	 And I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be mute and unable to reprove them, for they are a rebellious house. 
26O	3	27	205300	 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.' He who will hear, let him hear; and he who will refuse to hear, let him refuse, for they are a rebellious house. 
26O	4	1	205310	 "And you, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city, even Jerusalem. 
26O	4	2	205320	 And put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it. Set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around. 
26O	4	3	205330	 And you, take an iron griddle, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face toward it, and let it be in a state of siege, and press the siege against it. This is a sign for the house of Israel. 
26O	4	4	205340	 "Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their punishment. 
26O	4	5	205350	 For I assign to you a number of days, 390 days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment. So long shall you bear the punishment of the house of Israel. 
26O	4	6	205360	 And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the punishment of the house of Judah. Forty days I assign you, a day for each year. 
26O	4	7	205370	 And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared, and you shall prophesy against the city. 
26O	4	8	205380	 And behold, I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed the days of your siege. 
26O	4	9	205390	 "And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it. 
26O	4	10	205400	 And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from day to day you shall eat it. 
26O	4	11	205410	 And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from day to day you shall drink. 
26O	4	12	205420	 And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung." 
26O	4	13	205430	 And the LORD said, "Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them." 
26O	4	14	205440	 Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I have never defiled myself. From my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has tainted meat come into my mouth." 
26O	4	15	205450	 Then he said to me, "See, I assign to you cow's dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread." 
26O	4	16	205460	 Moreover, he said to me, "Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay. 
26O	4	17	205470	 I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and rot away because of their punishment. 
26O	5	1	205480	 "And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber's razor and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair. 
26O	5	2	205490	 A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them. 
26O	5	3	205500	 And you shall take from these a small number and bind them in the skirts of your robe. 
26O	5	4	205510	 And of these again you shall take some and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will come out into all the house of Israel. 
26O	5	5	205520	 "Thus says the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her. 
26O	5	6	205530	 And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes. 
26O	5	7	205540	 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you, 
26O	5	8	205550	 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations. 
26O	5	9	205560	 And because of all your abominations I will do with you what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again. 
26O	5	10	205570	 Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds. 
26O	5	11	205580	 Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw. My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity. 
26O	5	12	205590	 A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them. 
26O	5	13	205600	 "Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that I am the LORD--that I have spoken in my jealousy--when I spend my fury upon them. 
26O	5	14	205610	 Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by. 
26O	5	15	205620	 You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes--I am the LORD; I have spoken-- 
26O	5	16	205630	 when I send against you the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and break your supply of bread. 
26O	5	17	205640	 I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the LORD; I have spoken." 
26O	6	1	205650	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	6	2	205660	 "Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, 
26O	6	3	205670	 and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places. 
26O	6	4	205680	 Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols. 
26O	6	5	205690	 And I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars. 
26O	6	6	205700	 Wherever you dwell, the cities shall be waste and the high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined, your idols broken and destroyed, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out. 
26O	6	7	205710	 And the slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the LORD. 
26O	6	8	205720	 "Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries, 
26O	6	9	205730	 then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations. 
26O	6	10	205740	 And they shall know that I am the LORD. I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them." 
26O	6	11	205750	 Thus says the Lord GOD: "Clap your hands and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. 
26O	6	12	205760	 He who is far off shall die of pestilence, and he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who is left and is preserved shall die of famine. Thus I will spend my fury upon them. 
26O	6	13	205770	 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols. 
26O	6	14	205780	 And I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land desolate and waste, in all their dwelling places, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD." 
26O	7	1	205790	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	7	2	205800	 "And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land. 
26O	7	3	205810	 Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. 
26O	7	4	205820	 And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD. 
26O	7	5	205830	 "Thus says the Lord GOD: Disaster after disaster! Behold, it comes. 
26O	7	6	205840	 An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes. 
26O	7	7	205850	 Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting on the mountains. 
26O	7	8	205860	 Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. 
26O	7	9	205870	 And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD, who strikes. 
26O	7	10	205880	 "Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has come; the rod has blossomed; pride has budded. 
26O	7	11	205890	 Violence has grown up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them. 
26O	7	12	205900	 The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude. 
26O	7	13	205910	 For the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life. 
26O	7	14	205920	 "They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but none goes to battle, for my wrath is upon all their multitude. 
26O	7	15	205930	 The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour. 
26O	7	16	205940	 And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity. 
26O	7	17	205950	 All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water. 
26O	7	18	205960	 They put on sackcloth, and horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and baldness on all their heads. 
26O	7	19	205970	 They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity. 
26O	7	20	205980	 His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them. 
26O	7	21	205990	 And I will give it into the hands of foreigners for prey, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and they shall profane it. 
26O	7	22	206000	 I will turn my face from them, and they shall profane my treasured place. Robbers shall enter and profane it. 
26O	7	23	206010	 "Forge a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence. 
26O	7	24	206020	 I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places shall be profaned. 
26O	7	25	206030	 When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there shall be none. 
26O	7	26	206040	 Disaster comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor. They seek a vision from the prophet, while the law perishes from the priest and counsel from the elders. 
26O	7	27	206050	 The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the LORD." 
26O	8	1	206060	 In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me there. 
26O	8	2	206070	 Then I looked, and behold, a form that had the appearance of a man. Below what appeared to be his waist was fire, and above his waist was something like the appearance of brightness, like gleaming metal. 
26O	8	3	206080	 He put out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy. 
26O	8	4	206090	 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the vision that I saw in the valley. 
26O	8	5	206100	 Then he said to me, "Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the north." So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, north of the altar gate, in the entrance, was this image of jealousy. 
26O	8	6	206110	 And he said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations." 
26O	8	7	206120	 And he brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked, behold, there was a hole in the wall. 
26O	8	8	206130	 Then he said to me, "Son of man, dig in the wall." So I dug in the wall, and behold, there was an entrance. 
26O	8	9	206140	 And he said to me, "Go in, and see the vile abominations that they are committing here." 
26O	8	10	206150	 So I went in and saw. And there, engraved on the wall all around, was every form of creeping things and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel. 
26O	8	11	206160	 And before them stood seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and the smoke of the cloud of incense went up. 
26O	8	12	206170	 Then he said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of pictures? For they say, 'The LORD does not see us, the LORD has forsaken the land.'" 
26O	8	13	206180	 He said also to me, "You will see still greater abominations that they commit." 
26O	8	14	206190	 Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. 
26O	8	15	206200	 Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? You will see still greater abominations than these." 
26O	8	16	206210	 And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the east. 
26O	8	17	206220	 Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations that they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence and provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their nose. 
26O	8	18	206230	 Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them." 
26O	9	1	206240	 Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, "Bring near the executioners of the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand." 
26O	9	2	206250	 And behold, six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his weapon for slaughter in his hand, and with them was a man clothed in linen, with a writing case at his waist. And they went in and stood beside the bronze altar. 
26O	9	3	206260	 Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub on which it rested to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writing case at his waist. 
26O	9	4	206270	 And the LORD said to him, "Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it." 
26O	9	5	206280	 And to the others he said in my hearing, "Pass through the city after him, and strike. Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity. 
26O	9	6	206290	 Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary." So they began with the elders who were before the house. 
26O	9	7	206300	 Then he said to them, "Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out." So they went out and struck in the city. 
26O	9	8	206310	 And while they were striking, and I was left alone, I fell upon my face, and cried, "Ah, Lord GOD! Will you destroy all the remnant of Israel in the outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?" 
26O	9	9	206320	 Then he said to me, "The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For they say, 'The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see.' 
26O	9	10	206330	 As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; I will bring their deeds upon their heads." 
26O	9	11	206340	 And behold, the man clothed in linen, with the writing case at his waist, brought back word, saying, "I have done as you commanded me." 
26O	10	1	206350	 Then I looked, and behold, on the expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim there appeared above them something like a sapphire, in appearance like a throne. 
26O	10	2	206360	 And he said to the man clothed in linen, "Go in among the whirling wheels underneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city." And he went in before my eyes. 
26O	10	3	206370	 Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the house, when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court. 
26O	10	4	206380	 And the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub to the threshold of the house, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the LORD. 
26O	10	5	206390	 And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks. 
26O	10	6	206400	 And when he commanded the man clothed in linen, "Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim," he went in and stood beside a wheel. 
26O	10	7	206410	 And a cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took some of it and put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen, who took it and went out. 
26O	10	8	206420	 The cherubim appeared to have the form of a human hand under their wings. 
26O	10	9	206430	 And I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one beside each cherub, and the appearance of the wheels was like sparkling beryl. 
26O	10	10	206440	 And as for their appearance, the four had the same likeness, as if a wheel were within a wheel. 
26O	10	11	206450	 When they went, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went, but in whatever direction the front wheel faced, the others followed without turning as they went. 
26O	10	12	206460	 And their whole body, their rims, and their spokes, their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes all around--the wheels that the four of them had. 
26O	10	13	206470	 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing "the whirling wheels." 
26O	10	14	206480	 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was a human face, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. 
26O	10	15	206490	 And the cherubim mounted up. These were the living creatures that I saw by the Chebar canal. 
26O	10	16	206500	 And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them. And when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels did not turn from beside them. 
26O	10	17	206510	 When they stood still, these stood still, and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in them. 
26O	10	18	206520	 Then the glory of the LORD went out from the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim. 
26O	10	19	206530	 And the cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth before my eyes as they went out, with the wheels beside them. And they stood at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them. 
26O	10	20	206540	 These were the living creatures that I saw underneath the God of Israel by the Chebar canal; and I knew that they were cherubim. 
26O	10	21	206550	 Each had four faces, and each four wings, and underneath their wings the likeness of human hands. 
26O	10	22	206560	 And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the Chebar canal. Each one of them went straight forward. 
26O	11	1	206570	 The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the house of the LORD, which faces east. And behold, at the entrance of the gateway there were twenty-five men. And I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. 
26O	11	2	206580	 And he said to me, "Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and who give wicked counsel in this city; 
26O	11	3	206590	 who say, 'The time is not near to build houses. This city is the cauldron, and we are the meat.' 
26O	11	4	206600	 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man." 
26O	11	5	206610	 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and he said to me, "Say, Thus says the LORD: So you think, O house of Israel. For I know the things that come into your mind. 
26O	11	6	206620	 You have multiplied your slain in this city and have filled its streets with the slain. 
26O	11	7	206630	 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the meat, and this city is the cauldron, but you shall be brought out of the midst of it. 
26O	11	8	206640	 You have feared the sword, and I will bring the sword upon you, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	11	9	206650	 And I will bring you out of the midst of it, and give you into the hands of foreigners, and execute judgments upon you. 
26O	11	10	206660	 You shall fall by the sword. I will judge you at the border of Israel, and you shall know that I am the LORD. 
26O	11	11	206670	 This city shall not be your cauldron, nor shall you be the meat in the midst of it. I will judge you at the border of Israel, 
26O	11	12	206680	 and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you." 
26O	11	13	206690	 And it came to pass, while I was prophesying, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?" 
26O	11	14	206700	 And the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	11	15	206710	 "Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, your kinsmen, the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, 'Go far from the LORD; to us this land is given for a possession.' 
26O	11	16	206720	 Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone.' 
26O	11	17	206730	 Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.' 
26O	11	18	206740	 And when they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations. 
26O	11	19	206750	 And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, 
26O	11	20	206760	 that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 
26O	11	21	206770	 But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD." 
26O	11	22	206780	 Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them. 
26O	11	23	206790	 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood on the mountain that is on the east side of the city. 
26O	11	24	206800	 And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the exiles. Then the vision that I had seen went up from me. 
26O	11	25	206810	 And I told the exiles all the things that the LORD had shown me. 
26O	12	1	206820	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	12	2	206830	 "Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not, for they are a rebellious house. 
26O	12	3	206840	 As for you, son of man, prepare for yourself an exile's baggage, and go into exile by day in their sight. You shall go like an exile from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house. 
26O	12	4	206850	 You shall bring out your baggage by day in their sight, as baggage for exile, and you shall go out yourself at evening in their sight, as those do who must go into exile. 
26O	12	5	206860	 In their sight dig through the wall, and bring your baggage out through it. 
26O	12	6	206870	 In their sight you shall lift the baggage upon your shoulder and carry it out at dusk. You shall cover your face that you may not see the land, for I have made you a sign for the house of Israel." 
26O	12	7	206880	 And I did as I was commanded. I brought out my baggage by day, as baggage for exile, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my own hands. I brought out my baggage at dusk, carrying it on my shoulder in their sight. 
26O	12	8	206890	 In the morning the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	12	9	206900	 "Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, 'What are you doing?' 
26O	12	10	206910	 Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: This oracle concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel who are in it.' 
26O	12	11	206920	 Say, 'I am a sign for you: as I have done, so shall it be done to them. They shall go into exile, into captivity.' 
26O	12	12	206930	 And the prince who is among them shall lift his baggage upon his shoulder at dusk, and shall go out. They shall dig through the wall to bring him out through it. He shall cover his face, that he may not see the land with his eyes. 
26O	12	13	206940	 And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare. And I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, yet he shall not see it, and he shall die there. 
26O	12	14	206950	 And I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops, and I will unsheathe the sword after them. 
26O	12	15	206960	 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries. 
26O	12	16	206970	 But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the LORD." 
26O	12	17	206980	 And the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	12	18	206990	 "Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink water with trembling and with anxiety. 
26O	12	19	207000	 And say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink water in dismay. In this way her land will be stripped of all it contains, on account of the violence of all those who dwell in it. 
26O	12	20	207010	 And the inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the LORD." 
26O	12	21	207020	 And the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	12	22	207030	 "Son of man, what is this proverb that you have about the land of Israel, saying, 'The days grow long, and every vision comes to nothing'? 
26O	12	23	207040	 Tell them therefore, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: I will put an end to this proverb, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel.' But say to them, The days are near, and the fulfillment of every vision. 
26O	12	24	207050	 For there shall be no more any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel. 
26O	12	25	207060	 For I am the LORD; I will speak the word that I will speak, and it will be performed. It will no longer be delayed, but in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and perform it, declares the Lord GOD." 
26O	12	26	207070	 And the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	12	27	207080	 "Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, 'The vision that he sees is for many days from now, and he prophesies of times far off.' 
26O	12	28	207090	 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: None of my words will be delayed any longer, but the word that I speak will be performed, declares the Lord GOD." 
26O	13	1	207100	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	13	2	207110	 "Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, who are prophesying, and say to those who prophesy from their own hearts: 'Hear the word of the LORD!' 
26O	13	3	207120	 Thus says the Lord GOD, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! 
26O	13	4	207130	 Your prophets have been like jackals among ruins, O Israel. 
26O	13	5	207140	 You have not gone up into the breaches, or built up a wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in battle in the day of the LORD. 
26O	13	6	207150	 They have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, 'Declares the LORD,' when the LORD has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfill their word. 
26O	13	7	207160	 Have you not seen a false vision and uttered a lying divination, whenever you have said, 'Declares the LORD,' although I have not spoken?" 
26O	13	8	207170	 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	13	9	207180	 My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who give lying divinations. They shall not be in the council of my people, nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord GOD. 
26O	13	10	207190	 Precisely because they have misled my people, saying, 'Peace,' when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a wall, these prophets smear it with whitewash, 
26O	13	11	207200	 say to those who smear it with whitewash that it shall fall! There will be a deluge of rain, and you, O great hailstones, will fall, and a stormy wind break out. 
26O	13	12	207210	 And when the wall falls, will it not be said to you, 'Where is the coating with which you smeared it?' 
26O	13	13	207220	 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I will make a stormy wind break out in my wrath, and there shall be a deluge of rain in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to make a full end. 
26O	13	14	207230	 And I will break down the wall that you have smeared with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be laid bare. When it falls, you shall perish in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the LORD. 
26O	13	15	207240	 Thus will I spend my wrath upon the wall and upon those who have smeared it with whitewash, and I will say to you, The wall is no more, nor those who smeared it, 
26O	13	16	207250	 the prophets of Israel who prophesied concerning Jerusalem and saw visions of peace for her, when there was no peace, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	13	17	207260	 "And you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own minds. Prophesy against them 
26O	13	18	207270	 and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the women who sew magic bands upon all wrists, and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature, in the hunt for souls! Will you hunt down souls belonging to my people and keep your own souls alive? 
26O	13	19	207280	 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death souls who should not die and keeping alive souls who should not live, by your lying to my people, who listen to lies. 
26O	13	20	207290	 "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against your magic bands with which you hunt the souls like birds, and I will tear them from your arms, and I will let the souls whom you hunt go free, the souls like birds. 
26O	13	21	207300	 Your veils also I will tear off and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand as prey, and you shall know that I am the LORD. 
26O	13	22	207310	 Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not grieved him, and you have encouraged the wicked, that he should not turn from his evil way to save his life, 
26O	13	23	207320	 therefore you shall no more see false visions nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand. And you shall know that I am the LORD." 
26O	14	1	207330	 Then certain of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me. 
26O	14	2	207340	 And the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	14	3	207350	 "Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I indeed let myself be consulted by them? 
26O	14	4	207360	 Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Any one of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him as he comes with the multitude of his idols, 
26O	14	5	207370	 that I may lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, who are all estranged from me through their idols. 
26O	14	6	207380	 "Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Repent and turn away from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations. 
26O	14	7	207390	 For any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, taking his idols into his heart and putting the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to a prophet to consult me through him, I the LORD will answer him myself. 
26O	14	8	207400	 And I will set my face against that man; I will make him a sign and a byword and cut him off from the midst of my people, and you shall know that I am the LORD. 
26O	14	9	207410	 And if the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, the LORD, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. 
26O	14	10	207420	 And they shall bear their punishment--the punishment of the prophet and the punishment of the inquirer shall be alike-- 
26O	14	11	207430	 that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, nor defile themselves anymore with all their transgressions, but that they may be my people and I may be their God, declares the Lord GOD." 
26O	14	12	207440	 And the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	14	13	207450	 "Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its supply of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast, 
26O	14	14	207460	 even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	14	15	207470	 "If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts, 
26O	14	16	207480	 even if these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate. 
26O	14	17	207490	 "Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, and I cut off from it man and beast, 
26O	14	18	207500	 though these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered. 
26O	14	19	207510	 "Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast, 
26O	14	20	207520	 even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness. 
26O	14	21	207530	 "For thus says the Lord GOD: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast! 
26O	14	22	207540	 But behold, some survivors will be left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out; behold, when they come out to you, and you see their ways and their deeds, you will be consoled for the disaster that I have brought upon Jerusalem, for all that I have brought upon it. 
26O	14	23	207550	 They will console you, when you see their ways and their deeds, and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, declares the Lord GOD." 
26O	15	1	207560	 And the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	15	2	207570	 "Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any wood, the vine branch that is among the trees of the forest? 
26O	15	3	207580	 Is wood taken from it to make anything? Do people take a peg from it to hang any vessel on it? 
26O	15	4	207590	 Behold, it is given to the fire for fuel. When the fire has consumed both ends of it, and the middle of it is charred, is it useful for anything? 
26O	15	5	207600	 Behold, when it was whole, it was used for nothing. How much less, when the fire has consumed it and it is charred, can it ever be used for anything! 
26O	15	6	207610	 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 
26O	15	7	207620	 And I will set my face against them. Though they escape from the fire, the fire shall yet consume them, and you will know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them. 
26O	15	8	207630	 And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted faithlessly, declares the Lord GOD." 
26O	16	1	207640	 Again the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	16	2	207650	 "Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations, 
26O	16	3	207660	 and say, Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. 
26O	16	4	207670	 And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. 
26O	16	5	207680	 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born. 
26O	16	6	207690	 "And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!' I said to you in your blood, 'Live!' 
26O	16	7	207700	 I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare. 
26O	16	8	207710	 "When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord GOD, and you became mine. 
26O	16	9	207720	 Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil. 
26O	16	10	207730	 I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk. 
26O	16	11	207740	 And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck. 
26O	16	12	207750	 And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. 
26O	16	13	207760	 Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. 
26O	16	14	207770	 And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	16	15	207780	 "But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his. 
26O	16	16	207790	 You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be. 
26O	16	17	207800	 You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore. 
26O	16	18	207810	 And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them. 
26O	16	19	207820	 Also my bread that I gave you--I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey--you set before them for a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	16	20	207830	 And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter 
26O	16	21	207840	 that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them? 
26O	16	22	207850	 And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood. 
26O	16	23	207860	 "And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord GOD), 
26O	16	24	207870	 you built yourself a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square. 
26O	16	25	207880	 At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself to any passerby and multiplying your whoring. 
26O	16	26	207890	 You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger. 
26O	16	27	207900	 Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and diminished your allotted portion and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. 
26O	16	28	207910	 You played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied. 
26O	16	29	207920	 You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied. 
26O	16	30	207930	 "How sick is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute, 
26O	16	31	207940	 building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment. 
26O	16	32	207950	 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband! 
26O	16	33	207960	 Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings. 
26O	16	34	207970	 So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different. 
26O	16	35	207980	 "Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD: 
26O	16	36	207990	 Thus says the Lord GOD, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them, 
26O	16	37	208000	 therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness. 
26O	16	38	208010	 And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy. 
26O	16	39	208020	 And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places. They shall strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels and leave you naked and bare. 
26O	16	40	208030	 They shall bring up a crowd against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. 
26O	16	41	208040	 And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop playing the whore, and you shall also give payment no more. 
26O	16	42	208050	 So will I satisfy my wrath on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry. 
26O	16	43	208060	 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations? 
26O	16	44	208070	 "Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: 'Like mother, like daughter.' 
26O	16	45	208080	 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. 
26O	16	46	208090	 And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters. 
26O	16	47	208100	 Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. 
26O	16	48	208110	 As I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. 
26O	16	49	208120	 Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. 
26O	16	50	208130	 They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it. 
26O	16	51	208140	 Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed. 
26O	16	52	208150	 Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous. 
26O	16	53	208160	 "I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst, 
26O	16	54	208170	 that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, becoming a consolation to them. 
26O	16	55	208180	 As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, and you and your daughters shall return to your former state. 
26O	16	56	208190	 Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride, 
26O	16	57	208200	 before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become an object of reproach for the daughters of Syria and all those around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who despise you. 
26O	16	58	208210	 You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the LORD. 
26O	16	59	208220	 "For thus says the Lord GOD: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant, 
26O	16	60	208230	 yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant. 
26O	16	61	208240	 Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of the covenant with you. 
26O	16	62	208250	 I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the LORD, 
26O	16	63	208260	 that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord GOD." 
26O	17	1	208270	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	17	2	208280	 "Son of man, propound a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel; 
26O	17	3	208290	 say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, rich in plumage of many colors, came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar. 
26O	17	4	208300	 He broke off the topmost of its young twigs and carried it to a land of trade and set it in a city of merchants. 
26O	17	5	208310	 Then he took of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil. He placed it beside abundant waters. He set it like a willow twig, 
26O	17	6	208320	 and it sprouted and became a low spreading vine, and its branches turned toward him, and its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and produced branches and put out boughs. 
26O	17	7	208330	 "And there was another great eagle with great wings and much plumage, and behold, this vine bent its roots toward him and shot forth its branches toward him from the bed where it was planted, that he might water it. 
26O	17	8	208340	 It had been planted on good soil by abundant waters, that it might produce branches and bear fruit and become a noble vine. 
26O	17	9	208350	 "Say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it withers, so that all its fresh sprouting leaves wither? It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it from its roots. 
26O	17	10	208360	 Behold, it is planted; will it thrive? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it--wither away on the bed where it sprouted?" 
26O	17	11	208370	 Then the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	17	12	208380	 "Say now to the rebellious house, Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them, behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took her king and her princes and brought them to him to Babylon. 
26O	17	13	208390	 And he took one of the royal offspring and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath (the chief men of the land he had taken away), 
26O	17	14	208400	 that the kingdom might be humble and not lift itself up, and keep his covenant that it might stand. 
26O	17	15	208410	 But he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. Will he thrive? Can one escape who does such things? Can he break the covenant and yet escape? 
26O	17	16	208420	 "As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant with him he broke, in Babylon he shall die. 
26O	17	17	208430	 Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not help him in war, when mounds are cast up and siege walls built to cut off many lives. 
26O	17	18	208440	 He despised the oath in breaking the covenant, and behold, he gave his hand and did all these things; he shall not escape. 
26O	17	19	208450	 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely it is My oath that he despised, and my covenant that he broke. I will return it upon his head. 
26O	17	20	208460	 I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treachery he has committed against me. 
26O	17	21	208470	 And all the pick of his troops shall fall by the sword, and the survivors shall be scattered to every wind, and you shall know that I am the LORD; I have spoken." 
26O	17	22	208480	 Thus says the Lord GOD: "I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and will set it out. I will break off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain. 
26O	17	23	208490	 On the mountain height of Israel will I plant it, that it may bear branches and produce fruit and become a noble cedar. And under it will dwell every kind of bird; in the shade of its branches birds of every sort will nest. 
26O	17	24	208500	 And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the LORD; I bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it." 
26O	18	1	208510	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	18	2	208520	 "What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge'? 
26O	18	3	208530	 As I live, declares the Lord GOD, this proverb shall no more be used by you in Israel. 
26O	18	4	208540	 Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die. 
26O	18	5	208550	 "If a man is righteous and does what is just and right-- 
26O	18	6	208560	 if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman in her time of menstrual impurity, 
26O	18	7	208570	 does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment, 
26O	18	8	208580	 does not lend at interest or take any profit, withholds his hand from injustice, executes true justice between man and man, 
26O	18	9	208590	 walks in my statutes, and keeps my rules by acting faithfully--he is righteous; he shall surely live, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	18	10	208600	 "If he fathers a son who is violent, a shedder of blood, who does any of these things 
26O	18	11	208610	 (though he himself did none of these things), who even eats upon the mountains, defiles his neighbor's wife, 
26O	18	12	208620	 oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination, 
26O	18	13	208630	 lends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself. 
26O	18	14	208640	 "Now suppose this man fathers a son who sees all the sins that his father has done; he sees, and does not do likewise: 
26O	18	15	208650	 he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife, 
26O	18	16	208660	 does not oppress anyone, exacts no pledge, commits no robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment, 
26O	18	17	208670	 withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no interest or profit, obeys my rules, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father's iniquity; he shall surely live. 
26O	18	18	208680	 As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, behold, he shall die for his iniquity. 
26O	18	19	208690	 "Yet you say, 'Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?' When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live. 
26O	18	20	208700	 The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. 
26O	18	21	208710	 "But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 
26O	18	22	208720	 None of the transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness that he has done he shall live. 
26O	18	23	208730	 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord GOD, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live? 
26O	18	24	208740	 But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die. 
26O	18	25	208750	 "Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just? 
26O	18	26	208760	 When a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it; for the injustice that he has done he shall die. 
26O	18	27	208770	 Again, when a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he shall save his life. 
26O	18	28	208780	 Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions that he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 
26O	18	29	208790	 Yet the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' O house of Israel, are my ways not just? Is it not your ways that are not just? 
26O	18	30	208800	 "Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin. 
26O	18	31	208810	 Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel? 
26O	18	32	208820	 For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord GOD; so turn, and live." 
26O	19	1	208830	 And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 
26O	19	2	208840	 and say: What was your mother? A lioness! Among lions she crouched; in the midst of young lions she reared her cubs. 
26O	19	3	208850	 And she brought up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men. 
26O	19	4	208860	 The nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt. 
26O	19	5	208870	 When she saw that she waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion. 
26O	19	6	208880	 He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men, 
26O	19	7	208890	 and seized their widows. He laid waste their cities, and the land was appalled and all who were in it at the sound of his roaring. 
26O	19	8	208900	 Then the nations set against him from provinces on every side; they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit. 
26O	19	9	208910	 With hooks they put him in a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into custody, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel. 
26O	19	10	208920	 Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard planted by the water, fruitful and full of branches by reason of abundant water. 
26O	19	11	208930	 Its strong stems became rulers' scepters; it towered aloft among the thick boughs; it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches. 
26O	19	12	208940	 But the vine was plucked up in fury, cast down to the ground; the east wind dried up its fruit; they were stripped off and withered. As for its strong stem, fire consumed it. 
26O	19	13	208950	 Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. 
26O	19	14	208960	 And fire has gone out from the stem of its shoots, has consumed its fruit, so that there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for ruling. This is a lamentation and has become a lamentation. 
26O	20	1	208970	 In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat before me. 
26O	20	2	208980	 And the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	20	3	208990	 "Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD, Is it to inquire of me that you come? As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you. 
26O	20	4	209000	 Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Let them know the abominations of their fathers, 
26O	20	5	209010	 and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day when I chose Israel, I swore to the offspring of the house of Jacob, making myself known to them in the land of Egypt; I swore to them, saying, I am the LORD your God. 
26O	20	6	209020	 On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands. 
26O	20	7	209030	 And I said to them, Cast away the detestable things your eyes feast on, every one of you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God. 
26O	20	8	209040	 But they rebelled against me and were not willing to listen to me. None of them cast away the detestable things their eyes feasted on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. "Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. 
26O	20	9	209050	 But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt. 
26O	20	10	209060	 So I led them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness. 
26O	20	11	209070	 I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live. 
26O	20	12	209080	 Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them. 
26O	20	13	209090	 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. "Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them. 
26O	20	14	209100	 But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out. 
26O	20	15	209110	 Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands, 
26O	20	16	209120	 because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols. 
26O	20	17	209130	 Nevertheless, my eye spared them, and I did not destroy them or make a full end of them in the wilderness. 
26O	20	18	209140	 "And I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, nor defile yourselves with their idols. 
26O	20	19	209150	 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules, 
26O	20	20	209160	 and keep my Sabbaths holy that they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God. 
26O	20	21	209170	 But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths. "Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness. 
26O	20	22	209180	 But I withheld my hand and acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out. 
26O	20	23	209190	 Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries, 
26O	20	24	209200	 because they had not obeyed my rules, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their fathers' idols. 
26O	20	25	209210	 Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and rules by which they could not have life, 
26O	20	26	209220	 and I defiled them through their very gifts in their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it that they might know that I am the LORD. 
26O	20	27	209230	 "Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: In this also your fathers blasphemed me, by dealing treacherously with me. 
26O	20	28	209240	 For when I had brought them into the land that I swore to give them, then wherever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings. 
26O	20	29	209250	 (I said to them, What is the high place to which you go? So its name is called Bamah to this day.) 
26O	20	30	209260	 "Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Will you defile yourselves after the manner of your fathers and go whoring after their detestable things? 
26O	20	31	209270	 When you present your gifts and offer up your children in fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you. 
26O	20	32	209280	 "What is in your mind shall never happen--the thought, 'Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.' 
26O	20	33	209290	 "As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out I will be king over you. 
26O	20	34	209300	 I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out. 
26O	20	35	209310	 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face. 
26O	20	36	209320	 As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	20	37	209330	 I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant. 
26O	20	38	209340	 I will purge out the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against me. I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD. 
26O	20	39	209350	 "As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord GOD: Go serve every one of you his idols, now and hereafter, if you will not listen to me; but my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts and your idols. 
26O	20	40	209360	 "For on my holy mountain, the mountain height of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, there all the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land. There I will accept them, and there I will require your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your sacred offerings. 
26O	20	41	209370	 As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations. 
26O	20	42	209380	 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the country that I swore to give to your fathers. 
26O	20	43	209390	 And there you shall remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed. 
26O	20	44	209400	 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I deal with you for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD." 
26O	20	45	209410	 And the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	20	46	209420	 "Son of man, set your face toward the southland; preach against the south, and prophesy against the forest land in the Negeb. 
26O	20	47	209430	 Say to the forest of the Negeb, Hear the word of the LORD: Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you and every dry tree. The blazing flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from south to north shall be scorched by it. 
26O	20	48	209440	 All flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it; it shall not be quenched." 
26O	20	49	209450	 Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! They are saying of me, 'Is he not a maker of parables?'" 
26O	21	1	209460	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	21	2	209470	 "Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel 
26O	21	3	209480	 and say to the land of Israel, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am against you and will draw my sword from its sheath and will cut off from you both righteous and wicked. 
26O	21	4	209490	 Because I will cut off from you both righteous and wicked, therefore my sword shall be drawn from its sheath against all flesh from south to north. 
26O	21	5	209500	 And all flesh shall know that I am the LORD. I have drawn my sword from its sheath; it shall not be sheathed again. 
26O	21	6	209510	 "As for you, son of man, groan; with breaking heart and bitter grief, groan before their eyes. 
26O	21	7	209520	 And when they say to you, 'Why do you groan?' you shall say, 'Because of the news that it is coming. Every heart will melt, and all hands will be feeble; every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it is coming, and it will be fulfilled,'" declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	21	8	209530	 And the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	21	9	209540	 "Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord, say: "A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished, 
26O	21	10	209550	 sharpened for slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! (Or shall we rejoice? You have despised the rod, my son, with everything of wood.) 
26O	21	11	209560	 So the sword is given to be polished, that it may be grasped in the hand. It is sharpened and polished to be given into the hand of the slayer. 
26O	21	12	209570	 Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is against my people. It is against all the princes of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with my people. Strike therefore upon your thigh. 
26O	21	13	209580	 For it will not be a testing--what could it do if you despise the rod?" declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	21	14	209590	 "As for you, son of man, prophesy. Clap your hands and let the sword come down twice, yes, three times, the sword for those to be slain. It is the sword for the great slaughter, which surrounds them, 
26O	21	15	209600	 that their hearts may melt, and many stumble. At all their gates I have given the glittering sword. Ah, it is made like lightning; it is taken up for slaughter. 
26O	21	16	209610	 Cut sharply to the right; set yourself to the left, wherever your face is directed. 
26O	21	17	209620	 I also will clap my hands, and I will satisfy my fury; I the LORD have spoken." 
26O	21	18	209630	 The word of the LORD came to me again: 
26O	21	19	209640	 "As for you, son of man, mark two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come. Both of them shall come from the same land. And make a signpost; make it at the head of the way to a city. 
26O	21	20	209650	 Mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites and to Judah, into Jerusalem the fortified. 
26O	21	21	209660	 For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shakes the arrows; he consults the teraphim; he looks at the liver. 
26O	21	22	209670	 Into his right hand comes the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth with murder, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build siege towers. 
26O	21	23	209680	 But to them it will seem like a false divination. They have sworn solemn oaths, but he brings their guilt to remembrance, that they may be taken. 
26O	21	24	209690	 "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have made your guilt to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your deeds your sins appear--because you have come to remembrance, you shall be taken in hand. 
26O	21	25	209700	 And you, O profane wicked one, prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of your final punishment, 
26O	21	26	209710	 thus says the Lord GOD: Remove the turban and take off the crown. Things shall not remain as they are. Exalt that which is low, and bring low that which is exalted. 
26O	21	27	209720	 A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. This also shall not be, until he comes, the one to whom judgment belongs, and I will give it to him. 
26O	21	28	209730	 "And you, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach; say, A sword, a sword is drawn for the slaughter. It is polished to consume and to flash like lightning-- 
26O	21	29	209740	 while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you--to place you on the necks of the profane wicked, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment. 
26O	21	30	209750	 Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you. 
26O	21	31	209760	 And I will pour out my indignation upon you; I will blow upon you with the fire of my wrath, and I will deliver you into the hands of brutish men, skillful to destroy. 
26O	21	32	209770	 You shall be fuel for the fire. Your blood shall be in the midst of the land. You shall be no more remembered, for I the LORD have spoken." 
26O	22	1	209780	 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 
26O	22	2	209790	 "And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations. 
26O	22	3	209800	 You shall say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself! 
26O	22	4	209810	 You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries. 
26O	22	5	209820	 Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you; your name is defiled; you are full of tumult. 
26O	22	6	209830	 "Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood. 
26O	22	7	209840	 Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you. 
26O	22	8	209850	 You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths. 
26O	22	9	209860	 There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you who eat on the mountains; they commit lewdness in your midst. 
26O	22	10	209870	 In you men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity. 
26O	22	11	209880	 One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you violates his sister, his father's daughter. 
26O	22	12	209890	 In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	22	13	209900	 "Behold, I strike my hand at the dishonest gain that you have made, and at the blood that has been in your midst. 
26O	22	14	209910	 Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it. 
26O	22	15	209920	 I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness out of you. 
26O	22	16	209930	 And you shall be profaned by your own doing in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the LORD." 
26O	22	17	209940	 And the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	22	18	209950	 "Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are dross of silver. 
26O	22	19	209960	 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. 
26O	22	20	209970	 As one gathers silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, to blow the fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you. 
26O	22	21	209980	 I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it. 
26O	22	22	209990	 As silver is melted in a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the LORD; I have poured out my wrath upon you." 
26O	22	23	210000	 And the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	22	24	210010	 "Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed or rained upon in the day of indignation. 
26O	22	25	210020	 The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. 
26O	22	26	210030	 Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. 
26O	22	27	210040	 Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain. 
26O	22	28	210050	 And her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, 'Thus says the Lord GOD,' when the LORD has not spoken. 
26O	22	29	210060	 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without justice. 
26O	22	30	210070	 And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none. 
26O	22	31	210080	 Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have returned their way upon their heads, declares the Lord GOD." 
26O	23	1	210090	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	23	2	210100	 "Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother. 
26O	23	3	210110	 They played the whore in Egypt; they played the whore in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled. 
26O	23	4	210120	 Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem. 
26O	23	5	210130	 "Oholah played the whore while she was mine, and she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors 
26O	23	6	210140	 clothed in purple, governors and commanders, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. 
26O	23	7	210150	 She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted. 
26O	23	8	210160	 She did not give up her whoring that she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her. 
26O	23	9	210170	 Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted. 
26O	23	10	210180	 These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed on her. 
26O	23	11	210190	 "Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became more corrupt than her sister in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister. 
26O	23	12	210200	 She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. 
26O	23	13	210210	 And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way. 
26O	23	14	210220	 But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion, 
26O	23	15	210230	 wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea. 
26O	23	16	210240	 When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. 
26O	23	17	210250	 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, she turned from them in disgust. 
26O	23	18	210260	 When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister. 
26O	23	19	210270	 Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt 
26O	23	20	210280	 and lusted after her paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses. 
26O	23	21	210290	 Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed your young breasts." 
26O	23	22	210300	 Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side: 
26O	23	23	210310	 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and commanders all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses. 
26O	23	24	210320	 And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments. 
26O	23	25	210330	 And I will direct my jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire. 
26O	23	26	210340	 They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels. 
26O	23	27	210350	 Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your whoring begun in the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore. 
26O	23	28	210360	 "For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hands of those from whom you turned in disgust, 
26O	23	29	210370	 and they shall deal with you in hatred and take away all the fruit of your labor and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoring shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your whoring 
26O	23	30	210380	 have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols. 
26O	23	31	210390	 You have gone the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand. 
26O	23	32	210400	 Thus says the Lord GOD: "You shall drink your sister's cup that is deep and large; you shall be laughed at and held in derision, for it contains much; 
26O	23	33	210410	 you will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow. A cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria; 
26O	23	34	210420	 you shall drink it and drain it out, and gnaw its shards, and tear your breasts; for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	23	35	210430	 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you yourself must bear the consequences of your lewdness and whoring." 
26O	23	36	210440	 The LORD said to me: "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations. 
26O	23	37	210450	 For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me. 
26O	23	38	210460	 Moreover, this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my Sabbaths. 
26O	23	39	210470	 For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, this is what they did in my house. 
26O	23	40	210480	 They even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments. 
26O	23	41	210490	 You sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil. 
26O	23	42	210500	 The sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and with men of the common sort, drunkards were brought from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands of the women, and beautiful crowns on their heads. 
26O	23	43	210510	 "Then I said of her who was worn out by adultery, Now they will continue to use her for a whore, even her! 
26O	23	44	210520	 For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a prostitute. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, lewd women! 
26O	23	45	210530	 But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands." 
26O	23	46	210540	 For thus says the Lord GOD: "Bring up a vast host against them, and make them an object of terror and a plunder. 
26O	23	47	210550	 And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses. 
26O	23	48	210560	 Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done. 
26O	23	49	210570	 And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD." 
26O	24	1	210580	 In the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	24	2	210590	 "Son of man, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day. 
26O	24	3	210600	 And utter a parable to the rebellious house and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Set on the pot, set it on; pour in water also; 
26O	24	4	210610	 put in it the pieces of meat, all the good pieces, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones. 
26O	24	5	210620	 Take the choicest one of the flock; pile the logs under it; boil it well; seethe also its bones in it. 
26O	24	6	210630	 "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose corrosion is in it, and whose corrosion has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making any choice. 
26O	24	7	210640	 For the blood she has shed is in her midst; she put it on the bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust. 
26O	24	8	210650	 To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance, I have set on the bare rock the blood she has shed, that it may not be covered. 
26O	24	9	210660	 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great. 
26O	24	10	210670	 Heap on the logs, kindle the fire, boil the meat well, mix in the spices, and let the bones be burned up. 
26O	24	11	210680	 Then set it empty upon the coals, that it may become hot, and its copper may burn, that its uncleanness may be melted in it, its corrosion consumed. 
26O	24	12	210690	 She has wearied herself with toil; its abundant corrosion does not go out of it. Into the fire with its corrosion! 
26O	24	13	210700	 On account of your unclean lewdness, because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness, you shall not be cleansed anymore till I have satisfied my fury upon you. 
26O	24	14	210710	 I am the LORD. I have spoken; it shall come to pass; I will do it. I will not go back; I will not spare; I will not relent; according to your ways and your deeds you will be judged, declares the Lord GOD." 
26O	24	15	210720	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	24	16	210730	 "Son of man, behold, I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you at a stroke; yet you shall not mourn or weep, nor shall your tears run down. 
26O	24	17	210740	 Sigh, but not aloud; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban, and put your shoes on your feet; do not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men." 
26O	24	18	210750	 So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. And on the next morning I did as I was commanded. 
26O	24	19	210760	 And the people said to me, "Will you not tell us what these things mean for us, that you are acting thus?" 
26O	24	20	210770	 Then I said to them, "The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	24	21	210780	 'Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the yearning of your soul, and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword. 
26O	24	22	210790	 And you shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men. 
26O	24	23	210800	 Your turbans shall be on your heads and your shoes on your feet; you shall not mourn or weep, but you shall rot away in your iniquities and groan to one another. 
26O	24	24	210810	 Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a sign; according to all that he has done you shall do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.' 
26O	24	25	210820	 "As for you, son of man, surely on the day when I take from them their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and their soul's desire, and also their sons and daughters, 
26O	24	26	210830	 on that day a fugitive will come to you to report to you the news. 
26O	24	27	210840	 On that day your mouth will be opened to the fugitive, and you shall speak and be no longer mute. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the LORD." 
26O	25	1	210850	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	25	2	210860	 "Son of man, set your face toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them. 
26O	25	3	210870	 Say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD, Because you said, 'Aha!' over my sanctuary when it was profaned, and over the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and over the house of Judah when they went into exile, 
26O	25	4	210880	 therefore behold, I am handing you over to the people of the East for a possession, and they shall set their encampments among you and make their dwellings in your midst. They shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk. 
26O	25	5	210890	 I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and Ammon a fold for flocks. Then you will know that I am the LORD. 
26O	25	6	210900	 For thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced with all the malice within your soul against the land of Israel, 
26O	25	7	210910	 therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD. 
26O	25	8	210920	 "Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Moab and Seir said, 'Behold, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,' 
26O	25	9	210930	 therefore I will lay open the flank of Moab from the cities, from its cities on its frontier, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim. 
26O	25	10	210940	 I will give it along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations, 
26O	25	11	210950	 and I will execute judgments upon Moab. Then they will know that I am the LORD. 
26O	25	12	210960	 "Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Edom acted revengefully against the house of Judah and has grievously offended in taking vengeance on them, 
26O	25	13	210970	 therefore thus says the Lord GOD, I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it man and beast. And I will make it desolate; from Teman even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword. 
26O	25	14	210980	 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	25	15	210990	 "Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the Philistines acted revengefully and took vengeance with malice of soul to destroy in never-ending enmity, 
26O	25	16	211000	 therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the rest of the seacoast. 
26O	25	17	211010	 I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay my vengeance upon them." 
26O	26	1	211020	 In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	26	2	211030	 "Son of man, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, 'Aha, the gate of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,' 
26O	26	3	211040	 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves. 
26O	26	4	211050	 They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers, and I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock. 
26O	26	5	211060	 She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. And she shall become plunder for the nations, 
26O	26	6	211070	 and her daughters on the mainland shall be killed by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD. 
26O	26	7	211080	 "For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers. 
26O	26	8	211090	 He will kill with the sword your daughters on the mainland. He will set up a siege wall against you and throw up a mound against you, and raise a roof of shields against you. 
26O	26	9	211100	 He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. 
26O	26	10	211110	 His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as men enter a city that has been breached. 
26O	26	11	211120	 With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground. 
26O	26	12	211130	 They will plunder your riches and loot your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. Your stones and timber and soil they will cast into the midst of the waters. 
26O	26	13	211140	 And I will stop the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more. 
26O	26	14	211150	 I will make you a bare rock. You shall be a place for the spreading of nets. You shall never be rebuilt, for I am the LORD; I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	26	15	211160	 "Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: Will not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter is made in your midst? 
26O	26	16	211170	 Then all the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones and remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground and tremble every moment and be appalled at you. 
26O	26	17	211180	 And they will raise a lamentation over you and say to you, "'How you have perished, you who were inhabited from the seas, O city renowned, who was mighty on the sea; she and her inhabitants imposed their terror on all her inhabitants! 
26O	26	18	211190	 Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall, and the coastlands that are on the sea are dismayed at your passing.' 
26O	26	19	211200	 "For thus says the Lord GOD: When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you, and the great waters cover you, 
26O	26	20	211210	 then I will make you go down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the world below, among ruins from of old, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set beauty in the land of the living. 
26O	26	21	211220	 I will bring you to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more. Though you be sought for, you will never be found again, declares the Lord GOD." 
26O	27	1	211230	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	27	2	211240	 "Now you, son of man, raise a lamentation over Tyre, 
26O	27	3	211250	 and say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrances to the sea, merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, thus says the Lord GOD: "O Tyre, you have said, 'I am perfect in beauty.' 
26O	27	4	211260	 Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders made perfect your beauty. 
26O	27	5	211270	 They made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you. 
26O	27	6	211280	 Of oaks of Bashan they made your oars; they made your deck of pines from the coasts of Cyprus, inlaid with ivory. 
26O	27	7	211290	 Of fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail, serving as your banner; blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was your awning. 
26O	27	8	211300	 The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; your skilled men, O Tyre, were in you; they were your pilots. 
26O	27	9	211310	 The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were in you, caulking your seams; all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to barter for your wares. 
26O	27	10	211320	 "Persia and Lud and Put were in your army as your men of war. They hung the shield and helmet in you; they gave you splendor. 
26O	27	11	211330	 Men of Arvad and Helech were on your walls all around, and men of Gamad were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around; they made perfect your beauty. 
26O	27	12	211340	 "Tarshish did business with you because of your great wealth of every kind; silver, iron, tin, and lead they exchanged for your wares. 
26O	27	13	211350	 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech traded with you; they exchanged human beings and vessels of bronze for your merchandise. 
26O	27	14	211360	 From Beth-togarmah they exchanged horses, war horses, and mules for your wares. 
26O	27	15	211370	 The men of Dedan traded with you. Many coastlands were your own special markets; they brought you in payment ivory tusks and ebony. 
26O	27	16	211380	 Syria did business with you because of your abundant goods; they exchanged for your wares emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and ruby. 
26O	27	17	211390	 Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, meal, honey, oil, and balm. 
26O	27	18	211400	 Damascus did business with you for your abundant goods, because of your great wealth of every kind; wine of Helbon and wool of Sahar 
26O	27	19	211410	 and casks of wine from Uzal they exchanged for your wares; wrought iron, cassia, and calamus were bartered for your merchandise. 
26O	27	20	211420	 Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding. 
26O	27	21	211430	 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your favored dealers in lambs, rams, and goats; in these they did business with you. 
26O	27	22	211440	 The traders of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; they exchanged for your wares the best of all kinds of spices and all precious stones and gold. 
26O	27	23	211450	 Haran, Canneh, Eden, traders of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you. 
26O	27	24	211460	 In your market these traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of blue and embroidered work, and in carpets of colored material, bound with cords and made secure. 
26O	27	25	211470	 The ships of Tarshish traveled for you with your merchandise. So you were filled and heavily laden in the heart of the seas. 
26O	27	26	211480	 "Your rowers have brought you out into the high seas. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas. 
26O	27	27	211490	 Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners and your pilots, your caulkers, your dealers in merchandise, and all your men of war who are in you, with all your crew that is in your midst, sink into the heart of the seas on the day of your fall. 
26O	27	28	211500	 At the sound of the cry of your pilots the countryside shakes, 
26O	27	29	211510	 and down from their ships come all who handle the oar. The mariners and all the pilots of the sea stand on the land 
26O	27	30	211520	 and shout aloud over you and cry out bitterly. They cast dust on their heads and wallow in ashes; 
26O	27	31	211530	 they make themselves bald for you and put sackcloth on their waist, and they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning. 
26O	27	32	211540	 In their wailing they raise a lamentation for you and lament over you: 'Who is like Tyre, like one destroyed in the midst of the sea? 
26O	27	33	211550	 When your wares came from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with your abundant wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth. 
26O	27	34	211560	 Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your crew in your midst have sunk with you. 
26O	27	35	211570	 All the inhabitants of the coastlands are appalled at you, and the hair of their kings bristles with horror; their faces are convulsed. 
26O	27	36	211580	 The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever.'" 
26O	28	1	211590	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	28	2	211600	 "Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because your heart is proud, and you have said, 'I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,' yet you are but a man, and no god, though you make your heart like the heart of a god-- 
26O	28	3	211610	 you are indeed wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you; 
26O	28	4	211620	 by your wisdom and your understanding you have made wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries; 
26O	28	5	211630	 by your great wisdom in your trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth-- 
26O	28	6	211640	 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you make your heart like the heart of a god, 
26O	28	7	211650	 therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor. 
26O	28	8	211660	 They shall thrust you down into the pit, and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the seas. 
26O	28	9	211670	 Will you still say, 'I am a god,' in the presence of those who kill you, though you are but a man, and no god, in the hands of those who slay you? 
26O	28	10	211680	 You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners; for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD." 
26O	28	11	211690	 Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	28	12	211700	 "Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD: "You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. 
26O	28	13	211710	 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle; and crafted in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were prepared. 
26O	28	14	211720	 You were an anointed guardian cherub. I placed you; you were on the holy mountain of God; in the midst of the stones of fire you walked. 
26O	28	15	211730	 You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till unrighteousness was found in you. 
26O	28	16	211740	 In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, O guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 
26O	28	17	211750	 Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you. 
26O	28	18	211760	 By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade you profaned your sanctuaries; so I brought fire out from your midst; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all who saw you. 
26O	28	19	211770	 All who know you among the peoples are appalled at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever." 
26O	28	20	211780	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	28	21	211790	 "Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against her 
26O	28	22	211800	 and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, and I will manifest my glory in your midst. And they shall know that I am the LORD when I execute judgments in her and manifest my holiness in her; 
26O	28	23	211810	 for I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the slain shall fall in her midst, by the sword that is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the LORD. 
26O	28	24	211820	 "And for the house of Israel there shall be no more a brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD. 
26O	28	25	211830	 "Thus says the Lord GOD: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob. 
26O	28	26	211840	 And they shall dwell securely in it, and they shall build houses and plant vineyards. They shall dwell securely, when I execute judgments upon all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God." 
26O	29	1	211850	 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	29	2	211860	 "Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt; 
26O	29	3	211870	 speak, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, that says, 'My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.' 
26O	29	4	211880	 I will put hooks in your jaws, and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales; and I will draw you up out of the midst of your streams, with all the fish of your streams that stick to your scales. 
26O	29	5	211890	 And I will cast you out into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your streams; you shall fall on the open field, and not be brought together or gathered. To the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens I give you as food. 
26O	29	6	211900	 Then all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD. "Because you have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel, 
26O	29	7	211910	 when they grasped you with the hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke and made all their loins to shake. 
26O	29	8	211920	 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you man and beast, 
26O	29	9	211930	 and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am the LORD. "Because you said, 'The Nile is mine, and I made it,' 
26O	29	10	211940	 therefore, behold, I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush. 
26O	29	11	211950	 No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years. 
26O	29	12	211960	 And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries. 
26O	29	13	211970	 "For thus says the Lord GOD: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered, 
26O	29	14	211980	 and I will restore the fortunes of Egypt and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin, and there they shall be a lowly kingdom. 
26O	29	15	211990	 It shall be the most lowly of the kingdoms, and never again exalt itself above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will never again rule over the nations. 
26O	29	16	212000	 And it shall never again be the reliance of the house of Israel, recalling their iniquity, when they turn to them for aid. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD." 
26O	29	17	212010	 In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	29	18	212020	 "Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed bare, yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had performed against her. 
26O	29	19	212030	 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off its wealth and despoil it and plunder it; and it shall be the wages for his army. 
26O	29	20	212040	 I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he labored, because they worked for me, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	29	21	212050	 "On that day I will cause a horn to spring up for the house of Israel, and I will open your lips among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD." 
26O	30	1	212060	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	30	2	212070	 "Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Wail, 'Alas for the day!' 
26O	30	3	212080	 For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations. 
26O	30	4	212090	 A sword shall come upon Egypt, and anguish shall be in Cush, when the slain fall in Egypt, and her wealth is carried away, and her foundations are torn down. 
26O	30	5	212100	 Cush, and Put, and Lud, and all Arabia, and Libya, and the people of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. 
26O	30	6	212110	 "Thus says the LORD: Those who support Egypt shall fall, and her proud might shall come down; from Migdol to Syene they shall fall within her by the sword, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	30	7	212120	 And they shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries, and their cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste. 
26O	30	8	212130	 Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have set fire to Egypt, and all her helpers are broken. 
26O	30	9	212140	 "On that day messengers shall go out from me in ships to terrify the unsuspecting people of Cush, and anguish shall come upon them on the day of Egypt's doom; for, behold, it comes! 
26O	30	10	212150	 "Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will put an end to the wealth of Egypt, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. 
26O	30	11	212160	 He and his people with him, the most ruthless of nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land, and they shall draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain. 
26O	30	12	212170	 And I will dry up the Nile and will sell the land into the hand of evildoers; I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it, by the hand of foreigners; I am the LORD; I have spoken. 
26O	30	13	212180	 "Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis; there shall no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt; so I will put fear in the land of Egypt. 
26O	30	14	212190	 I will make Pathros a desolation and will set fire to Zoan and will execute judgments on Thebes. 
26O	30	15	212200	 And I will pour out my wrath on Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt, and cut off the multitude of Thebes. 
26O	30	16	212210	 And I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium shall be in great agony; Thebes shall be breached, and Memphis shall face enemies by day. 
26O	30	17	212220	 The young men of On and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword, and the women shall go into captivity. 
26O	30	18	212230	 At Tehaphnehes the day shall be dark, when I break there the yoke bars of Egypt, and her proud might shall come to an end in her; she shall be covered by a cloud, and her daughters shall go into captivity. 
26O	30	19	212240	 Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt. Then they will know that I am the LORD." 
26O	30	20	212250	 In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	30	21	212260	 "Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and behold, it has not been bound up, to heal it by binding it with a bandage, so that it may become strong to wield the sword. 
26O	30	22	212270	 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and will break his arms, both the strong arm and the one that was broken, and I will make the sword fall from his hand. 
26O	30	23	212280	 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them through the countries. 
26O	30	24	212290	 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him like a man mortally wounded. 
26O	30	25	212300	 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall. Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt. 
26O	30	26	212310	 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the LORD." 
26O	31	1	212320	 In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	31	2	212330	 "Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: "Whom are you like in your greatness? 
26O	31	3	212340	 Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and forest shade, and of towering height, its top among the clouds. 
26O	31	4	212350	 The waters nourished it; the deep made it grow tall, making its rivers flow around the place of its planting, sending forth its streams to all the trees of the field. 
26O	31	5	212360	 So it towered high above all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches long from abundant water in its shoots. 
26O	31	6	212370	 All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and under its shadow lived all great nations. 
26O	31	7	212380	 It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down to abundant waters. 
26O	31	8	212390	 The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor the fir trees equal its boughs; neither were the plane trees like its branches; no tree in the garden of God was its equal in beauty. 
26O	31	9	212400	 I made it beautiful in the mass of its branches, and all the trees of Eden envied it, that were in the garden of God. 
26O	31	10	212410	 "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because it towered high and set its top among the clouds, and its heart was proud of its height, 
26O	31	11	212420	 I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out. 
26O	31	12	212430	 Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land, and all the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it. 
26O	31	13	212440	 On its fallen trunk dwell all the birds of the heavens, and on its branches are all the beasts of the field. 
26O	31	14	212450	 All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to towering height or set their tops among the clouds, and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For they are all given over to death, to the world below, among the children of man, with those who go down to the pit. 
26O	31	15	212460	 "Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day the cedar went down to Sheol I caused mourning; I closed the deep over it, and restrained its rivers, and many waters were stopped. I clothed Lebanon in gloom for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it. 
26O	31	16	212470	 I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the world below. 
26O	31	17	212480	 They also went down to Sheol with it, to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were its arm, who lived under its shadow among the nations. 
26O	31	18	212490	 "Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? You shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below. You shall lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. "This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD." 
26O	32	1	212500	 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	32	2	212510	 "Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: "You consider yourself a lion of the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your rivers, trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers. 
26O	32	3	212520	 Thus says the Lord GOD: I will throw my net over you with a host of many peoples, and they will haul you up in my dragnet. 
26O	32	4	212530	 And I will cast you on the ground; on the open field I will fling you, and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle on you, and I will gorge the beasts of the whole earth with you. 
26O	32	5	212540	 I will strew your flesh upon the mountains and fill the valleys with your carcass. 
26O	32	6	212550	 I will drench the land even to the mountains with your flowing blood, and the ravines will be full of you. 
26O	32	7	212560	 When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens and make their stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light. 
26O	32	8	212570	 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over you, and put darkness on your land, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	32	9	212580	 "I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you have not known. 
26O	32	10	212590	 I will make many peoples appalled at you, and the hair of their kings shall bristle with horror because of you, when I brandish my sword before them. They shall tremble every moment, every one for his own life, on the day of your downfall. 
26O	32	11	212600	 "For thus says the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you. 
26O	32	12	212610	 I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most ruthless of nations. "They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall perish. 
26O	32	13	212620	 I will destroy all its beasts from beside many waters; and no foot of man shall trouble them anymore, nor shall the hoofs of beasts trouble them. 
26O	32	14	212630	 Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	32	15	212640	 When I make the land of Egypt desolate, and when the land is desolate of all that fills it, when I strike down all who dwell in it, then they will know that I am the LORD. 
26O	32	16	212650	 This is a lamentation that shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they chant it, declares the Lord GOD." 
26O	32	17	212660	 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	32	18	212670	 "Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the world below, to those who have gone down to the pit: 
26O	32	19	212680	 'Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be laid to rest with the uncircumcised.' 
26O	32	20	212690	 They shall fall amid those who are slain by the sword. Egypt is delivered to the sword; drag her away, and all her multitudes. 
26O	32	21	212700	 The mighty chiefs shall speak of them, with their helpers, out of the midst of Sheol: 'They have come down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.' 
26O	32	22	212710	 "Assyria is there, and all her company, its graves all around it, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, 
26O	32	23	212720	 whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit; and her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living. 
26O	32	24	212730	 "Elam is there, and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised into the world below, who spread their terror in the land of the living; and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit. 
26O	32	25	212740	 They have made her a bed among the slain with all her multitude, her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for terror of them was spread in the land of the living, and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are placed among the slain. 
26O	32	26	212750	 "Meshech-Tubal is there, and all her multitude, her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they spread their terror in the land of the living. 
26O	32	27	212760	 And they do not lie with the mighty, the fallen from among the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were laid under their heads, and whose iniquities are upon their bones; for the terror of the mighty men was in the land of the living. 
26O	32	28	212770	 But as for you, you shall be broken and lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. 
26O	32	29	212780	 "Edom is there, her kings and all her princes, who for all their might are laid with those who are killed by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the pit. 
26O	32	30	212790	 "The princes of the north are there, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down in shame with the slain, for all the terror that they caused by their might; they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit. 
26O	32	31	212800	 "When Pharaoh sees them, he will be comforted for all his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	32	32	212810	 For I spread terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid to rest among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD." 
26O	33	1	212820	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	33	2	212830	 "Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman, 
26O	33	3	212840	 and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people, 
26O	33	4	212850	 then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. 
26O	33	5	212860	 He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life. 
26O	33	6	212870	 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman's hand. 
26O	33	7	212880	 "So you, son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. 
26O	33	8	212890	 If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. 
26O	33	9	212900	 But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, that person shall die in his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul. 
26O	33	10	212910	 "And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus have you said: 'Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we rot away because of them. How then can we live?' 
26O	33	11	212920	 Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel? 
26O	33	12	212930	 "And you, son of man, say to your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness, and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness when he sins. 
26O	33	13	212940	 Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet if he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die. 
26O	33	14	212950	 Again, though I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' yet if he turns from his sin and does what is just and right, 
26O	33	15	212960	 if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks in the statutes of life, not doing injustice, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 
26O	33	16	212970	 None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live. 
26O	33	17	212980	 "Yet your people say, 'The way of the Lord is not just,' when it is their own way that is not just. 
26O	33	18	212990	 When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it. 
26O	33	19	213000	 And when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by this. 
26O	33	20	213010	 Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways." 
26O	33	21	213020	 In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and said, "The city has been struck down." 
26O	33	22	213030	 Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came; and he had opened my mouth by the time the man came to me in the morning, so my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute. 
26O	33	23	213040	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	33	24	213050	 "Son of man, the inhabitants of these waste places in the land of Israel keep saying, 'Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land; but we are many; the land is surely given us to possess.' 
26O	33	25	213060	 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: You eat flesh with the blood and lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood; shall you then possess the land? 
26O	33	26	213070	 You rely on the sword, you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor's wife; shall you then possess the land? 
26O	33	27	213080	 Say this to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword, and whoever is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in strongholds and in caves shall die by pestilence. 
26O	33	28	213090	 And I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and her proud might shall come to an end, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that none will pass through. 
26O	33	29	213100	 Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations that they have committed. 
26O	33	30	213110	 "As for you, son of man, your people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, say to one another, each to his brother, 'Come, and hear what the word is that comes from the LORD.' 
26O	33	31	213120	 And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain. 
26O	33	32	213130	 And behold, you are to them like one who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument, for they hear what you say, but they will not do it. 
26O	33	33	213140	 When this comes--and come it will!--then they will know that a prophet has been among them." 
26O	34	1	213150	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	34	2	213160	 "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord GOD: Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep? 
26O	34	3	213170	 You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep. 
26O	34	4	213180	 The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them. 
26O	34	5	213190	 So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild beasts. 
26O	34	6	213200	 My sheep were scattered; they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with none to search or seek for them. 
26O	34	7	213210	 "Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: 
26O	34	8	213220	 As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep, 
26O	34	9	213230	 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: 
26O	34	10	213240	 Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my sheep at their hand and put a stop to their feeding the sheep. No longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them. 
26O	34	11	213250	 "For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out. 
26O	34	12	213260	 As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness. 
26O	34	13	213270	 And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the country. 
26O	34	14	213280	 I will feed them with good pasture, and on the mountain heights of Israel shall be their grazing land. There they shall lie down in good grazing land, and on rich pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel. 
26O	34	15	213290	 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	34	16	213300	 I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice. 
26O	34	17	213310	 "As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and male goats. 
26O	34	18	213320	 Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture; and to drink of clear water, that you must muddy the rest of the water with your feet? 
26O	34	19	213330	 And must my sheep eat what you have trodden with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet? 
26O	34	20	213340	 "Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 
26O	34	21	213350	 Because you push with side and shoulder, and thrust at all the weak with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad, 
26O	34	22	213360	 I will rescue my flock; they shall no longer be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep. 
26O	34	23	213370	 And I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd. 
26O	34	24	213380	 And I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them. I am the LORD; I have spoken. 
26O	34	25	213390	 "I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild beasts from the land, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. 
26O	34	26	213400	 And I will make them and the places all around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing. 
26O	34	27	213410	 And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land. And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I break the bars of their yoke, and deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them. 
26O	34	28	213420	 They shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beasts of the land devour them. They shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid. 
26O	34	29	213430	 And I will provide for them renowned plantations so that they shall no more be consumed with hunger in the land, and no longer suffer the reproach of the nations. 
26O	34	30	213440	 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	34	31	213450	 And you are my sheep, human sheep of my pasture, and I am your God, declares the Lord GOD." 
26O	35	1	213460	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	35	2	213470	 "Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, 
26O	35	3	213480	 and say to it, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a waste. 
26O	35	4	213490	 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the LORD. 
26O	35	5	213500	 Because you cherished perpetual enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment, 
26O	35	6	213510	 therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; because you did not hate bloodshed, therefore blood shall pursue you. 
26O	35	7	213520	 I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation, and I will cut off from it all who come and go. 
26O	35	8	213530	 And I will fill its mountains with the slain. On your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain with the sword shall fall. 
26O	35	9	213540	 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD. 
26O	35	10	213550	 "Because you said, 'These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will take possession of them'--although the LORD was there-- 
26O	35	11	213560	 therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will deal with you according to the anger and envy that you showed because of your hatred against them. And I will make myself known among them, when I judge you. 
26O	35	12	213570	 And you shall know that I am the LORD. "I have heard all the revilings that you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, 'They are laid desolate; they are given us to devour.' 
26O	35	13	213580	 And you magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and multiplied your words against me; I heard it. 
26O	35	14	213590	 Thus says the Lord GOD: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate. 
26O	35	15	213600	 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD. 
26O	36	1	213610	 "And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD. 
26O	36	2	213620	 Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the enemy said of you, 'Aha!' and, 'The ancient heights have become our possession,' 
26O	36	3	213630	 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Precisely because they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people, 
26O	36	4	213640	 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around, 
26O	36	5	213650	 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey. 
26O	36	6	213660	 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations. 
26O	36	7	213670	 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer reproach. 
26O	36	8	213680	 "But you, O mountains of Israel, shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people Israel, for they will soon come home. 
26O	36	9	213690	 For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown. 
26O	36	10	213700	 And I will multiply people on you, the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt. 
26O	36	11	213710	 And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the LORD. 
26O	36	12	213720	 I will let people walk on you, even my people Israel. And they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer bereave them of children. 
26O	36	13	213730	 Thus says the Lord GOD: Because they say to you, 'You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,' 
26O	36	14	213740	 therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	36	15	213750	 And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD." 
26O	36	16	213760	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	36	17	213770	 "Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their ways before me were like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity. 
26O	36	18	213780	 So I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood that they had shed in the land, for the idols with which they had defiled it. 
26O	36	19	213790	 I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them. 
26O	36	20	213800	 But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and yet they had to go out of his land.' 
26O	36	21	213810	 But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came. 
26O	36	22	213820	 "Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came. 
26O	36	23	213830	 And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. 
26O	36	24	213840	 I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land. 
26O	36	25	213850	 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. 
26O	36	26	213860	 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 
26O	36	27	213870	 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. 
26O	36	28	213880	 You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. 
26O	36	29	213890	 And I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. And I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no famine upon you. 
26O	36	30	213900	 I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations. 
26O	36	31	213910	 Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations. 
26O	36	32	213920	 It is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord GOD; let that be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel. 
26O	36	33	213930	 "Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be rebuilt. 
26O	36	34	213940	 And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by. 
26O	36	35	213950	 And they will say, 'This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.' 
26O	36	36	213960	 Then the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the LORD; I have rebuilt the ruined places and replanted that which was desolate. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it. 
26O	36	37	213970	 "Thus says the Lord GOD: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock. 
26O	36	38	213980	 Like the flock for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD." 
26O	37	1	213990	 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. 
26O	37	2	214000	 And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry. 
26O	37	3	214010	 And he said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord GOD, you know." 
26O	37	4	214020	 Then he said to me, "Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. 
26O	37	5	214030	 Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. 
26O	37	6	214040	 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the LORD." 
26O	37	7	214050	 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 
26O	37	8	214060	 And I looked, and behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them. But there was no breath in them. 
26O	37	9	214070	 Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live." 
26O	37	10	214080	 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army. 
26O	37	11	214090	 Then he said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.' 
26O	37	12	214100	 Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will bring you into the land of Israel. 
26O	37	13	214110	 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people. 
26O	37	14	214120	 And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it, declares the LORD." 
26O	37	15	214130	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	37	16	214140	 "Son of man, take a stick and write on it, 'For Judah, and the people of Israel associated with him'; then take another stick and write on it, 'For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.' 
26O	37	17	214150	 And join them one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. 
26O	37	18	214160	 And when your people say to you, 'Will you not tell us what you mean by these?' 
26O	37	19	214170	 say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am about to take the stick of Joseph (that is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with him. And I will join with it the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, that they may be one in my hand. 
26O	37	20	214180	 When the sticks on which you write are in your hand before their eyes, 
26O	37	21	214190	 then say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land. 
26O	37	22	214200	 And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms. 
26O	37	23	214210	 They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 
26O	37	24	214220	 "My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes. 
26O	37	25	214230	 They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever. 
26O	37	26	214240	 I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore. 
26O	37	27	214250	 My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 
26O	37	28	214260	 Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore." 
26O	38	1	214270	 The word of the LORD came to me: 
26O	38	2	214280	 "Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him 
26O	38	3	214290	 and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. 
26O	38	4	214300	 And I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great host, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords. 
26O	38	5	214310	 Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them with shield and helmet; 
26O	38	6	214320	 Gomer and all his hordes; Beth-togarmah from the uttermost parts of the north with all his hordes--many peoples are with you. 
26O	38	7	214330	 "Be ready and keep ready, you and all your hosts that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them. 
26O	38	8	214340	 After many days you will be mustered. In the latter years you will go against the land that is restored from war, the land whose people were gathered from many peoples upon the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste. Its people were brought out from the peoples and now dwell securely, all of them. 
26O	38	9	214350	 You will advance, coming on like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you. 
26O	38	10	214360	 "Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day, thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme 
26O	38	11	214370	 and say, 'I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will fall upon the quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates,' 
26O	38	12	214380	 to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth. 
26O	38	13	214390	 Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its leaders will say to you, 'Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to seize great spoil?' 
26O	38	14	214400	 "Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say to Gog, Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day when my people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not know it? 
26O	38	15	214410	 You will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great host, a mighty army. 
26O	38	16	214420	 You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. 
26O	38	17	214430	 "Thus says the Lord GOD: Are you he of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against them? 
26O	38	18	214440	 But on that day, the day that Gog shall come against the land of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, my wrath will be roused in my anger. 
26O	38	19	214450	 For in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. 
26O	38	20	214460	 The fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the people who are on the face of the earth, shall quake at my presence. And the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground. 
26O	38	21	214470	 I will summon a sword against Gog on all my mountains, declares the Lord GOD. Every man's sword will be against his brother. 
26O	38	22	214480	 With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur. 
26O	38	23	214490	 So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD. 
26O	39	1	214500	 "And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. 
26O	39	2	214510	 And I will turn you about and drive you forward, and bring you up from the uttermost parts of the north, and lead you against the mountains of Israel. 
26O	39	3	214520	 Then I will strike your bow from your left hand, and will make your arrows drop out of your right hand. 
26O	39	4	214530	 You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your hordes and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. 
26O	39	5	214540	 You shall fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	39	6	214550	 I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands, and they shall know that I am the LORD. 
26O	39	7	214560	 "And my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel. 
26O	39	8	214570	 Behold, it is coming and it will be brought about, declares the Lord GOD. That is the day of which I have spoken. 
26O	39	9	214580	 "Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and make fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bow and arrows, clubs and spears; and they will make fires of them for seven years, 
26O	39	10	214590	 so that they will not need to take wood out of the field or cut down any out of the forests, for they will make their fires of the weapons. They will seize the spoil of those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	39	11	214600	 "On that day I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the sea. It will block the travelers, for there Gog and all his multitude will be buried. It will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog. 
26O	39	12	214610	 For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land. 
26O	39	13	214620	 All the people of the land will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day that I show my glory, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	39	14	214630	 They will set apart men to travel through the land regularly and bury those travelers remaining on the face of the land, so as to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make their search. 
26O	39	15	214640	 And when these travel through the land and anyone sees a human bone, then he shall set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog. 
26O	39	16	214650	 (Hamonah is also the name of the city.) Thus shall they cleanse the land. 
26O	39	17	214660	 "As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: Speak to the birds of every sort and to all beasts of the field, 'Assemble and come, gather from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood. 
26O	39	18	214670	 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth--of rams, of lambs, and of he-goats, of bulls, all of them fat beasts of Bashan. 
26O	39	19	214680	 And you shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk, at the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you. 
26O	39	20	214690	 And you shall be filled at my table with horses and charioteers, with mighty men and all kinds of warriors,' declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	39	21	214700	 "And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them. 
26O	39	22	214710	 The house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God, from that day forward. 
26O	39	23	214720	 And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword. 
26O	39	24	214730	 I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid my face from them. 
26O	39	25	214740	 "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for my holy name. 
26O	39	26	214750	 They shall forget their shame and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when they dwell securely in their land with none to make them afraid, 
26O	39	27	214760	 when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies' lands, and through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations. 
26O	39	28	214770	 Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore. 
26O	39	29	214780	 And I will not hide my face anymore from them, when I pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD." 
26O	40	1	214790	 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that very day, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me to the city. 
26O	40	2	214800	 In visions of God he brought me to the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, on which was a structure like a city to the south. 
26O	40	3	214810	 When he brought me there, behold, there was a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring reed in his hand. And he was standing in the gateway. 
26O	40	4	214820	 And the man said to me, "Son of man, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart upon all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel." 
26O	40	5	214830	 And behold, there was a wall all around the outside of the temple area, and the length of the measuring reed in the man's hand was six long cubits, each being a cubit and a handbreadth in length. So he measured the thickness of the wall, one reed; and the height, one reed. 
26O	40	6	214840	 Then he went into the gateway facing east, going up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed deep. 
26O	40	7	214850	 And the side rooms, one reed long and one reed broad; and the space between the side rooms, five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the vestibule of the gate at the inner end, one reed. 
26O	40	8	214860	 Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, on the inside, one reed. 
26O	40	9	214870	 Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; and its jambs, two cubits; and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end. 
26O	40	10	214880	 And there were three side rooms on either side of the east gate. The three were of the same size, and the jambs on either side were of the same size. 
26O	40	11	214890	 Then he measured the width of the opening of the gateway, ten cubits; and the length of the gateway, thirteen cubits. 
26O	40	12	214900	 There was a barrier before the side rooms, one cubit on either side. And the side rooms were six cubits on either side. 
26O	40	13	214910	 Then he measured the gate from the ceiling of the one side room to the ceiling of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; the openings faced each other. 
26O	40	14	214920	 He measured also the vestibule, twenty cubits. And around the vestibule of the gateway was the court. 
26O	40	15	214930	 From the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the inner vestibule of the gate was fifty cubits. 
26O	40	16	214940	 And the gateway had windows all around, narrowing inwards toward the side rooms and toward their jambs, and likewise the vestibule had windows all around inside, and on the jambs were palm trees. 
26O	40	17	214950	 Then he brought me into the outer court. And behold, there were chambers and a pavement, all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement. 
26O	40	18	214960	 And the pavement ran along the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates. This was the lower pavement. 
26O	40	19	214970	 Then he measured the distance from the inner front of the lower gate to the outer front of the inner court, a hundred cubits on the east side and on the north side. 
26O	40	20	214980	 As for the gate that faced toward the north, belonging to the outer court, he measured its length and its breadth. 
26O	40	21	214990	 Its side rooms, three on either side, and its jambs and its vestibule were of the same size as those of the first gate. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits. 
26O	40	22	215000	 And its windows, its vestibule, and its palm trees were of the same size as those of the gate that faced toward the east. And by seven steps people would go up to it, and find its vestibule before them. 
26O	40	23	215010	 And opposite the gate on the north, as on the east, was a gate to the inner court. And he measured from gate to gate, a hundred cubits. 
26O	40	24	215020	 And he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a gate on the south. And he measured its jambs and its vestibule; they had the same size as the others. 
26O	40	25	215030	 Both it and its vestibule had windows all around, like the windows of the others. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits. 
26O	40	26	215040	 And there were seven steps leading up to it, and its vestibule was before them, and it had palm trees on its jambs, one on either side. 
26O	40	27	215050	 And there was a gate on the south of the inner court. And he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred cubits. 
26O	40	28	215060	 Then he brought me to the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate. It was of the same size as the others. 
26O	40	29	215070	 Its side rooms, its jambs, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others, and both it and its vestibule had windows all around. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits. 
26O	40	30	215080	 And there were vestibules all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits broad. 
26O	40	31	215090	 Its vestibule faced the outer court, and palm trees were on its jambs, and its stairway had eight steps. 
26O	40	32	215100	 Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gate. It was of the same size as the others. 
26O	40	33	215110	 Its side rooms, its jambs, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others, and both it and its vestibule had windows all around. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits. 
26O	40	34	215120	 Its vestibule faced the outer court, and it had palm trees on its jambs, on either side, and its stairway had eight steps. 
26O	40	35	215130	 Then he brought me to the north gate, and he measured it. It had the same size as the others. 
26O	40	36	215140	 Its side rooms, its jambs, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others, and it had windows all around. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits. 
26O	40	37	215150	 Its vestibule faced the outer court, and it had palm trees on its jambs, on either side, and its stairway had eight steps. 
26O	40	38	215160	 There was a chamber with its door in the vestibule of the gate, where the burnt offering was to be washed. 
26O	40	39	215170	 And in the vestibule of the gate were two tables on either side, on which the burnt offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering were to be slaughtered. 
26O	40	40	215180	 And off to the side, on the outside as one goes up to the entrance of the north gate, were two tables; and off to the other side of the vestibule of the gate were two tables. 
26O	40	41	215190	 Four tables were on either side of the gate, eight tables, on which to slaughter. 
26O	40	42	215200	 And there were four tables of hewn stone for the burnt offering, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high, on which the instruments were to be laid with which the burnt offerings and the sacrifices were slaughtered. 
26O	40	43	215210	 And hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened all around within. And on the tables the flesh of the offering was to be laid. 
26O	40	44	215220	 On the outside of the inner gateway there were two chambers in the inner court, one at the side of the north gate facing south, the other at the side of the south gate facing north. 
26O	40	45	215230	 And he said to me, This chamber that faces south is for the priests who have charge of the temple, 
26O	40	46	215240	 and the chamber that faces north is for the priests who have charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who alone among the sons of Levi may come near to the LORD to minister to him. 
26O	40	47	215250	 And he measured the court, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits broad, a square. And the altar was in front of the temple. 
26O	40	48	215260	 Then he brought me to the vestibule of the temple and measured the jambs of the vestibule, five cubits on either side. And the breadth of the gate was fourteen cubits, and the sidewalls of the gate were three cubits on either side. 
26O	40	49	215270	 The length of the vestibule was twenty cubits, and the breadth twelve cubits, and people would go up to it by ten steps. And there were pillars beside the jambs, one on either side. 
26O	41	1	215280	 Then he brought me to the nave and measured the jambs. On each side six cubits was the breadth of the jambs. 
26O	41	2	215290	 And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either side. And he measured the length of the nave, forty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits. 
26O	41	3	215300	 Then he went into the inner room and measured the jambs of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the sidewalls on either side of the entrance, seven cubits. 
26O	41	4	215310	 And he measured the length of the room, twenty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits, across the nave. And he said to me, "This is the Most Holy Place." 
26O	41	5	215320	 Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the breadth of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple. 
26O	41	6	215330	 And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple. 
26O	41	7	215340	 And it became broader as it wound upward to the side chambers, because the temple was enclosed upward all around the temple. Thus the temple had a broad area upward, and so one went up from the lowest story to the top story through the middle story. 
26O	41	8	215350	 I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits. 
26O	41	9	215360	 The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. The free space between the side chambers of the temple and the 
26O	41	10	215370	 other chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side. 
26O	41	11	215380	 And the doors of the side chambers opened on the free space, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. And the breadth of the free space was five cubits all around. 
26O	41	12	215390	 The building that was facing the separate yard on the west side was seventy cubits broad, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits. 
26O	41	13	215400	 Then he measured the temple, a hundred cubits long; and the yard and the building with its walls, a hundred cubits long; 
26O	41	14	215410	 also the breadth of the east front of the temple and the yard, a hundred cubits. 
26O	41	15	215420	 Then he measured the length of the building facing the yard that was at the back and its galleries on either side, a hundred cubits. The inside of the nave and the vestibules of the court, 
26O	41	16	215430	 the thresholds and the narrow windows and the galleries all around the three of them, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, from the floor up to the windows (now the windows were covered), 
26O	41	17	215440	 to the space above the door, even to the inner room, and on the outside. And on all the walls all around, inside and outside, was a measured pattern. 
26O	41	18	215450	 It was carved of cherubim and palm trees, a palm tree between cherub and cherub. Every cherub had two faces: 
26O	41	19	215460	 a human face toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple all around. 
26O	41	20	215470	 From the floor to above the door, cherubim and palm trees were carved; similarly the wall of the nave. 
26O	41	21	215480	 The doorposts of the nave were squared, and in front of the Holy Place was something resembling 
26O	41	22	215490	 an altar of wood, three cubits high, two cubits long, and two cubits broad. Its corners, its base, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, "This is the table that is before the LORD." 
26O	41	23	215500	 The nave and the Holy Place had each a double door. 
26O	41	24	215510	 The double doors had two leaves apiece, two swinging leaves for each door. 
26O	41	25	215520	 And on the doors of the nave were carved cherubim and palm trees, such as were carved on the walls. And there was a canopy of wood in front of the vestibule outside. 
26O	41	26	215530	 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on either side, on the sidewalls of the vestibule, the side chambers of the temple, and the canopies. 
26O	42	1	215540	 Then he led me out into the outer court, toward the north, and he brought me to the chambers that were opposite the separate yard and opposite the building on the north. 
26O	42	2	215550	 The length of the building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits. 
26O	42	3	215560	 Facing the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and facing the pavement that belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories. 
26O	42	4	215570	 And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long, and their doors were on the north. 
26O	42	5	215580	 Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building. 
26O	42	6	215590	 For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courts. Thus the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones. 
26O	42	7	215600	 And there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, fifty cubits long. 
26O	42	8	215610	 For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite the nave were a hundred cubits long. 
26O	42	9	215620	 Below these chambers was an entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court. 
26O	42	10	215630	 In the thickness of the wall of the court, on the south also, opposite the yard and opposite the building, there were chambers 
26O	42	11	215640	 with a passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits and arrangements and doors, 
26O	42	12	215650	 as were the entrances of the chambers on the south. There was an entrance at the beginning of the passage, the passage before the corresponding wall on the east as one enters them. 
26O	42	13	215660	 Then he said to me, "The north chambers and the south chambers opposite the yard are the holy chambers, where the priests who approach the LORD shall eat the most holy offerings. There they shall put the most holy offerings--the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering--for the place is holy. 
26O	42	14	215670	 When the priests enter the Holy Place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court without laying there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people." 
26O	42	15	215680	 Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and measured the temple area all around. 
26O	42	16	215690	 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around. 
26O	42	17	215700	 He measured the north side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around. 
26O	42	18	215710	 He measured the south side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed. 
26O	42	19	215720	 Then he turned to the west side and measured, 500 cubits by the measuring reed. 
26O	42	20	215730	 He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, 500 cubits long and 500 cubits broad, to make a separation between the holy and the common. 
26O	43	1	215740	 Then he led me to the gate, the gate facing east. 
26O	43	2	215750	 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. And the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone with his glory. 
26O	43	3	215760	 And the vision I saw was just like the vision that I had seen when he came to destroy the city, and just like the vision that I had seen by the Chebar canal. And I fell on my face. 
26O	43	4	215770	 As the glory of the LORD entered the temple by the gate facing east, 
26O	43	5	215780	 the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the temple. 
26O	43	6	215790	 While the man was standing beside me, I heard one speaking to me out of the temple, 
26O	43	7	215800	 and he said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies of their kings at their high places, 
26O	43	8	215810	 by setting their threshold by my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them. They have defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed, so I have consumed them in my anger. 
26O	43	9	215820	 Now let them put away their whoring and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, and I will dwell in their midst forever. 
26O	43	10	215830	 "As for you, son of man, describe to the house of Israel the temple, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and they shall measure the plan. 
26O	43	11	215840	 And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple, its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, that is, its whole design; and make known to them as well all its statutes and its whole design and all its laws, and write it down in their sight, so that they may observe all its laws and all its statutes and carry them out. 
26O	43	12	215850	 This is the law of the temple: the whole territory on the top of the mountain all around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple. 
26O	43	13	215860	 "These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth): its base shall be one cubit high and one cubit broad, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this shall be the height of the altar: 
26O	43	14	215870	 from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits, with a breadth of one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits, with a breadth of one cubit; 
26O	43	15	215880	 and the altar hearth, four cubits; and from the altar hearth projecting upward, four horns. 
26O	43	16	215890	 The altar hearth shall be square, twelve cubits long by twelve broad. 
26O	43	17	215900	 The ledge also shall be square, fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad, with a rim around it half a cubit broad, and its base one cubit all around. The steps of the altar shall face east." 
26O	43	18	215910	 And he said to me, "Son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: These are the ordinances for the altar: On the day when it is erected for offering burnt offerings upon it and for throwing blood against it, 
26O	43	19	215920	 you shall give to the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok, who draw near to me to minister to me, declares the Lord GOD, a bull from the herd for a sin offering. 
26O	43	20	215930	 And you shall take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar and on the four corners of the ledge and upon the rim all around. Thus you shall purify the altar and make atonement for it. 
26O	43	21	215940	 You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burned in the appointed place belonging to the temple, outside the sacred area. 
26O	43	22	215950	 And on the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering; and the altar shall be purified, as it was purified with the bull. 
26O	43	23	215960	 When you have finished purifying it, you shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish and a ram from the flock without blemish. 
26O	43	24	215970	 You shall present them before the LORD, and the priests shall sprinkle salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD. 
26O	43	25	215980	 For seven days you shall provide daily a male goat for a sin offering; also, a bull from the herd and a ram from the flock, without blemish, shall be provided. 
26O	43	26	215990	 Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, and so consecrate it. 
26O	43	27	216000	 And when they have completed these days, then from the eighth day onward the priests shall offer on the altar your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, and I will accept you, declares the Lord GOD." 
26O	44	1	216010	 Then he brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces east. And it was shut. 
26O	44	2	216020	 And the LORD said to me, "This gate shall remain shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered by it. Therefore it shall remain shut. 
26O	44	3	216030	 Only the prince may sit in it to eat bread before the LORD. He shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gate, and shall go out by the same way." 
26O	44	4	216040	 Then he brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple, and I looked, and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the temple of the LORD. And I fell on my face. 
26O	44	5	216050	 And the LORD said to me, "Son of man, mark well, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I shall tell you concerning all the statutes of the temple of the LORD and all its laws. And mark well the entrance to the temple and all the exits from the sanctuary. 
26O	44	6	216060	 And say to the rebellious house, to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: O house of Israel, enough of all your abominations, 
26O	44	7	216070	 in admitting foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, profaning my temple, when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations. 
26O	44	8	216080	 And you have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have set others to keep my charge for you in my sanctuary. 
26O	44	9	216090	 "Thus says the Lord GOD: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary. 
26O	44	10	216100	 But the Levites who went far from me, going astray from me after their idols when Israel went astray, shall bear their punishment. 
26O	44	11	216110	 They shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple and ministering in the temple. They shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before the people, to minister to them. 
26O	44	12	216120	 Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn concerning them, declares the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their punishment. 
26O	44	13	216130	 They shall not come near to me, to serve me as priest, nor come near any of my holy things and the things that are most holy, but they shall bear their shame and the abominations that they have committed. 
26O	44	14	216140	 Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, to do all its service and all that is to be done in it. 
26O	44	15	216150	 "But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. And they shall stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	44	16	216160	 They shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall approach my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge. 
26O	44	17	216170	 When they enter the gates of the inner court, they shall wear linen garments. They shall have nothing of wool on them, while they minister at the gates of the inner court, and within. 
26O	44	18	216180	 They shall have linen turbans on their heads, and linen undergarments around their waists. They shall not bind themselves with anything that causes sweat. 
26O	44	19	216190	 And when they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall put off the garments in which they have been ministering and lay them in the holy chambers. And they shall put on other garments, lest they transmit holiness to the people with their garments. 
26O	44	20	216200	 They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall surely trim the hair of their heads. 
26O	44	21	216210	 No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court. 
26O	44	22	216220	 They shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but only virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest. 
26O	44	23	216230	 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean. 
26O	44	24	216240	 In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy. 
26O	44	25	216250	 They shall not defile themselves by going near to a dead person. However, for father or mother, for son or daughter, for brother or unmarried sister they may defile themselves. 
26O	44	26	216260	 After he has become clean, they shall count seven days for him. 
26O	44	27	216270	 And on the day that he goes into the Holy Place, into the inner court, to minister in the Holy Place, he shall offer his sin offering, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	44	28	216280	 "This shall be their inheritance: I am their inheritance: and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession. 
26O	44	29	216290	 They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs. 
26O	44	30	216300	 And the first of all the firstfruits of all kinds, and every offering of all kinds from all your offerings, shall belong to the priests. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, that a blessing may rest on your house. 
26O	44	31	216310	 The priests shall not eat of anything, whether bird or beast, that has died of itself or is torn by wild animals. 
26O	45	1	216320	 "When you allot the land as an inheritance, you shall set apart for the LORD a portion of the land as a holy district, 25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits broad. It shall be holy throughout its whole extent. 
26O	45	2	216330	 Of this a square plot of 500 by 500 cubits shall be for the sanctuary, with fifty cubits for an open space around it. 
26O	45	3	216340	 And from this measured district you shall measure off a section 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 broad, in which shall be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place. 
26O	45	4	216350	 It shall be the holy portion of the land. It shall be for the priests, who minister in the sanctuary and approach the LORD to minister to him, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. 
26O	45	5	216360	 Another section, 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits broad, shall be for the Levites who minister at the temple, as their possession for cities to live in. 
26O	45	6	216370	 "Alongside the portion set apart as the holy district you shall assign for the property of the city an area 5,000 cubits broad and 25,000 cubits long. It shall belong to the whole house of Israel. 
26O	45	7	216380	 "And to the prince shall belong the land on both sides of the holy district and the property of the city, alongside the holy district and the property of the city, on the west and on the east, corresponding in length to one of the tribal portions, and extending from the western to the eastern boundary 
26O	45	8	216390	 of the land. It is to be his property in Israel. And my princes shall no more oppress my people, but they shall let the house of Israel have the land according to their tribes. 
26O	45	9	216400	 "Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	45	10	216410	 "You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath. 
26O	45	11	216420	 The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure. 
26O	45	12	216430	 The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina. 
26O	45	13	216440	 "This is the offering that you shall make: one sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and one sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley, 
26O	45	14	216450	 and as the fixed portion of oil, measured in baths, one tenth of a bath from each cor (the cor, like the homer, contains ten baths). 
26O	45	15	216460	 And one sheep from every flock of two hundred, from the watering places of Israel for grain offering, burnt offering, and peace offerings, to make atonement for them, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	45	16	216470	 All the people of the land shall be obliged to give this offering to the prince in Israel. 
26O	45	17	216480	 It shall be the prince's duty to furnish the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, the new moons, and the Sabbaths, all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel. 
26O	45	18	216490	 "Thus says the Lord GOD: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a bull from the herd without blemish, and purify the sanctuary. 
26O	45	19	216500	 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and the posts of the gate of the inner court. 
26O	45	20	216510	 You shall do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who has sinned through error or ignorance; so you shall make atonement for the temple. 
26O	45	21	216520	 "In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall celebrate the Feast of the Passover, and for seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten. 
26O	45	22	216530	 On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a young bull for a sin offering. 
26O	45	23	216540	 And on the seven days of the festival he shall provide as a burnt offering to the LORD seven young bulls and seven rams without blemish, on each of the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering. 
26O	45	24	216550	 And he shall provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a hin of oil to each ephah. 
26O	45	25	216560	 In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month and for the seven days of the feast, he shall make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, and grain offerings, and for the oil. 
26O	46	1	216570	 "Thus says the Lord GOD: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened. 
26O	46	2	216580	 The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by the post of the gate. The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening. 
26O	46	3	216590	 The people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of that gate before the LORD on the Sabbaths and on the new moons. 
26O	46	4	216600	 The burnt offering that the prince offers to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish. 
26O	46	5	216610	 And the grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah, and the grain offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah. 
26O	46	6	216620	 On the day of the new moon he shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish. 
26O	46	7	216630	 As a grain offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah. 
26O	46	8	216640	 When the prince enters, he shall enter by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way. 
26O	46	9	216650	 "When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate, and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead. 
26O	46	10	216660	 When they enter, the prince shall enter with them, and when they go out, he shall go out. 
26O	46	11	216670	 "At the feasts and the appointed festivals, the grain offering with a young bull shall be an ephah, and with a ram an ephah, and with the lambs as much as one is able to give, together with a hin of oil to an ephah. 
26O	46	12	216680	 When the prince provides a freewill offering, either a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the LORD, the gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he shall offer his burnt offering or his peace offerings as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out the gate shall be shut. 
26O	46	13	216690	 "You shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the LORD daily; morning by morning you shall provide it. 
26O	46	14	216700	 And you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, as a grain offering to the LORD. This is a perpetual statute. 
26O	46	15	216710	 Thus the lamb and the meal offering and the oil shall be provided, morning by morning, for a regular burnt offering. 
26O	46	16	216720	 "Thus says the Lord GOD: If the prince makes a gift to any of his sons as his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons. It is their property by inheritance. 
26O	46	17	216730	 But if he makes a gift out of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty. Then it shall revert to the prince; surely it is his inheritance--it shall belong to his sons. 
26O	46	18	216740	 The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, thrusting them out of their property. He shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be scattered from his property." 
26O	46	19	216750	 Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, to the north row of the holy chambers for the priests, and behold, a place was there at the extreme western end of them. 
26O	46	20	216760	 And he said to me, "This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so transmit holiness to the people." 
26O	46	21	216770	 Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me around to the four corners of the court. And behold, in each corner of the court there was another court-- 
26O	46	22	216780	 in the four corners of the court were small courts, forty cubits long and thirty broad; the four were of the same size. 
26O	46	23	216790	 On the inside, around each of the four courts was a row of masonry, with hearths made at the bottom of the rows all around. 
26O	46	24	216800	 Then he said to me, "These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple shall boil the sacrifices of the people." 
26O	47	1	216810	 Then he brought me back to the door of the temple, and behold, water was issuing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from below the south end of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar. 
26O	47	2	216820	 Then he brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around on the outside to the outer gate that faces toward the east; and behold, the water was trickling out on the south side. 
26O	47	3	216830	 Going on eastward with a measuring line in his hand, the man measured a thousand cubits, and then led me through the water, and it was ankle-deep. 
26O	47	4	216840	 Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was knee-deep. Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was waist-deep. 
26O	47	5	216850	 Again he measured a thousand, and it was a river that I could not pass through, for the water had risen. It was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be passed through. 
26O	47	6	216860	 And he said to me, "Son of man, have you seen this?" Then he led me back to the bank of the river. 
26O	47	7	216870	 As I went back, I saw on the bank of the river very many trees on the one side and on the other. 
26O	47	8	216880	 And he said to me, "This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah, and enters the sea; when the water flows into the sea, the water will become fresh. 
26O	47	9	216890	 And wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish. For this water goes there, that the waters of the sea may become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes. 
26O	47	10	216900	 Fishermen will stand beside the sea. From Engedi to Eneglaim it will be a place for the spreading of nets. Its fish will be of very many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea. 
26O	47	11	216910	 But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt. 
26O	47	12	216920	 And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither, nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing." 
26O	47	13	216930	 Thus says the Lord GOD: "This is the boundary by which you shall divide the land for inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions. 
26O	47	14	216940	 And you shall divide equally what I swore to give to your fathers. This land shall fall to you as your inheritance. 
26O	47	15	216950	 "This shall be the boundary of the land: On the north side, from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, and on to Zedad, 
26O	47	16	216960	 Berothah, Sibraim (which lies on the border between Damascus and Hamath), as far as Hazer-hatticon, which is on the border of Hauran. 
26O	47	17	216970	 So the boundary shall run from the sea to Hazar-enan, which is on the northern border of Damascus, with the border of Hamath to the north. This shall be the north side. 
26O	47	18	216980	 "On the east side, the boundary shall run between Hauran and Damascus; along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel; to the eastern sea and as far as Tamar. This shall be the east side. 
26O	47	19	216990	 "On the south side, it shall run from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribah-kadesh, from there along the Brook of Egypt to the Great Sea. This shall be the south side. 
26O	47	20	217000	 "On the west side, the Great Sea shall be the boundary to a point opposite Lebo-hamath. This shall be the west side. 
26O	47	21	217010	 "So you shall divide this land among you according to the tribes of Israel. 
26O	47	22	217020	 You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the sojourners who reside among you and have had children among you. They shall be to you as native-born children of Israel. With you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. 
26O	47	23	217030	 In whatever tribe the sojourner resides, there you shall assign him his inheritance, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	48	1	217040	 "These are the names of the tribes: Beginning at the northern extreme, beside the way of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan (which is on the northern border of Damascus over against Hamath), and extending from the east side to the west, Dan, one portion. 
26O	48	2	217050	 Adjoining the territory of Dan, from the east side to the west, Asher, one portion. 
26O	48	3	217060	 Adjoining the territory of Asher, from the east side to the west, Naphtali, one portion. 
26O	48	4	217070	 Adjoining the territory of Naphtali, from the east side to the west, Manasseh, one portion. 
26O	48	5	217080	 Adjoining the territory of Manasseh, from the east side to the west, Ephraim, one portion. 
26O	48	6	217090	 Adjoining the territory of Ephraim, from the east side to the west, Reuben, one portion. 
26O	48	7	217100	 Adjoining the territory of Reuben, from the east side to the west, Judah, one portion. 
26O	48	8	217110	 "Adjoining the territory of Judah, from the east side to the west, shall be the portion which you shall set apart, 25,000 cubits in breadth, and in length equal to one of the tribal portions, from the east side to the west, with the sanctuary in the midst of it. 
26O	48	9	217120	 The portion that you shall set apart for the LORD shall be 25,000 cubits in length, and 20,000 in breadth. 
26O	48	10	217130	 These shall be the allotments of the holy portion: the priests shall have an allotment measuring 25,000 cubits on the northern side, 10,000 cubits in breadth on the western side, 10,000 in breadth on the eastern side, and 25,000 in length on the southern side, with the sanctuary of the LORD in the midst of it. 
26O	48	11	217140	 This shall be for the consecrated priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept my charge, who did not go astray when the people of Israel went astray, as the Levites did. 
26O	48	12	217150	 And it shall belong to them as a special portion from the holy portion of the land, a most holy place, adjoining the territory of the Levites. 
26O	48	13	217160	 And alongside the territory of the priests, the Levites shall have an allotment 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in breadth. The whole length shall be 25,000 cubits and the breadth 20,000. 
26O	48	14	217170	 They shall not sell or exchange any of it. They shall not alienate this choice portion of the land, for it is holy to the LORD. 
26O	48	15	217180	 "The remainder, 5,000 cubits in breadth and 25,000 in length, shall be for common use for the city, for dwellings and for open country. In the midst of it shall be the city, 
26O	48	16	217190	 and these shall be its measurements: the north side 4,500 cubits, the south side 4,500, the east side 4,500, and the west side 4,500. 
26O	48	17	217200	 And the city shall have open land: on the north 250 cubits, on the south 250, on the east 250, and on the west 250. 
26O	48	18	217210	 The remainder of the length alongside the holy portion shall be 10,000 cubits to the east, and 10,000 to the west, and it shall be alongside the holy portion. Its produce shall be food for the workers of the city. 
26O	48	19	217220	 And the workers of the city, from all the tribes of Israel, shall till it. 
26O	48	20	217230	 The whole portion that you shall set apart shall be 25,000 cubits square, that is, the holy portion together with the property of the city. 
26O	48	21	217240	 "What remains on both sides of the holy portion and of the property of the city shall belong to the prince. Extending from the 25,000 cubits of the holy portion to the east border, and westward from the 25,000 cubits to the west border, parallel to the tribal portions, it shall belong to the prince. The holy portion with the sanctuary of the temple shall be in its midst. 
26O	48	22	217250	 It shall be separate from the property of the Levites and the property of the city, which are in the midst of that which belongs to the prince. The portion of the prince shall lie between the territory of Judah and the territory of Benjamin. 
26O	48	23	217260	 "As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west, Benjamin, one portion. 
26O	48	24	217270	 Adjoining the territory of Benjamin, from the east side to the west, Simeon, one portion. 
26O	48	25	217280	 Adjoining the territory of Simeon, from the east side to the west, Issachar, one portion. 
26O	48	26	217290	 Adjoining the territory of Issachar, from the east side to the west, Zebulun, one portion. 
26O	48	27	217300	 Adjoining the territory of Zebulun, from the east side to the west, Gad, one portion. 
26O	48	28	217310	 And adjoining the territory of Gad to the south, the boundary shall run from Tamar to the waters of Meribah-kadesh, from there along the Brook of Egypt to the Great Sea. 
26O	48	29	217320	 This is the land that you shall allot as an inheritance among the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, declares the Lord GOD. 
26O	48	30	217330	 "These shall be the exits of the city: On the north side, which is to be 4,500 cubits by measure, 
26O	48	31	217340	 three gates, the gate of Reuben, the gate of Judah, and the gate of Levi, the gates of the city being named after the tribes of Israel. 
26O	48	32	217350	 On the east side, which is to be 4,500 cubits, three gates, the gate of Joseph, the gate of Benjamin, and the gate of Dan. 
26O	48	33	217360	 On the south side, which is to be 4,500 cubits by measure, three gates, the gate of Simeon, the gate of Issachar, and the gate of Zebulun. 
26O	48	34	217370	 On the west side, which is to be 4,500 cubits, three gates, the gate of Gad, the gate of Asher, and the gate of Naphtali. 
26O	48	35	217380	 The circumference of the city shall be 18,000 cubits. And the name of the city from that time on shall be, The LORD Is There." 
27O	1	1	217390	 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. 
27O	1	2	217400	 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god. 
27O	1	3	217410	 Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family and of the nobility, 
27O	1	4	217420	 youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king's palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans. 
27O	1	5	217430	 The king assigned them a daily portion of the food that the king ate, and of the wine that he drank. They were to be educated for three years, and at the end of that time they were to stand before the king. 
27O	1	6	217440	 Among these were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah of the tribe of Judah. 
27O	1	7	217450	 And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: Daniel he called Belteshazzar, Hananiah he called Shadrach, Mishael he called Meshach, and Azariah he called Abednego. 
27O	1	8	217460	 But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself. 
27O	1	9	217470	 And God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the chief of the eunuchs, 
27O	1	10	217480	 and the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, "I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see that you were in worse condition than the youths who are of your own age? So you would endanger my head with the king." 
27O	1	11	217490	 Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had assigned over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, 
27O	1	12	217500	 "Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink. 
27O	1	13	217510	 Then let our appearance and the appearance of the youths who eat the king's food be observed by you, and deal with your servants according to what you see." 
27O	1	14	217520	 So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days. 
27O	1	15	217530	 At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king's food. 
27O	1	16	217540	 So the steward took away their food and the wine they were to drink, and gave them vegetables. 
27O	1	17	217550	 As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. 
27O	1	18	217560	 At the end of the time, when the king had commanded that they should be brought in, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. 
27O	1	19	217570	 And the king spoke with them, and among all of them none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore they stood before the king. 
27O	1	20	217580	 And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom. 
27O	1	21	217590	 And Daniel was there until the first year of King Cyrus. 
27O	2	1	217600	 In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his spirit was troubled, and his sleep left him. 
27O	2	2	217610	 Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be summoned to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king. 
27O	2	3	217620	 And the king said to them, "I had a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream." 
27O	2	4	217630	 Then the Chaldeans said to the king in Aramaic, "O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation." 
27O	2	5	217640	 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, "The word from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be torn limb from limb, and your houses shall be laid in ruins. 
27O	2	6	217650	 But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. Therefore show me the dream and its interpretation." 
27O	2	7	217660	 They answered a second time and said, "Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show its interpretation." 
27O	2	8	217670	 The king answered and said, "I know with certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see that the word from me is firm-- 
27O	2	9	217680	 if you do not make the dream known to me, there is but one sentence for you. You have agreed to speak lying and corrupt words before me till the times change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me its interpretation." 
27O	2	10	217690	 The Chaldeans answered the king and said, "There is not a man on earth who can meet the king's demand, for no great and powerful king has asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or Chaldean. 
27O	2	11	217700	 The thing that the king asks is difficult, and no one can show it to the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh." 
27O	2	12	217710	 Because of this the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed. 
27O	2	13	217720	 So the decree went out, and the wise men were about to be killed; and they sought Daniel and his companions, to kill them. 
27O	2	14	217730	 Then Daniel replied with prudence and discretion to Arioch, the captain of the king's guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon. 
27O	2	15	217740	 He declared to Arioch, the king's captain, "Why is the decree of the king so urgent?" Then Arioch made the matter known to Daniel. 
27O	2	16	217750	 And Daniel went in and requested the king to appoint him a time, that he might show the interpretation to the king. 
27O	2	17	217760	 Then Daniel went to his house and made the matter known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions, 
27O	2	18	217770	 and told them to seek mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions might not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. 
27O	2	19	217780	 Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. 
27O	2	20	217790	 Daniel answered and said: "Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might. 
27O	2	21	217800	 He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding; 
27O	2	22	217810	 he reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him. 
27O	2	23	217820	 To you, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for you have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of you, for you have made known to us the king's matter." 
27O	2	24	217830	 Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said thus to him: "Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will show the king the interpretation." 
27O	2	25	217840	 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste and said thus to him: "I have found among the exiles from Judah a man who will make known to the king the interpretation." 
27O	2	26	217850	 The king declared to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, "Are you able to make known to me the dream that I have seen and its interpretation?" 
27O	2	27	217860	 Daniel answered the king and said, "No wise men, enchanters, magicians, or astrologers can show to the king the mystery that the king has asked, 
27O	2	28	217870	 but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed are these: 
27O	2	29	217880	 To you, O king, as you lay in bed came thoughts of what would be after this, and he who reveals mysteries made known to you what is to be. 
27O	2	30	217890	 But as for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because of any wisdom that I have more than all the living, but in order that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your mind. 
27O	2	31	217900	 "You saw, O king, and behold, a great image. This image, mighty and of exceeding brightness, stood before you, and its appearance was frightening. 
27O	2	32	217910	 The head of this image was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its middle and thighs of bronze, 
27O	2	33	217920	 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. 
27O	2	34	217930	 As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. 
27O	2	35	217940	 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. 
27O	2	36	217950	 "This was the dream. Now we will tell the king its interpretation. 
27O	2	37	217960	 You, O king, the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the might, and the glory, 
27O	2	38	217970	 and into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the children of man, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens, making you rule over them all--you are the head of gold. 
27O	2	39	217980	 Another kingdom inferior to you shall arise after you, and yet a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth. 
27O	2	40	217990	 And there shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron, because iron breaks to pieces and shatters all things. And like iron that crushes, it shall break and crush all these. 
27O	2	41	218000	 And as you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom, but some of the firmness of iron shall be in it, just as you saw iron mixed with the soft clay. 
27O	2	42	218010	 And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle. 
27O	2	43	218020	 As you saw the iron mixed with soft clay, so they will mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay. 
27O	2	44	218030	 And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever, 
27O	2	45	218040	 just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the king what shall be after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure." 
27O	2	46	218050	 Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face and paid homage to Daniel, and commanded that an offering and incense be offered up to him. 
27O	2	47	218060	 The king answered and said to Daniel, "Truly, your God is God of gods and Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery." 
27O	2	48	218070	 Then the king gave Daniel high honors and many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon and chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon. 
27O	2	49	218080	 Daniel made a request of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon. But Daniel remained at the king's court. 
27O	3	1	218090	 King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its breadth six cubits. He set it up on the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. 
27O	3	2	218100	 Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent to gather the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. 
27O	3	3	218110	 Then the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces gathered for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. And they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. 
27O	3	4	218120	 And the herald proclaimed aloud, "You are commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages, 
27O	3	5	218130	 that when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. 
27O	3	6	218140	 And whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace." 
27O	3	7	218150	 Therefore, as soon as all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, all the peoples, nations, and languages fell down and worshiped the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. 
27O	3	8	218160	 Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came forward and maliciously accused the Jews. 
27O	3	9	218170	 They declared to King Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, live forever! 
27O	3	10	218180	 You, O king, have made a decree, that every man who hears the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image. 
27O	3	11	218190	 And whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into a burning fiery furnace. 
27O	3	12	218200	 There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, pay no attention to you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up." 
27O	3	13	218210	 Then Nebuchadnezzar in furious rage commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. So they brought these men before the king. 
27O	3	14	218220	 Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, "Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image that I have set up? 
27O	3	15	218230	 Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well and good. But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?" 
27O	3	16	218240	 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 
27O	3	17	218250	 If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. 
27O	3	18	218260	 But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up." 
27O	3	19	218270	 Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with fury, and the expression of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He ordered the furnace heated seven times more than it was usually heated. 
27O	3	20	218280	 And he ordered some of the mighty men of his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. 
27O	3	21	218290	 Then these men were bound in their cloaks, their tunics, their hats, and their other garments, and they were thrown into the burning fiery furnace. 
27O	3	22	218300	 Because the king's order was urgent and the furnace overheated, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. 
27O	3	23	218310	 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell bound into the burning fiery furnace. 
27O	3	24	218320	 Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished and rose up in haste. He declared to his counselors, "Did we not cast three men bound into the fire?" They answered and said to the king, "True, O king." 
27O	3	25	218330	 He answered and said, "But I see four men unbound, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods." 
27O	3	26	218340	 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the burning fiery furnace; he declared, "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!" Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the fire. 
27O	3	27	218350	 And the satraps, the prefects, the governors, and the king's counselors gathered together and saw that the fire had not had any power over the bodies of those men. The hair of their heads was not singed, their cloaks were not harmed, and no smell of fire had come upon them. 
27O	3	28	218360	 Nebuchadnezzar answered and said, "Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants, who trusted in him, and set aside the king's command, and yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any god except their own God. 
27O	3	29	218370	 Therefore I make a decree: Any people, nation, or language that speaks anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego shall be torn limb from limb, and their houses laid in ruins, for there is no other god who is able to rescue in this way." 
27O	3	30	218380	 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon. 
27O	4	1	218390	 King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you! 
27O	4	2	218400	 It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done for me. 
27O	4	3	218410	 How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion endures from generation to generation. 
27O	4	4	218420	 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and prospering in my palace. 
27O	4	5	218430	 I saw a dream that made me afraid. As I lay in bed the fancies and the visions of my head alarmed me. 
27O	4	6	218440	 So I made a decree that all the wise men of Babylon should be brought before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream. 
27O	4	7	218450	 Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers came in, and I told them the dream, but they could not make known to me its interpretation. 
27O	4	8	218460	 At last Daniel came in before me--he who was named Belteshazzar after the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods--and I told him the dream, saying, 
27O	4	9	218470	 "O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you and that no mystery is too difficult for you, tell me the visions of my dream that I saw and their interpretation. 
27O	4	10	218480	 The visions of my head as I lay in bed were these: I saw, and behold, a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great. 
27O	4	11	218490	 The tree grew and became strong, and its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth. 
27O	4	12	218500	 Its leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, and the birds of the heavens lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it. 
27O	4	13	218510	 "I saw in the visions of my head as I lay in bed, and behold, a watcher, a holy one, came down from heaven. 
27O	4	14	218520	 He proclaimed aloud and said thus: 'Chop down the tree and lop off its branches, strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts flee from under it and the birds from its branches. 
27O	4	15	218530	 But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, amid the tender grass of the field. Let him be wet with the dew of heaven. Let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth. 
27O	4	16	218540	 Let his mind be changed from a man's, and let a beast's mind be given to him; and let seven periods of time pass over him. 
27O	4	17	218550	 The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men.' 
27O	4	18	218560	 This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw. And you, O Belteshazzar, tell me the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation, but you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you." 
27O	4	19	218570	 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was dismayed for a while, and his thoughts alarmed him. The king answered and said, "Belteshazzar, let not the dream or the interpretation alarm you." Belteshazzar answered and said, "My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you and its interpretation for your enemies! 
27O	4	20	218580	 The tree you saw, which grew and became strong, so that its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth, 
27O	4	21	218590	 whose leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in which was food for all, under which beasts of the field found shade, and in whose branches the birds of the heavens lived-- 
27O	4	22	218600	 it is you, O king, who have grown and become strong. Your greatness has grown and reaches to heaven, and your dominion to the ends of the earth. 
27O	4	23	218610	 And because the king saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, 'Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven periods of time pass over him,' 
27O	4	24	218620	 this is the interpretation, O king: It is a decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king, 
27O	4	25	218630	 that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will. 
27O	4	26	218640	 And as it was commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree, your kingdom shall be confirmed for you from the time that you know that Heaven rules. 
27O	4	27	218650	 Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you: break off your sins by practicing righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed, that there may perhaps be a lengthening of your prosperity." 
27O	4	28	218660	 All this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar. 
27O	4	29	218670	 At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon, 
27O	4	30	218680	 and the king answered and said, "Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?" 
27O	4	31	218690	 While the words were still in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, "O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you, 
27O	4	32	218700	 and you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will." 
27O	4	33	218710	 Immediately the word was fulfilled against Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from among men and ate grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair grew as long as eagles' feathers, and his nails were like birds' claws. 
27O	4	34	218720	 At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation; 
27O	4	35	218730	 all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, "What have you done?" 
27O	4	36	218740	 At the same time my reason returned to me, and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and splendor returned to me. My counselors and my lords sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and still more greatness was added to me. 
27O	4	37	218750	 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble. 
27O	5	1	218760	 King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand. 
27O	5	2	218770	 Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. 
27O	5	3	218780	 Then they brought in the golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. 
27O	5	4	218790	 They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone. 
27O	5	5	218800	 Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw the hand as it wrote. 
27O	5	6	218810	 Then the king's color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together. 
27O	5	7	218820	 The king called loudly to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers. The king declared to the wise men of Babylon, "Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around his neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom." 
27O	5	8	218830	 Then all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or make known to the king the interpretation. 
27O	5	9	218840	 Then King Belshazzar was greatly alarmed, and his color changed, and his lords were perplexed. 
27O	5	10	218850	 The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banqueting hall, and the queen declared, "O king, live forever! Let not your thoughts alarm you or your color change. 
27O	5	11	218860	 There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. In the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him, and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father--your father the king--made him chief of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and astrologers, 
27O	5	12	218870	 because an excellent spirit, knowledge, and understanding to interpret dreams, explain riddles, and solve problems were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation." 
27O	5	13	218880	 Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king answered and said to Daniel, "You are that Daniel, one of the exiles of Judah, whom the king my father brought from Judah. 
27O	5	14	218890	 I have heard of you that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you. 
27O	5	15	218900	 Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me to read this writing and make known to me its interpretation, but they could not show the interpretation of the matter. 
27O	5	16	218910	 But I have heard that you can give interpretations and solve problems. Now if you can read the writing and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around your neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom." 
27O	5	17	218920	 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, "Let your gifts be for yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king and make known to him the interpretation. 
27O	5	18	218930	 O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father kingship and greatness and glory and majesty. 
27O	5	19	218940	 And because of the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whom he would, he killed, and whom he would, he kept alive; whom he would, he raised up, and whom he would, he humbled. 
27O	5	20	218950	 But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him. 
27O	5	21	218960	 He was driven from among the children of mankind, and his mind was made like that of a beast, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, until he knew that the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whom he will. 
27O	5	22	218970	 And you his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this, 
27O	5	23	218980	 but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored. 
27O	5	24	218990	 "Then from his presence the hand was sent, and this writing was inscribed. 
27O	5	25	219000	 And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, and PARSIN. 
27O	5	26	219010	 This is the interpretation of the matter: MENE, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; 
27O	5	27	219020	 TEKEL, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting; 
27O	5	28	219030	 PERES, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians." 
27O	5	29	219040	 Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made about him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. 
27O	5	30	219050	 That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed. 
27O	5	31	219060	 And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old. 
27O	6	1	219070	 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom 120 satraps, to be throughout the whole kingdom; 
27O	6	2	219080	 and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one, to whom these satraps should give account, so that the king might suffer no loss. 
27O	6	3	219090	 Then this Daniel became distinguished above all the other presidents and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him. And the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom. 
27O	6	4	219100	 Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom, but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful, and no error or fault was found in him. 
27O	6	5	219110	 Then these men said, "We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God." 
27O	6	6	219120	 Then these presidents and satraps came by agreement to the king and said to him, "O King Darius, live forever! 
27O	6	7	219130	 All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors are agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an injunction, that whoever makes petition to any god or man for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions. 
27O	6	8	219140	 Now, O king, establish the injunction and sign the document, so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which cannot be revoked." 
27O	6	9	219150	 Therefore King Darius signed the document and injunction. 
27O	6	10	219160	 When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously. 
27O	6	11	219170	 Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel making petition and plea before his God. 
27O	6	12	219180	 Then they came near and said before the king, concerning the injunction, "O king! Did you not sign an injunction, that anyone who makes petition to any god or man within thirty days except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?" The king answered and said, "The thing stands fast, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked." 
27O	6	13	219190	 Then they answered and said before the king, "Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or the injunction you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day." 
27O	6	14	219200	 Then the king, when he heard these words, was much distressed and set his mind to deliver Daniel. And he labored till the sun went down to rescue him. 
27O	6	15	219210	 Then these men came by agreement to the king and said to the king, "Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no injunction or ordinance that the king establishes can be changed." 
27O	6	16	219220	 Then the king commanded, and Daniel was brought and cast into the den of lions. The king declared to Daniel, "May your God, whom you serve continually, deliver you!" 
27O	6	17	219230	 And a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords, that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel. 
27O	6	18	219240	 Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; no diversions were brought to him, and sleep fled from him. 
27O	6	19	219250	 Then, at break of day, the king arose and went in haste to the den of lions. 
27O	6	20	219260	 As he came near to the den where Daniel was, he cried out in a tone of anguish. The king declared to Daniel, "O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?" 
27O	6	21	219270	 Then Daniel said to the king, "O king, live forever! 
27O	6	22	219280	 My God sent his angel and shut the lions' mouths, and they have not harmed me, because I was found blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm." 
27O	6	23	219290	 Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that Daniel be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God. 
27O	6	24	219300	 And the king commanded, and those men who had maliciously accused Daniel were brought and cast into the den of lions--they, their children, and their wives. And before they reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces. 
27O	6	25	219310	 Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: "Peace be multiplied to you. 
27O	6	26	219320	 I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion people are to tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God, enduring forever; his kingdom shall never be destroyed, and his dominion shall be to the end. 
27O	6	27	219330	 He delivers and rescues; he works signs and wonders in heaven and on earth, he who has saved Daniel from the power of the lions." 
27O	6	28	219340	 So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian. 
27O	7	1	219350	 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter. 
27O	7	2	219360	 Daniel declared, "I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. 
27O	7	3	219370	 And four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another. 
27O	7	4	219380	 The first was like a lion and had eagles' wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it. 
27O	7	5	219390	 And behold, another beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side. It had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, 'Arise, devour much flesh.' 
27O	7	6	219400	 After this I looked, and behold, another, like a leopard, with four wings of a bird on its back. And the beast had four heads, and dominion was given to it. 
27O	7	7	219410	 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, terrifying and dreadful and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces and stamped what was left with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns. 
27O	7	8	219420	 I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things. 
27O	7	9	219430	 "As I looked, thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days took his seat; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames; its wheels were burning fire. 
27O	7	10	219440	 A stream of fire issued and came out from before him; a thousand thousands served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the court sat in judgment, and the books were opened. 
27O	7	11	219450	 "I looked then because of the sound of the great words that the horn was speaking. And as I looked, the beast was killed, and its body destroyed and given over to be burned with fire. 
27O	7	12	219460	 As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but their lives were prolonged for a season and a time. 
27O	7	13	219470	 "I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. 
27O	7	14	219480	 And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed. 
27O	7	15	219490	 "As for me, Daniel, my spirit within me was anxious, and the visions of my head alarmed me. 
27O	7	16	219500	 I approached one of those who stood there and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me and made known to me the interpretation of the things. 
27O	7	17	219510	 'These four great beasts are four kings who shall arise out of the earth. 
27O	7	18	219520	 But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, forever and ever.' 
27O	7	19	219530	 "Then I desired to know the truth about the fourth beast, which was different from all the rest, exceedingly terrifying, with its teeth of iron and claws of bronze, and which devoured and broke in pieces and stamped what was left with its feet, 
27O	7	20	219540	 and about the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn that came up and before which three of them fell, the horn that had eyes and a mouth that spoke great things, and that seemed greater than its companions. 
27O	7	21	219550	 As I looked, this horn made war with the saints and prevailed over them, 
27O	7	22	219560	 until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom. 
27O	7	23	219570	 "Thus he said: 'As for the fourth beast, there shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all the kingdoms, and it shall devour the whole earth, and trample it down, and break it to pieces. 
27O	7	24	219580	 As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings shall arise, and another shall arise after them; he shall be different from the former ones, and shall put down three kings. 
27O	7	25	219590	 He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time. 
27O	7	26	219600	 But the court shall sit in judgment, and his dominion shall be taken away, to be consumed and destroyed to the end. 
27O	7	27	219610	 And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; their kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey them.' 
27O	7	28	219620	 "Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts greatly alarmed me, and my color changed, but I kept the matter in my heart." 
27O	8	1	219630	 In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first. 
27O	8	2	219640	 And I saw in the vision; and when I saw, I was in Susa the capital, which is in the province of Elam. And I saw in the vision, and I was at the Ulai canal. 
27O	8	3	219650	 I raised my eyes and saw, and behold, a ram standing on the bank of the canal. It had two horns, and both horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last. 
27O	8	4	219660	 I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward. No beast could stand before him, and there was no one who could rescue from his power. He did as he pleased and became great. 
27O	8	5	219670	 As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west across the face of the whole earth, without touching the ground. And the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes. 
27O	8	6	219680	 He came to the ram with the two horns, which I had seen standing on the bank of the canal, and he ran at him in his powerful wrath. 
27O	8	7	219690	 I saw him come close to the ram, and he was enraged against him and struck the ram and broke his two horns. And the ram had no power to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled on him. And there was no one who could rescue the ram from his power. 
27O	8	8	219700	 Then the goat became exceedingly great, but when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and instead of it there came up four conspicuous horns toward the four winds of heaven. 
27O	8	9	219710	 Out of one of them came a little horn, which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the glorious land. 
27O	8	10	219720	 It grew great, even to the host of heaven. And some of the host and some of the stars it threw down to the ground and trampled on them. 
27O	8	11	219730	 It became great, even as great as the Prince of the host. And the regular burnt offering was taken away from him, and the place of his sanctuary was overthrown. 
27O	8	12	219740	 And a host will be given over to it together with the regular burnt offering because of transgression, and it will throw truth to the ground, and it will act and prosper. 
27O	8	13	219750	 Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to the one who spoke, "For how long is the vision concerning the regular burnt offering, the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and host to be trampled underfoot?" 
27O	8	14	219760	 And he said to me, "For 2,300 evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful state." 
27O	8	15	219770	 When I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it. And behold, there stood before me one having the appearance of a man. 
27O	8	16	219780	 And I heard a man's voice between the banks of the Ulai, and it called, "Gabriel, make this man understand the vision." 
27O	8	17	219790	 So he came near where I stood. And when he came, I was frightened and fell on my face. But he said to me, "Understand, O son of man, that the vision is for the time of the end." 
27O	8	18	219800	 And when he had spoken to me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face to the ground. But he touched me and made me stand up. 
27O	8	19	219810	 He said, "Behold, I will make known to you what shall be at the latter end of the indignation, for it refers to the appointed time of the end. 
27O	8	20	219820	 As for the ram that you saw with the two horns, these are the kings of Media and Persia. 
27O	8	21	219830	 And the goat is the king of Greece. And the great horn between his eyes is the first king. 
27O	8	22	219840	 As for the horn that was broken, in place of which four others arose, four kingdoms shall arise from his nation, but not with his power. 
27O	8	23	219850	 And at the latter end of their kingdom, when the transgressors have reached their limit, a king of bold face, one who understands riddles, shall arise. 
27O	8	24	219860	 His power shall be great--but not by his own power; and he shall cause fearful destruction and shall succeed in what he does, and destroy mighty men and the people who are the saints. 
27O	8	25	219870	 By his cunning he shall make deceit prosper under his hand, and in his own mind he shall become great. Without warning he shall destroy many. And he shall even rise up against the Prince of princes, and he shall be broken--but by no human hand. 
27O	8	26	219880	 The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been told is true, but seal up the vision, for it refers to many days from now." 
27O	8	27	219890	 And I, Daniel, was overcome and lay sick for some days. Then I rose and went about the king's business, but I was appalled by the vision and did not understand it. 
27O	9	1	219900	 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, by descent a Mede, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans-- 
27O	9	2	219910	 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years. 
27O	9	3	219920	 Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. 
27O	9	4	219930	 I prayed to the LORD my God and made confession, saying, "O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, 
27O	9	5	219940	 we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. 
27O	9	6	219950	 We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 
27O	9	7	219960	 To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you. 
27O	9	8	219970	 To us, O LORD, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you. 
27O	9	9	219980	 To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him 
27O	9	10	219990	 and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. 
27O	9	11	220000	 All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to obey your voice. And the curse and oath that are written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him. 
27O	9	12	220010	 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem. 
27O	9	13	220020	 As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the LORD our God, turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. 
27O	9	14	220030	 Therefore the LORD has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, for the LORD our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice. 
27O	9	15	220040	 And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have made a name for yourself, as at this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly. 
27O	9	16	220050	 "O Lord, according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy hill, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a byword among all who are around us. 
27O	9	17	220060	 Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord, make your face to shine upon your sanctuary, which is desolate. 
27O	9	18	220070	 O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. 
27O	9	19	220080	 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. Delay not, for your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name." 
27O	9	20	220090	 While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before the LORD my God for the holy hill of my God, 
27O	9	21	220100	 while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, came to me in swift flight at the time of the evening sacrifice. 
27O	9	22	220110	 He made me understand, speaking with me and saying, "O Daniel, I have now come out to give you insight and understanding. 
27O	9	23	220120	 At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, and I have come to tell it to you, for you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word and understand the vision. 
27O	9	24	220130	 "Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place. 
27O	9	25	220140	 Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time. 
27O	9	26	220150	 And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed. 
27O	9	27	220160	 And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator." 
27O	10	1	220170	 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar. And the word was true, and it was a great conflict. And he understood the word and had understanding of the vision. 
27O	10	2	220180	 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three weeks. 
27O	10	3	220190	 I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks. 
27O	10	4	220200	 On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river (that is, the Tigris) 
27O	10	5	220210	 I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist. 
27O	10	6	220220	 His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude. 
27O	10	7	220230	 And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision, but a great trembling fell upon them, and they fled to hide themselves. 
27O	10	8	220240	 So I was left alone and saw this great vision, and no strength was left in me. My radiant appearance was fearfully changed, and I retained no strength. 
27O	10	9	220250	 Then I heard the sound of his words, and as I heard the sound of his words, I fell on my face in deep sleep with my face to the ground. 
27O	10	10	220260	 And behold, a hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees. 
27O	10	11	220270	 And he said to me, "O Daniel, man greatly loved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for now I have been sent to you." And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood up trembling. 
27O	10	12	220280	 Then he said to me, "Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words. 
27O	10	13	220290	 The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days, but Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I was left there with the kings of Persia, 
27O	10	14	220300	 and came to make you understand what is to happen to your people in the latter days. For the vision is for days yet to come." 
27O	10	15	220310	 When he had spoken to me according to these words, I turned my face toward the ground and was mute. 
27O	10	16	220320	 And behold, one in the likeness of the children of man touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke. I said to him who stood before me, "O my lord, by reason of the vision pains have come upon me, and I retain no strength. 
27O	10	17	220330	 How can my lord's servant talk with my lord? For now no strength remains in me, and no breath is left in me." 
27O	10	18	220340	 Again one having the appearance of a man touched me and strengthened me. 
27O	10	19	220350	 And he said, "O man greatly loved, fear not, peace be with you; be strong and of good courage." And as he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, "Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me." 
27O	10	20	220360	 Then he said, "Do you know why I have come to you? But now I will return to fight against the prince of Persia; and when I go out, behold, the prince of Greece will come. 
27O	10	21	220370	 But I will tell you what is inscribed in the book of truth: there is none who contends by my side against these except Michael, your prince. 
27O	11	1	220380	 "And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him. 
27O	11	2	220390	 "And now I will show you the truth. Behold, three more kings shall arise in Persia, and a fourth shall be far richer than all of them. And when he has become strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece. 
27O	11	3	220400	 Then a mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion and do as he wills. 
27O	11	4	220410	 And as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom shall be broken and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to the authority with which he ruled, for his kingdom shall be plucked up and go to others besides these. 
27O	11	5	220420	 "Then the king of the south shall be strong, but one of his princes shall be stronger than he and shall rule, and his authority shall be a great authority. 
27O	11	6	220430	 After some years they shall make an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement. But she shall not retain the strength of her arm, and he and his arm shall not endure, but she shall be given up, and her attendants, he who fathered her, and he who supported her in those times. 
27O	11	7	220440	 "And from a branch from her roots one shall arise in his place. He shall come against the army and enter the fortress of the king of the north, and he shall deal with them and shall prevail. 
27O	11	8	220450	 He shall also carry off to Egypt their gods with their metal images and their precious vessels of silver and gold, and for some years he shall refrain from attacking the king of the north. 
27O	11	9	220460	 Then the latter shall come into the realm of the king of the south but shall return to his own land. 
27O	11	10	220470	 "His sons shall wage war and assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall keep coming and overflow and pass through, and again shall carry the war as far as his fortress. 
27O	11	11	220480	 Then the king of the south, moved with rage, shall come out and fight against the king of the north. And he shall raise a great multitude, but it shall be given into his hand. 
27O	11	12	220490	 And when the multitude is taken away, his heart shall be exalted, and he shall cast down tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail. 
27O	11	13	220500	 For the king of the north shall again raise a multitude, greater than the first. And after some years he shall come on with a great army and abundant supplies. 
27O	11	14	220510	 "In those times many shall rise against the king of the south, and the violent among your own people shall lift themselves up in order to fulfill the vision, but they shall fail. 
27O	11	15	220520	 Then the king of the north shall come and throw up siegeworks and take a well-fortified city. And the forces of the south shall not stand, or even his best troops, for there shall be no strength to stand. 
27O	11	16	220530	 But he who comes against him shall do as he wills, and none shall stand before him. And he shall stand in the glorious land, with destruction in his hand. 
27O	11	17	220540	 He shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and he shall bring terms of an agreement and perform them. He shall give him the daughter of women to destroy the kingdom, but it shall not stand or be to his advantage. 
27O	11	18	220550	 Afterward he shall turn his face to the coastlands and shall capture many of them, but a commander shall put an end to his insolence. Indeed, he shall turn his insolence back upon him. 
27O	11	19	220560	 Then he shall turn his face back toward the fortresses of his own land, but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found. 
27O	11	20	220570	 "Then shall arise in his place one who shall send an exactor of tribute for the glory of the kingdom. But within a few days he shall be broken, neither in anger nor in battle. 
27O	11	21	220580	 In his place shall arise a contemptible person to whom royal majesty has not been given. He shall come in without warning and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. 
27O	11	22	220590	 Armies shall be utterly swept away before him and broken, even the prince of the covenant. 
27O	11	23	220600	 And from the time that an alliance is made with him he shall act deceitfully, and he shall become strong with a small people. 
27O	11	24	220610	 Without warning he shall come into the richest parts of the province, and he shall do what neither his fathers nor his fathers' fathers have done, scattering among them plunder, spoil, and goods. He shall devise plans against strongholds, but only for a time. 
27O	11	25	220620	 And he shall stir up his power and his heart against the king of the south with a great army. And the king of the south shall wage war with an exceedingly great and mighty army, but he shall not stand, for plots shall be devised against him. 
27O	11	26	220630	 Even those who eat his food shall break him. His army shall be swept away, and many shall fall down slain. 
27O	11	27	220640	 And as for the two kings, their hearts shall be bent on doing evil. They shall speak lies at the same table, but to no avail, for the end is yet to be at the time appointed. 
27O	11	28	220650	 And he shall return to his land with great wealth, but his heart shall be set against the holy covenant. And he shall work his will and return to his own land. 
27O	11	29	220660	 "At the time appointed he shall return and come into the south, but it shall not be this time as it was before. 
27O	11	30	220670	 For ships of Kittim shall come against him, and he shall be afraid and withdraw, and shall turn back and be enraged and take action against the holy covenant. He shall turn back and pay attention to those who forsake the holy covenant. 
27O	11	31	220680	 Forces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the regular burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate. 
27O	11	32	220690	 He shall seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action. 
27O	11	33	220700	 And the wise among the people shall make many understand, though for some days they shall stumble by sword and flame, by captivity and plunder. 
27O	11	34	220710	 When they stumble, they shall receive a little help. And many shall join themselves to them with flattery, 
27O	11	35	220720	 and some of the wise shall stumble, so that they may be refined, purified, and made white, until the time of the end, for it still awaits the appointed time. 
27O	11	36	220730	 "And the king shall do as he wills. He shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak astonishing things against the God of gods. He shall prosper till the indignation is accomplished; for what is decreed shall be done. 
27O	11	37	220740	 He shall pay no attention to the gods of his fathers, or to the one beloved by women. He shall not pay attention to any other god, for he shall magnify himself above all. 
27O	11	38	220750	 He shall honor the god of fortresses instead of these. A god whom his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts. 
27O	11	39	220760	 He shall deal with the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god. Those who acknowledge him he shall load with honor. He shall make them rulers over many and shall divide the land for a price. 
27O	11	40	220770	 "At the time of the end, the king of the south shall attack him, but the king of the north shall rush upon him like a whirlwind, with chariots and horsemen, and with many ships. And he shall come into countries and shall overflow and pass through. 
27O	11	41	220780	 He shall come into the glorious land. And tens of thousands shall fall, but these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom and Moab and the main part of the Ammonites. 
27O	11	42	220790	 He shall stretch out his hand against the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape. 
27O	11	43	220800	 He shall become ruler of the treasures of gold and of silver, and all the precious things of Egypt, and the Libyans and the Cushites shall follow in his train. 
27O	11	44	220810	 But news from the east and the north shall alarm him, and he shall go out with great fury to destroy and devote many to destruction. 
27O	11	45	220820	 And he shall pitch his palatial tents between the sea and the glorious holy mountain. Yet he shall come to his end, with none to help him. 
27O	12	1	220830	 "At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book. 
27O	12	2	220840	 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 
27O	12	3	220850	 And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. 
27O	12	4	220860	 But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase." 
27O	12	5	220870	 Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on this bank of the stream and one on that bank of the stream. 
27O	12	6	220880	 And someone said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, "How long shall it be till the end of these wonders?" 
27O	12	7	220890	 And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream; he raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven and swore by him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time, and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end all these things would be finished. 
27O	12	8	220900	 I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, "O my lord, what shall be the outcome of these things?" 
27O	12	9	220910	 He said, "Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end. 
27O	12	10	220920	 Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand. 
27O	12	11	220930	 And from the time that the regular burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days. 
27O	12	12	220940	 Blessed is he who waits and arrives at the 1,335 days. 
27O	12	13	220950	 But go your way till the end. And you shall rest and shall stand in your allotted place at the end of the days." 
28O	1	1	220960	 The word of the LORD that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. 
28O	1	2	220970	 When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD." 
28O	1	3	220980	 So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. 
28O	1	4	220990	 And the LORD said to him, "Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. 
28O	1	5	221000	 And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel." 
28O	1	6	221010	 She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the LORD said to him, "Call her name No Mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all. 
28O	1	7	221020	 But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the LORD their God. I will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen." 
28O	1	8	221030	 When she had weaned No Mercy, she conceived and bore a son. 
28O	1	9	221040	 And the LORD said, "Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God." 
28O	1	10	221050	 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, "Children of the living God." 
28O	1	11	221060	 And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel. 
28O	2	1	221070	 Say to your brothers, "You are my people," and to your sisters, "You have received mercy." 
28O	2	2	221080	 "Plead with your mother, plead-- for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband-- that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts; 
28O	2	3	221090	 lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and make her like a parched land, and kill her with thirst. 
28O	2	4	221100	 Upon her children also I will have no mercy, because they are children of whoredom. 
28O	2	5	221110	 For their mother has played the whore; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.' 
28O	2	6	221120	 Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths. 
28O	2	7	221130	 She shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and she shall seek them but shall not find them. Then she shall say, 'I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now.' 
28O	2	8	221140	 And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished on her silver and gold, which they used for Baal. 
28O	2	9	221150	 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness. 
28O	2	10	221160	 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall rescue her out of my hand. 
28O	2	11	221170	 And I will put an end to all her mirth, her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts. 
28O	2	12	221180	 And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, 'These are my wages, which my lovers have given me.' I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them. 
28O	2	13	221190	 And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals when she burned offerings to them and adorned herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers and forgot me, declares the LORD. 
28O	2	14	221200	 "Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. 
28O	2	15	221210	 And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt. 
28O	2	16	221220	 "And in that day, declares the LORD, you will call me 'My Husband,' and no longer will you call me 'My Baal.' 
28O	2	17	221230	 For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more. 
28O	2	18	221240	 And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety. 
28O	2	19	221250	 And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. 
28O	2	20	221260	 I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the LORD. 
28O	2	21	221270	 "And in that day I will answer, declares the LORD, I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth, 
28O	2	22	221280	 and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil, and they shall answer Jezreel, 
28O	2	23	221290	 and I will sow her for myself in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, 'You are my people'; and he shall say, 'You are my God.'" 
28O	3	1	221300	 And the LORD said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins." 
28O	3	2	221310	 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley. 
28O	3	3	221320	 And I said to her, "You must dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you." 
28O	3	4	221330	 For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods. 
28O	3	5	221340	 Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the LORD and to his goodness in the latter days. 
28O	4	1	221350	 Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land; 
28O	4	2	221360	 there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed. 
28O	4	3	221370	 Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it languish, and also the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens, and even the fish of the sea are taken away. 
28O	4	4	221380	 Yet let no one contend, and let none accuse, for with you is my contention, O priest. 
28O	4	5	221390	 You shall stumble by day; the prophet also shall stumble with you by night; and I will destroy your mother. 
28O	4	6	221400	 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. 
28O	4	7	221410	 The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame. 
28O	4	8	221420	 They feed on the sin of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity. 
28O	4	9	221430	 And it shall be like people, like priest; I will punish them for their ways and repay them for their deeds. 
28O	4	10	221440	 They shall eat, but not be satisfied; they shall play the whore, but not multiply, because they have forsaken the LORD to cherish 
28O	4	11	221450	 whoredom, wine, and new wine, which take away the understanding. 
28O	4	12	221460	 My people inquire of a piece of wood, and their walking staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the whore. 
28O	4	13	221470	 They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the whore, and your brides commit adultery. 
28O	4	14	221480	 I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with prostitutes and sacrifice with cult prostitutes, and a people without understanding shall come to ruin. 
28O	4	15	221490	 Though you play the whore, O Israel, let not Judah become guilty. Enter not into Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, and swear not, "As the LORD lives." 
28O	4	16	221500	 Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the LORD now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture? 
28O	4	17	221510	 Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone. 
28O	4	18	221520	 When their drink is gone, they give themselves to whoring; their rulers dearly love shame. 
28O	4	19	221530	 A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices. 
28O	5	1	221540	 Hear this, O priests! Pay attention, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For the judgment is for you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor. 
28O	5	2	221550	 And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter, but I will discipline all of them. 
28O	5	3	221560	 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore; Israel is defiled. 
28O	5	4	221570	 Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not the LORD. 
28O	5	5	221580	 The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt; Judah also shall stumble with them. 
28O	5	6	221590	 With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the LORD, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them. 
28O	5	7	221600	 They have dealt faithlessly with the LORD; for they have borne alien children. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields. 
28O	5	8	221610	 Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm at Beth-aven; we follow you, O Benjamin! 
28O	5	9	221620	 Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure. 
28O	5	10	221630	 The princes of Judah have become like those who move the landmark; upon them I will pour out my wrath like water. 
28O	5	11	221640	 Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after filth. 
28O	5	12	221650	 But I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like dry rot to the house of Judah. 
28O	5	13	221660	 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound. 
28O	5	14	221670	 For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and no one shall rescue. 
28O	5	15	221680	 I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me. 
28O	6	1	221690	 "Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up. 
28O	6	2	221700	 After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him. 
28O	6	3	221710	 Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth." 
28O	6	4	221720	 What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away. 
28O	6	5	221730	 Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light. 
28O	6	6	221740	 For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. 
28O	6	7	221750	 But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me. 
28O	6	8	221760	 Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood. 
28O	6	9	221770	 As robbers lie in wait for a man, so the priests band together; they murder on the way to Shechem; they commit villainy. 
28O	6	10	221780	 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's whoredom is there; Israel is defiled. 
28O	6	11	221790	 For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore the fortunes of my people. 
28O	7	1	221800	 When I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria; for they deal falsely; the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside. 
28O	7	2	221810	 But they do not consider that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face. 
28O	7	3	221820	 By their evil they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery. 
28O	7	4	221830	 They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened. 
28O	7	5	221840	 On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers. 
28O	7	6	221850	 For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire. 
28O	7	7	221860	 All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen, and none of them calls upon me. 
28O	7	8	221870	 Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned. 
28O	7	9	221880	 Strangers devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not. 
28O	7	10	221890	 The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him, for all this. 
28O	7	11	221900	 Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria. 
28O	7	12	221910	 As they go, I will spread over them my net; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation. 
28O	7	13	221920	 Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me. 
28O	7	14	221930	 They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; for grain and wine they gash themselves; they rebel against me. 
28O	7	15	221940	 Although I trained and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me. 
28O	7	16	221950	 They return, but not upward; they are like a treacherous bow; their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. 
28O	8	1	221960	 Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law. 
28O	8	2	221970	 To me they cry, "My God, we--Israel--know you." 
28O	8	3	221980	 Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him. 
28O	8	4	221990	 They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction. 
28O	8	5	222000	 I have spurned your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? 
28O	8	6	222010	 For it is from Israel; a craftsman made it; it is not God. The calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces. 
28O	8	7	222020	 For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it. 
28O	8	8	222030	 Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel. 
28O	8	9	222040	 For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey wandering alone; Ephraim has hired lovers. 
28O	8	10	222050	 Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And the king and princes shall soon writhe because of the tribute. 
28O	8	11	222060	 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they have become to him altars for sinning. 
28O	8	12	222070	 Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing. 
28O	8	13	222080	 As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt. 
28O	8	14	222090	 For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour her strongholds. 
28O	9	1	222100	 Rejoice not, O Israel! Exult not like the peoples; for you have played the whore, forsaking your God. You have loved a prostitute's wages on all threshing floors. 
28O	9	2	222110	 Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them. 
28O	9	3	222120	 They shall not remain in the land of the LORD, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria. 
28O	9	4	222130	 They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the LORD, and their sacrifices shall not please him. It shall be like mourners' bread to them; all who eat of it shall be defiled; for their bread shall be for their hunger only; it shall not come to the house of the LORD. 
28O	9	5	222140	 What will you do on the day of the appointed festival, and on the day of the feast of the LORD? 
28O	9	6	222150	 For behold, they are going away from destruction; but Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents. 
28O	9	7	222160	 The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred. 
28O	9	8	222170	 The prophet is the watchman of Ephraim with my God; yet a fowler's snare is on all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God. 
28O	9	9	222180	 They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins. 
28O	9	10	222190	 Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved. 
28O	9	11	222200	 Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird-- no birth, no pregnancy, no conception! 
28O	9	12	222210	 Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them! 
28O	9	13	222220	 Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow; but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter. 
28O	9	14	222230	 Give them, O LORD-- what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 
28O	9	15	222240	 Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels. 
28O	9	16	222250	 Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, I will put their beloved children to death. 
28O	9	17	222260	 My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations. 
28O	10	1	222270	 Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more his fruit increased, the more altars he built; as his country improved, he improved his pillars. 
28O	10	2	222280	 Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and destroy their pillars. 
28O	10	3	222290	 For now they will say: "We have no king, for we do not fear the LORD; and a king--what could he do for us?" 
28O	10	4	222300	 They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. 
28O	10	5	222310	 The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests-- those who rejoiced over it and over its glory-- for it has departed from them. 
28O	10	6	222320	 The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria as tribute to the great king. Ephraim shall be put to shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his idol. 
28O	10	7	222330	 Samaria's king shall perish like a twig on the face of the waters. 
28O	10	8	222340	 The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. Thorn and thistle shall grow up on their altars, and they shall say to the mountains, "Cover us," and to the hills, "Fall on us." 
28O	10	9	222350	 From the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel; there they have continued. Shall not the war against the unjust overtake them in Gibeah? 
28O	10	10	222360	 When I please, I will discipline them, and nations shall be gathered against them when they are bound up for their double iniquity. 
28O	10	11	222370	 Ephraim was a trained calf that loved to thresh, and I spared her fair neck; but I will put Ephraim to the yoke; Judah must plow; Jacob must harrow for himself. 
28O	10	12	222380	 Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you. 
28O	10	13	222390	 You have plowed iniquity; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your warriors, 
28O	10	14	222400	 therefore the tumult of war shall arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle; mothers were dashed in pieces with their children. 
28O	10	15	222410	 Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great evil. At dawn the king of Israel shall be utterly cut off. 
28O	11	1	222420	 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. 
28O	11	2	222430	 The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols. 
28O	11	3	222440	 Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up by their arms, but they did not know that I healed them. 
28O	11	4	222450	 I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them. 
28O	11	5	222460	 They shall not return to the land of Egypt, but Assyria shall be their king, because they have refused to return to me. 
28O	11	6	222470	 The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them because of their own counsels. 
28O	11	7	222480	 My people are bent on turning away from me, and though they call out to the Most High, he shall not raise them up at all. 
28O	11	8	222490	 How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender. 
28O	11	9	222500	 I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath. 
28O	11	10	222510	 They shall go after the LORD; he will roar like a lion; when he roars, his children shall come trembling from the west; 
28O	11	11	222520	 they shall come trembling like birds from Egypt, and like doves from the land of Assyria, and I will return them to their homes, declares the LORD. 
28O	11	12	222530	 Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One. 
28O	12	1	222540	 Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt. 
28O	12	2	222550	 The LORD has an indictment against Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways; he will repay him according to his deeds. 
28O	12	3	222560	 In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he strove with God. 
28O	12	4	222570	 He strove with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought his favor. He met God at Bethel, and there God spoke with us-- 
28O	12	5	222580	 the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD is his memorial name: 
28O	12	6	222590	 "So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God." 
28O	12	7	222600	 A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress. 
28O	12	8	222610	 Ephraim has said, "Ah, but I am rich; I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they cannot find in me iniquity or sin." 
28O	12	9	222620	 I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast. 
28O	12	10	222630	 I spoke to the prophets; it was I who multiplied visions, and through the prophets gave parables. 
28O	12	11	222640	 If there is iniquity in Gilead, they shall surely come to nothing: in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls; their altars also are like stone heaps on the furrows of the field. 
28O	12	12	222650	 Jacob fled to the land of Aram; there Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he guarded sheep. 
28O	12	13	222660	 By a prophet the LORD brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was guarded. 
28O	12	14	222670	 Ephraim has given bitter provocation; so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him and will repay him for his disgraceful deeds. 
28O	13	1	222680	 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died. 
28O	13	2	222690	 And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of them, "Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!" 
28O	13	3	222700	 Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window. 
28O	13	4	222710	 But I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior. 
28O	13	5	222720	 It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought; 
28O	13	6	222730	 but when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me. 
28O	13	7	222740	 So I am to them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk beside the way. 
28O	13	8	222750	 I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs; I will tear open their breast, and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast would rip them open. 
28O	13	9	222760	 He destroys you, O Israel, for you are against me, against your helper. 
28O	13	10	222770	 Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities? Where are all your rulers-- those of whom you said, "Give me a king and princes"? 
28O	13	11	222780	 I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath. 
28O	13	12	222790	 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is kept in store. 
28O	13	13	222800	 The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son, for at the right time he does not present himself at the opening of the womb. 
28O	13	14	222810	 Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes. 
28O	13	15	222820	 Though he may flourish among his brothers, the east wind, the wind of the LORD, shall come, rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall dry up; his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing. 
28O	13	16	222830	 Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open. 
28O	14	1	222840	 Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity. 
28O	14	2	222850	 Take with you words and return to the LORD; say to him, "Take away all iniquity; accept what is good, and we will pay with bulls the vows of our lips. 
28O	14	3	222860	 Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses; and we will say no more, 'Our God,' to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy." 
28O	14	4	222870	 I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them. 
28O	14	5	222880	 I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon; 
28O	14	6	222890	 his shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like Lebanon. 
28O	14	7	222900	 They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow; they shall flourish like the grain; they shall blossom like the vine; their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon. 
28O	14	8	222910	 O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; from me comes your fruit. 
28O	14	9	222920	 Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the LORD are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them. 
29O	1	1	222930	 The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel: 
29O	1	2	222940	 Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers? 
29O	1	3	222950	 Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation. 
29O	1	4	222960	 What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten. 
29O	1	5	222970	 Awake, you drunkards, and weep, and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth. 
29O	1	6	222980	 For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness. 
29O	1	7	222990	 It has laid waste my vine and splintered my fig tree; it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down; their branches are made white. 
29O	1	8	223000	 Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth. 
29O	1	9	223010	 The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, the ministers of the LORD. 
29O	1	10	223020	 The fields are destroyed, the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil languishes. 
29O	1	11	223030	 Be ashamed, O tillers of the soil; wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. 
29O	1	12	223040	 The vine dries up; the fig tree languishes. Pomegranate, palm, and apple, all the trees of the field are dried up, and gladness dries up from the children of man. 
29O	1	13	223050	 Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God. 
29O	1	14	223060	 Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD. 
29O	1	15	223070	 Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes. 
29O	1	16	223080	 Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God? 
29O	1	17	223090	 The seed shrivels under the clods; the storehouses are desolate; the granaries are torn down because the grain has dried up. 
29O	1	18	223100	 How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because there is no pasture for them; even the flocks of sheep suffer. 
29O	1	19	223110	 To you, O LORD, I call. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has burned all the trees of the field. 
29O	1	20	223120	 Even the beasts of the field pant for you because the water brooks are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness. 
29O	2	1	223130	 Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming; it is near, 
29O	2	2	223140	 a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations. 
29O	2	3	223150	 Fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them. 
29O	2	4	223160	 Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, and like war horses they run. 
29O	2	5	223170	 As with the rumbling of chariots, they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a powerful army drawn up for battle. 
29O	2	6	223180	 Before them peoples are in anguish; all faces grow pale. 
29O	2	7	223190	 Like warriors they charge; like soldiers they scale the wall. They march each on his way; they do not swerve from their paths. 
29O	2	8	223200	 They do not jostle one another; each marches in his path; they burst through the weapons and are not halted. 
29O	2	9	223210	 They leap upon the city, they run upon the walls, they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like a thief. 
29O	2	10	223220	 The earth quakes before them; the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. 
29O	2	11	223230	 The LORD utters his voice before his army, for his camp is exceedingly great; he who executes his word is powerful. For the day of the LORD is great and very awesome; who can endure it? 
29O	2	12	223240	 "Yet even now," declares the LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; 
29O	2	13	223250	 and rend your hearts and not your garments." Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster. 
29O	2	14	223260	 Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the LORD your God? 
29O	2	15	223270	 Blow the trumpet in Zion; consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly; 
29O	2	16	223280	 gather the people. Consecrate the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber. 
29O	2	17	223290	 Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep and say, "Spare your people, O LORD, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'" 
29O	2	18	223300	 Then the LORD became jealous for his land and had pity on his people. 
29O	2	19	223310	 The LORD answered and said to his people, "Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations. 
29O	2	20	223320	 "I will remove the northerner far from you, and drive him into a parched and desolate land, his vanguard into the eastern sea, and his rear guard into the western sea; the stench and foul smell of him will rise, for he has done great things. 
29O	2	21	223330	 "Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice, for the LORD has done great things! 
29O	2	22	223340	 Fear not, you beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness are green; the tree bears its fruit; the fig tree and vine give their full yield. 
29O	2	23	223350	 "Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before. 
29O	2	24	223360	 "The threshing floors shall be full of grain; the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. 
29O	2	25	223370	 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you. 
29O	2	26	223380	 "You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame. 
29O	2	27	223390	 You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame. 
29O	2	28	223400	 "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. 
29O	2	29	223410	 Even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit. 
29O	2	30	223420	 "And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. 
29O	2	31	223430	 The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. 
29O	2	32	223440	 And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the LORD calls. 
29O	3	1	223450	 "For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, 
29O	3	2	223460	 I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land, 
29O	3	3	223470	 and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it. 
29O	3	4	223480	 "What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily. 
29O	3	5	223490	 For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples. 
29O	3	6	223500	 You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border. 
29O	3	7	223510	 Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your own head. 
29O	3	8	223520	 I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the LORD has spoken." 
29O	3	9	223530	 Proclaim this among the nations: Consecrate for war; stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near; let them come up. 
29O	3	10	223540	 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, "I am a warrior." 
29O	3	11	223550	 Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD. 
29O	3	12	223560	 Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. 
29O	3	13	223570	 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their evil is great. 
29O	3	14	223580	 Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. 
29O	3	15	223590	 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. 
29O	3	16	223600	 The LORD roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth quake. But the LORD is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel. 
29O	3	17	223610	 "So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it. 
29O	3	18	223620	 "And in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the streambeds of Judah shall flow with water; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD and water the Valley of Shittim. 
29O	3	19	223630	 "Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. 
29O	3	20	223640	 But Judah shall be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem to all generations. 
29O	3	21	223650	 I will avenge their blood, blood I have not avenged, for the LORD dwells in Zion." 
30O	1	1	223660	 The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. 
30O	1	2	223670	 And he said: "The LORD roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers." 
30O	1	3	223680	 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. 
30O	1	4	223690	 So I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad. 
30O	1	5	223700	 I will break the gate-bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from Beth-eden; and the people of Syria shall go into exile to Kir," says the LORD. 
30O	1	6	223710	 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they carried into exile a whole people to deliver them up to Edom. 
30O	1	7	223720	 So I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour her strongholds. 
30O	1	8	223730	 I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; I will turn my hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish," says the Lord GOD. 
30O	1	9	223740	 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they delivered up a whole people to Edom, and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood. 
30O	1	10	223750	 So I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour her strongholds." 
30O	1	11	223760	 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever. 
30O	1	12	223770	 So I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah." 
30O	1	13	223780	 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead, that they might enlarge their border. 
30O	1	14	223790	 So I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour her strongholds, with shouting on the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind; 
30O	1	15	223800	 and their king shall go into exile, he and his princes together," says the LORD. 
30O	2	1	223810	 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom. 
30O	2	2	223820	 So I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth, and Moab shall die amid uproar, amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet; 
30O	2	3	223830	 I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will kill all its princes with him," says the LORD. 
30O	2	4	223840	 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked. 
30O	2	5	223850	 So I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem." 
30O	2	6	223860	 Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals-- 
30O	2	7	223870	 those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same girl, so that my holy name is profaned; 
30O	2	8	223880	 they lay themselves down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined. 
30O	2	9	223890	 "Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars and who was as strong as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath. 
30O	2	10	223900	 Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. 
30O	2	11	223910	 And I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?" declares the LORD. 
30O	2	12	223920	 "But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, 'You shall not prophesy.' 
30O	2	13	223930	 "Behold, I will press you down in your place, as a cart full of sheaves presses down. 
30O	2	14	223940	 Flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not retain his strength, nor shall the mighty save his life; 
30O	2	15	223950	 he who handles the bow shall not stand, and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself, nor shall he who rides the horse save his life; 
30O	2	16	223960	 and he who is stout of heart among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day," declares the LORD. 
30O	3	1	223970	 Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt: 
30O	3	2	223980	 "You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. 
30O	3	3	223990	 "Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet? 
30O	3	4	224000	 Does a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out from his den, if he has taken nothing? 
30O	3	5	224010	 Does a bird fall in a snare on the earth, when there is no trap for it? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when it has taken nothing? 
30O	3	6	224020	 Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the LORD has done it? 
30O	3	7	224030	 "For the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets. 
30O	3	8	224040	 The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken; who can but prophesy?" 
30O	3	9	224050	 Proclaim to the strongholds in Ashdod and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt, and say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great tumults within her, and the oppressed in her midst." 
30O	3	10	224060	 "They do not know how to do right," declares the LORD, "those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds." 
30O	3	11	224070	 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "An adversary shall surround the land and bring down your defenses from you, and your strongholds shall be plundered." 
30O	3	12	224080	 Thus says the LORD: "As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the people of Israel who dwell in Samaria be rescued, with the corner of a couch and part of a bed. 
30O	3	13	224090	 "Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob," declares the Lord GOD, the God of hosts, 
30O	3	14	224100	 "that on the day I punish Israel for his transgressions, I will punish the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground. 
30O	3	15	224110	 I will strike the winter house along with the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall come to an end," declares the LORD. 
30O	4	1	224120	 "Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, 'Bring, that we may drink!' 
30O	4	2	224130	 The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness that, behold, the days are coming upon you, when they shall take you away with hooks, even the last of you with fishhooks. 
30O	4	3	224140	 And you shall go out through the breaches, each one straight ahead; and you shall be cast out into Harmon," declares the LORD. 
30O	4	4	224150	 "Come to Bethel, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days; 
30O	4	5	224160	 offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them; for so you love to do, O people of Israel!" declares the Lord GOD. 
30O	4	6	224170	 "I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to me," declares the LORD. 
30O	4	7	224180	 "I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain on one city, and send no rain on another city; one field would have rain, and the field on which it did not rain would wither; 
30O	4	8	224190	 so two or three cities would wander to another city to drink water, and would not be satisfied; yet you did not return to me," declares the LORD. 
30O	4	9	224200	 "I struck you with blight and mildew; your many gardens and your vineyards, your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured; yet you did not return to me," declares the LORD. 
30O	4	10	224210	 "I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, and carried away your horses, and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils; yet you did not return to me," declares the LORD. 
30O	4	11	224220	 "I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me," declares the LORD. 
30O	4	12	224230	 "Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!" 
30O	4	13	224240	 For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth-- the LORD, the God of hosts, is his name! 
30O	5	1	224250	 Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel: 
30O	5	2	224260	 "Fallen, no more to rise, is the virgin Israel; forsaken on her land, with none to raise her up." 
30O	5	3	224270	 For thus says the Lord GOD: "The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went out a hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel." 
30O	5	4	224280	 For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: "Seek me and live; 
30O	5	5	224290	 but do not seek Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal or cross over to Beersheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nothing." 
30O	5	6	224300	 Seek the LORD and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel, 
30O	5	7	224310	 O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth! 
30O	5	8	224320	 He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the LORD is his name; 
30O	5	9	224330	 who makes destruction flash forth against the strong, so that destruction comes upon the fortress. 
30O	5	10	224340	 They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth. 
30O	5	11	224350	 Therefore because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine. 
30O	5	12	224360	 For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins-- you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate. 
30O	5	13	224370	 Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time. 
30O	5	14	224380	 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said. 
30O	5	15	224390	 Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph. 
30O	5	16	224400	 Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord: "In all the squares there shall be wailing, and in all the streets they shall say, 'Alas! Alas!' They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation, 
30O	5	17	224410	 and in all vineyards there shall be wailing, for I will pass through your midst," says the LORD. 
30O	5	18	224420	 Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why would you have the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light, 
30O	5	19	224430	 as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him. 
30O	5	20	224440	 Is not the day of the LORD darkness, and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it? 
30O	5	21	224450	 "I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. 
30O	5	22	224460	 Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them. 
30O	5	23	224470	 Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen. 
30O	5	24	224480	 But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. 
30O	5	25	224490	 "Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? 
30O	5	26	224500	 You shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god--your images that you made for yourselves, 
30O	5	27	224510	 and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus," says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts. 
30O	6	1	224520	 "Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel comes! 
30O	6	2	224530	 Pass over to Calneh, and see, and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory, 
30O	6	3	224540	 O you who put far away the day of disaster and bring near the seat of violence? 
30O	6	4	224550	 "Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory and stretch themselves out on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the stall, 
30O	6	5	224560	 who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and like David invent for themselves instruments of music, 
30O	6	6	224570	 who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph! 
30O	6	7	224580	 Therefore they shall now be the first of those who go into exile, and the revelry of those who stretch themselves out shall pass away." 
30O	6	8	224590	 The Lord GOD has sworn by himself, declares the LORD, the God of hosts: "I abhor the pride of Jacob and hate his strongholds, and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it." 
30O	6	9	224600	 And if ten men remain in one house, they shall die. 
30O	6	10	224610	 And when one's relative, the one who anoints him for burial, shall take him up to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, "Is there still anyone with you?" he shall say, "No"; and he shall say, "Silence! We must not mention the name of the LORD." 
30O	6	11	224620	 For behold, the LORD commands, and the great house shall be struck down into fragments, and the little house into bits. 
30O	6	12	224630	 Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood-- 
30O	6	13	224640	 you who rejoice in Lo-debar, who say, "Have we not by our own strength captured Karnaim for ourselves?" 
30O	6	14	224650	 "For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel," declares the LORD, the God of hosts; "and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah." 
30O	7	1	224660	 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. 
30O	7	2	224670	 When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, "O Lord GOD, please forgive! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!" 
30O	7	3	224680	 The LORD relented concerning this: "It shall not be," said the LORD. 
30O	7	4	224690	 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land. 
30O	7	5	224700	 Then I said, "O Lord GOD, please cease! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!" 
30O	7	6	224710	 The LORD relented concerning this: "This also shall not be," said the Lord GOD. 
30O	7	7	224720	 This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. 
30O	7	8	224730	 And the LORD said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them; 
30O	7	9	224740	 the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword." 
30O	7	10	224750	 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words. 
30O	7	11	224760	 For thus Amos has said, "'Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.'" 
30O	7	12	224770	 And Amaziah said to Amos, "O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there, 
30O	7	13	224780	 but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom." 
30O	7	14	224790	 Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, "I was no prophet, nor a prophet's son, but I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs. 
30O	7	15	224800	 But the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.' 
30O	7	16	224810	 Now therefore hear the word of the LORD. "You say, 'Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.' 
30O	7	17	224820	 Therefore thus says the LORD: "'Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided up with a measuring line; you yourself shall die in an unclean land, and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.'" 
30O	8	1	224830	 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. 
30O	8	2	224840	 And he said, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me, "The end has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass by them. 
30O	8	3	224850	 The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day," declares the Lord GOD. "So many dead bodies!" "They are thrown everywhere!" "Silence!" 
30O	8	4	224860	 Hear this, you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end, 
30O	8	5	224870	 saying, "When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances, 
30O	8	6	224880	 that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?" 
30O	8	7	224890	 The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: "Surely I will never forget any of their deeds. 
30O	8	8	224900	 Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who dwells in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?" 
30O	8	9	224910	 "And on that day," declares the Lord GOD, "I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight. 
30O	8	10	224920	 I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day. 
30O	8	11	224930	 "Behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "when I will send a famine on the land-- not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD. 
30O	8	12	224940	 They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the LORD, but they shall not find it. 
30O	8	13	224950	 "In that day the lovely virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst. 
30O	8	14	224960	 Those who swear by the Guilt of Samaria, and say, 'As your god lives, O Dan,' and, 'As the Way of Beersheba lives,' they shall fall, and never rise again." 
30O	9	1	224970	 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: "Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away; not one of them shall escape. 
30O	9	2	224980	 "If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down. 
30O	9	3	224990	 If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search them out and take them; and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them. 
30O	9	4	225000	 And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them; and I will fix my eyes upon them for evil and not for good." 
30O	9	5	225010	 The Lord GOD of hosts, he who touches the earth and it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn, and all of it rises like the Nile, and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt; 
30O	9	6	225020	 who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and founds his vault upon the earth; who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth-- the LORD is his name. 
30O	9	7	225030	 "Are you not like the Cushites to me, O people of Israel?" declares the LORD. "Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir? 
30O	9	8	225040	 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," declares the LORD. 
30O	9	9	225050	 "For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth. 
30O	9	10	225060	 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, 'Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.' 
30O	9	11	225070	 "In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old, 
30O	9	12	225080	 that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name," declares the LORD who does this. 
30O	9	13	225090	 "Behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it. 
30O	9	14	225100	 I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit. 
30O	9	15	225110	 I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that I have given them," says the LORD your God. 
31O	1	1	225120	 The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the LORD, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!" 
31O	1	2	225130	 Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you shall be utterly despised. 
31O	1	3	225140	 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, "Who will bring me down to the ground?" 
31O	1	4	225150	 Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD. 
31O	1	5	225160	 If thieves came to you, if plunderers came by night-- how you have been destroyed!-- would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? 
31O	1	6	225170	 How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out! 
31O	1	7	225180	 All your allies have driven you to your border; those at peace with you have deceived you; they have prevailed against you; those who eat your bread have set a trap beneath you-- you have no understanding. 
31O	1	8	225190	 Will I not on that day, declares the LORD, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau? 
31O	1	9	225200	 And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter. 
31O	1	10	225210	 Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever. 
31O	1	11	225220	 On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them. 
31O	1	12	225230	 But do not gloat over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; do not rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; do not boast in the day of distress. 
31O	1	13	225240	 Do not enter the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; do not gloat over his disaster in the day of his calamity; do not loot his wealth in the day of his calamity. 
31O	1	14	225250	 Do not stand at the crossroads to cut off his fugitives; do not hand over his survivors in the day of distress. 
31O	1	15	225260	 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head. 
31O	1	16	225270	 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink continually; they shall drink and swallow, and shall be as though they had never been. 
31O	1	17	225280	 But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions. 
31O	1	18	225290	 The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken. 
31O	1	19	225300	 Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah shall possess the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria, and Benjamin shall possess Gilead. 
31O	1	20	225310	 The exiles of this host of the people of Israel shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb. 
31O	1	21	225320	 Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau, and the kingdom shall be the LORD's. 
32O	1	1	225330	 Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 
32O	1	2	225340	 "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me." 
32O	1	3	225350	 But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went on board, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD. 
32O	1	4	225360	 But the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up. 
32O	1	5	225370	 Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they hurled the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep. 
32O	1	6	225380	 So the captain came and said to him, "What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call out to your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish." 
32O	1	7	225390	 And they said to one another, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. 
32O	1	8	225400	 Then they said to him, "Tell us on whose account this evil has come upon us. What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you?" 
32O	1	9	225410	 And he said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land." 
32O	1	10	225420	 Then the men were exceedingly afraid and said to him, "What is this that you have done!" For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them. 
32O	1	11	225430	 Then they said to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may quiet down for us?" For the sea grew more and more tempestuous. 
32O	1	12	225440	 He said to them, "Pick me up and hurl me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you, for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you." 
32O	1	13	225450	 Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them. 
32O	1	14	225460	 Therefore they called out to the LORD, "O LORD, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not on us innocent blood, for you, O LORD, have done as it pleased you." 
32O	1	15	225470	 So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging. 
32O	1	16	225480	 Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows. 
32O	1	17	225490	 And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. 
32O	2	1	225500	 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish, 
32O	2	2	225510	 saying, "I called out to the LORD, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice. 
32O	2	3	225520	 For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billows passed over me. 
32O	2	4	225530	 Then I said, 'I am driven away from your sight; yet I shall again look upon your holy temple.' 
32O	2	5	225540	 The waters closed in over me to take my life; the deep surrounded me; weeds were wrapped about my head 
32O	2	6	225550	 at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever; yet you brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God. 
32O	2	7	225560	 When my life was fainting away, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple. 
32O	2	8	225570	 Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love. 
32O	2	9	225580	 But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the LORD!" 
32O	2	10	225590	 And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land. 
32O	3	1	225600	 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, 
32O	3	2	225610	 "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you." 
32O	3	3	225620	 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey in breadth. 
32O	3	4	225630	 Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!" 
32O	3	5	225640	 And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them. 
32O	3	6	225650	 The word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 
32O	3	7	225660	 And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, "By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, 
32O	3	8	225670	 but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. 
32O	3	9	225680	 Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish." 
32O	3	10	225690	 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it. 
32O	4	1	225700	 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. 
32O	4	2	225710	 And he prayed to the LORD and said, "O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster. 
32O	4	3	225720	 Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live." 
32O	4	4	225730	 And the LORD said, "Do you do well to be angry?" 
32O	4	5	225740	 Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city. 
32O	4	6	225750	 Now the LORD God appointed a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant. 
32O	4	7	225760	 But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered. 
32O	4	8	225770	 When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, "It is better for me to die than to live." 
32O	4	9	225780	 But God said to Jonah, "Do you do well to be angry for the plant?" And he said, "Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die." 
32O	4	10	225790	 And the LORD said, "You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night. 
32O	4	11	225800	 And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?" 
33O	1	1	225810	 The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. 
33O	1	2	225820	 Hear, you peoples, all of you; pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it, and let the Lord GOD be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. 
33O	1	3	225830	 For behold, the LORD is coming out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth. 
33O	1	4	225840	 And the mountains will melt under him, and the valleys will split open, like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place. 
33O	1	5	225850	 All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem? 
33O	1	6	225860	 Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards, and I will pour down her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations. 
33O	1	7	225870	 All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces, all her wages shall be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay waste, for from the fee of a prostitute she gathered them, and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return. 
33O	1	8	225880	 For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches. 
33O	1	9	225890	 For her wound is incurable, and it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem. 
33O	1	10	225900	 Tell it not in Gath; weep not at all; in Beth-le-aphrah roll yourselves in the dust. 
33O	1	11	225910	 Pass on your way, inhabitants of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame; the inhabitants of Zaanan do not come out; the lamentation of Beth-ezel shall take away from you its standing place. 
33O	1	12	225920	 For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, because disaster has come down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem. 
33O	1	13	225930	 Harness the steeds to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish; it was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for in you were found the transgressions of Israel. 
33O	1	14	225940	 Therefore you shall give parting gifts to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel. 
33O	1	15	225950	 I will again bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come to Adullam. 
33O	1	16	225960	 Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair, for the children of your delight; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they shall go from you into exile. 
33O	2	1	225970	 Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand. 
33O	2	2	225980	 They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance. 
33O	2	3	225990	 Therefore thus says the LORD: behold, against this family I am devising disaster, from which you cannot remove your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be a time of disaster. 
33O	2	4	226000	 In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, "We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! To an apostate he allots our fields." 
33O	2	5	226010	 Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD. 
33O	2	6	226020	 "Do not preach"--thus they preach-- "one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us." 
33O	2	7	226030	 Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Has the LORD grown impatient? Are these his deeds? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly? 
33O	2	8	226040	 But lately my people have risen up as an enemy; you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war. 
33O	2	9	226050	 The women of my people you drive out from their delightful houses; from their young children you take away my splendor forever. 
33O	2	10	226060	 Arise and go, for this is no place to rest, because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction. 
33O	2	11	226070	 If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, "I will preach to you of wine and strong drink," he would be the preacher for this people! 
33O	2	12	226080	 I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob; I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men. 
33O	2	13	226090	 He who opens the breach goes up before them; they break through and pass the gate, going out by it. Their king passes on before them, the LORD at their head. 
33O	3	1	226100	 And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice?-- 
33O	3	2	226110	 you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones, 
33O	3	3	226120	 who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones in pieces and chop them up like meat in a pot, like flesh in a cauldron. 
33O	3	4	226130	 Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil. 
33O	3	5	226140	 Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry "Peace" when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths. 
33O	3	6	226150	 Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. The sun shall go down on the prophets, and the day shall be black over them; 
33O	3	7	226160	 the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God. 
33O	3	8	226170	 But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin. 
33O	3	9	226180	 Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and make crooked all that is straight, 
33O	3	10	226190	 who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity. 
33O	3	11	226200	 Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on the LORD and say, "Is not the LORD in the midst of us? No disaster shall come upon us." 
33O	3	12	226210	 Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height. 
33O	4	1	226220	 It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and it shall be lifted up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it, 
33O	4	2	226230	 and many nations shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 
33O	4	3	226240	 He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations far away; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore; 
33O	4	4	226250	 but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken. 
33O	4	5	226260	 For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever. 
33O	4	6	226270	 In that day, declares the LORD, I will assemble the lame and gather those who have been driven away and those whom I have afflicted; 
33O	4	7	226280	 and the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore. 
33O	4	8	226290	 And you, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, to you shall it come, the former dominion shall come, kingship for the daughter of Jerusalem. 
33O	4	9	226300	 Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pain seized you like a woman in labor? 
33O	4	10	226310	 Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you shall go out from the city and dwell in the open country; you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies. 
33O	4	11	226320	 Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, "Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion." 
33O	4	12	226330	 But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD; they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor. 
33O	4	13	226340	 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze; you shall beat in pieces many peoples; and shall devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth. 
33O	5	1	226350	 Now muster your troops, O daughter of troops; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike the judge of Israel on the cheek. 
33O	5	2	226360	 But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days. 
33O	5	3	226370	 Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of his brothers shall return to the people of Israel. 
33O	5	4	226380	 And he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth. 
33O	5	5	226390	 And he shall be their peace. When the Assyrian comes into our land and treads in our palaces, then we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight princes of men; 
33O	5	6	226400	 they shall shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod at its entrances; and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian when he comes into our land and treads within our border. 
33O	5	7	226410	 Then the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which delay not for a man nor wait for the children of man. 
33O	5	8	226420	 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver. 
33O	5	9	226430	 Your hand shall be lifted up over your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off. 
33O	5	10	226440	 And in that day, declares the LORD, I will cut off your horses from among you and will destroy your chariots; 
33O	5	11	226450	 and I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds; 
33O	5	12	226460	 and I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more tellers of fortunes; 
33O	5	13	226470	 and I will cut off your carved images and your pillars from among you, and you shall bow down no more to the work of your hands; 
33O	5	14	226480	 and I will root out your Asherah images from among you and destroy your cities. 
33O	5	15	226490	 And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey. 
33O	6	1	226500	 Hear what the LORD says: Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. 
33O	6	2	226510	 Hear, you mountains, the indictment of the LORD, and you enduring foundations of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against his people, and he will contend with Israel. 
33O	6	3	226520	 "O my people, what have I done to you? How have I wearied you? Answer me! 
33O	6	4	226530	 For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. 
33O	6	5	226540	 O my people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the saving acts of the LORD." 
33O	6	6	226550	 "With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? 
33O	6	7	226560	 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?" 
33O	6	8	226570	 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? 
33O	6	9	226580	 The voice of the LORD cries to the city-- and it is sound wisdom to fear your name: "Hear of the rod and of him who appointed it! 
33O	6	10	226590	 Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed? 
33O	6	11	226600	 Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights? 
33O	6	12	226610	 Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. 
33O	6	13	226620	 Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow, making you desolate because of your sins. 
33O	6	14	226630	 You shall eat, but not be satisfied, and there shall be hunger within you; you shall put away, but not preserve, and what you preserve I will give to the sword. 
33O	6	15	226640	 You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine. 
33O	6	16	226650	 For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of my people." 
33O	7	1	226660	 Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that my soul desires. 
33O	7	2	226670	 The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net. 
33O	7	3	226680	 Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together. 
33O	7	4	226690	 The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand. 
33O	7	5	226700	 Put no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms; 
33O	7	6	226710	 for the son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house. 
33O	7	7	226720	 But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me. 
33O	7	8	226730	 Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me. 
33O	7	9	226740	 I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall look upon his vindication. 
33O	7	10	226750	 Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, "Where is the LORD your God?" My eyes will look upon her; now she will be trampled down like the mire of the streets. 
33O	7	11	226760	 A day for the building of your walls! In that day the boundary shall be far extended. 
33O	7	12	226770	 In that day they will come to you, from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain. 
33O	7	13	226780	 But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their deeds. 
33O	7	14	226790	 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old. 
33O	7	15	226800	 As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things. 
33O	7	16	226810	 The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf; 
33O	7	17	226820	 they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the LORD our God, and they shall be in fear of you. 
33O	7	18	226830	 Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love. 
33O	7	19	226840	 He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. 
33O	7	20	226850	 You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old. 
34O	1	1	226860	 An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh. 
34O	1	2	226870	 The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and wrathful; the LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies. 
34O	1	3	226880	 The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, and the LORD will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. 
34O	1	4	226890	 He rebukes the sea and makes it dry; he dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither; the bloom of Lebanon withers. 
34O	1	5	226900	 The mountains quake before him; the hills melt; the earth heaves before him, the world and all who dwell in it. 
34O	1	6	226910	 Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken into pieces by him. 
34O	1	7	226920	 The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him. 
34O	1	8	226930	 But with an overflowing flood he will make a complete end of the adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness. 
34O	1	9	226940	 What do you plot against the LORD? He will make a complete end; trouble will not rise up a second time. 
34O	1	10	226950	 For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried. 
34O	1	11	226960	 From you came one who plotted evil against the LORD, a worthless counselor. 
34O	1	12	226970	 Thus says the LORD, "Though they are at full strength and many, they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more. 
34O	1	13	226980	 And now I will break his yoke from off you and will burst your bonds apart." 
34O	1	14	226990	 The LORD has given commandment about you: "No more shall your name be perpetuated; from the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the metal image. I will make your grave, for you are vile." 
34O	1	15	227000	 Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows, for never again shall the worthless pass through you; he is utterly cut off. 
34O	2	1	227010	 The scatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; dress for battle; collect all your strength. 
34O	2	2	227020	 For the LORD is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have plundered them and ruined their branches. 
34O	2	3	227030	 The shield of his mighty men is red; his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots come with flashing metal on the day he musters them; the cypress spears are brandished. 
34O	2	4	227040	 The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches; they dart like lightning. 
34O	2	5	227050	 He remembers his officers; they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall; the siege tower is set up. 
34O	2	6	227060	 The river gates are opened; the palace melts away; 
34O	2	7	227070	 its mistress is stripped; she is carried off, her slave girls lamenting, moaning like doves and beating their breasts. 
34O	2	8	227080	 Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. "Halt! Halt!" they cry, but none turns back. 
34O	2	9	227090	 Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of the treasure or of the wealth of all precious things. 
34O	2	10	227100	 Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts melt and knees tremble; anguish is in all loins; all faces grow pale! 
34O	2	11	227110	 Where is the lions' den, the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and lioness went, where his cubs were, with none to disturb? 
34O	2	12	227120	 The lion tore enough for his cubs and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh. 
34O	2	13	227130	 Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard. 
34O	3	1	227140	 Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and plunder-- no end to the prey! 
34O	3	2	227150	 The crack of the whip, and rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot! 
34O	3	3	227160	 Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, hosts of slain, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end-- they stumble over the bodies! 
34O	3	4	227170	 And all for the countless whorings of the prostitute, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her whorings, and peoples with her charms. 
34O	3	5	227180	 Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will make nations look at your nakedness and kingdoms at your shame. 
34O	3	6	227190	 I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle. 
34O	3	7	227200	 And all who look at you will shrink from you and say, Wasted is Nineveh; who will grieve for her? Where shall I seek comforters for you? 
34O	3	8	227210	 Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water around her, her rampart a sea, and water her wall? 
34O	3	9	227220	 Cush was her strength; Egypt too, and that without limit; Put and the Libyans were her helpers. 
34O	3	10	227230	 Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity; her infants were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains. 
34O	3	11	227240	 You also will be drunken; you will go into hiding; you will seek a refuge from the enemy. 
34O	3	12	227250	 All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs-- if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater. 
34O	3	13	227260	 Behold, your troops are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has devoured your bars. 
34O	3	14	227270	 Draw water for the siege; strengthen your forts; go into the clay; tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold! 
34O	3	15	227280	 There will the fire devour you; the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the locust. Multiply yourselves like the locust; multiply like the grasshopper! 
34O	3	16	227290	 You increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust spreads its wings and flies away. 
34O	3	17	227300	 Your princes are like grasshoppers, your scribes like clouds of locusts settling on the fences in a day of cold-- when the sun rises, they fly away; no one knows where they are. 
34O	3	18	227310	 Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria; your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains with none to gather them. 
34O	3	19	227320	 There is no easing your hurt; your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not come your unceasing evil? 
35O	1	1	227330	 The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw. 
35O	1	2	227340	 O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you "Violence!" and you will not save? 
35O	1	3	227350	 Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise. 
35O	1	4	227360	 So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted. 
35O	1	5	227370	 "Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told. 
35O	1	6	227380	 For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own. 
35O	1	7	227390	 They are dreaded and fearsome; their justice and dignity go forth from themselves. 
35O	1	8	227400	 Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on. Their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour. 
35O	1	9	227410	 They all come for violence, all their faces forward. They gather captives like sand. 
35O	1	10	227420	 At kings they scoff, and at rulers they laugh. They laugh at every fortress, for they pile up earth and take it. 
35O	1	11	227430	 Then they sweep by like the wind and go on, guilty men, whose own might is their god!" 
35O	1	12	227440	 Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof. 
35O	1	13	227450	 You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he? 
35O	1	14	227460	 You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler. 
35O	1	15	227470	 He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net; he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is glad. 
35O	1	16	227480	 Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to his dragnet; for by them he lives in luxury, and his food is rich. 
35O	1	17	227490	 Is he then to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly killing nations forever? 
35O	2	1	227500	 I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint. 
35O	2	2	227510	 And the LORD answered me: "Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. 
35O	2	3	227520	 For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end--it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay. 
35O	2	4	227530	 "Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith. 
35O	2	5	227540	 "Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples." 
35O	2	6	227550	 Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, "Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own-- for how long?-- and loads himself with pledges!" 
35O	2	7	227560	 Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be spoil for them. 
35O	2	8	227570	 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them. 
35O	2	9	227580	 "Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm! 
35O	2	10	227590	 You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life. 
35O	2	11	227600	 For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the woodwork respond. 
35O	2	12	227610	 "Woe to him who builds a town with blood and founds a city on iniquity! 
35O	2	13	227620	 Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing? 
35O	2	14	227630	 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea. 
35O	2	15	227640	 "Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink-- you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness! 
35O	2	16	227650	 You will have your fill of shame instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision! The cup in the LORD's right hand will come around to you, and utter shame will come upon your glory! 
35O	2	17	227660	 The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them. 
35O	2	18	227670	 "What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols! 
35O	2	19	227680	 Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a silent stone, Arise! Can this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it. 
35O	2	20	227690	 But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him." 
35O	3	1	227700	 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth. 
35O	3	2	227710	 O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy. 
35O	3	3	227720	 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. His splendor covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. Selah 
35O	3	4	227730	 His brightness was like the light; rays flashed from his hand; and there he veiled his power. 
35O	3	5	227740	 Before him went pestilence, and plague followed at his heels. 
35O	3	6	227750	 He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways. 
35O	3	7	227760	 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. 
35O	3	8	227770	 Was your wrath against the rivers, O LORD? Was your anger against the rivers, or your indignation against the sea, when you rode on your horses, on your chariot of salvation? 
35O	3	9	227780	 You stripped the sheath from your bow, calling for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers. 
35O	3	10	227790	 The mountains saw you and writhed; the raging waters swept on; the deep gave forth its voice; it lifted its hands on high. 
35O	3	11	227800	 The sun and moon stood still in their place at the light of your arrows as they sped, at the flash of your glittering spear. 
35O	3	12	227810	 You marched through the earth in fury; you threshed the nations in anger. 
35O	3	13	227820	 You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked, laying him bare from thigh to neck. Selah 
35O	3	14	227830	 You pierced with his own arrows the heads of his warriors, who came like a whirlwind to scatter me, rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret. 
35O	3	15	227840	 You trampled the sea with your horses, the surging of mighty waters. 
35O	3	16	227850	 I hear, and my body trembles; my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones; my legs tremble beneath me. Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us. 
35O	3	17	227860	 Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, 
35O	3	18	227870	 yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. 
35O	3	19	227880	 GOD, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer's; he makes me tread on my high places. To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. 
36O	1	1	227890	 The word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah. 
36O	1	2	227900	 "I will utterly sweep away everything from the face of the earth," declares the LORD. 
36O	1	3	227910	 "I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, and the rubble with the wicked. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth," declares the LORD. 
36O	1	4	227920	 "I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal and the name of the idolatrous priests along with the priests, 
36O	1	5	227930	 those who bow down on the roofs to the host of the heavens, those who bow down and swear to the LORD and yet swear by Milcom, 
36O	1	6	227940	 those who have turned back from following the LORD, who do not seek the LORD or inquire of him." 
36O	1	7	227950	 Be silent before the Lord GOD! For the day of the LORD is near; the LORD has prepared a sacrifice and consecrated his guests. 
36O	1	8	227960	 And on the day of the LORD's sacrifice-- "I will punish the officials and the king's sons and all who array themselves in foreign attire. 
36O	1	9	227970	 On that day I will punish everyone who leaps over the threshold, and those who fill their master's house with violence and fraud. 
36O	1	10	227980	 "On that day," declares the LORD, "a cry will be heard from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second Quarter, a loud crash from the hills. 
36O	1	11	227990	 Wail, O inhabitants of the Mortar! For all the traders are no more; all who weigh out silver are cut off. 
36O	1	12	228000	 At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are complacent, those who say in their hearts, 'The LORD will not do good, nor will he do ill.' 
36O	1	13	228010	 Their goods shall be plundered, and their houses laid waste. Though they build houses, they shall not inhabit them; though they plant vineyards, they shall not drink wine from them." 
36O	1	14	228020	 The great day of the LORD is near, near and hastening fast; the sound of the day of the LORD is bitter; the mighty man cries aloud there. 
36O	1	15	228030	 A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness, 
36O	1	16	228040	 a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the lofty battlements. 
36O	1	17	228050	 I will bring distress on mankind, so that they shall walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD; their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung. 
36O	1	18	228060	 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the LORD. In the fire of his jealousy, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full and sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth. 
36O	2	1	228070	 Gather together, yes, gather, O shameless nation, 
36O	2	2	228080	 before the decree takes effect --before the day passes away like chaff-- before there comes upon you the burning anger of the LORD, before there comes upon you the day of the anger of the LORD. 
36O	2	3	228090	 Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the LORD. 
36O	2	4	228100	 For Gaza shall be deserted, and Ashkelon shall become a desolation; Ashdod's people shall be driven out at noon, and Ekron shall be uprooted. 
36O	2	5	228110	 Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left. 
36O	2	6	228120	 And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures, with meadows for shepherds and folds for flocks. 
36O	2	7	228130	 The seacoast shall become the possession of the remnant of the house of Judah, on which they shall graze, and in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening. For the LORD their God will be mindful of them and restore their fortunes. 
36O	2	8	228140	 "I have heard the taunts of Moab and the revilings of the Ammonites, how they have taunted my people and made boasts against their territory. 
36O	2	9	228150	 Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them." 
36O	2	10	228160	 This shall be their lot in return for their pride, because they taunted and boasted against the people of the LORD of hosts. 
36O	2	11	228170	 The LORD will be awesome against them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations. 
36O	2	12	228180	 You also, O Cushites, shall be slain by my sword. 
36O	2	13	228190	 And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert. 
36O	2	14	228200	 Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of beasts; even the owl and the hedgehog shall lodge in her capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare. 
36O	2	15	228210	 This is the exultant city that lived securely, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is no one else." What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild beasts! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist. 
36O	3	1	228220	 Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city! 
36O	3	2	228230	 She listens to no voice; she accepts no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she does not draw near to her God. 
36O	3	3	228240	 Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning. 
36O	3	4	228250	 Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men; her priests profane what is holy; they do violence to the law. 
36O	3	5	228260	 The LORD within her is righteous; he does no injustice; every morning he shows forth his justice; each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame. 
36O	3	6	228270	 "I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without a man, without an inhabitant. 
36O	3	7	228280	 I said, 'Surely you will fear me; you will accept correction. Then your dwelling would not be cut off according to all that I have appointed against you.' But all the more they were eager to make all their deeds corrupt. 
36O	3	8	228290	 "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed. 
36O	3	9	228300	 "For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech, that all of them may call upon the name of the LORD and serve him with one accord. 
36O	3	10	228310	 From beyond the rivers of Cush my worshipers, the daughter of my dispersed ones, shall bring my offering. 
36O	3	11	228320	 "On that day you shall not be put to shame because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me; for then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty in my holy mountain. 
36O	3	12	228330	 But I will leave in your midst a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the LORD, 
36O	3	13	228340	 those who are left in Israel; they shall do no injustice and speak no lies, nor shall there be found in their mouth a deceitful tongue. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall make them afraid." 
36O	3	14	228350	 Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem! 
36O	3	15	228360	 The LORD has taken away the judgments against you; he has cleared away your enemies. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; you shall never again fear evil. 
36O	3	16	228370	 On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: "Fear not, O Zion; let not your hands grow weak. 
36O	3	17	228380	 The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing. 
36O	3	18	228390	 I will gather those of you who mourn for the festival, so that you will no longer suffer reproach. 
36O	3	19	228400	 Behold, at that time I will deal with all your oppressors. And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth. 
36O	3	20	228410	 At that time I will bring you in, at the time when I gather you together; for I will make you renowned and praised among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes," says the LORD. 
37O	1	1	228420	 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest: 
37O	1	2	228430	 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD." 
37O	1	3	228440	 Then the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, 
37O	1	4	228450	 "Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins? 
37O	1	5	228460	 Now, therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. 
37O	1	6	228470	 You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes. 
37O	1	7	228480	 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. 
37O	1	8	228490	 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the LORD. 
37O	1	9	228500	 You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house. 
37O	1	10	228510	 Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. 
37O	1	11	228520	 And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors." 
37O	1	12	228530	 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him. And the people feared the LORD. 
37O	1	13	228540	 Then Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, spoke to the people with the LORD's message, "I am with you, declares the LORD." 
37O	1	14	228550	 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and worked on the house of the LORD of hosts, their God, 
37O	1	15	228560	 on the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. 
37O	2	1	228570	 In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, 
37O	2	2	228580	 "Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say, 
37O	2	3	228590	 'Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes? 
37O	2	4	228600	 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the LORD. Be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the LORD. Work, for I am with you, declares the LORD of hosts, 
37O	2	5	228610	 according to the covenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt. My Spirit remains in your midst. Fear not. 
37O	2	6	228620	 For thus says the LORD of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land. 
37O	2	7	228630	 And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts. 
37O	2	8	228640	 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the LORD of hosts. 
37O	2	9	228650	 The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the LORD of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the LORD of hosts.'" 
37O	2	10	228660	 On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, 
37O	2	11	228670	 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Ask the priests about the law: 
37O	2	12	228680	 'If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches with his fold bread or stew or wine or oil or any kind of food, does it become holy?'" The priests answered and said, "No." 
37O	2	13	228690	 Then Haggai said, "If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?" The priests answered and said, "It does become unclean." 
37O	2	14	228700	 Then Haggai answered and said, "So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the LORD, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean. 
37O	2	15	228710	 Now then, consider from this day onward. Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the LORD, 
37O	2	16	228720	 how did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty. 
37O	2	17	228730	 I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, yet you did not turn to me, declares the LORD. 
37O	2	18	228740	 Consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid, consider: 
37O	2	19	228750	 Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on I will bless you." 
37O	2	20	228760	 The word of the LORD came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month, 
37O	2	21	228770	 "Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth, 
37O	2	22	228780	 and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and overthrow the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall go down, every one by the sword of his brother. 
37O	2	23	228790	 On that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel my servant, the son of Shealtiel, declares the LORD, and make you like a signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the LORD of hosts." 
38O	1	1	228800	 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, saying, 
38O	1	2	228810	 "The LORD was very angry with your fathers. 
38O	1	3	228820	 Therefore say to them, Thus declares the LORD of hosts: Return to me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. 
38O	1	4	228830	 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.' But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the LORD. 
38O	1	5	228840	 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? 
38O	1	6	228850	 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, As the LORD of hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds, so has he dealt with us." 
38O	1	7	228860	 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, saying, 
38O	1	8	228870	 "I saw in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses. 
38O	1	9	228880	 Then I said, 'What are these, my lord?' The angel who talked with me said to me, 'I will show you what they are.' 
38O	1	10	228890	 So the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, 'These are they whom the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.' 
38O	1	11	228900	 And they answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, and said, 'We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth remains at rest.' 
38O	1	12	228910	 Then the angel of the LORD said, 'O LORD of hosts, how long will you have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which you have been angry these seventy years?' 
38O	1	13	228920	 And the LORD answered gracious and comforting words to the angel who talked with me. 
38O	1	14	228930	 So the angel who talked with me said to me, 'Cry out, Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion. 
38O	1	15	228940	 And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little, they furthered the disaster. 
38O	1	16	228950	 Therefore, thus says the LORD, I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy; my house shall be built in it, declares the LORD of hosts, and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem. 
38O	1	17	228960	 Cry out again, Thus says the LORD of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.'" 
38O	1	18	228970	 And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns! 
38O	1	19	228980	 And I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" And he said to me, "These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem." 
38O	1	20	228990	 Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen. 
38O	1	21	229000	 And I said, "What are these coming to do?" He said, "These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one raised his head. And these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it." 
38O	2	1	229010	 And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand! 
38O	2	2	229020	 Then I said, "Where are you going?" And he said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length." 
38O	2	3	229030	 And behold, the angel who talked with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him 
38O	2	4	229040	 and said to him, "Run, say to that young man, 'Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of people and livestock in it. 
38O	2	5	229050	 And I will be to her a wall of fire all around, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory in her midst.'" 
38O	2	6	229060	 Up! Up! Flee from the land of the north, declares the LORD. For I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, declares the LORD. 
38O	2	7	229070	 Up! Escape to Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon. 
38O	2	8	229080	 For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye: 
38O	2	9	229090	 "Behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall become plunder for those who served them. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me. 
38O	2	10	229100	 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for behold, I come and I will dwell in your midst, declares the LORD. 
38O	2	11	229110	 And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. 
38O	2	12	229120	 And the LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem." 
38O	2	13	229130	 Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling. 
38O	3	1	229140	 Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him. 
38O	3	2	229150	 And the LORD said to Satan, "The LORD rebuke you, O Satan! The LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand plucked from the fire?" 
38O	3	3	229160	 Now Joshua was standing before the angel, clothed with filthy garments. 
38O	3	4	229170	 And the angel said to those who were standing before him, "Remove the filthy garments from him." And to him he said, "Behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you, and I will clothe you with pure vestments." 
38O	3	5	229180	 And I said, "Let them put a clean turban on his head." So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD was standing by. 
38O	3	6	229190	 And the angel of the LORD solemnly assured Joshua, 
38O	3	7	229200	 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: If you will walk in my ways and keep my charge, then you shall rule my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you the right of access among those who are standing here. 
38O	3	8	229210	 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign: behold, I will bring my servant the Branch. 
38O	3	9	229220	 For behold, on the stone that I have set before Joshua, on a single stone with seven eyes, I will engrave its inscription, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day. 
38O	3	10	229230	 In that day, declares the LORD of hosts, every one of you will invite his neighbor to come under his vine and under his fig tree." 
38O	4	1	229240	 And the angel who talked with me came again and woke me, like a man who is awakened out of his sleep. 
38O	4	2	229250	 And he said to me, "What do you see?" I said, "I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it, and seven lamps on it, with seven lips on each of the lamps that are on the top of it. 
38O	4	3	229260	 And there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left." 
38O	4	4	229270	 And I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?" 
38O	4	5	229280	 Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, "Do you not know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord." 
38O	4	6	229290	 Then he said to me, "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts. 
38O	4	7	229300	 Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain. And he shall bring forward the top stone amid shouts of 'Grace, grace to it!'" 
38O	4	8	229310	 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 
38O	4	9	229320	 "The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also complete it. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. 
38O	4	10	229330	 For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. "These seven are the eyes of the LORD, which range through the whole earth." 
38O	4	11	229340	 Then I said to him, "What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?" 
38O	4	12	229350	 And a second time I answered and said to him, "What are these two branches of the olive trees, which are beside the two golden pipes from which the golden oil is poured out?" 
38O	4	13	229360	 He said to me, "Do you not know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord." 
38O	4	14	229370	 Then he said, "These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth." 
38O	5	1	229380	 Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll! 
38O	5	2	229390	 And he said to me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits." 
38O	5	3	229400	 Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side. 
38O	5	4	229410	 I will send it out, declares the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall remain in his house and consume it, both timber and stones." 
38O	5	5	229420	 Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, "Lift your eyes and see what this is that is going out." 
38O	5	6	229430	 And I said, "What is it?" He said, "This is the basket that is going out." And he said, "This is their iniquity in all the land." 
38O	5	7	229440	 And behold, the leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the basket! 
38O	5	8	229450	 And he said, "This is Wickedness." And he thrust her back into the basket, and thrust down the leaden weight on its opening. 
38O	5	9	229460	 Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, two women coming forward! The wind was in their wings. They had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven. 
38O	5	10	229470	 Then I said to the angel who talked with me, "Where are they taking the basket?" 
38O	5	11	229480	 He said to me, "To the land of Shinar, to build a house for it. And when this is prepared, they will set the basket down there on its base." 
38O	6	1	229490	 Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains. And the mountains were mountains of bronze. 
38O	6	2	229500	 The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses, 
38O	6	3	229510	 the third white horses, and the fourth chariot dappled horses--all of them strong. 
38O	6	4	229520	 Then I answered and said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?" 
38O	6	5	229530	 And the angel answered and said to me, "These are going out to the four winds of heaven, after presenting themselves before the LORD of all the earth. 
38O	6	6	229540	 The chariot with the black horses goes toward the north country, the white ones go after them, and the dappled ones go toward the south country." 
38O	6	7	229550	 When the strong horses came out, they were impatient to go and patrol the earth. And he said, "Go, patrol the earth." So they patrolled the earth. 
38O	6	8	229560	 Then he cried to me, "Behold, those who go toward the north country have set my Spirit at rest in the north country." 
38O	6	9	229570	 And the word of the LORD came to me: 
38O	6	10	229580	 "Take from the exiles Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, who have arrived from Babylon, and go the same day to the house of Josiah, the son of Zephaniah. 
38O	6	11	229590	 Take from them silver and gold, and make a crown, and set it on the head of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest. 
38O	6	12	229600	 And say to him, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: for he shall branch out from his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD. 
38O	6	13	229610	 It is he who shall build the temple of the LORD and shall bear royal honor, and shall sit and rule on his throne. And there shall be a priest on his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both."' 
38O	6	14	229620	 And the crown shall be in the temple of the LORD as a reminder to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Hen the son of Zephaniah. 
38O	6	15	229630	 "And those who are far off shall come and help to build the temple of the LORD. And you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. And this shall come to pass, if you will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God." 
38O	7	1	229640	 In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev. 
38O	7	2	229650	 Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to entreat the favor of the LORD, 
38O	7	3	229660	 saying to the priests of the house of the LORD of hosts and the prophets, "Should I weep and abstain in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?" 
38O	7	4	229670	 Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me: 
38O	7	5	229680	 "Say to all the people of the land and the priests, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted? 
38O	7	6	229690	 And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves? 
38O	7	7	229700	 Were not these the words that the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, with her cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?" 
38O	7	8	229710	 And the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying, 
38O	7	9	229720	 "Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, 
38O	7	10	229730	 do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart." 
38O	7	11	229740	 But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear. 
38O	7	12	229750	 They made their hearts diamond-hard lest they should hear the law and the words that the LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of hosts. 
38O	7	13	229760	 "As I called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear," says the LORD of hosts, 
38O	7	14	229770	 "and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate." 
38O	8	1	229780	 And the word of the LORD of hosts came, saying, 
38O	8	2	229790	 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath. 
38O	8	3	229800	 Thus says the LORD: I have returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts, the holy mountain. 
38O	8	4	229810	 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of great age. 
38O	8	5	229820	 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets. 
38O	8	6	229830	 Thus says the LORD of hosts: If it is marvelous in the sight of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my sight, declares the LORD of hosts? 
38O	8	7	229840	 Thus says the LORD of hosts: behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west country, 
38O	8	8	229850	 and I will bring them to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in faithfulness and in righteousness." 
38O	8	9	229860	 Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Let your hands be strong, you who in these days have been hearing these words from the mouth of the prophets who were present on the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built. 
38O	8	10	229870	 For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for beast, neither was there any safety from the foe for him who went out or came in, for I set every man against his neighbor. 
38O	8	11	229880	 But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people as in the former days, declares the LORD of hosts. 
38O	8	12	229890	 For there shall be a sowing of peace. The vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things. 
38O	8	13	229900	 And as you have been a byword of cursing among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Fear not, but let your hands be strong." 
38O	8	14	229910	 For thus says the LORD of hosts: "As I purposed to bring disaster to you when your fathers provoked me to wrath, and I did not relent, says the LORD of hosts, 
38O	8	15	229920	 so again have I purposed in these days to bring good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah; fear not. 
38O	8	16	229930	 These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace; 
38O	8	17	229940	 do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the LORD." 
38O	8	18	229950	 And the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying, 
38O	8	19	229960	 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace. 
38O	8	20	229970	 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, even the inhabitants of many cities. 
38O	8	21	229980	 The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, 'Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the LORD and to seek the LORD of hosts; I myself am going.' 
38O	8	22	229990	 Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the LORD. 
38O	8	23	230000	 Thus says the LORD of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'" 
38O	9	1	230010	 The burden of the word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrach and Damascus is its resting place. For the LORD has an eye on mankind and on all the tribes of Israel, 
38O	9	2	230020	 and on Hamath also, which borders on it, Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise. 
38O	9	3	230030	 Tyre has built herself a rampart and heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mud of the streets. 
38O	9	4	230040	 But behold, the Lord will strip her of her possessions and strike down her power on the sea, and she shall be devoured by fire. 
38O	9	5	230050	 Ashkelon shall see it, and be afraid; Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish; Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded. The king shall perish from Gaza; Ashkelon shall be uninhabited; 
38O	9	6	230060	 a mixed people shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of Philistia. 
38O	9	7	230070	 I will take away its blood from its mouth, and its abominations from between its teeth; it too shall be a remnant for our God; it shall be like a clan in Judah, and Ekron shall be like the Jebusites. 
38O	9	8	230080	 Then I will encamp at my house as a guard, so that none shall march to and fro; no oppressor shall again march over them, for now I see with my own eyes. 
38O	9	9	230090	 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 
38O	9	10	230100	 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. 
38O	9	11	230110	 As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. 
38O	9	12	230120	 Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double. 
38O	9	13	230130	 For I have bent Judah as my bow; I have made Ephraim its arrow. I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and wield you like a warrior's sword. 
38O	9	14	230140	 Then the LORD will appear over them, and his arrow will go forth like lightning; the Lord GOD will sound the trumpet and will march forth in the whirlwinds of the south. 
38O	9	15	230150	 The LORD of hosts will protect them, and they shall devour, and tread down the sling stones, and they shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine, and be full like a bowl, drenched like the corners of the altar. 
38O	9	16	230160	 On that day the LORD their God will save them, as the flock of his people; for like the jewels of a crown they shall shine on his land. 
38O	9	17	230170	 For how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the young women. 
38O	10	1	230180	 Ask rain from the LORD in the season of the spring rain, from the LORD who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field. 
38O	10	2	230190	 For the household gods utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; they tell false dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd. 
38O	10	3	230200	 "My anger is hot against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the LORD of hosts cares for his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like his majestic steed in battle. 
38O	10	4	230210	 From him shall come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler--all of them together. 
38O	10	5	230220	 They shall be like mighty men in battle, trampling the foe in the mud of the streets; they shall fight because the LORD is with them, and they shall put to shame the riders on horses. 
38O	10	6	230230	 "I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back because I have compassion on them, and they shall be as though I had not rejected them, for I am the LORD their God and I will answer them. 
38O	10	7	230240	 Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior, and their hearts shall be glad as with wine. Their children shall see it and be glad; their hearts shall rejoice in the LORD. 
38O	10	8	230250	 "I will whistle for them and gather them in, for I have redeemed them, and they shall be as many as they were before. 
38O	10	9	230260	 Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember me, and with their children they shall live and return. 
38O	10	10	230270	 I will bring them home from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria, and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon, till there is no room for them. 
38O	10	11	230280	 He shall pass through the sea of troubles and strike down the waves of the sea, and all the depths of the Nile shall be dried up. The pride of Assyria shall be laid low, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart. 
38O	10	12	230290	 I will make them strong in the LORD, and they shall walk in his name," declares the LORD. 
38O	11	1	230300	 Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars! 
38O	11	2	230310	 Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the glorious trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been felled! 
38O	11	3	230320	 The sound of the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is ruined! The sound of the roar of the lions, for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined! 
38O	11	4	230330	 Thus said the LORD my God: "Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. 
38O	11	5	230340	 Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, I have become rich,' and their own shepherds have no pity on them. 
38O	11	6	230350	 For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the LORD. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand." 
38O	11	7	230360	 So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named Favor, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep. 
38O	11	8	230370	 In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me. 
38O	11	9	230380	 So I said, "I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another." 
38O	11	10	230390	 And I took my staff Favor, and I broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples. 
38O	11	11	230400	 So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep traders, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the LORD. 
38O	11	12	230410	 Then I said to them, "If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them." And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver. 
38O	11	13	230420	 Then the LORD said to me, "Throw it to the potter"--the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD, to the potter. 
38O	11	14	230430	 Then I broke my second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. 
38O	11	15	230440	 Then the LORD said to me, "Take once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd. 
38O	11	16	230450	 For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs. 
38O	11	17	230460	 "Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded!" 
38O	12	1	230470	 The burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel: Thus declares the LORD, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him: 
38O	12	2	230480	 "Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah. 
38O	12	3	230490	 On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it. 
38O	12	4	230500	 On that day, declares the LORD, I will strike every horse with panic, and its rider with madness. But for the sake of the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open, when I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. 
38O	12	5	230510	 Then the clans of Judah shall say to themselves, 'The inhabitants of Jerusalem have strength through the LORD of hosts, their God.' 
38O	12	6	230520	 "On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves. And they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem. 
38O	12	7	230530	 "And the LORD will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah. 
38O	12	8	230540	 On that day the LORD will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the LORD, going before them. 
38O	12	9	230550	 And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. 
38O	12	10	230560	 "And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. 
38O	12	11	230570	 On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 
38O	12	12	230580	 The land shall mourn, each family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; 
38O	12	13	230590	 the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves; 
38O	12	14	230600	 and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves. 
38O	13	1	230610	 "On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness. 
38O	13	2	230620	 "And on that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness. 
38O	13	3	230630	 And if anyone again prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, 'You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the LORD.' And his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies. 
38O	13	4	230640	 "On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies. He will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive, 
38O	13	5	230650	 but he will say, 'I am no prophet, I am a worker of the soil, for a man sold me in my youth.' 
38O	13	6	230660	 And if one asks him, 'What are these wounds on your back?' he will say, 'The wounds I received in the house of my friends.' 
38O	13	7	230670	 "Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who stands next to me," declares the LORD of hosts. "Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones. 
38O	13	8	230680	 In the whole land, declares the LORD, two thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one third shall be left alive. 
38O	13	9	230690	 And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are my people'; and they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'" 
38O	14	1	230700	 Behold, a day is coming for the LORD, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. 
38O	14	2	230710	 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 
38O	14	3	230720	 Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. 
38O	14	4	230730	 On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. 
38O	14	5	230740	 And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. 
38O	14	6	230750	 On that day there shall be no light, cold, or frost. 
38O	14	7	230760	 And there shall be a unique day, which is known to the LORD, neither day nor night, but at evening time there shall be light. 
38O	14	8	230770	 On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter. 
38O	14	9	230780	 And the LORD will be king over all the earth. On that day the LORD will be one and his name one. 
38O	14	10	230790	 The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft on its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses. 
38O	14	11	230800	 And it shall be inhabited, for there shall never again be a decree of utter destruction. Jerusalem shall dwell in security. 
38O	14	12	230810	 And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. 
38O	14	13	230820	 And on that day a great panic from the LORD shall fall on them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other. 
38O	14	14	230830	 Even Judah will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance. 
38O	14	15	230840	 And a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the donkeys, and whatever beasts may be in those camps. 
38O	14	16	230850	 Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths. 
38O	14	17	230860	 And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain on them. 
38O	14	18	230870	 And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain; there shall be the plague with which the LORD afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths. 
38O	14	19	230880	 This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths. 
38O	14	20	230890	 And on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, "Holy to the LORD." And the pots in the house of the LORD shall be as the bowls before the altar. 
38O	14	21	230900	 And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holy to the LORD of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil the meat of the sacrifice in them. And there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the LORD of hosts on that day. 
39O	1	1	230910	 The oracle of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. 
39O	1	2	230920	 "I have loved you," says the LORD. But you say, "How have you loved us?" "Is not Esau Jacob's brother?" declares the LORD. "Yet I have loved Jacob 
39O	1	3	230930	 but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert." 
39O	1	4	230940	 If Edom says, "We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins," the LORD of hosts says, "They may build, but I will tear down, and they will be called 'the wicked country,' and 'the people with whom the LORD is angry forever.'" 
39O	1	5	230950	 Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say, "Great is the LORD beyond the border of Israel!" 
39O	1	6	230960	 "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, 'How have we despised your name?' 
39O	1	7	230970	 By offering polluted food upon my altar. But you say, 'How have we polluted you?' By saying that the LORD's table may be despised. 
39O	1	8	230980	 When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not evil? Present that to your governor; will he accept you or show you favor? says the LORD of hosts. 
39O	1	9	230990	 And now entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With such a gift from your hand, will he show favor to any of you? says the LORD of hosts. 
39O	1	10	231000	 Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hand. 
39O	1	11	231010	 For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts. 
39O	1	12	231020	 But you profane it when you say that the Lord's table is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised. 
39O	1	13	231030	 But you say, 'What a weariness this is,' and you snort at it, says the LORD of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the LORD. 
39O	1	14	231040	 Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations. 
39O	2	1	231050	 "And now, O priests, this command is for you. 
39O	2	2	231060	 If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the LORD of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart. 
39O	2	3	231070	 Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it. 
39O	2	4	231080	 So shall you know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may stand, says the LORD of hosts. 
39O	2	5	231090	 My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name. 
39O	2	6	231100	 True instruction was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity. 
39O	2	7	231110	 For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts. 
39O	2	8	231120	 But you have turned aside from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts, 
39O	2	9	231130	 and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction." 
39O	2	10	231140	 Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers? 
39O	2	11	231150	 Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the LORD, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. 
39O	2	12	231160	 May the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob any descendant of the man who does this, who brings an offering to the LORD of hosts! 
39O	2	13	231170	 And this second thing you do. You cover the LORD's altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. 
39O	2	14	231180	 But you say, "Why does he not?" Because the LORD was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. 
39O	2	15	231190	 Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth. 
39O	2	16	231200	 "For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the LORD, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless." 
39O	2	17	231210	 You have wearied the LORD with your words. But you say, "How have we wearied him?" By saying, "Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them." Or by asking, "Where is the God of justice?" 
39O	3	1	231220	 "Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts. 
39O	3	2	231230	 But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap. 
39O	3	3	231240	 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the LORD. 
39O	3	4	231250	 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years. 
39O	3	5	231260	 "Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts. 
39O	3	6	231270	 "For I the LORD do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. 
39O	3	7	231280	 From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you say, 'How shall we return?' 
39O	3	8	231290	 Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In your tithes and contributions. 
39O	3	9	231300	 You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. 
39O	3	10	231310	 Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need. 
39O	3	11	231320	 I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the LORD of hosts. 
39O	3	12	231330	 Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the LORD of hosts. 
39O	3	13	231340	 "Your words have been hard against me, says the LORD. But you say, 'How have we spoken against you?' 
39O	3	14	231350	 You have said, 'It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the LORD of hosts? 
39O	3	15	231360	 And now we call the arrogant blessed. Evildoers not only prosper but they put God to the test and they escape.'" 
39O	3	16	231370	 Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another. The LORD paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and esteemed his name. 
39O	3	17	231380	 "They shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. 
39O	3	18	231390	 Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him. 
39O	4	1	231400	 "For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. 
39O	4	2	231410	 But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. 
39O	4	3	231420	 And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the LORD of hosts. 
39O	4	4	231430	 "Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. 
39O	4	5	231440	 "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. 
39O	4	6	231450	 And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction." 
40N	1	1	231460	 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. 
40N	1	2	231470	 Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, 
40N	1	3	231480	 and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, 
40N	1	4	231490	 and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, 
40N	1	5	231500	 and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, 
40N	1	6	231510	 and Jesse the father of David the king. And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah, 
40N	1	7	231520	 and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph, 
40N	1	8	231530	 and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah, 
40N	1	9	231540	 and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, 
40N	1	10	231550	 and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah, 
40N	1	11	231560	 and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon. 
40N	1	12	231570	 And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, 
40N	1	13	231580	 and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor, 
40N	1	14	231590	 and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud, 
40N	1	15	231600	 and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob, 
40N	1	16	231610	 and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ. 
40N	1	17	231620	 So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations. 
40N	1	18	231630	 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 
40N	1	19	231640	 And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. 
40N	1	20	231650	 But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 
40N	1	21	231660	 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins." 
40N	1	22	231670	 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: 
40N	1	23	231680	 "Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel" (which means, God with us). 
40N	1	24	231690	 When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife, 
40N	1	25	231700	 but knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus. 
40N	2	1	231710	 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, 
40N	2	2	231720	 saying, "Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him." 
40N	2	3	231730	 When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him; 
40N	2	4	231740	 and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. 
40N	2	5	231750	 They told him, "In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet: 
40N	2	6	231760	 "'And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.'" 
40N	2	7	231770	 Then Herod summoned the wise men secretly and ascertained from them what time the star had appeared. 
40N	2	8	231780	 And he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, "Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, that I too may come and worship him." 
40N	2	9	231790	 After listening to the king, they went on their way. And behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was. 
40N	2	10	231800	 When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. 
40N	2	11	231810	 And going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh. 
40N	2	12	231820	 And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way. 
40N	2	13	231830	 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him." 
40N	2	14	231840	 And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt 
40N	2	15	231850	 and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, "Out of Egypt I called my son." 
40N	2	16	231860	 Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men. 
40N	2	17	231870	 Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah: 
40N	2	18	231880	 "A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be comforted, because they are no more." 
40N	2	19	231890	 But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 
40N	2	20	231900	 saying, "Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead." 
40N	2	21	231910	 And he rose and took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. 
40N	2	22	231920	 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee. 
40N	2	23	231930	 And he went and lived in a city called Nazareth, that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled: "He shall be called a Nazarene." 
40N	3	1	231940	 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 
40N	3	2	231950	 "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." 
40N	3	3	231960	 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.'" 
40N	3	4	231970	 Now John wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. 
40N	3	5	231980	 Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him, 
40N	3	6	231990	 and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. 
40N	3	7	232000	 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 
40N	3	8	232010	 Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. 
40N	3	9	232020	 And do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father,' for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. 
40N	3	10	232030	 Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 
40N	3	11	232040	 "I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 
40N	3	12	232050	 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire." 
40N	3	13	232060	 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. 
40N	3	14	232070	 John would have prevented him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?" 
40N	3	15	232080	 But Jesus answered him, "Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he consented. 
40N	3	16	232090	 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; 
40N	3	17	232100	 and behold, a voice from heaven said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased." 
40N	4	1	232110	 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 
40N	4	2	232120	 And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 
40N	4	3	232130	 And the tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread." 
40N	4	4	232140	 But he answered, "It is written, "'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'" 
40N	4	5	232150	 Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple 
40N	4	6	232160	 and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, "'He will command his angels concerning you,' and "'On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.'" 
40N	4	7	232170	 Jesus said to him, "Again it is written, 'You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.'" 
40N	4	8	232180	 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. 
40N	4	9	232190	 And he said to him, "All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me." 
40N	4	10	232200	 Then Jesus said to him, "Be gone, Satan! For it is written, "'You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.'" 
40N	4	11	232210	 Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him. 
40N	4	12	232220	 Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee. 
40N	4	13	232230	 And leaving Nazareth he went and lived in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, 
40N	4	14	232240	 so that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: 
40N	4	15	232250	 "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles-- 
40N	4	16	232260	 the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned." 
40N	4	17	232270	 From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." 
40N	4	18	232280	 While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 
40N	4	19	232290	 And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." 
40N	4	20	232300	 Immediately they left their nets and followed him. 
40N	4	21	232310	 And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. 
40N	4	22	232320	 Immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him. 
40N	4	23	232330	 And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people. 
40N	4	24	232340	 So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, epileptics, and paralytics, and he healed them. 
40N	4	25	232350	 And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan. 
40N	5	1	232360	 Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. 
40N	5	2	232370	 And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: 
40N	5	3	232380	 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 
40N	5	4	232390	 "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. 
40N	5	5	232400	 "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. 
40N	5	6	232410	 "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. 
40N	5	7	232420	 "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. 
40N	5	8	232430	 "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. 
40N	5	9	232440	 "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. 
40N	5	10	232450	 "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 
40N	5	11	232460	 "Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. 
40N	5	12	232470	 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. 
40N	5	13	232480	 "You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet. 
40N	5	14	232490	 "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. 
40N	5	15	232500	 Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. 
40N	5	16	232510	 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. 
40N	5	17	232520	 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 
40N	5	18	232530	 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 
40N	5	19	232540	 Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 
40N	5	20	232550	 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 
40N	5	21	232560	 "You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.' 
40N	5	22	232570	 But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, 'You fool!' will be liable to the hell of fire. 
40N	5	23	232580	 So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, 
40N	5	24	232590	 leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. 
40N	5	25	232600	 Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison. 
40N	5	26	232610	 Truly, I say to you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny. 
40N	5	27	232620	 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' 
40N	5	28	232630	 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 
40N	5	29	232640	 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. 
40N	5	30	232650	 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell. 
40N	5	31	232660	 "It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.' 
40N	5	32	232670	 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. 
40N	5	33	232680	 "Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.' 
40N	5	34	232690	 But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, 
40N	5	35	232700	 or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. 
40N	5	36	232710	 And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. 
40N	5	37	232720	 Let what you say be simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything more than this comes from evil. 
40N	5	38	232730	 "You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' 
40N	5	39	232740	 But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. 
40N	5	40	232750	 And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. 
40N	5	41	232760	 And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. 
40N	5	42	232770	 Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you. 
40N	5	43	232780	 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' 
40N	5	44	232790	 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 
40N	5	45	232800	 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 
40N	5	46	232810	 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 
40N	5	47	232820	 And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 
40N	5	48	232830	 You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. 
40N	6	1	232840	 "Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. 
40N	6	2	232850	 "Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 
40N	6	3	232860	 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 
40N	6	4	232870	 so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. 
40N	6	5	232880	 "And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 
40N	6	6	232890	 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. 
40N	6	7	232900	 "And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 
40N	6	8	232910	 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 
40N	6	9	232920	 Pray then like this: "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 
40N	6	10	232930	 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 
40N	6	11	232940	 Give us this day our daily bread, 
40N	6	12	232950	 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 
40N	6	13	232960	 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. 
40N	6	14	232970	 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 
40N	6	15	232980	 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. 
40N	6	16	232990	 "And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 
40N	6	17	233000	 But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 
40N	6	18	233010	 that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. 
40N	6	19	233020	 "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 
40N	6	20	233030	 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 
40N	6	21	233040	 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 
40N	6	22	233050	 "The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 
40N	6	23	233060	 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! 
40N	6	24	233070	 "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. 
40N	6	25	233080	 "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 
40N	6	26	233090	 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 
40N	6	27	233100	 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 
40N	6	28	233110	 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 
40N	6	29	233120	 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 
40N	6	30	233130	 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 
40N	6	31	233140	 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 
40N	6	32	233150	 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 
40N	6	33	233160	 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. 
40N	6	34	233170	 "Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. 
40N	7	1	233180	 "Judge not, that you be not judged. 
40N	7	2	233190	 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. 
40N	7	3	233200	 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 
40N	7	4	233210	 Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye? 
40N	7	5	233220	 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. 
40N	7	6	233230	 "Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you. 
40N	7	7	233240	 "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 
40N	7	8	233250	 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 
40N	7	9	233260	 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 
40N	7	10	233270	 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 
40N	7	11	233280	 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! 
40N	7	12	233290	 "So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. 
40N	7	13	233300	 "Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 
40N	7	14	233310	 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. 
40N	7	15	233320	 "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 
40N	7	16	233330	 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 
40N	7	17	233340	 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. 
40N	7	18	233350	 A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. 
40N	7	19	233360	 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 
40N	7	20	233370	 Thus you will recognize them by their fruits. 
40N	7	21	233380	 "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 
40N	7	22	233390	 On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?' 
40N	7	23	233400	 And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.' 
40N	7	24	233410	 "Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 
40N	7	25	233420	 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 
40N	7	26	233430	 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 
40N	7	27	233440	 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it." 
40N	7	28	233450	 And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, 
40N	7	29	233460	 for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes. 
40N	8	1	233470	 When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him. 
40N	8	2	233480	 And behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, if you will, you can make me clean." 
40N	8	3	233490	 And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, "I will; be clean." And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. 
40N	8	4	233500	 And Jesus said to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to them." 
40N	8	5	233510	 When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, 
40N	8	6	233520	 "Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, suffering terribly." 
40N	8	7	233530	 And he said to him, "I will come and heal him." 
40N	8	8	233540	 But the centurion replied, "Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. 
40N	8	9	233550	 For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he comes, and to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it." 
40N	8	10	233560	 When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who followed him, "Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith. 
40N	8	11	233570	 I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, 
40N	8	12	233580	 while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." 
40N	8	13	233590	 And to the centurion Jesus said, "Go; let it be done for you as you have believed." And the servant was healed at that very moment. 
40N	8	14	233600	 And when Jesus entered Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever. 
40N	8	15	233610	 He touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she rose and began to serve him. 
40N	8	16	233620	 That evening they brought to him many who were oppressed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick. 
40N	8	17	233630	 This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: "He took our illnesses and bore our diseases." 
40N	8	18	233640	 Now when Jesus saw a crowd around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side. 
40N	8	19	233650	 And a scribe came up and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go." 
40N	8	20	233660	 And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head." 
40N	8	21	233670	 Another of the disciples said to him, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father." 
40N	8	22	233680	 And Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead." 
40N	8	23	233690	 And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. 
40N	8	24	233700	 And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. 
40N	8	25	233710	 And they went and woke him, saying, "Save us, Lord; we are perishing." 
40N	8	26	233720	 And he said to them, "Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?" Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. 
40N	8	27	233730	 And the men marveled, saying, "What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?" 
40N	8	28	233740	 And when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men met him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no one could pass that way. 
40N	8	29	233750	 And behold, they cried out, "What have you to do with us, O Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?" 
40N	8	30	233760	 Now a herd of many pigs was feeding at some distance from them. 
40N	8	31	233770	 And the demons begged him, saying, "If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of pigs." 
40N	8	32	233780	 And he said to them, "Go." So they came out and went into the pigs, and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters. 
40N	8	33	233790	 The herdsmen fled, and going into the city they told everything, especially what had happened to the demon-possessed men. 
40N	8	34	233800	 And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him, they begged him to leave their region. 
40N	9	1	233810	 And getting into a boat he crossed over and came to his own city. 
40N	9	2	233820	 And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven." 
40N	9	3	233830	 And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, "This man is blaspheming." 
40N	9	4	233840	 But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts? 
40N	9	5	233850	 For which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'? 
40N	9	6	233860	 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"--he then said to the paralytic--"Rise, pick up your bed and go home." 
40N	9	7	233870	 And he rose and went home. 
40N	9	8	233880	 When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men. 
40N	9	9	233890	 As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he rose and followed him. 
40N	9	10	233900	 And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples. 
40N	9	11	233910	 And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?" 
40N	9	12	233920	 But when he heard it, he said, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 
40N	9	13	233930	 Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.' For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners." 
40N	9	14	233940	 Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?" 
40N	9	15	233950	 And Jesus said to them, "Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. 
40N	9	16	233960	 No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. 
40N	9	17	233970	 Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved." 
40N	9	18	233980	 While he was saying these things to them, behold, a ruler came in and knelt before him, saying, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live." 
40N	9	19	233990	 And Jesus rose and followed him, with his disciples. 
40N	9	20	234000	 And behold, a woman who had suffered from a discharge of blood for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment, 
40N	9	21	234010	 for she said to herself, "If I only touch his garment, I will be made well." 
40N	9	22	234020	 Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, "Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well." And instantly the woman was made well. 
40N	9	23	234030	 And when Jesus came to the ruler's house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion, 
40N	9	24	234040	 he said, "Go away, for the girl is not dead but sleeping." And they laughed at him. 
40N	9	25	234050	 But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose. 
40N	9	26	234060	 And the report of this went through all that district. 
40N	9	27	234070	 And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, "Have mercy on us, Son of David." 
40N	9	28	234080	 When he entered the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" They said to him, "Yes, Lord." 
40N	9	29	234090	 Then he touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith be it done to you." 
40N	9	30	234100	 And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them, "See that no one knows about it." 
40N	9	31	234110	 But they went away and spread his fame through all that district. 
40N	9	32	234120	 As they were going away, behold, a demon-oppressed man who was mute was brought to him. 
40N	9	33	234130	 And when the demon had been cast out, the mute man spoke. And the crowds marveled, saying, "Never was anything like this seen in Israel." 
40N	9	34	234140	 But the Pharisees said, "He casts out demons by the prince of demons." 
40N	9	35	234150	 And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. 
40N	9	36	234160	 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 
40N	9	37	234170	 Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; 
40N	9	38	234180	 therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest." 
40N	10	1	234190	 And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction. 
40N	10	2	234200	 The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; 
40N	10	3	234210	 Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; 
40N	10	4	234220	 Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. 
40N	10	5	234230	 These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, "Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, 
40N	10	6	234240	 but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 
40N	10	7	234250	 And proclaim as you go, saying, 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.' 
40N	10	8	234260	 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay. 
40N	10	9	234270	 Acquire no gold nor silver nor copper for your belts, 
40N	10	10	234280	 no bag for your journey, nor two tunics nor sandals nor a staff, for the laborer deserves his food. 
40N	10	11	234290	 And whatever town or village you enter, find out who is worthy in it and stay there until you depart. 
40N	10	12	234300	 As you enter the house, greet it. 
40N	10	13	234310	 And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. 
40N	10	14	234320	 And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town. 
40N	10	15	234330	 Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town. 
40N	10	16	234340	 "Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. 
40N	10	17	234350	 Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to courts and flog you in their synagogues, 
40N	10	18	234360	 and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the Gentiles. 
40N	10	19	234370	 When they deliver you over, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour. 
40N	10	20	234380	 For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. 
40N	10	21	234390	 Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death, 
40N	10	22	234400	 and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. 
40N	10	23	234410	 When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes. 
40N	10	24	234420	 "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. 
40N	10	25	234430	 It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household. 
40N	10	26	234440	 "So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. 
40N	10	27	234450	 What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops. 
40N	10	28	234460	 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. 
40N	10	29	234470	 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. 
40N	10	30	234480	 But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. 
40N	10	31	234490	 Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. 
40N	10	32	234500	 So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, 
40N	10	33	234510	 but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven. 
40N	10	34	234520	 "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 
40N	10	35	234530	 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 
40N	10	36	234540	 And a person's enemies will be those of his own household. 
40N	10	37	234550	 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 
40N	10	38	234560	 And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 
40N	10	39	234570	 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 
40N	10	40	234580	 "Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. 
40N	10	41	234590	 The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person's reward. 
40N	10	42	234600	 And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward." 
40N	11	1	234610	 When Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their cities. 
40N	11	2	234620	 Now when John heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ, he sent word by his disciples 
40N	11	3	234630	 and said to him, "Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?" 
40N	11	4	234640	 And Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John what you hear and see: 
40N	11	5	234650	 the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. 
40N	11	6	234660	 And blessed is the one who is not offended by me." 
40N	11	7	234670	 As they went away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? 
40N	11	8	234680	 What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings' houses. 
40N	11	9	234690	 What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. 
40N	11	10	234700	 This is he of whom it is written, "'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.' 
40N	11	11	234710	 Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. 
40N	11	12	234720	 From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force. 
40N	11	13	234730	 For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John, 
40N	11	14	234740	 and if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come. 
40N	11	15	234750	 He who has ears to hear, let him hear. 
40N	11	16	234760	 "But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates, 
40N	11	17	234770	 "'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.' 
40N	11	18	234780	 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon.' 
40N	11	19	234790	 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds." 
40N	11	20	234800	 Then he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent. 
40N	11	21	234810	 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 
40N	11	22	234820	 But I tell you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you. 
40N	11	23	234830	 And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. 
40N	11	24	234840	 But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you." 
40N	11	25	234850	 At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; 
40N	11	26	234860	 yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. 
40N	11	27	234870	 All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. 
40N	11	28	234880	 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 
40N	11	29	234890	 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 
40N	11	30	234900	 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." 
40N	12	1	234910	 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 
40N	12	2	234920	 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, "Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath." 
40N	12	3	234930	 He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: 
40N	12	4	234940	 how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? 
40N	12	5	234950	 Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? 
40N	12	6	234960	 I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. 
40N	12	7	234970	 And if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless. 
40N	12	8	234980	 For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath." 
40N	12	9	234990	 He went on from there and entered their synagogue. 
40N	12	10	235000	 And a man was there with a withered hand. And they asked him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"--so that they might accuse him. 
40N	12	11	235010	 He said to them, "Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out? 
40N	12	12	235020	 Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath." 
40N	12	13	235030	 Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And the man stretched it out, and it was restored, healthy like the other. 
40N	12	14	235040	 But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him. 
40N	12	15	235050	 Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all 
40N	12	16	235060	 and ordered them not to make him known. 
40N	12	17	235070	 This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: 
40N	12	18	235080	 "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles. 
40N	12	19	235090	 He will not quarrel or cry aloud, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets; 
40N	12	20	235100	 a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory; 
40N	12	21	235110	 and in his name the Gentiles will hope." 
40N	12	22	235120	 Then a demon-oppressed man who was blind and mute was brought to him, and he healed him, so that the man spoke and saw. 
40N	12	23	235130	 And all the people were amazed, and said, "Can this be the Son of David?" 
40N	12	24	235140	 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, "It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons." 
40N	12	25	235150	 Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand. 
40N	12	26	235160	 And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? 
40N	12	27	235170	 And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. 
40N	12	28	235180	 But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. 
40N	12	29	235190	 Or how can someone enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house. 
40N	12	30	235200	 Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. 
40N	12	31	235210	 Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. 
40N	12	32	235220	 And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come. 
40N	12	33	235230	 "Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. 
40N	12	34	235240	 You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 
40N	12	35	235250	 The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. 
40N	12	36	235260	 I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak, 
40N	12	37	235270	 for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." 
40N	12	38	235280	 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, "Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you." 
40N	12	39	235290	 But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 
40N	12	40	235300	 For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 
40N	12	41	235310	 The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. 
40N	12	42	235320	 The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here. 
40N	12	43	235330	 "When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. 
40N	12	44	235340	 Then it says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.' And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. 
40N	12	45	235350	 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation." 
40N	12	46	235360	 While he was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him. 
40N	12	47	235370	 [Someone told him, "Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, asking to speak to you."] 
40N	12	48	235380	 But he replied to the man who told him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" 
40N	12	49	235390	 And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! 
40N	12	50	235400	 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother." 
40N	13	1	235410	 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. 
40N	13	2	235420	 And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. 
40N	13	3	235430	 And he told them many things in parables, saying: "A sower went out to sow. 
40N	13	4	235440	 And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. 
40N	13	5	235450	 Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, 
40N	13	6	235460	 but when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away. 
40N	13	7	235470	 Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. 
40N	13	8	235480	 Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 
40N	13	9	235490	 He who has ears, let him hear." 
40N	13	10	235500	 Then the disciples came and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?" 
40N	13	11	235510	 And he answered them, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. 
40N	13	12	235520	 For to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. 
40N	13	13	235530	 This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. 
40N	13	14	235540	 Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: "'You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive. 
40N	13	15	235550	 For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.' 
40N	13	16	235560	 But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. 
40N	13	17	235570	 For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. 
40N	13	18	235580	 "Hear then the parable of the sower: 
40N	13	19	235590	 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path. 
40N	13	20	235600	 As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy, 
40N	13	21	235610	 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away. 
40N	13	22	235620	 As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. 
40N	13	23	235630	 As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty." 
40N	13	24	235640	 He put another parable before them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, 
40N	13	25	235650	 but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. 
40N	13	26	235660	 So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. 
40N	13	27	235670	 And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?' 
40N	13	28	235680	 He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' So the servants said to him, 'Then do you want us to go and gather them?' 
40N	13	29	235690	 But he said, 'No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. 
40N	13	30	235700	 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.'" 
40N	13	31	235710	 He put another parable before them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. 
40N	13	32	235720	 It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches." 
40N	13	33	235730	 He told them another parable. "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened." 
40N	13	34	235740	 All these things Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed, he said nothing to them without a parable. 
40N	13	35	235750	 This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world." 
40N	13	36	235760	 Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field." 
40N	13	37	235770	 He answered, "The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. 
40N	13	38	235780	 The field is the world, and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, 
40N	13	39	235790	 and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels. 
40N	13	40	235800	 Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the close of the age. 
40N	13	41	235810	 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, 
40N	13	42	235820	 and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 
40N	13	43	235830	 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear. 
40N	13	44	235840	 "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. 
40N	13	45	235850	 "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, 
40N	13	46	235860	 who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it. 
40N	13	47	235870	 "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind. 
40N	13	48	235880	 When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad. 
40N	13	49	235890	 So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous 
40N	13	50	235900	 and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 
40N	13	51	235910	 "Have you understood all these things?" They said to him, "Yes." 
40N	13	52	235920	 And he said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old." 
40N	13	53	235930	 And when Jesus had finished these parables, he went away from there, 
40N	13	54	235940	 and coming to his hometown he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, "Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works? 
40N	13	55	235950	 Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? 
40N	13	56	235960	 And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?" 
40N	13	57	235970	 And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household." 
40N	13	58	235980	 And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief. 
40N	14	1	235990	 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard about the fame of Jesus, 
40N	14	2	236000	 and he said to his servants, "This is John the Baptist. He has been raised from the dead; that is why these miraculous powers are at work in him." 
40N	14	3	236010	 For Herod had seized John and bound him and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, 
40N	14	4	236020	 because John had been saying to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her." 
40N	14	5	236030	 And though he wanted to put him to death, he feared the people, because they held him to be a prophet. 
40N	14	6	236040	 But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company and pleased Herod, 
40N	14	7	236050	 so that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask. 
40N	14	8	236060	 Prompted by her mother, she said, "Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter." 
40N	14	9	236070	 And the king was sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he commanded it to be given. 
40N	14	10	236080	 He sent and had John beheaded in the prison, 
40N	14	11	236090	 and his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother. 
40N	14	12	236100	 And his disciples came and took the body and buried it, and they went and told Jesus. 
40N	14	13	236110	 Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a desolate place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. 
40N	14	14	236120	 When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick. 
40N	14	15	236130	 Now when it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, "This is a desolate place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves." 
40N	14	16	236140	 But Jesus said, "They need not go away; you give them something to eat." 
40N	14	17	236150	 They said to him, "We have only five loaves here and two fish." 
40N	14	18	236160	 And he said, "Bring them here to me." 
40N	14	19	236170	 Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. 
40N	14	20	236180	 And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces left over. 
40N	14	21	236190	 And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children. 
40N	14	22	236200	 Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. 
40N	14	23	236210	 And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, 
40N	14	24	236220	 but the boat by this time was a long way from the land, beaten by the waves, for the wind was against them. 
40N	14	25	236230	 And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. 
40N	14	26	236240	 But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, and said, "It is a ghost!" and they cried out in fear. 
40N	14	27	236250	 But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, "Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid." 
40N	14	28	236260	 And Peter answered him, "Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water." 
40N	14	29	236270	 He said, "Come." So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus. 
40N	14	30	236280	 But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, "Lord, save me." 
40N	14	31	236290	 Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, "O you of little faith, why did you doubt?" 
40N	14	32	236300	 And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased. 
40N	14	33	236310	 And those in the boat worshiped him, saying, "Truly you are the Son of God." 
40N	14	34	236320	 And when they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret. 
40N	14	35	236330	 And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent around to all that region and brought to him all who were sick 
40N	14	36	236340	 and implored him that they might only touch the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched it were made well. 
40N	15	1	236350	 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, 
40N	15	2	236360	 "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat." 
40N	15	3	236370	 He answered them, "And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? 
40N	15	4	236380	 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.' 
40N	15	5	236390	 But you say, 'If anyone tells his father or his mother, "What you would have gained from me is given to God," 
40N	15	6	236400	 he need not honor his father.' So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God. 
40N	15	7	236410	 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: 
40N	15	8	236420	 "'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; 
40N	15	9	236430	 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'" 
40N	15	10	236440	 And he called the people to him and said to them, "Hear and understand: 
40N	15	11	236450	 it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person." 
40N	15	12	236460	 Then the disciples came and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?" 
40N	15	13	236470	 He answered, "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. 
40N	15	14	236480	 Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit." 
40N	15	15	236490	 But Peter said to him, "Explain the parable to us." 
40N	15	16	236500	 And he said, "Are you also still without understanding? 
40N	15	17	236510	 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled? 
40N	15	18	236520	 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. 
40N	15	19	236530	 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. 
40N	15	20	236540	 These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone." 
40N	15	21	236550	 And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon. 
40N	15	22	236560	 And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon." 
40N	15	23	236570	 But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away, for she is crying out after us." 
40N	15	24	236580	 He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." 
40N	15	25	236590	 But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, help me." 
40N	15	26	236600	 And he answered, "It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." 
40N	15	27	236610	 She said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table." 
40N	15	28	236620	 Then Jesus answered her, "O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire." And her daughter was healed instantly. 
40N	15	29	236630	 Jesus went on from there and walked beside the Sea of Galilee. And he went up on the mountain and sat down there. 
40N	15	30	236640	 And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them, 
40N	15	31	236650	 so that the crowd wondered, when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel. 
40N	15	32	236660	 Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way." 
40N	15	33	236670	 And the disciples said to him, "Where are we to get enough bread in such a desolate place to feed so great a crowd?" 
40N	15	34	236680	 And Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven, and a few small fish." 
40N	15	35	236690	 And directing the crowd to sit down on the ground, 
40N	15	36	236700	 he took the seven loaves and the fish, and having given thanks he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. 
40N	15	37	236710	 And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces left over. 
40N	15	38	236720	 Those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children. 
40N	15	39	236730	 And after sending away the crowds, he got into the boat and went to the region of Magadan. 
40N	16	1	236740	 And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. 
40N	16	2	236750	 He answered them, "When it is evening, you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.' 
40N	16	3	236760	 And in the morning, 'It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.' You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. 
40N	16	4	236770	 An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah." So he left them and departed. 
40N	16	5	236780	 When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread. 
40N	16	6	236790	 Jesus said to them, "Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." 
40N	16	7	236800	 And they began discussing it among themselves, saying, "We brought no bread." 
40N	16	8	236810	 But Jesus, aware of this, said, "O you of little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread? 
40N	16	9	236820	 Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered? 
40N	16	10	236830	 Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered? 
40N	16	11	236840	 How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees." 
40N	16	12	236850	 Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. 
40N	16	13	236860	 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?" 
40N	16	14	236870	 And they said, "Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." 
40N	16	15	236880	 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" 
40N	16	16	236890	 Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." 
40N	16	17	236900	 And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. 
40N	16	18	236910	 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 
40N	16	19	236920	 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." 
40N	16	20	236930	 Then he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ. 
40N	16	21	236940	 From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. 
40N	16	22	236950	 And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, "Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you." 
40N	16	23	236960	 But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man." 
40N	16	24	236970	 Then Jesus told his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 
40N	16	25	236980	 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 
40N	16	26	236990	 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? 
40N	16	27	237000	 For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done. 
40N	16	28	237010	 Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom." 
40N	17	1	237020	 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. 
40N	17	2	237030	 And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light. 
40N	17	3	237040	 And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him. 
40N	17	4	237050	 And Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah." 
40N	17	5	237060	 He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him." 
40N	17	6	237070	 When the disciples heard this, they fell on their faces and were terrified. 
40N	17	7	237080	 But Jesus came and touched them, saying, "Rise, and have no fear." 
40N	17	8	237090	 And when they lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only. 
40N	17	9	237100	 And as they were coming down the mountain, Jesus commanded them, "Tell no one the vision, until the Son of Man is raised from the dead." 
40N	17	10	237110	 And the disciples asked him, "Then why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?" 
40N	17	11	237120	 He answered, "Elijah does come, and he will restore all things. 
40N	17	12	237130	 But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they pleased. So also the Son of Man will certainly suffer at their hands." 
40N	17	13	237140	 Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them of John the Baptist. 
40N	17	14	237150	 And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him and, kneeling before him, 
40N	17	15	237160	 said, "Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly. For often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. 
40N	17	16	237170	 And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him." 
40N	17	17	237180	 And Jesus answered, "O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me." 
40N	17	18	237190	 And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was healed instantly. 
40N	17	19	237200	 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why could we not cast it out?" 
40N	17	20	237210	 He said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you." 
40N	17	21	237220	 [But this kind never comes out except by prayer and fasting.] 
40N	17	22	237230	 As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men, 
40N	17	23	237240	 and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day." And they were greatly distressed. 
40N	17	24	237250	 When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said, "Does your teacher not pay the tax?" 
40N	17	25	237260	 He said, "Yes." And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tax? From their sons or from others?" 
40N	17	26	237270	 And when he said, "From others," Jesus said to him, "Then the sons are free. 
40N	17	27	237280	 However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for me and for yourself." 
40N	18	1	237290	 At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" 
40N	18	2	237300	 And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them 
40N	18	3	237310	 and said, "Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 
40N	18	4	237320	 Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 
40N	18	5	237330	 "Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, 
40N	18	6	237340	 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. 
40N	18	7	237350	 "Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes! 
40N	18	8	237360	 And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire. 
40N	18	9	237370	 And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire. 
40N	18	10	237380	 "See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. 
40N	18	11	237390	 [For the Son of Man came to save the lost.] 
40N	18	12	237400	 What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? 
40N	18	13	237410	 And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. 
40N	18	14	237420	 So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish. 
40N	18	15	237430	 "If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. 
40N	18	16	237440	 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. 
40N	18	17	237450	 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. 
40N	18	18	237460	 Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 
40N	18	19	237470	 Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 
40N	18	20	237480	 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them." 
40N	18	21	237490	 Then Peter came up and said to him, "Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?" 
40N	18	22	237500	 Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven. 
40N	18	23	237510	 "Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. 
40N	18	24	237520	 When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. 
40N	18	25	237530	 And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. 
40N	18	26	237540	 So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.' 
40N	18	27	237550	 And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. 
40N	18	28	237560	 But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, 'Pay what you owe.' 
40N	18	29	237570	 So his fellow servant fell down and pleaded with him, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you.' 
40N	18	30	237580	 He refused and went and put him in prison until he should pay the debt. 
40N	18	31	237590	 When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their master all that had taken place. 
40N	18	32	237600	 Then his master summoned him and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. 
40N	18	33	237610	 And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?' 
40N	18	34	237620	 And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers, until he should pay all his debt. 
40N	18	35	237630	 So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart." 
40N	19	1	237640	 Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. 
40N	19	2	237650	 And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. 
40N	19	3	237660	 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?" 
40N	19	4	237670	 He answered, "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 
40N	19	5	237680	 and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? 
40N	19	6	237690	 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate." 
40N	19	7	237700	 They said to him, "Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?" 
40N	19	8	237710	 He said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 
40N	19	9	237720	 And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery." 
40N	19	10	237730	 The disciples said to him, "If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry." 
40N	19	11	237740	 But he said to them, "Not everyone can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given. 
40N	19	12	237750	 For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this receive it." 
40N	19	13	237760	 Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people, 
40N	19	14	237770	 but Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven." 
40N	19	15	237780	 And he laid his hands on them and went away. 
40N	19	16	237790	 And behold, a man came up to him, saying, "Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?" 
40N	19	17	237800	 And he said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments." 
40N	19	18	237810	 He said to him, "Which ones?" And Jesus said, "You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, 
40N	19	19	237820	 Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 
40N	19	20	237830	 The young man said to him, "All these I have kept. What do I still lack?" 
40N	19	21	237840	 Jesus said to him, "If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." 
40N	19	22	237850	 When the young man heard this he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. 
40N	19	23	237860	 And Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly, I say to you, only with difficulty will a rich person enter the kingdom of heaven. 
40N	19	24	237870	 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God." 
40N	19	25	237880	 When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished, saying, "Who then can be saved?" 
40N	19	26	237890	 But Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." 
40N	19	27	237900	 Then Peter said in reply, "See, we have left everything and followed you. What then will we have?" 
40N	19	28	237910	 Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 
40N	19	29	237920	 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life. 
40N	19	30	237930	 But many who are first will be last, and the last first. 
40N	20	1	237940	 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 
40N	20	2	237950	 After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 
40N	20	3	237960	 And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 
40N	20	4	237970	 and to them he said, 'You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.' 
40N	20	5	237980	 So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. 
40N	20	6	237990	 And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, 'Why do you stand here idle all day?' 
40N	20	7	238000	 They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You go into the vineyard too.' 
40N	20	8	238010	 And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.' 
40N	20	9	238020	 And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. 
40N	20	10	238030	 Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius. 
40N	20	11	238040	 And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, 
40N	20	12	238050	 saying, 'These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.' 
40N	20	13	238060	 But he replied to one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? 
40N	20	14	238070	 Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you. 
40N	20	15	238080	 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?' 
40N	20	16	238090	 So the last will be first, and the first last." 
40N	20	17	238100	 And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them, 
40N	20	18	238110	 "See, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death 
40N	20	19	238120	 and deliver him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day." 
40N	20	20	238130	 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something. 
40N	20	21	238140	 And he said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Say that these two sons of mine are to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom." 
40N	20	22	238150	 Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?" They said to him, "We are able." 
40N	20	23	238160	 He said to them, "You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father." 
40N	20	24	238170	 And when the ten heard it, they were indignant at the two brothers. 
40N	20	25	238180	 But Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. 
40N	20	26	238190	 It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, 
40N	20	27	238200	 and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, 
40N	20	28	238210	 even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." 
40N	20	29	238220	 And as they went out of Jericho, a great crowd followed him. 
40N	20	30	238230	 And behold, there were two blind men sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, "Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!" 
40N	20	31	238240	 The crowd rebuked them, telling them to be silent, but they cried out all the more, "Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!" 
40N	20	32	238250	 And stopping, Jesus called them and said, "What do you want me to do for you?" 
40N	20	33	238260	 They said to him, "Lord, let our eyes be opened." 
40N	20	34	238270	 And Jesus in pity touched their eyes, and immediately they recovered their sight and followed him. 
40N	21	1	238280	 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 
40N	21	2	238290	 saying to them, "Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. 
40N	21	3	238300	 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, 'The Lord needs them,' and he will send them at once." 
40N	21	4	238310	 This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying, 
40N	21	5	238320	 "Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.'" 
40N	21	6	238330	 The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. 
40N	21	7	238340	 They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them. 
40N	21	8	238350	 Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 
40N	21	9	238360	 And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!" 
40N	21	10	238370	 And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, "Who is this?" 
40N	21	11	238380	 And the crowds said, "This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee." 
40N	21	12	238390	 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 
40N	21	13	238400	 He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you make it a den of robbers." 
40N	21	14	238410	 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 
40N	21	15	238420	 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant, 
40N	21	16	238430	 and they said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes; have you never read, "'Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise'?" 
40N	21	17	238440	 And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there. 
40N	21	18	238450	 In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he became hungry. 
40N	21	19	238460	 And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, "May no fruit ever come from you again!" And the fig tree withered at once. 
40N	21	20	238470	 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree wither at once?" 
40N	21	21	238480	 And Jesus answered them, "Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' it will happen. 
40N	21	22	238490	 And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith." 
40N	21	23	238500	 And when he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?" 
40N	21	24	238510	 Jesus answered them, "I also will ask you one question, and if you tell me the answer, then I also will tell you by what authority I do these things. 
40N	21	25	238520	 The baptism of John, from where did it come? From heaven or from man?" And they discussed it among themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say to us, 'Why then did you not believe him?' 
40N	21	26	238530	 But if we say, 'From man,' we are afraid of the crowd, for they all hold that John was a prophet." 
40N	21	27	238540	 So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." And he said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things. 
40N	21	28	238550	 "What do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard today.' 
40N	21	29	238560	 And he answered, 'I will not,' but afterward he changed his mind and went. 
40N	21	30	238570	 And he went to the other son and said the same. And he answered, 'I go, sir,' but did not go. 
40N	21	31	238580	 Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you. 
40N	21	32	238590	 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him. 
40N	21	33	238600	 "Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. 
40N	21	34	238610	 When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit. 
40N	21	35	238620	 And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 
40N	21	36	238630	 Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. 
40N	21	37	238640	 Finally he sent his son to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' 
40N	21	38	238650	 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.' 
40N	21	39	238660	 And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 
40N	21	40	238670	 When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?" 
40N	21	41	238680	 They said to him, "He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons." 
40N	21	42	238690	 Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures: "'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes'? 
40N	21	43	238700	 Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. 
40N	21	44	238710	 And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him." 
40N	21	45	238720	 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them. 
40N	21	46	238730	 And although they were seeking to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet. 
40N	22	1	238740	 And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, 
40N	22	2	238750	 "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, 
40N	22	3	238760	 and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. 
40N	22	4	238770	 Again he sent other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited, See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.' 
40N	22	5	238780	 But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, 
40N	22	6	238790	 while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. 
40N	22	7	238800	 The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. 
40N	22	8	238810	 Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy. 
40N	22	9	238820	 Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.' 
40N	22	10	238830	 And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests. 
40N	22	11	238840	 "But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. 
40N	22	12	238850	 And he said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless. 
40N	22	13	238860	 Then the king said to the attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' 
40N	22	14	238870	 For many are called, but few are chosen." 
40N	22	15	238880	 Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words. 
40N	22	16	238890	 And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone's opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances. 
40N	22	17	238900	 Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?" 
40N	22	18	238910	 But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, "Why put me to the test, you hypocrites? 
40N	22	19	238920	 Show me the coin for the tax." And they brought him a denarius. 
40N	22	20	238930	 And Jesus said to them, "Whose likeness and inscription is this?" 
40N	22	21	238940	 They said, "Caesar's." Then he said to them, "Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." 
40N	22	22	238950	 When they heard it, they marveled. And they left him and went away. 
40N	22	23	238960	 The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question, 
40N	22	24	238970	 saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.' 
40N	22	25	238980	 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother. 
40N	22	26	238990	 So too the second and third, down to the seventh. 
40N	22	27	239000	 After them all, the woman died. 
40N	22	28	239010	 In the resurrection, therefore, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her." 
40N	22	29	239020	 But Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God. 
40N	22	30	239030	 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. 
40N	22	31	239040	 And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God: 
40N	22	32	239050	 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not God of the dead, but of the living." 
40N	22	33	239060	 And when the crowd heard it, they were astonished at his teaching. 
40N	22	34	239070	 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 
40N	22	35	239080	 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 
40N	22	36	239090	 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" 
40N	22	37	239100	 And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 
40N	22	38	239110	 This is the great and first commandment. 
40N	22	39	239120	 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 
40N	22	40	239130	 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets." 
40N	22	41	239140	 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, 
40N	22	42	239150	 saying, "What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "The son of David." 
40N	22	43	239160	 He said to them, "How is it then that David, in the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying, 
40N	22	44	239170	 "'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet'? 
40N	22	45	239180	 If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?" 
40N	22	46	239190	 And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions. 
40N	23	1	239200	 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, 
40N	23	2	239210	 "The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, 
40N	23	3	239220	 so practice and observe whatever they tell you--but not what they do. For they preach, but do not practice. 
40N	23	4	239230	 They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. 
40N	23	5	239240	 They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, 
40N	23	6	239250	 and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues 
40N	23	7	239260	 and greetings in the marketplaces and being called rabbi by others. 
40N	23	8	239270	 But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers. 
40N	23	9	239280	 And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. 
40N	23	10	239290	 Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ. 
40N	23	11	239300	 The greatest among you shall be your servant. 
40N	23	12	239310	 Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. 
40N	23	13	239320	 "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. 
40N	23	14	239330	 [Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation.] 
40N	23	15	239340	 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves. 
40N	23	16	239350	 "Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.' 
40N	23	17	239360	 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred? 
40N	23	18	239370	 And you say, 'If anyone swears by the altar, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gift that is on the altar, he is bound by his oath.' 
40N	23	19	239380	 You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred? 
40N	23	20	239390	 So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 
40N	23	21	239400	 And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it. 
40N	23	22	239410	 And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it. 
40N	23	23	239420	 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. 
40N	23	24	239430	 You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel! 
40N	23	25	239440	 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 
40N	23	26	239450	 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean. 
40N	23	27	239460	 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness. 
40N	23	28	239470	 So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. 
40N	23	29	239480	 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous, 
40N	23	30	239490	 saying, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.' 
40N	23	31	239500	 Thus you witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. 
40N	23	32	239510	 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. 
40N	23	33	239520	 You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell? 
40N	23	34	239530	 Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, 
40N	23	35	239540	 so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. 
40N	23	36	239550	 Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. 
40N	23	37	239560	 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not! 
40N	23	38	239570	 See, your house is left to you desolate. 
40N	23	39	239580	 For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'" 
40N	24	1	239590	 Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. 
40N	24	2	239600	 But he answered them, "You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down." 
40N	24	3	239610	 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?" 
40N	24	4	239620	 And Jesus answered them, "See that no one leads you astray. 
40N	24	5	239630	 For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will lead many astray. 
40N	24	6	239640	 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. 
40N	24	7	239650	 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 
40N	24	8	239660	 All these are but the beginning of the birth pains. 
40N	24	9	239670	 "Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake. 
40N	24	10	239680	 And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. 
40N	24	11	239690	 And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. 
40N	24	12	239700	 And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. 
40N	24	13	239710	 But the one who endures to the end will be saved. 
40N	24	14	239720	 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. 
40N	24	15	239730	 "So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), 
40N	24	16	239740	 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 
40N	24	17	239750	 Let the one who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house, 
40N	24	18	239760	 and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak. 
40N	24	19	239770	 And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! 
40N	24	20	239780	 Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath. 
40N	24	21	239790	 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. 
40N	24	22	239800	 And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. 
40N	24	23	239810	 Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'There he is!' do not believe it. 
40N	24	24	239820	 For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. 
40N	24	25	239830	 See, I have told you beforehand. 
40N	24	26	239840	 So, if they say to you, 'Look, he is in the wilderness,' do not go out. If they say, 'Look, he is in the inner rooms,' do not believe it. 
40N	24	27	239850	 For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 
40N	24	28	239860	 Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather. 
40N	24	29	239870	 "Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 
40N	24	30	239880	 Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 
40N	24	31	239890	 And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. 
40N	24	32	239900	 "From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. 
40N	24	33	239910	 So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates. 
40N	24	34	239920	 Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. 
40N	24	35	239930	 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. 
40N	24	36	239940	 "But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. 
40N	24	37	239950	 For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 
40N	24	38	239960	 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, 
40N	24	39	239970	 and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 
40N	24	40	239980	 Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. 
40N	24	41	239990	 Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left. 
40N	24	42	240000	 Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. 
40N	24	43	240010	 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. 
40N	24	44	240020	 Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. 
40N	24	45	240030	 "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? 
40N	24	46	240040	 Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. 
40N	24	47	240050	 Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. 
40N	24	48	240060	 But if that wicked servant says to himself, 'My master is delayed,' 
40N	24	49	240070	 and begins to beat his fellow servants and eats and drinks with drunkards, 
40N	24	50	240080	 the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know 
40N	24	51	240090	 and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 
40N	25	1	240100	 "Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. 
40N	25	2	240110	 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 
40N	25	3	240120	 For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, 
40N	25	4	240130	 but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. 
40N	25	5	240140	 As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. 
40N	25	6	240150	 But at midnight there was a cry, 'Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.' 
40N	25	7	240160	 Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. 
40N	25	8	240170	 And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' 
40N	25	9	240180	 But the wise answered, saying, 'Since there will not be enough for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.' 
40N	25	10	240190	 And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. 
40N	25	11	240200	 Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, 'Lord, lord, open to us.' 
40N	25	12	240210	 But he answered, 'Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.' 
40N	25	13	240220	 Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour. 
40N	25	14	240230	 "For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. 
40N	25	15	240240	 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 
40N	25	16	240250	 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. 
40N	25	17	240260	 So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. 
40N	25	18	240270	 But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. 
40N	25	19	240280	 Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. 
40N	25	20	240290	 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, 'Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.' 
40N	25	21	240300	 His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.' 
40N	25	22	240310	 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, 'Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.' 
40N	25	23	240320	 His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.' 
40N	25	24	240330	 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, 'Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 
40N	25	25	240340	 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.' 
40N	25	26	240350	 But his master answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 
40N	25	27	240360	 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. 
40N	25	28	240370	 So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. 
40N	25	29	240380	 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. 
40N	25	30	240390	 And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' 
40N	25	31	240400	 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 
40N	25	32	240410	 Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 
40N	25	33	240420	 And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. 
40N	25	34	240430	 Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 
40N	25	35	240440	 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 
40N	25	36	240450	 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.' 
40N	25	37	240460	 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 
40N	25	38	240470	 And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? 
40N	25	39	240480	 And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?' 
40N	25	40	240490	 And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.' 
40N	25	41	240500	 "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 
40N	25	42	240510	 For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, 
40N	25	43	240520	 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.' 
40N	25	44	240530	 Then they also will answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?' 
40N	25	45	240540	 Then he will answer them, saying, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.' 
40N	25	46	240550	 And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life." 
40N	26	1	240560	 When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, 
40N	26	2	240570	 "You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified." 
40N	26	3	240580	 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, 
40N	26	4	240590	 and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. 
40N	26	5	240600	 But they said, "Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people." 
40N	26	6	240610	 Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, 
40N	26	7	240620	 a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table. 
40N	26	8	240630	 And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste? 
40N	26	9	240640	 For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor." 
40N	26	10	240650	 But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me. 
40N	26	11	240660	 For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me. 
40N	26	12	240670	 In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial. 
40N	26	13	240680	 Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her." 
40N	26	14	240690	 Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 
40N	26	15	240700	 and said, "What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?" And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. 
40N	26	16	240710	 And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him. 
40N	26	17	240720	 Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?" 
40N	26	18	240730	 He said, "Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, 'The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.'" 
40N	26	19	240740	 And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover. 
40N	26	20	240750	 When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve. 
40N	26	21	240760	 And as they were eating, he said, "Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me." 
40N	26	22	240770	 And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, "Is it I, Lord?" 
40N	26	23	240780	 He answered, "He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me will betray me. 
40N	26	24	240790	 The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born." 
40N	26	25	240800	 Judas, who would betray him, answered, "Is it I, Rabbi?" He said to him, "You have said so." 
40N	26	26	240810	 Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body." 
40N	26	27	240820	 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, "Drink of it, all of you, 
40N	26	28	240830	 for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. 
40N	26	29	240840	 I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom." 
40N	26	30	240850	 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. 
40N	26	31	240860	 Then Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away because of me this night. For it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.' 
40N	26	32	240870	 But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee." 
40N	26	33	240880	 Peter answered him, "Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away." 
40N	26	34	240890	 Jesus said to him, "Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." 
40N	26	35	240900	 Peter said to him, "Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!" And all the disciples said the same. 
40N	26	36	240910	 Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I go over there and pray." 
40N	26	37	240920	 And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. 
40N	26	38	240930	 Then he said to them, "My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me." 
40N	26	39	240940	 And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will." 
40N	26	40	240950	 And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, "So, could you not watch with me one hour? 
40N	26	41	240960	 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." 
40N	26	42	240970	 Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, "My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done." 
40N	26	43	240980	 And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. 
40N	26	44	240990	 So, leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words again. 
40N	26	45	241000	 Then he came to the disciples and said to them, "Sleep and take your rest later on. See, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. 
40N	26	46	241010	 Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand." 
40N	26	47	241020	 While he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people. 
40N	26	48	241030	 Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, "The one I will kiss is the man; seize him." 
40N	26	49	241040	 And he came up to Jesus at once and said, "Greetings, Rabbi!" And he kissed him. 
40N	26	50	241050	 Jesus said to him, "Friend, do what you came to do." Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him. 
40N	26	51	241060	 And behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear. 
40N	26	52	241070	 Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword. 
40N	26	53	241080	 Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? 
40N	26	54	241090	 But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?" 
40N	26	55	241100	 At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. 
40N	26	56	241110	 But all this has taken place that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him and fled. 
40N	26	57	241120	 Then those who had seized Jesus led him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered. 
40N	26	58	241130	 And Peter was following him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and going inside he sat with the guards to see the end. 
40N	26	59	241140	 Now the chief priests and the whole Council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death, 
40N	26	60	241150	 but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward 
40N	26	61	241160	 and said, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to rebuild it in three days.'" 
40N	26	62	241170	 And the high priest stood up and said, "Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?" 
40N	26	63	241180	 But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God." 
40N	26	64	241190	 Jesus said to him, "You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven." 
40N	26	65	241200	 Then the high priest tore his robes and said, "He has uttered blasphemy. What further witnesses do we need? You have now heard his blasphemy. 
40N	26	66	241210	 What is your judgment?" They answered, "He deserves death." 
40N	26	67	241220	 Then they spit in his face and struck him. And some slapped him, 
40N	26	68	241230	 saying, "Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who is it that struck you?" 
40N	26	69	241240	 Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came up to him and said, "You also were with Jesus the Galilean." 
40N	26	70	241250	 But he denied it before them all, saying, "I do not know what you mean." 
40N	26	71	241260	 And when he went out to the entrance, another servant girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, "This man was with Jesus of Nazareth." 
40N	26	72	241270	 And again he denied it with an oath: "I do not know the man." 
40N	26	73	241280	 After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, "Certainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you." 
40N	26	74	241290	 Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, "I do not know the man." And immediately the rooster crowed. 
40N	26	75	241300	 And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." And he went out and wept bitterly. 
40N	27	1	241310	 When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. 
40N	27	2	241320	 And they bound him and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate the governor. 
40N	27	3	241330	 Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, 
40N	27	4	241340	 saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." They said, "What is that to us? See to it yourself." 
40N	27	5	241350	 And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself. 
40N	27	6	241360	 But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, "It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is blood money." 
40N	27	7	241370	 So they took counsel and bought with them the potter's field as a burial place for strangers. 
40N	27	8	241380	 Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day. 
40N	27	9	241390	 Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying, "And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel, 
40N	27	10	241400	 and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me." 
40N	27	11	241410	 Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus said, "You have said so." 
40N	27	12	241420	 But when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he gave no answer. 
40N	27	13	241430	 Then Pilate said to him, "Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?" 
40N	27	14	241440	 But he gave him no answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor was greatly amazed. 
40N	27	15	241450	 Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted. 
40N	27	16	241460	 And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. 
40N	27	17	241470	 So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?" 
40N	27	18	241480	 For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up. 
40N	27	19	241490	 Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream." 
40N	27	20	241500	 Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. 
40N	27	21	241510	 The governor again said to them, "Which of the two do you want me to release for you?" And they said, "Barabbas." 
40N	27	22	241520	 Pilate said to them, "Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?" They all said, "Let him be crucified!" 
40N	27	23	241530	 And he said, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Let him be crucified!" 
40N	27	24	241540	 So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this man's blood; see to it yourselves." 
40N	27	25	241550	 And all the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!" 
40N	27	26	241560	 Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified. 
40N	27	27	241570	 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor's headquarters, and they gathered the whole battalion before him. 
40N	27	28	241580	 And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, 
40N	27	29	241590	 and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" 
40N	27	30	241600	 And they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head. 
40N	27	31	241610	 And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him and led him away to crucify him. 
40N	27	32	241620	 As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross. 
40N	27	33	241630	 And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull), 
40N	27	34	241640	 they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it. 
40N	27	35	241650	 And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments among them by casting lots. 
40N	27	36	241660	 Then they sat down and kept watch over him there. 
40N	27	37	241670	 And over his head they put the charge against him, which read, "This is Jesus, the King of the Jews." 
40N	27	38	241680	 Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left. 
40N	27	39	241690	 And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads 
40N	27	40	241700	 and saying, "You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross." 
40N	27	41	241710	 So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying, 
40N	27	42	241720	 "He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. 
40N	27	43	241730	 He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, 'I am the Son of God.'" 
40N	27	44	241740	 And the robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way. 
40N	27	45	241750	 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. 
40N	27	46	241760	 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" that is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" 
40N	27	47	241770	 And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said, "This man is calling Elijah." 
40N	27	48	241780	 And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink. 
40N	27	49	241790	 But the others said, "Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him." 
40N	27	50	241800	 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. 
40N	27	51	241810	 And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. 
40N	27	52	241820	 The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, 
40N	27	53	241830	 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. 
40N	27	54	241840	 When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, "Truly this was the Son of God!" 
40N	27	55	241850	 There were also many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him, 
40N	27	56	241860	 among whom were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. 
40N	27	57	241870	 When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus. 
40N	27	58	241880	 He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. 
40N	27	59	241890	 And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud 
40N	27	60	241900	 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away. 
40N	27	61	241910	 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb. 
40N	27	62	241920	 The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate 
40N	27	63	241930	 and said, "Sir, we remember how that impostor said, while he was still alive, 'After three days I will rise.' 
40N	27	64	241940	 Therefore order the tomb to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away and tell the people, 'He has risen from the dead,' and the last fraud will be worse than the first." 
40N	27	65	241950	 Pilate said to them, "You have a guard of soldiers. Go, make it as secure as you can." 
40N	27	66	241960	 So they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard. 
40N	28	1	241970	 Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. 
40N	28	2	241980	 And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. 
40N	28	3	241990	 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow. 
40N	28	4	242000	 And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men. 
40N	28	5	242010	 But the angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. 
40N	28	6	242020	 He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay. 
40N	28	7	242030	 Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and behold, he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him. See, I have told you." 
40N	28	8	242040	 So they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples. 
40N	28	9	242050	 And behold, Jesus met them and said, "Greetings!" And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him. 
40N	28	10	242060	 Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me." 
40N	28	11	242070	 While they were going, behold, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests all that had taken place. 
40N	28	12	242080	 And when they had assembled with the elders and taken counsel, they gave a sufficient sum of money to the soldiers 
40N	28	13	242090	 and said, "Tell people, 'His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.' 
40N	28	14	242100	 And if this comes to the governor's ears, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble." 
40N	28	15	242110	 So they took the money and did as they were directed. And this story has been spread among the Jews to this day. 
40N	28	16	242120	 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 
40N	28	17	242130	 And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. 
40N	28	18	242140	 And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 
40N	28	19	242150	 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 
40N	28	20	242160	 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age." 
41N	1	1	242170	 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 
41N	1	2	242180	 As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, 
41N	1	3	242190	 the voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,'" 
41N	1	4	242200	 John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 
41N	1	5	242210	 And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. 
41N	1	6	242220	 Now John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey. 
41N	1	7	242230	 And he preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. 
41N	1	8	242240	 I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit." 
41N	1	9	242250	 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 
41N	1	10	242260	 And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 
41N	1	11	242270	 And a voice came from heaven, "You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased." 
41N	1	12	242280	 The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. 
41N	1	13	242290	 And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him. 
41N	1	14	242300	 Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, 
41N	1	15	242310	 and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel." 
41N	1	16	242320	 Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. 
41N	1	17	242330	 And Jesus said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men." 
41N	1	18	242340	 And immediately they left their nets and followed him. 
41N	1	19	242350	 And going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who were in their boat mending the nets. 
41N	1	20	242360	 And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants and followed him. 
41N	1	21	242370	 And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching. 
41N	1	22	242380	 And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes. 
41N	1	23	242390	 And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out, 
41N	1	24	242400	 "What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are--the Holy One of God." 
41N	1	25	242410	 But Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!" 
41N	1	26	242420	 And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying out with a loud voice, came out of him. 
41N	1	27	242430	 And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him." 
41N	1	28	242440	 And at once his fame spread everywhere throughout all the surrounding region of Galilee. 
41N	1	29	242450	 And immediately he left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 
41N	1	30	242460	 Now Simon's mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. 
41N	1	31	242470	 And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her, and she began to serve them. 
41N	1	32	242480	 That evening at sundown they brought to him all who were sick or oppressed by demons. 
41N	1	33	242490	 And the whole city was gathered together at the door. 
41N	1	34	242500	 And he healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. And he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him. 
41N	1	35	242510	 And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. 
41N	1	36	242520	 And Simon and those who were with him searched for him, 
41N	1	37	242530	 and they found him and said to him, "Everyone is looking for you." 
41N	1	38	242540	 And he said to them, "Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out." 
41N	1	39	242550	 And he went throughout all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons. 
41N	1	40	242560	 And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, "If you will, you can make me clean." 
41N	1	41	242570	 Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, "I will; be clean." 
41N	1	42	242580	 And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. 
41N	1	43	242590	 And Jesus sternly charged him and sent him away at once, 
41N	1	44	242600	 and said to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to them." 
41N	1	45	242610	 But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in desolate places, and people were coming to him from every quarter. 
41N	2	1	242620	 And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. 
41N	2	2	242630	 And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. 
41N	2	3	242640	 And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. 
41N	2	4	242650	 And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. 
41N	2	5	242660	 And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven." 
41N	2	6	242670	 Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts, 
41N	2	7	242680	 "Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?" 
41N	2	8	242690	 And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you question these things in your hearts? 
41N	2	9	242700	 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise, take up your bed and walk'? 
41N	2	10	242710	 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"--he said to the paralytic-- 
41N	2	11	242720	 "I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home." 
41N	2	12	242730	 And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!" 
41N	2	13	242740	 He went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them. 
41N	2	14	242750	 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he rose and followed him. 
41N	2	15	242760	 And as he reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. 
41N	2	16	242770	 And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?" 
41N	2	17	242780	 And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners." 
41N	2	18	242790	 Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?" 
41N	2	19	242800	 And Jesus said to them, "Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 
41N	2	20	242810	 The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. 
41N	2	21	242820	 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. 
41N	2	22	242830	 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins--and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins." 
41N	2	23	242840	 One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. 
41N	2	24	242850	 And the Pharisees were saying to him, "Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?" 
41N	2	25	242860	 And he said to them, "Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him: 
41N	2	26	242870	 how he entered the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?" 
41N	2	27	242880	 And he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. 
41N	2	28	242890	 So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath." 
41N	3	1	242900	 Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. 
41N	3	2	242910	 And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. 
41N	3	3	242920	 And he said to the man with the withered hand, "Come here." 
41N	3	4	242930	 And he said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?" But they were silent. 
41N	3	5	242940	 And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. 
41N	3	6	242950	 The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him. 
41N	3	7	242960	 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea 
41N	3	8	242970	 and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. 
41N	3	9	242980	 And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they crush him, 
41N	3	10	242990	 for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed around him to touch him. 
41N	3	11	243000	 And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, "You are the Son of God." 
41N	3	12	243010	 And he strictly ordered them not to make him known. 
41N	3	13	243020	 And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him. 
41N	3	14	243030	 And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach 
41N	3	15	243040	 and have authority to cast out demons. 
41N	3	16	243050	 He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter); 
41N	3	17	243060	 James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder); 
41N	3	18	243070	 Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean, 
41N	3	19	243080	 and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. 
41N	3	20	243090	 Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat. 
41N	3	21	243100	 And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, "He is out of his mind." 
41N	3	22	243110	 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, "He is possessed by Beelzebul," and "by the prince of demons he casts out the demons." 
41N	3	23	243120	 And he called them to him and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan? 
41N	3	24	243130	 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 
41N	3	25	243140	 And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. 
41N	3	26	243150	 And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end. 
41N	3	27	243160	 But no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. Then indeed he may plunder his house. 
41N	3	28	243170	 "Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter, 
41N	3	29	243180	 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"-- 
41N	3	30	243190	 for they were saying, "He has an unclean spirit." 
41N	3	31	243200	 And his mother and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him. 
41N	3	32	243210	 And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, "Your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you." 
41N	3	33	243220	 And he answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" 
41N	3	34	243230	 And looking about at those who sat around him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! 
41N	3	35	243240	 For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother." 
41N	4	1	243250	 Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. 
41N	4	2	243260	 And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: 
41N	4	3	243270	 "Listen! A sower went out to sow. 
41N	4	4	243280	 And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. 
41N	4	5	243290	 Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil. 
41N	4	6	243300	 And when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away. 
41N	4	7	243310	 Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. 
41N	4	8	243320	 And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold." 
41N	4	9	243330	 And he said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear." 
41N	4	10	243340	 And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. 
41N	4	11	243350	 And he said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables, 
41N	4	12	243360	 so that "they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven." 
41N	4	13	243370	 And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? 
41N	4	14	243380	 The sower sows the word. 
41N	4	15	243390	 And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them. 
41N	4	16	243400	 And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy. 
41N	4	17	243410	 And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away. 
41N	4	18	243420	 And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word, 
41N	4	19	243430	 but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. 
41N	4	20	243440	 But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold." 
41N	4	21	243450	 And he said to them, "Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket, or under a bed, and not on a stand? 
41N	4	22	243460	 For nothing is hidden except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret except to come to light. 
41N	4	23	243470	 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear." 
41N	4	24	243480	 And he said to them, "Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you. 
41N	4	25	243490	 For to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away." 
41N	4	26	243500	 And he said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. 
41N	4	27	243510	 He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. 
41N	4	28	243520	 The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 
41N	4	29	243530	 But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come." 
41N	4	30	243540	 And he said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? 
41N	4	31	243550	 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, 
41N	4	32	243560	 yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade." 
41N	4	33	243570	 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. 
41N	4	34	243580	 He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything. 
41N	4	35	243590	 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go across to the other side." 
41N	4	36	243600	 And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. 
41N	4	37	243610	 And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. 
41N	4	38	243620	 But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, "Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?" 
41N	4	39	243630	 And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. 
41N	4	40	243640	 He said to them, "Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?" 
41N	4	41	243650	 And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?" 
41N	5	1	243660	 They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. 
41N	5	2	243670	 And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. 
41N	5	3	243680	 He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, 
41N	5	4	243690	 for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. 
41N	5	5	243700	 Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. 
41N	5	6	243710	 And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him. 
41N	5	7	243720	 And crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me." 
41N	5	8	243730	 For he was saying to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!" 
41N	5	9	243740	 And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He replied, "My name is Legion, for we are many." 
41N	5	10	243750	 And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country. 
41N	5	11	243760	 Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, 
41N	5	12	243770	 and they begged him, saying, "Send us to the pigs; let us enter them." 
41N	5	13	243780	 So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out, and entered the pigs, and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and were drowned in the sea. 
41N	5	14	243790	 The herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the country. And people came to see what it was that had happened. 
41N	5	15	243800	 And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid. 
41N	5	16	243810	 And those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and to the pigs. 
41N	5	17	243820	 And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their region. 
41N	5	18	243830	 As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him. 
41N	5	19	243840	 And he did not permit him but said to him, "Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you." 
41N	5	20	243850	 And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled. 
41N	5	21	243860	 And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea. 
41N	5	22	243870	 Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him, he fell at his feet 
41N	5	23	243880	 and implored him earnestly, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live." 
41N	5	24	243890	 And he went with him. And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him. 
41N	5	25	243900	 And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, 
41N	5	26	243910	 and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. 
41N	5	27	243920	 She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. 
41N	5	28	243930	 For she said, "If I touch even his garments, I will be made well." 
41N	5	29	243940	 And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. 
41N	5	30	243950	 And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, "Who touched my garments?" 
41N	5	31	243960	 And his disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, 'Who touched me?'" 
41N	5	32	243970	 And he looked around to see who had done it. 
41N	5	33	243980	 But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth. 
41N	5	34	243990	 And he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease." 
41N	5	35	244000	 While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler's house some who said, "Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?" 
41N	5	36	244010	 But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Do not fear, only believe." 
41N	5	37	244020	 And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John the brother of James. 
41N	5	38	244030	 They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. 
41N	5	39	244040	 And when he had entered, he said to them, "Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping." 
41N	5	40	244050	 And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child's father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was. 
41N	5	41	244060	 Taking her by the hand he said to her, "Talitha cumi," which means, "Little girl, I say to you, arise." 
41N	5	42	244070	 And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement. 
41N	5	43	244080	 And he strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat. 
41N	6	1	244090	 He went away from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. 
41N	6	2	244100	 And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands? 
41N	6	3	244110	 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him. 
41N	6	4	244120	 And Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household." 
41N	6	5	244130	 And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. 
41N	6	6	244140	 And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went about among the villages teaching. 
41N	6	7	244150	 And he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. 
41N	6	8	244160	 He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff--no bread, no bag, no money in their belts-- 
41N	6	9	244170	 but to wear sandals and not put on two tunics. 
41N	6	10	244180	 And he said to them, "Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you depart from there. 
41N	6	11	244190	 And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them." 
41N	6	12	244200	 So they went out and proclaimed that people should repent. 
41N	6	13	244210	 And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them. 
41N	6	14	244220	 King Herod heard of it, for Jesus' name had become known. Some said, "John the Baptist has been raised from the dead. That is why these miraculous powers are at work in him." 
41N	6	15	244230	 But others said, "He is Elijah." And others said, "He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old." 
41N	6	16	244240	 But when Herod heard of it, he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has been raised." 
41N	6	17	244250	 For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because he had married her. 
41N	6	18	244260	 For John had been saying to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife." 
41N	6	19	244270	 And Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted to put him to death. But she could not, 
41N	6	20	244280	 for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe. When he heard him, he was greatly perplexed, and yet he heard him gladly. 
41N	6	21	244290	 But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee. 
41N	6	22	244300	 For when Herodias's daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. And the king said to the girl, "Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it to you." 
41N	6	23	244310	 And he vowed to her, "Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom." 
41N	6	24	244320	 And she went out and said to her mother, "For what should I ask?" And she said, "The head of John the Baptist." 
41N	6	25	244330	 And she came in immediately with haste to the king and asked, saying, "I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter." 
41N	6	26	244340	 And the king was exceedingly sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her. 
41N	6	27	244350	 And immediately the king sent an executioner with orders to bring John's head. He went and beheaded him in the prison 
41N	6	28	244360	 and brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother. 
41N	6	29	244370	 When his disciples heard of it, they came and took his body and laid it in a tomb. 
41N	6	30	244380	 The apostles returned to Jesus and told him all that they had done and taught. 
41N	6	31	244390	 And he said to them, "Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while." For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. 
41N	6	32	244400	 And they went away in the boat to a desolate place by themselves. 
41N	6	33	244410	 Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them. 
41N	6	34	244420	 When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things. 
41N	6	35	244430	 And when it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, "This is a desolate place, and the hour is now late. 
41N	6	36	244440	 Send them away to go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat." 
41N	6	37	244450	 But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." And they said to him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?" 
41N	6	38	244460	 And he said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go and see." And when they had found out, they said, "Five, and two fish." 
41N	6	39	244470	 Then he commanded them all to sit down in groups on the green grass. 
41N	6	40	244480	 So they sat down in groups, by hundreds and by fifties. 
41N	6	41	244490	 And taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven and said a blessing and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the people. And he divided the two fish among them all. 
41N	6	42	244500	 And they all ate and were satisfied. 
41N	6	43	244510	 And they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish. 
41N	6	44	244520	 And those who ate the loaves were five thousand men. 
41N	6	45	244530	 Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. 
41N	6	46	244540	 And after he had taken leave of them, he went up on the mountain to pray. 
41N	6	47	244550	 And when evening came, the boat was out on the sea, and he was alone on the land. 
41N	6	48	244560	 And he saw that they were making headway painfully, for the wind was against them. And about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. He meant to pass by them, 
41N	6	49	244570	 but when they saw him walking on the sea they thought it was a ghost, and cried out, 
41N	6	50	244580	 for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them and said, "Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid." 
41N	6	51	244590	 And he got into the boat with them, and the wind ceased. And they were utterly astounded, 
41N	6	52	244600	 for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened. 
41N	6	53	244610	 When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and moored to the shore. 
41N	6	54	244620	 And when they got out of the boat, the people immediately recognized him 
41N	6	55	244630	 and ran about the whole region and began to bring the sick people on their beds to wherever they heard he was. 
41N	6	56	244640	 And wherever he came, in villages, cities, or countryside, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and implored him that they might touch even the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched it were made well. 
41N	7	1	244650	 Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, 
41N	7	2	244660	 they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. 
41N	7	3	244670	 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders, 
41N	7	4	244680	 and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) 
41N	7	5	244690	 And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?" 
41N	7	6	244700	 And he said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, "'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; 
41N	7	7	244710	 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.' 
41N	7	8	244720	 You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men." 
41N	7	9	244730	 And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! 
41N	7	10	244740	 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.' 
41N	7	11	244750	 But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban"' (that is, given to God)-- 
41N	7	12	244760	 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, 
41N	7	13	244770	 thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do." 
41N	7	14	244780	 And he called the people to him again and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand: 
41N	7	15	244790	 There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him." 
41N	7	16	244800	 [If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.] 
41N	7	17	244810	 And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. 
41N	7	18	244820	 And he said to them, "Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, 
41N	7	19	244830	 since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?" (Thus he declared all foods clean.) 
41N	7	20	244840	 And he said, "What comes out of a person is what defiles him. 
41N	7	21	244850	 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 
41N	7	22	244860	 coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. 
41N	7	23	244870	 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person." 
41N	7	24	244880	 And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden. 
41N	7	25	244890	 But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet. 
41N	7	26	244900	 Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. 
41N	7	27	244910	 And he said to her, "Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." 
41N	7	28	244920	 But she answered him, "Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs." 
41N	7	29	244930	 And he said to her, "For this statement you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter." 
41N	7	30	244940	 And she went home and found the child lying in bed and the demon gone. 
41N	7	31	244950	 Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. 
41N	7	32	244960	 And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him. 
41N	7	33	244970	 And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue. 
41N	7	34	244980	 And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened." 
41N	7	35	244990	 And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. 
41N	7	36	245000	 And Jesus charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. 
41N	7	37	245010	 And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak." 
41N	8	1	245020	 In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them, 
41N	8	2	245030	 "I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. 
41N	8	3	245040	 And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way. And some of them have come from far away." 
41N	8	4	245050	 And his disciples answered him, "How can one feed these people with bread here in this desolate place?" 
41N	8	5	245060	 And he asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven." 
41N	8	6	245070	 And he directed the crowd to sit down on the ground. And he took the seven loaves, and having given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to set before the people; and they set them before the crowd. 
41N	8	7	245080	 And they had a few small fish. And having blessed them, he said that these also should be set before them. 
41N	8	8	245090	 And they ate and were satisfied. And they took up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full. 
41N	8	9	245100	 And there were about four thousand people. And he sent them away. 
41N	8	10	245110	 And immediately he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha. 
41N	8	11	245120	 The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, seeking from him a sign from heaven to test him. 
41N	8	12	245130	 And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, "Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation." 
41N	8	13	245140	 And he left them, got into the boat again, and went to the other side. 
41N	8	14	245150	 Now they had forgotten to bring bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. 
41N	8	15	245160	 And he cautioned them, saying, "Watch out; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod." 
41N	8	16	245170	 And they began discussing with one another the fact that they had no bread. 
41N	8	17	245180	 And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened? 
41N	8	18	245190	 Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember? 
41N	8	19	245200	 When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They said to him, "Twelve." 
41N	8	20	245210	 "And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" And they said to him, "Seven." 
41N	8	21	245220	 And he said to them, "Do you not yet understand?" 
41N	8	22	245230	 And they came to Bethsaida. And some people brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him. 
41N	8	23	245240	 And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, "Do you see anything?" 
41N	8	24	245250	 And he looked up and said, "I see men, but they look like trees, walking." 
41N	8	25	245260	 Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. 
41N	8	26	245270	 And he sent him to his home, saying, "Do not even enter the village." 
41N	8	27	245280	 And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that I am?" 
41N	8	28	245290	 And they told him, "John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets." 
41N	8	29	245300	 And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered him, "You are the Christ." 
41N	8	30	245310	 And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him. 
41N	8	31	245320	 And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. 
41N	8	32	245330	 And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 
41N	8	33	245340	 But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man." 
41N	8	34	245350	 And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 
41N	8	35	245360	 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. 
41N	8	36	245370	 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? 
41N	8	37	245380	 For what can a man give in return for his soul? 
41N	8	38	245390	 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." 
41N	9	1	245400	 And he said to them, "Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power." 
41N	9	2	245410	 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, 
41N	9	3	245420	 and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them. 
41N	9	4	245430	 And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus. 
41N	9	5	245440	 And Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah." 
41N	9	6	245450	 For he did not know what to say, for they were terrified. 
41N	9	7	245460	 And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son; listen to him." 
41N	9	8	245470	 And suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them but Jesus only. 
41N	9	9	245480	 And as they were coming down the mountain, he charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. 
41N	9	10	245490	 So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what this rising from the dead might mean. 
41N	9	11	245500	 And they asked him, "Why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?" 
41N	9	12	245510	 And he said to them, "Elijah does come first to restore all things. And how is it written of the Son of Man that he should suffer many things and be treated with contempt? 
41N	9	13	245520	 But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him." 
41N	9	14	245530	 And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them. 
41N	9	15	245540	 And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed and ran up to him and greeted him. 
41N	9	16	245550	 And he asked them, "What are you arguing about with them?" 
41N	9	17	245560	 And someone from the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a spirit that makes him mute. 
41N	9	18	245570	 And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. So I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able." 
41N	9	19	245580	 And he answered them, "O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me." 
41N	9	20	245590	 And they brought the boy to him. And when the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth. 
41N	9	21	245600	 And Jesus asked his father, "How long has this been happening to him?" And he said, "From childhood. 
41N	9	22	245610	 And it has often cast him into fire and into water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us." 
41N	9	23	245620	 And Jesus said to him, "'If you can'! All things are possible for one who believes." 
41N	9	24	245630	 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, "I believe; help my unbelief!" 
41N	9	25	245640	 And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again." 
41N	9	26	245650	 And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said, "He is dead." 
41N	9	27	245660	 But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. 
41N	9	28	245670	 And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why could we not cast it out?" 
41N	9	29	245680	 And he said to them, "This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer." 
41N	9	30	245690	 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he did not want anyone to know, 
41N	9	31	245700	 for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, "The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise." 
41N	9	32	245710	 But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him. 
41N	9	33	245720	 And they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house he asked them, "What were you discussing on the way?" 
41N	9	34	245730	 But they kept silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. 
41N	9	35	245740	 And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, "If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all." 
41N	9	36	245750	 And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them, 
41N	9	37	245760	 "Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me." 
41N	9	38	245770	 John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us." 
41N	9	39	245780	 But Jesus said, "Do not stop him, for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me. 
41N	9	40	245790	 For the one who is not against us is for us. 
41N	9	41	245800	 For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ will by no means lose his reward. 
41N	9	42	245810	 "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. 
41N	9	43	245820	 And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. 
41N	9	44	245830	
41N	9	45	245840	 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell. 
41N	9	46	245850	
41N	9	47	245860	 And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell, 
41N	9	48	245870	 'where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.' 
41N	9	49	245880	 For everyone will be salted with fire. 
41N	9	50	245890	 Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another." 
41N	10	1	245900	 And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them. 
41N	10	2	245910	 And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" 
41N	10	3	245920	 He answered them, "What did Moses command you?" 
41N	10	4	245930	 They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away." 
41N	10	5	245940	 And Jesus said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 
41N	10	6	245950	 But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.' 
41N	10	7	245960	 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, 
41N	10	8	245970	 and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh. 
41N	10	9	245980	 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate." 
41N	10	10	245990	 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 
41N	10	11	246000	 And he said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 
41N	10	12	246010	 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery." 
41N	10	13	246020	 And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. 
41N	10	14	246030	 But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. 
41N	10	15	246040	 Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it." 
41N	10	16	246050	 And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them. 
41N	10	17	246060	 And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" 
41N	10	18	246070	 And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. 
41N	10	19	246080	 You know the commandments: 'Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.'" 
41N	10	20	246090	 And he said to him, "Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth." 
41N	10	21	246100	 And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." 
41N	10	22	246110	 Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. 
41N	10	23	246120	 And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!" 
41N	10	24	246130	 And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, "Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God! 
41N	10	25	246140	 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God." 
41N	10	26	246150	 And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him, "Then who can be saved?" 
41N	10	27	246160	 Jesus looked at them and said, "With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God." 
41N	10	28	246170	 Peter began to say to him, "See, we have left everything and followed you." 
41N	10	29	246180	 Jesus said, "Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, 
41N	10	30	246190	 who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life. 
41N	10	31	246200	 But many who are first will be last, and the last first." 
41N	10	32	246210	 And they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. And they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. And taking the twelve again, he began to tell them what was to happen to him, 
41N	10	33	246220	 saying, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles. 
41N	10	34	246230	 And they will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise." 
41N	10	35	246240	 And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him and said to him, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you." 
41N	10	36	246250	 And he said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?" 
41N	10	37	246260	 And they said to him, "Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory." 
41N	10	38	246270	 Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?" 
41N	10	39	246280	 And they said to him, "We are able." And Jesus said to them, "The cup that I drink you will drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized, 
41N	10	40	246290	 but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared." 
41N	10	41	246300	 And when the ten heard it, they began to be indignant at James and John. 
41N	10	42	246310	 And Jesus called them to him and said to them, "You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. 
41N	10	43	246320	 But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, 
41N	10	44	246330	 and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. 
41N	10	45	246340	 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." 
41N	10	46	246350	 And they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside. 
41N	10	47	246360	 And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!" 
41N	10	48	246370	 And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he cried out all the more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!" 
41N	10	49	246380	 And Jesus stopped and said, "Call him." And they called the blind man, saying to him, "Take heart. Get up; he is calling you." 
41N	10	50	246390	 And throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Jesus. 
41N	10	51	246400	 And Jesus said to him, "What do you want me to do for you?" And the blind man said to him, "Rabbi, let me recover my sight." 
41N	10	52	246410	 And Jesus said to him, "Go your way; your faith has made you well." And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way. 
41N	11	1	246420	 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples 
41N	11	2	246430	 and said to them, "Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. 
41N	11	3	246440	 If anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.'" 
41N	11	4	246450	 And they went away and found a colt tied at a door outside in the street, and they untied it. 
41N	11	5	246460	 And some of those standing there said to them, "What are you doing, untying the colt?" 
41N	11	6	246470	 And they told them what Jesus had said, and they let them go. 
41N	11	7	246480	 And they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it. 
41N	11	8	246490	 And many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields. 
41N	11	9	246500	 And those who went before and those who followed were shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! 
41N	11	10	246510	 Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!" 
41N	11	11	246520	 And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve. 
41N	11	12	246530	 On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. 
41N	11	13	246540	 And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. 
41N	11	14	246550	 And he said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again." And his disciples heard it. 
41N	11	15	246560	 And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 
41N	11	16	246570	 And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. 
41N	11	17	246580	 And he was teaching them and saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers." 
41N	11	18	246590	 And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching. 
41N	11	19	246600	 And when evening came they went out of the city. 
41N	11	20	246610	 As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots. 
41N	11	21	246620	 And Peter remembered and said to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered." 
41N	11	22	246630	 And Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God. 
41N	11	23	246640	 Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. 
41N	11	24	246650	 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 
41N	11	25	246660	 And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses." 
41N	11	26	246670	 [But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive your trespasses.] 
41N	11	27	246680	 And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him, 
41N	11	28	246690	 and they said to him, "By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?" 
41N	11	29	246700	 Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question; answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. 
41N	11	30	246710	 Was the baptism of John from heaven or from man? Answer me." 
41N	11	31	246720	 And they discussed it with one another, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?' 
41N	11	32	246730	 But shall we say, 'From man'?"--they were afraid of the people, for they all held that John really was a prophet. 
41N	11	33	246740	 So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." And Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things." 
41N	12	1	246750	 And he began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country. 
41N	12	2	246760	 When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. 
41N	12	3	246770	 And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 
41N	12	4	246780	 Again he sent to them another servant, and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully. 
41N	12	5	246790	 And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed. 
41N	12	6	246800	 He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' 
41N	12	7	246810	 But those tenants said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' 
41N	12	8	246820	 And they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. 
41N	12	9	246830	 What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others. 
41N	12	10	246840	 Have you not read this Scripture: "'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; 
41N	12	11	246850	 this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?" 
41N	12	12	246860	 And they were seeking to arrest him but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they left him and went away. 
41N	12	13	246870	 And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk. 
41N	12	14	246880	 And they came and said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone's opinion. For you are not swayed by appearances, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?" 
41N	12	15	246890	 But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, "Why put me to the test? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it." 
41N	12	16	246900	 And they brought one. And he said to them, "Whose likeness and inscription is this?" They said to him, "Caesar's." 
41N	12	17	246910	 Jesus said to them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." And they marveled at him. 
41N	12	18	246920	 And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying, 
41N	12	19	246930	 "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. 
41N	12	20	246940	 There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no offspring. 
41N	12	21	246950	 And the second took her, and died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise. 
41N	12	22	246960	 And the seven left no offspring. Last of all the woman also died. 
41N	12	23	246970	 In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife." 
41N	12	24	246980	 Jesus said to them, "Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God? 
41N	12	25	246990	 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. 
41N	12	26	247000	 And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? 
41N	12	27	247010	 He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong." 
41N	12	28	247020	 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of all?" 
41N	12	29	247030	 Jesus answered, "The most important is, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 
41N	12	30	247040	 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' 
41N	12	31	247050	 The second is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." 
41N	12	32	247060	 And the scribe said to him, "You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him. 
41N	12	33	247070	 And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." 
41N	12	34	247080	 And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." And after that no one dared to ask him any more questions. 
41N	12	35	247090	 And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? 
41N	12	36	247100	 David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared, "'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.' 
41N	12	37	247110	 David himself calls him Lord. So how is he his son?" And the great throng heard him gladly. 
41N	12	38	247120	 And in his teaching he said, "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces 
41N	12	39	247130	 and have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, 
41N	12	40	247140	 who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation." 
41N	12	41	247150	 And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums. 
41N	12	42	247160	 And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny. 
41N	12	43	247170	 And he called his disciples to him and said to them, "Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box. 
41N	12	44	247180	 For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on." 
41N	13	1	247190	 And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!" 
41N	13	2	247200	 And Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down." 
41N	13	3	247210	 And as he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, 
41N	13	4	247220	 "Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when all these things are about to be accomplished?" 
41N	13	5	247230	 And Jesus began to say to them, "See that no one leads you astray. 
41N	13	6	247240	 Many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he!' and they will lead many astray. 
41N	13	7	247250	 And when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. This must take place, but the end is not yet. 
41N	13	8	247260	 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These are but the beginning of the birth pains. 
41N	13	9	247270	 "But be on your guard. For they will deliver you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them. 
41N	13	10	247280	 And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all nations. 
41N	13	11	247290	 And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. 
41N	13	12	247300	 And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death. 
41N	13	13	247310	 And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. 
41N	13	14	247320	 "But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not to be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 
41N	13	15	247330	 Let the one who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter his house, to take anything out, 
41N	13	16	247340	 and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak. 
41N	13	17	247350	 And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! 
41N	13	18	247360	 Pray that it may not happen in winter. 
41N	13	19	247370	 For in those days there will be such tribulation as has not been from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never will be. 
41N	13	20	247380	 And if the Lord had not cut short the days, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days. 
41N	13	21	247390	 And then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'Look, there he is!' do not believe it. 
41N	13	22	247400	 For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect. 
41N	13	23	247410	 But be on guard; I have told you all things beforehand. 
41N	13	24	247420	 "But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, 
41N	13	25	247430	 and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. 
41N	13	26	247440	 And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. 
41N	13	27	247450	 And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven. 
41N	13	28	247460	 "From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. 
41N	13	29	247470	 So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that he is near, at the very gates. 
41N	13	30	247480	 Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. 
41N	13	31	247490	 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. 
41N	13	32	247500	 "But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 
41N	13	33	247510	 Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come. 
41N	13	34	247520	 It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake. 
41N	13	35	247530	 Therefore stay awake--for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning-- 
41N	13	36	247540	 lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. 
41N	13	37	247550	 And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake." 
41N	14	1	247560	 It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him, 
41N	14	2	247570	 for they said, "Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people." 
41N	14	3	247580	 And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. 
41N	14	4	247590	 There were some who said to themselves indignantly, "Why was the ointment wasted like that? 
41N	14	5	247600	 For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor." And they scolded her. 
41N	14	6	247610	 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 
41N	14	7	247620	 For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me. 
41N	14	8	247630	 She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burial. 
41N	14	9	247640	 And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her." 
41N	14	10	247650	 Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them. 
41N	14	11	247660	 And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to betray him. 
41N	14	12	247670	 And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, "Where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?" 
41N	14	13	247680	 And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, "Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him, 
41N	14	14	247690	 and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, 'The Teacher says, Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?' 
41N	14	15	247700	 And he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; there prepare for us." 
41N	14	16	247710	 And the disciples set out and went to the city and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover. 
41N	14	17	247720	 And when it was evening, he came with the twelve. 
41N	14	18	247730	 And as they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said, "Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me." 
41N	14	19	247740	 They began to be sorrowful and to say to him one after another, "Is it I?" 
41N	14	20	247750	 He said to them, "It is one of the twelve, one who is dipping bread into the dish with me. 
41N	14	21	247760	 For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born." 
41N	14	22	247770	 And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, "Take; this is my body." 
41N	14	23	247780	 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it. 
41N	14	24	247790	 And he said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. 
41N	14	25	247800	 Truly, I say to you, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God." 
41N	14	26	247810	 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. 
41N	14	27	247820	 And Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.' 
41N	14	28	247830	 But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee." 
41N	14	29	247840	 Peter said to him, "Even though they all fall away, I will not." 
41N	14	30	247850	 And Jesus said to him, "Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." 
41N	14	31	247860	 But he said emphatically, "If I must die with you, I will not deny you." And they all said the same. 
41N	14	32	247870	 And they went to a place called Gethsemane. And he said to his disciples, "Sit here while I pray." 
41N	14	33	247880	 And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled. 
41N	14	34	247890	 And he said to them, "My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch." 
41N	14	35	247900	 And going a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. 
41N	14	36	247910	 And he said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will." 
41N	14	37	247920	 And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour? 
41N	14	38	247930	 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." 
41N	14	39	247940	 And again he went away and prayed, saying the same words. 
41N	14	40	247950	 And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they did not know what to answer him. 
41N	14	41	247960	 And he came the third time and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough; the hour has come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. 
41N	14	42	247970	 Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand." 
41N	14	43	247980	 And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. 
41N	14	44	247990	 Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, "The one I will kiss is the man. Seize him and lead him away under guard." 
41N	14	45	248000	 And when he came, he went up to him at once and said, "Rabbi!" And he kissed him. 
41N	14	46	248010	 And they laid hands on him and seized him. 
41N	14	47	248020	 But one of those who stood by drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear. 
41N	14	48	248030	 And Jesus said to them, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? 
41N	14	49	248040	 Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. But let the Scriptures be fulfilled." 
41N	14	50	248050	 And they all left him and fled. 
41N	14	51	248060	 And a young man followed him, with nothing but a linen cloth about his body. And they seized him, 
41N	14	52	248070	 but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked. 
41N	14	53	248080	 And they led Jesus to the high priest. And all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes came together. 
41N	14	54	248090	 And Peter had followed him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. And he was sitting with the guards and warming himself at the fire. 
41N	14	55	248100	 Now the chief priests and the whole Council were seeking testimony against Jesus to put him to death, but they found none. 
41N	14	56	248110	 For many bore false witness against him, but their testimony did not agree. 
41N	14	57	248120	 And some stood up and bore false witness against him, saying, 
41N	14	58	248130	 "We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.'" 
41N	14	59	248140	 Yet even about this their testimony did not agree. 
41N	14	60	248150	 And the high priest stood up in the midst and asked Jesus, "Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?" 
41N	14	61	248160	 But he remained silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?" 
41N	14	62	248170	 And Jesus said, "I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven." 
41N	14	63	248180	 And the high priest tore his garments and said, "What further witnesses do we need? 
41N	14	64	248190	 You have heard his blasphemy. What is your decision?" And they all condemned him as deserving death. 
41N	14	65	248200	 And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to strike him, saying to him, "Prophesy!" And the guards received him with blows. 
41N	14	66	248210	 And as Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came, 
41N	14	67	248220	 and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, "You also were with the Nazarene, Jesus." 
41N	14	68	248230	 But he denied it, saying, "I neither know nor understand what you mean." And he went out into the gateway and the rooster crowed. 
41N	14	69	248240	 And the servant girl saw him and began again to say to the bystanders, "This man is one of them." 
41N	14	70	248250	 But again he denied it. And after a little while the bystanders again said to Peter, "Certainly you are one of them, for you are a Galilean." 
41N	14	71	248260	 But he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, "I do not know this man of whom you speak." 
41N	14	72	248270	 And immediately the rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." And he broke down and wept. 
41N	15	1	248280	 And as soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole Council. And they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate. 
41N	15	2	248290	 And Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him, "You have said so." 
41N	15	3	248300	 And the chief priests accused him of many things. 
41N	15	4	248310	 And Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you." 
41N	15	5	248320	 But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed. 
41N	15	6	248330	 Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked. 
41N	15	7	248340	 And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas. 
41N	15	8	248350	 And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them. 
41N	15	9	248360	 And he answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?" 
41N	15	10	248370	 For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up. 
41N	15	11	248380	 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead. 
41N	15	12	248390	 And Pilate again said to them, "Then what shall I do with the man you call the King of the Jews?" 
41N	15	13	248400	 And they cried out again, "Crucify him." 
41N	15	14	248410	 And Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Crucify him." 
41N	15	15	248420	 So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified. 
41N	15	16	248430	 And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion. 
41N	15	17	248440	 And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. 
41N	15	18	248450	 And they began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!" 
41N	15	19	248460	 And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him. 
41N	15	20	248470	 And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him. 
41N	15	21	248480	 And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross. 
41N	15	22	248490	 And they brought him to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull). 
41N	15	23	248500	 And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. 
41N	15	24	248510	 And they crucified him and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take. 
41N	15	25	248520	 And it was the third hour when they crucified him. 
41N	15	26	248530	 And the inscription of the charge against him read, "The King of the Jews." 
41N	15	27	248540	 And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left. 
41N	15	28	248550	 [And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "He was numbered with the transgressors."] 
41N	15	29	248560	 And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, "Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, 
41N	15	30	248570	 save yourself, and come down from the cross!" 
41N	15	31	248580	 So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, "He saved others; he cannot save himself. 
41N	15	32	248590	 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe." Those who were crucified with him also reviled him. 
41N	15	33	248600	 And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. 
41N	15	34	248610	 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" 
41N	15	35	248620	 And some of the bystanders hearing it said, "Behold, he is calling Elijah." 
41N	15	36	248630	 And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down." 
41N	15	37	248640	 And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last. 
41N	15	38	248650	 And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. 
41N	15	39	248660	 And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!" 
41N	15	40	248670	 There were also women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome. 
41N	15	41	248680	 When he was in Galilee, they followed him and ministered to him, and there were also many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem. 
41N	15	42	248690	 And when evening had come, since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath, 
41N	15	43	248700	 Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the Council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. 
41N	15	44	248710	 Pilate was surprised to hear that he should have already died. And summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead. 
41N	15	45	248720	 And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the corpse to Joseph. 
41N	15	46	248730	 And Joseph bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud and laid him in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. And he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. 
41N	15	47	248740	 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid. 
41N	16	1	248750	 When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 
41N	16	2	248760	 And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. 
41N	16	3	248770	 And they were saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?" 
41N	16	4	248780	 And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back--it was very large. 
41N	16	5	248790	 And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. 
41N	16	6	248800	 And he said to them, "Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him. 
41N	16	7	248810	 But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you." 
41N	16	8	248820	 And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had seized them, and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid. 
41N	16	9	248830	 [[Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. 
41N	16	10	248840	 She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. 
41N	16	11	248850	 But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it. 
41N	16	12	248860	 After these things he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. 
41N	16	13	248870	 And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them. 
41N	16	14	248880	 Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen. 
41N	16	15	248890	 And he said to them, "Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. 
41N	16	16	248900	 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. 
41N	16	17	248910	 And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 
41N	16	18	248920	 they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover." 
41N	16	19	248930	 So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. 
41N	16	20	248940	 And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.]] 
42N	1	1	248950	 Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, 
42N	1	2	248960	 just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, 
42N	1	3	248970	 it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, 
42N	1	4	248980	 that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught. 
42N	1	5	248990	 In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. 
42N	1	6	249000	 And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord. 
42N	1	7	249010	 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years. 
42N	1	8	249020	 Now while he was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty, 
42N	1	9	249030	 according to the custom of the priesthood, he was chosen by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense. 
42N	1	10	249040	 And the whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense. 
42N	1	11	249050	 And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. 
42N	1	12	249060	 And Zechariah was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him. 
42N	1	13	249070	 But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. 
42N	1	14	249080	 And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth, 
42N	1	15	249090	 for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb. 
42N	1	16	249100	 And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God, 
42N	1	17	249110	 and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared." 
42N	1	18	249120	 And Zechariah said to the angel, "How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years." 
42N	1	19	249130	 And the angel answered him, "I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news. 
42N	1	20	249140	 And behold, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time." 
42N	1	21	249150	 And the people were waiting for Zechariah, and they were wondering at his delay in the temple. 
42N	1	22	249160	 And when he came out, he was unable to speak to them, and they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he kept making signs to them and remained mute. 
42N	1	23	249170	 And when his time of service was ended, he went to his home. 
42N	1	24	249180	 After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and for five months she kept herself hidden, saying, 
42N	1	25	249190	 "Thus the Lord has done for me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among people." 
42N	1	26	249200	 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, 
42N	1	27	249210	 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary. 
42N	1	28	249220	 And he came to her and said, "Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!" 
42N	1	29	249230	 But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be. 
42N	1	30	249240	 And the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 
42N	1	31	249250	 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. 
42N	1	32	249260	 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, 
42N	1	33	249270	 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end." 
42N	1	34	249280	 And Mary said to the angel, "How will this be, since I am a virgin?" 
42N	1	35	249290	 And the angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy--the Son of God. 
42N	1	36	249300	 And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. 
42N	1	37	249310	 For nothing will be impossible with God." 
42N	1	38	249320	 And Mary said, "Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her. 
42N	1	39	249330	 In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, 
42N	1	40	249340	 and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. 
42N	1	41	249350	 And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, 
42N	1	42	249360	 and she exclaimed with a loud cry, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! 
42N	1	43	249370	 And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 
42N	1	44	249380	 For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. 
42N	1	45	249390	 And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord." 
42N	1	46	249400	 And Mary said, "My soul magnifies the Lord, 
42N	1	47	249410	 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, 
42N	1	48	249420	 for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed; 
42N	1	49	249430	 for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name. 
42N	1	50	249440	 And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation. 
42N	1	51	249450	 He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts; 
42N	1	52	249460	 he has brought down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble estate; 
42N	1	53	249470	 he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty. 
42N	1	54	249480	 He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, 
42N	1	55	249490	 as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring forever." 
42N	1	56	249500	 And Mary remained with her about three months and returned to her home. 
42N	1	57	249510	 Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. 
42N	1	58	249520	 And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. 
42N	1	59	249530	 And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him Zechariah after his father, 
42N	1	60	249540	 but his mother answered, "No; he shall be called John." 
42N	1	61	249550	 And they said to her, "None of your relatives is called by this name." 
42N	1	62	249560	 And they made signs to his father, inquiring what he wanted him to be called. 
42N	1	63	249570	 And he asked for a writing tablet and wrote, "His name is John." And they all wondered. 
42N	1	64	249580	 And immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, blessing God. 
42N	1	65	249590	 And fear came on all their neighbors. And all these things were talked about through all the hill country of Judea, 
42N	1	66	249600	 and all who heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, "What then will this child be?" For the hand of the Lord was with him. 
42N	1	67	249610	 And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying, 
42N	1	68	249620	 "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people 
42N	1	69	249630	 and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, 
42N	1	70	249640	 as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, 
42N	1	71	249650	 that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us; 
42N	1	72	249660	 to show the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant, 
42N	1	73	249670	 the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us 
42N	1	74	249680	 that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear, 
42N	1	75	249690	 in holiness and righteousness before him all our days. 
42N	1	76	249700	 And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways, 
42N	1	77	249710	 to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins, 
42N	1	78	249720	 because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high 
42N	1	79	249730	 to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace." 
42N	1	80	249740	 And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel. 
42N	2	1	249750	 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 
42N	2	2	249760	 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 
42N	2	3	249770	 And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 
42N	2	4	249780	 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, 
42N	2	5	249790	 to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. 
42N	2	6	249800	 And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. 
42N	2	7	249810	 And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. 
42N	2	8	249820	 And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 
42N	2	9	249830	 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear. 
42N	2	10	249840	 And the angel said to them, "Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. 
42N	2	11	249850	 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 
42N	2	12	249860	 And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger." 
42N	2	13	249870	 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, 
42N	2	14	249880	 "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!" 
42N	2	15	249890	 When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us." 
42N	2	16	249900	 And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger. 
42N	2	17	249910	 And when they saw it, they made known the saying that had been told them concerning this child. 
42N	2	18	249920	 And all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them. 
42N	2	19	249930	 But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart. 
42N	2	20	249940	 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them. 
42N	2	21	249950	 And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. 
42N	2	22	249960	 And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord 
42N	2	23	249970	 (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, "Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord") 
42N	2	24	249980	 and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord, "a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons." 
42N	2	25	249990	 Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. 
42N	2	26	250000	 And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ. 
42N	2	27	250010	 And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the Law, 
42N	2	28	250020	 he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said, 
42N	2	29	250030	 "Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word; 
42N	2	30	250040	 for my eyes have seen your salvation 
42N	2	31	250050	 that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, 
42N	2	32	250060	 a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel." 
42N	2	33	250070	 And his father and his mother marveled at what was said about him. 
42N	2	34	250080	 And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, "Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed 
42N	2	35	250090	 (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), so that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed." 
42N	2	36	250100	 And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin, 
42N	2	37	250110	 and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day. 
42N	2	38	250120	 And coming up at that very hour she began to give thanks to God and to speak of him to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem. 
42N	2	39	250130	 And when they had performed everything according to the Law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. 
42N	2	40	250140	 And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was upon him. 
42N	2	41	250150	 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. 
42N	2	42	250160	 And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom. 
42N	2	43	250170	 And when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it, 
42N	2	44	250180	 but supposing him to be in the group they went a day's journey, but then they began to search for him among their relatives and acquaintances, 
42N	2	45	250190	 and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching for him. 
42N	2	46	250200	 After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 
42N	2	47	250210	 And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. 
42N	2	48	250220	 And when his parents saw him, they were astonished. And his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been searching for you in great distress." 
42N	2	49	250230	 And he said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?" 
42N	2	50	250240	 And they did not understand the saying that he spoke to them. 
42N	2	51	250250	 And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart. 
42N	2	52	250260	 And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man. 
42N	3	1	250270	 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, 
42N	3	2	250280	 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. 
42N	3	3	250290	 And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 
42N	3	4	250300	 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 
42N	3	5	250310	 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places shall become level ways, 
42N	3	6	250320	 and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'" 
42N	3	7	250330	 He said therefore to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 
42N	3	8	250340	 Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. 
42N	3	9	250350	 Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire." 
42N	3	10	250360	 And the crowds asked him, "What then shall we do?" 
42N	3	11	250370	 And he answered them, "Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise." 
42N	3	12	250380	 Tax collectors also came to be baptized and said to him, "Teacher, what shall we do?" 
42N	3	13	250390	 And he said to them, "Collect no more than you are authorized to do." 
42N	3	14	250400	 Soldiers also asked him, "And we, what shall we do?" And he said to them, "Do not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your wages." 
42N	3	15	250410	 As the people were in expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Christ, 
42N	3	16	250420	 John answered them all, saying, "I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. 
42N	3	17	250430	 His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire." 
42N	3	18	250440	 So with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people. 
42N	3	19	250450	 But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the evil things that Herod had done, 
42N	3	20	250460	 added this to them all, that he locked up John in prison. 
42N	3	21	250470	 Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heavens were opened, 
42N	3	22	250480	 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, "You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased." 
42N	3	23	250490	 Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli, 
42N	3	24	250500	 the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph, 
42N	3	25	250510	 the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, 
42N	3	26	250520	 the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda, 
42N	3	27	250530	 the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri, 
42N	3	28	250540	 the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er, 
42N	3	29	250550	 the son of Joshua, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, 
42N	3	30	250560	 the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim, 
42N	3	31	250570	 the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David, 
42N	3	32	250580	 the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Sala, the son of Nahshon, 
42N	3	33	250590	 the son of Amminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, 
42N	3	34	250600	 the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, 
42N	3	35	250610	 the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, 
42N	3	36	250620	 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, 
42N	3	37	250630	 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, 
42N	3	38	250640	 the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God. 
42N	4	1	250650	 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness 
42N	4	2	250660	 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. 
42N	4	3	250670	 The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread." 
42N	4	4	250680	 And Jesus answered him, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone.'" 
42N	4	5	250690	 And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, 
42N	4	6	250700	 and said to him, "To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. 
42N	4	7	250710	 If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours." 
42N	4	8	250720	 And Jesus answered him, "It is written, "'You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.'" 
42N	4	9	250730	 And he took him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, 
42N	4	10	250740	 for it is written, "'He will command his angels concerning you, to guard you,' 
42N	4	11	250750	 and "'On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.'" 
42N	4	12	250760	 And Jesus answered him, "It is said, 'You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.'" 
42N	4	13	250770	 And when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time. 
42N	4	14	250780	 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report about him went out through all the surrounding country. 
42N	4	15	250790	 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all. 
42N	4	16	250800	 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. 
42N	4	17	250810	 And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, 
42N	4	18	250820	 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, 
42N	4	19	250830	 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." 
42N	4	20	250840	 And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. 
42N	4	21	250850	 And he began to say to them, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing." 
42N	4	22	250860	 And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they said, "Is not this Joseph's son?" 
42N	4	23	250870	 And he said to them, "Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, 'Physician, heal yourself.' What we have heard you did at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well." 
42N	4	24	250880	 And he said, "Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. 
42N	4	25	250890	 But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land, 
42N	4	26	250900	 and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 
42N	4	27	250910	 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian." 
42N	4	28	250920	 When they heard these things, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath. 
42N	4	29	250930	 And they rose up and drove him out of the town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff. 
42N	4	30	250940	 But passing through their midst, he went away. 
42N	4	31	250950	 And he went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the Sabbath, 
42N	4	32	250960	 and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word possessed authority. 
42N	4	33	250970	 And in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, 
42N	4	34	250980	 "Ha! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are--the Holy One of God." 
42N	4	35	250990	 But Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent and come out of him!" And when the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm. 
42N	4	36	251000	 And they were all amazed and said to one another, "What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!" 
42N	4	37	251010	 And reports about him went out into every place in the surrounding region. 
42N	4	38	251020	 And he arose and left the synagogue and entered Simon's house. Now Simon's mother-in-law was ill with a high fever, and they appealed to him on her behalf. 
42N	4	39	251030	 And he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her, and immediately she rose and began to serve them. 
42N	4	40	251040	 Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them. 
42N	4	41	251050	 And demons also came out of many, crying, "You are the Son of God!" But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ. 
42N	4	42	251060	 And when it was day, he departed and went into a desolate place. And the people sought him and came to him, and would have kept him from leaving them, 
42N	4	43	251070	 but he said to them, "I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well; for I was sent for this purpose." 
42N	4	44	251080	 And he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea. 
42N	5	1	251090	 On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, 
42N	5	2	251100	 and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. 
42N	5	3	251110	 Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. 
42N	5	4	251120	 And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch." 
42N	5	5	251130	 And Simon answered, "Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets." 
42N	5	6	251140	 And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking. 
42N	5	7	251150	 They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. 
42N	5	8	251160	 But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord." 
42N	5	9	251170	 For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken, 
42N	5	10	251180	 and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men." 
42N	5	11	251190	 And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him. 
42N	5	12	251200	 While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, "Lord, if you will, you can make me clean." 
42N	5	13	251210	 And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, "I will; be clean." And immediately the leprosy left him. 
42N	5	14	251220	 And he charged him to tell no one, but "go and show yourself to the priest, and make an offering for your cleansing, as Moses commanded, for a proof to them." 
42N	5	15	251230	 But now even more the report about him went abroad, and great crowds gathered to hear him and to be healed of their infirmities. 
42N	5	16	251240	 But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray. 
42N	5	17	251250	 On one of those days, as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with him to heal. 
42N	5	18	251260	 And behold, some men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and lay him before Jesus, 
42N	5	19	251270	 but finding no way to bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the midst before Jesus. 
42N	5	20	251280	 And when he saw their faith, he said, "Man, your sins are forgiven you." 
42N	5	21	251290	 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, saying, "Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?" 
42N	5	22	251300	 When Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answered them, "Why do you question in your hearts? 
42N	5	23	251310	 Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'? 
42N	5	24	251320	 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"--he said to the man who was paralyzed--"I say to you, rise, pick up your bed and go home." 
42N	5	25	251330	 And immediately he rose up before them and picked up what he had been lying on and went home, glorifying God. 
42N	5	26	251340	 And amazement seized them all, and they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying, "We have seen extraordinary things today." 
42N	5	27	251350	 After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, "Follow me." 
42N	5	28	251360	 And leaving everything, he rose and followed him. 
42N	5	29	251370	 And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them. 
42N	5	30	251380	 And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?" 
42N	5	31	251390	 And Jesus answered them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 
42N	5	32	251400	 I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance." 
42N	5	33	251410	 And they said to him, "The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink." 
42N	5	34	251420	 And Jesus said to them, "Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? 
42N	5	35	251430	 The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days." 
42N	5	36	251440	 He also told them a parable: "No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. If he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. 
42N	5	37	251450	 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. 
42N	5	38	251460	 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. 
42N	5	39	251470	 And no one after drinking old wine desires new, for he says, 'The old is good.'" 
42N	6	1	251480	 On a Sabbath, while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. 
42N	6	2	251490	 But some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?" 
42N	6	3	251500	 And Jesus answered them, "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: 
42N	6	4	251510	 how he entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those with him?" 
42N	6	5	251520	 And he said to them, "The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath." 
42N	6	6	251530	 On another Sabbath, he entered the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was withered. 
42N	6	7	251540	 And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might find a reason to accuse him. 
42N	6	8	251550	 But he knew their thoughts, and he said to the man with the withered hand, "Come and stand here." And he rose and stood there. 
42N	6	9	251560	 And Jesus said to them, "I ask you, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to destroy it?" 
42N	6	10	251570	 And after looking around at them all he said to him, "Stretch out your hand." And he did so, and his hand was restored. 
42N	6	11	251580	 But they were filled with fury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus. 
42N	6	12	251590	 In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. 
42N	6	13	251600	 And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: 
42N	6	14	251610	 Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, 
42N	6	15	251620	 and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, 
42N	6	16	251630	 and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. 
42N	6	17	251640	 And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, 
42N	6	18	251650	 who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. And those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. 
42N	6	19	251660	 And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power came out from him and healed them all. 
42N	6	20	251670	 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 
42N	6	21	251680	 "Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. "Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh. 
42N	6	22	251690	 "Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! 
42N	6	23	251700	 Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets. 
42N	6	24	251710	 "But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. 
42N	6	25	251720	 "Woe to you who are full now, for you shall be hungry. "Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. 
42N	6	26	251730	 "Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets. 
42N	6	27	251740	 "But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 
42N	6	28	251750	 bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. 
42N	6	29	251760	 To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either. 
42N	6	30	251770	 Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back. 
42N	6	31	251780	 And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them. 
42N	6	32	251790	 "If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. 
42N	6	33	251800	 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. 
42N	6	34	251810	 And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount. 
42N	6	35	251820	 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. 
42N	6	36	251830	 Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. 
42N	6	37	251840	 "Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; 
42N	6	38	251850	 give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you." 
42N	6	39	251860	 He also told them a parable: "Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? 
42N	6	40	251870	 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher. 
42N	6	41	251880	 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 
42N	6	42	251890	 How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye. 
42N	6	43	251900	 "For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, 
42N	6	44	251910	 for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. 
42N	6	45	251920	 The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. 
42N	6	46	251930	 "Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do what I tell you? 
42N	6	47	251940	 Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: 
42N	6	48	251950	 he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. 
42N	6	49	251960	 But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great." 
42N	7	1	251970	 After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. 
42N	7	2	251980	 Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him. 
42N	7	3	251990	 When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant. 
42N	7	4	252000	 And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, "He is worthy to have you do this for him, 
42N	7	5	252010	 for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue." 
42N	7	6	252020	 And Jesus went with them. When he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to him, "Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. 
42N	7	7	252030	 Therefore I did not presume to come to you. But say the word, and let my servant be healed. 
42N	7	8	252040	 For I too am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me: and I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes; and to another, 'Come,' and he comes; and to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it." 
42N	7	9	252050	 When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turning to the crowd that followed him, said, "I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith." 
42N	7	10	252060	 And when those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the servant well. 
42N	7	11	252070	 Soon afterward he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. 
42N	7	12	252080	 As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her. 
42N	7	13	252090	 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, "Do not weep." 
42N	7	14	252100	 Then he came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, "Young man, I say to you, arise." 
42N	7	15	252110	 And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother. 
42N	7	16	252120	 Fear seized them all, and they glorified God, saying, "A great prophet has arisen among us!" and "God has visited his people!" 
42N	7	17	252130	 And this report about him spread through the whole of Judea and all the surrounding country. 
42N	7	18	252140	 The disciples of John reported all these things to him. And John, 
42N	7	19	252150	 calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to the Lord, saying, "Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?" 
42N	7	20	252160	 And when the men had come to him, they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to you, saying, 'Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?'" 
42N	7	21	252170	 In that hour he healed many people of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and on many who were blind he bestowed sight. 
42N	7	22	252180	 And he answered them, "Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them. 
42N	7	23	252190	 And blessed is the one who is not offended by me." 
42N	7	24	252200	 When John's messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? 
42N	7	25	252210	 What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are dressed in splendid clothing and live in luxury are in kings' courts. 
42N	7	26	252220	 What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. 
42N	7	27	252230	 This is he of whom it is written, "'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.' 
42N	7	28	252240	 I tell you, among those born of women none is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he." 
42N	7	29	252250	 (When all the people heard this, and the tax collectors too, they declared God just, having been baptized with the baptism of John, 
42N	7	30	252260	 but the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.) 
42N	7	31	252270	 "To what then shall I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? 
42N	7	32	252280	 They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, "'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.' 
42N	7	33	252290	 For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.' 
42N	7	34	252300	 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' 
42N	7	35	252310	 Yet wisdom is justified by all her children." 
42N	7	36	252320	 One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house and took his place at the table. 
42N	7	37	252330	 And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, 
42N	7	38	252340	 and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment. 
42N	7	39	252350	 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner." 
42N	7	40	252360	 And Jesus answering said to him, "Simon, I have something to say to you." And he answered, "Say it, Teacher." 
42N	7	41	252370	 "A certain moneylender had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. 
42N	7	42	252380	 When they could not pay, he cancelled the debt of both. Now which of them will love him more?" 
42N	7	43	252390	 Simon answered, "The one, I suppose, for whom he cancelled the larger debt." And he said to him, "You have judged rightly." 
42N	7	44	252400	 Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 
42N	7	45	252410	 You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not ceased to kiss my feet. 
42N	7	46	252420	 You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. 
42N	7	47	252430	 Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven--for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little." 
42N	7	48	252440	 And he said to her, "Your sins are forgiven." 
42N	7	49	252450	 Then those who were at table with him began to say among themselves, "Who is this, who even forgives sins?" 
42N	7	50	252460	 And he said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace." 
42N	8	1	252470	 Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him, 
42N	8	2	252480	 and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, 
42N	8	3	252490	 and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means. 
42N	8	4	252500	 And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable: 
42N	8	5	252510	 "A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it. 
42N	8	6	252520	 And some fell on the rock, and as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture. 
42N	8	7	252530	 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it. 
42N	8	8	252540	 And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded a hundredfold." As he said these things, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear." 
42N	8	9	252550	 And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant, 
42N	8	10	252560	 he said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.' 
42N	8	11	252570	 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. 
42N	8	12	252580	 The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. 
42N	8	13	252590	 And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a while, and in time of testing fall away. 
42N	8	14	252600	 And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature. 
42N	8	15	252610	 As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience. 
42N	8	16	252620	 "No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light. 
42N	8	17	252630	 For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light. 
42N	8	18	252640	 Take care then how you hear, for to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away." 
42N	8	19	252650	 Then his mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not reach him because of the crowd. 
42N	8	20	252660	 And he was told, "Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, desiring to see you." 
42N	8	21	252670	 But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it." 
42N	8	22	252680	 One day he got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, "Let us go across to the other side of the lake." So they set out, 
42N	8	23	252690	 and as they sailed he fell asleep. And a windstorm came down on the lake, and they were filling with water and were in danger. 
42N	8	24	252700	 And they went and woke him, saying, "Master, Master, we are perishing!" And he awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging waves, and they ceased, and there was a calm. 
42N	8	25	252710	 He said to them, "Where is your faith?" And they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, "Who then is this, that he commands even winds and water, and they obey him?" 
42N	8	26	252720	 Then they sailed to the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee. 
42N	8	27	252730	 When Jesus had stepped out on land, there met him a man from the city who had demons. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he had not lived in a house but among the tombs. 
42N	8	28	252740	 When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him and said with a loud voice, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me." 
42N	8	29	252750	 For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many a time it had seized him. He was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into the desert.) 
42N	8	30	252760	 Jesus then asked him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Legion," for many demons had entered him. 
42N	8	31	252770	 And they begged him not to command them to depart into the abyss. 
42N	8	32	252780	 Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, and they begged him to let them enter these. So he gave them permission. 
42N	8	33	252790	 Then the demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned. 
42N	8	34	252800	 When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country. 
42N	8	35	252810	 Then people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid. 
42N	8	36	252820	 And those who had seen it told them how the demon-possessed man had been healed. 
42N	8	37	252830	 Then all the people of the surrounding country of the Gerasenes asked him to depart from them, for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned. 
42N	8	38	252840	 The man from whom the demons had gone begged that he might be with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying, 
42N	8	39	252850	 "Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you." And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him. 
42N	8	40	252860	 Now when Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him. 
42N	8	41	252870	 And there came a man named Jairus, who was a ruler of the synagogue. And falling at Jesus' feet, he implored him to come to his house, 
42N	8	42	252880	 for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. As Jesus went, the people pressed around him. 
42N	8	43	252890	 And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and though she had spent all her living on physicians, she could not be healed by anyone. 
42N	8	44	252900	 She came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment, and immediately her discharge of blood ceased. 
42N	8	45	252910	 And Jesus said, "Who was it that touched me?" When all denied it, Peter said, "Master, the crowds surround you and are pressing in on you!" 
42N	8	46	252920	 But Jesus said, "Someone touched me, for I perceive that power has gone out from me." 
42N	8	47	252930	 And when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared in the presence of all the people why she had touched him, and how she had been immediately healed. 
42N	8	48	252940	 And he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace." 
42N	8	49	252950	 While he was still speaking, someone from the ruler's house came and said, "Your daughter is dead; do not trouble the Teacher any more." 
42N	8	50	252960	 But Jesus on hearing this answered him, "Do not fear; only believe, and she will be well." 
42N	8	51	252970	 And when he came to the house, he allowed no one to enter with him, except Peter and John and James, and the father and mother of the child. 
42N	8	52	252980	 And all were weeping and mourning for her, but he said, "Do not weep, for she is not dead but sleeping." 
42N	8	53	252990	 And they laughed at him, knowing that she was dead. 
42N	8	54	253000	 But taking her by the hand he called, saying, "Child, arise." 
42N	8	55	253010	 And her spirit returned, and she got up at once. And he directed that something should be given her to eat. 
42N	8	56	253020	 And her parents were amazed, but he charged them to tell no one what had happened. 
42N	9	1	253030	 And he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, 
42N	9	2	253040	 and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal. 
42N	9	3	253050	 And he said to them, "Take nothing for your journey, no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not have two tunics. 
42N	9	4	253060	 And whatever house you enter, stay there, and from there depart. 
42N	9	5	253070	 And wherever they do not receive you, when you leave that town shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them." 
42N	9	6	253080	 And they departed and went through the villages, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere. 
42N	9	7	253090	 Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening, and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had been raised from the dead, 
42N	9	8	253100	 by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the prophets of old had risen. 
42N	9	9	253110	 Herod said, "John I beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?" And he sought to see him. 
42N	9	10	253120	 On their return the apostles told him all that they had done. And he took them and withdrew apart to a town called Bethsaida. 
42N	9	11	253130	 When the crowds learned it, they followed him, and he welcomed them and spoke to them of the kingdom of God and cured those who had need of healing. 
42N	9	12	253140	 Now the day began to wear away, and the twelve came and said to him, "Send the crowd away to go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find lodging and get provisions, for we are here in a desolate place." 
42N	9	13	253150	 But he said to them, "You give them something to eat." They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish--unless we are to go and buy food for all these people." 
42N	9	14	253160	 For there were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, "Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each." 
42N	9	15	253170	 And they did so, and had them all sit down. 
42N	9	16	253180	 And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing over them. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd. 
42N	9	17	253190	 And they all ate and were satisfied. And what was left over was picked up, twelve baskets of broken pieces. 
42N	9	18	253200	 Now it happened that as he was praying alone, the disciples were with him. And he asked them, "Who do the crowds say that I am?" 
42N	9	19	253210	 And they answered, "John the Baptist. But others say, Elijah, and others, that one of the prophets of old has risen." 
42N	9	20	253220	 Then he said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" And Peter answered, "The Christ of God." 
42N	9	21	253230	 And he strictly charged and commanded them to tell this to no one, 
42N	9	22	253240	 saying, "The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised." 
42N	9	23	253250	 And he said to all, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. 
42N	9	24	253260	 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. 
42N	9	25	253270	 For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself? 
42N	9	26	253280	 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels. 
42N	9	27	253290	 But I tell you truly, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God." 
42N	9	28	253300	 Now about eight days after these sayings he took with him Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray. 
42N	9	29	253310	 And as he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became dazzling white. 
42N	9	30	253320	 And behold, two men were talking with him, Moses and Elijah, 
42N	9	31	253330	 who appeared in glory and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. 
42N	9	32	253340	 Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they became fully awake they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him. 
42N	9	33	253350	 And as the men were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah"--not knowing what he said. 
42N	9	34	253360	 As he was saying these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud. 
42N	9	35	253370	 And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my Son, my Chosen One; listen to him!" 
42N	9	36	253380	 And when the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent and told no one in those days anything of what they had seen. 
42N	9	37	253390	 On the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great crowd met him. 
42N	9	38	253400	 And behold, a man from the crowd cried out, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child. 
42N	9	39	253410	 And behold, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out. It convulses him so that he foams at the mouth, and shatters him, and will hardly leave him. 
42N	9	40	253420	 And I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not." 
42N	9	41	253430	 Jesus answered, "O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here." 
42N	9	42	253440	 While he was coming, the demon threw him to the ground and convulsed him. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father. 
42N	9	43	253450	 And all were astonished at the majesty of God. But while they were all marveling at everything he was doing, Jesus said to his disciples, 
42N	9	44	253460	 "Let these words sink into your ears: The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men." 
42N	9	45	253470	 But they did not understand this saying, and it was concealed from them, so that they might not perceive it. And they were afraid to ask him about this saying. 
42N	9	46	253480	 An argument arose among them as to which of them was the greatest. 
42N	9	47	253490	 But Jesus, knowing the reasoning of their hearts, took a child and put him by his side 
42N	9	48	253500	 and said to them, "Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For he who is least among you all is the one who is great." 
42N	9	49	253510	 John answered, "Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he does not follow with us." 
42N	9	50	253520	 But Jesus said to him, "Do not stop him, for the one who is not against you is for you." 
42N	9	51	253530	 When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. 
42N	9	52	253540	 And he sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of the Samaritans, to make preparations for him. 
42N	9	53	253550	 But the people did not receive him, because his face was set toward Jerusalem. 
42N	9	54	253560	 And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, "Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?" 
42N	9	55	253570	 But he turned and rebuked them. 
42N	9	56	253580	 And they went on to another village. 
42N	9	57	253590	 As they were going along the road, someone said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go." 
42N	9	58	253600	 And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head." 
42N	9	59	253610	 To another he said, "Follow me." But he said, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father." 
42N	9	60	253620	 And Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God." 
42N	9	61	253630	 Yet another said, "I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home." 
42N	9	62	253640	 Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God." 
42N	10	1	253650	 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. 
42N	10	2	253660	 And he said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. 
42N	10	3	253670	 Go your way; behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves. 
42N	10	4	253680	 Carry no moneybag, no knapsack, no sandals, and greet no one on the road. 
42N	10	5	253690	 Whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this house!' 
42N	10	6	253700	 And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him. But if not, it will return to you. 
42N	10	7	253710	 And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages. Do not go from house to house. 
42N	10	8	253720	 Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you. 
42N	10	9	253730	 Heal the sick in it and say to them, 'The kingdom of God has come near to you.' 
42N	10	10	253740	 But whenever you enter a town and they do not receive you, go into its streets and say, 
42N	10	11	253750	 'Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near.' 
42N	10	12	253760	 I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town. 
42N	10	13	253770	 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 
42N	10	14	253780	 But it will be more bearable in the judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you. 
42N	10	15	253790	 And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades. 
42N	10	16	253800	 "The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me." 
42N	10	17	253810	 The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!" 
42N	10	18	253820	 And he said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 
42N	10	19	253830	 Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. 
42N	10	20	253840	 Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven." 
42N	10	21	253850	 In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. 
42N	10	22	253860	 All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him." 
42N	10	23	253870	 Then turning to the disciples he said privately, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! 
42N	10	24	253880	 For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it." 
42N	10	25	253890	 And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" 
42N	10	26	253900	 He said to him, "What is written in the Law? How do you read it?" 
42N	10	27	253910	 And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself." 
42N	10	28	253920	 And he said to him, "You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live." 
42N	10	29	253930	 But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" 
42N	10	30	253940	 Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. 
42N	10	31	253950	 Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. 
42N	10	32	253960	 So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 
42N	10	33	253970	 But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. 
42N	10	34	253980	 He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. 
42N	10	35	253990	 And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, 'Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.' 
42N	10	36	254000	 Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?" 
42N	10	37	254010	 He said, "The one who showed him mercy." And Jesus said to him, "You go, and do likewise." 
42N	10	38	254020	 Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. 
42N	10	39	254030	 And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. 
42N	10	40	254040	 But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me." 
42N	10	41	254050	 But the Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, 
42N	10	42	254060	 but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her." 
42N	11	1	254070	 Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples." 
42N	11	2	254080	 And he said to them, "When you pray, say: "Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. 
42N	11	3	254090	 Give us each day our daily bread, 
42N	11	4	254100	 and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation." 
42N	11	5	254110	 And he said to them, "Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves, 
42N	11	6	254120	 for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him'; 
42N	11	7	254130	 and he will answer from within, 'Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything'? 
42N	11	8	254140	 I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs. 
42N	11	9	254150	 And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 
42N	11	10	254160	 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 
42N	11	11	254170	 What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; 
42N	11	12	254180	 or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 
42N	11	13	254190	 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!" 
42N	11	14	254200	 Now he was casting out a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke, and the people marveled. 
42N	11	15	254210	 But some of them said, "He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of demons," 
42N	11	16	254220	 while others, to test him, kept seeking from him a sign from heaven. 
42N	11	17	254230	 But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls. 
42N	11	18	254240	 And if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul. 
42N	11	19	254250	 And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. 
42N	11	20	254260	 But if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. 
42N	11	21	254270	 When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are safe; 
42N	11	22	254280	 but when one stronger than he attacks him and overcomes him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted and divides his spoil. 
42N	11	23	254290	 Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. 
42N	11	24	254300	 "When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and finding none it says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.' 
42N	11	25	254310	 And when it comes, it finds the house swept and put in order. 
42N	11	26	254320	 Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there. And the last state of that person is worse than the first." 
42N	11	27	254330	 As he said these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!" 
42N	11	28	254340	 But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!" 
42N	11	29	254350	 When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, "This generation is an evil generation. It seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah. 
42N	11	30	254360	 For as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of Man be to this generation. 
42N	11	31	254370	 The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here. 
42N	11	32	254380	 The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. 
42N	11	33	254390	 "No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light. 
42N	11	34	254400	 Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness. 
42N	11	35	254410	 Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness. 
42N	11	36	254420	 If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light." 
42N	11	37	254430	 While Jesus was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him, so he went in and reclined at table. 
42N	11	38	254440	 The Pharisee was astonished to see that he did not first wash before dinner. 
42N	11	39	254450	 And the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. 
42N	11	40	254460	 You fools! Did not he who made the outside make the inside also? 
42N	11	41	254470	 But give as alms those things that are within, and behold, everything is clean for you. 
42N	11	42	254480	 "But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. 
42N	11	43	254490	 Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces. 
42N	11	44	254500	 Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it." 
42N	11	45	254510	 One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also." 
42N	11	46	254520	 And he said, "Woe to you lawyers also! For you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. 
42N	11	47	254530	 Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed. 
42N	11	48	254540	 So you are witnesses and you consent to the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs. 
42N	11	49	254550	 Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,' 
42N	11	50	254560	 so that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation, 
42N	11	51	254570	 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation. 
42N	11	52	254580	 Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering." 
42N	11	53	254590	 As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard and to provoke him to speak about many things, 
42N	11	54	254600	 lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say. 
42N	12	1	254610	 In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 
42N	12	2	254620	 Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. 
42N	12	3	254630	 Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops. 
42N	12	4	254640	 "I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. 
42N	12	5	254650	 But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him! 
42N	12	6	254660	 Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. 
42N	12	7	254670	 Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows. 
42N	12	8	254680	 "And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God, 
42N	12	9	254690	 but the one who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of God. 
42N	12	10	254700	 And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. 
42N	12	11	254710	 And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should say, 
42N	12	12	254720	 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say." 
42N	12	13	254730	 Someone in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me." 
42N	12	14	254740	 But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?" 
42N	12	15	254750	 And he said to them, "Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions." 
42N	12	16	254760	 And he told them a parable, saying, "The land of a rich man produced plentifully, 
42N	12	17	254770	 and he thought to himself, 'What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?' 
42N	12	18	254780	 And he said, 'I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 
42N	12	19	254790	 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.' 
42N	12	20	254800	 But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?' 
42N	12	21	254810	 So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God." 
42N	12	22	254820	 And he said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. 
42N	12	23	254830	 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 
42N	12	24	254840	 Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! 
42N	12	25	254850	 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 
42N	12	26	254860	 If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? 
42N	12	27	254870	 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 
42N	12	28	254880	 But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! 
42N	12	29	254890	 And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. 
42N	12	30	254900	 For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. 
42N	12	31	254910	 Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you. 
42N	12	32	254920	 "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 
42N	12	33	254930	 Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. 
42N	12	34	254940	 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 
42N	12	35	254950	 "Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning, 
42N	12	36	254960	 and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks. 
42N	12	37	254970	 Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them. 
42N	12	38	254980	 If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants! 
42N	12	39	254990	 But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into. 
42N	12	40	255000	 You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect." 
42N	12	41	255010	 Peter said, "Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for all?" 
42N	12	42	255020	 And the Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time? 
42N	12	43	255030	 Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. 
42N	12	44	255040	 Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. 
42N	12	45	255050	 But if that servant says to himself, 'My master is delayed in coming,' and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, 
42N	12	46	255060	 the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful. 
42N	12	47	255070	 And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating. 
42N	12	48	255080	 But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more. 
42N	12	49	255090	 "I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled! 
42N	12	50	255100	 I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished! 
42N	12	51	255110	 Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. 
42N	12	52	255120	 For from now on in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three. 
42N	12	53	255130	 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law." 
42N	12	54	255140	 He also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, 'A shower is coming.' And so it happens. 
42N	12	55	255150	 And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, 'There will be scorching heat,' and it happens. 
42N	12	56	255160	 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time? 
42N	12	57	255170	 "And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right? 
42N	12	58	255180	 As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer put you in prison. 
42N	12	59	255190	 I tell you, you will never get out until you have paid the very last penny." 
42N	13	1	255200	 There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 
42N	13	2	255210	 And he answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? 
42N	13	3	255220	 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. 
42N	13	4	255230	 Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? 
42N	13	5	255240	 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish." 
42N	13	6	255250	 And he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. 
42N	13	7	255260	 And he said to the vinedresser, 'Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?' 
42N	13	8	255270	 And he answered him, 'Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure. 
42N	13	9	255280	 Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.'" 
42N	13	10	255290	 Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. 
42N	13	11	255300	 And there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. 
42N	13	12	255310	 When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your disability." 
42N	13	13	255320	 And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God. 
42N	13	14	255330	 But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, "There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day." 
42N	13	15	255340	 Then the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it? 
42N	13	16	255350	 And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?" 
42N	13	17	255360	 As he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame, and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him. 
42N	13	18	255370	 He said therefore, "What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it? 
42N	13	19	255380	 It is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches." 
42N	13	20	255390	 And again he said, "To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? 
42N	13	21	255400	 It is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened." 
42N	13	22	255410	 He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem. 
42N	13	23	255420	 And someone said to him, "Lord, will those who are saved be few?" And he said to them, 
42N	13	24	255430	 "Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. 
42N	13	25	255440	 When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, open to us,' then he will answer you, 'I do not know where you come from.' 
42N	13	26	255450	 Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.' 
42N	13	27	255460	 But he will say, 'I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!' 
42N	13	28	255470	 In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out. 
42N	13	29	255480	 And people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and recline at table in the kingdom of God. 
42N	13	30	255490	 And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last." 
42N	13	31	255500	 At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, "Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you." 
42N	13	32	255510	 And he said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I finish my course. 
42N	13	33	255520	 Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.' 
42N	13	34	255530	 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not! 
42N	13	35	255540	 Behold, your house is forsaken. And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'" 
42N	14	1	255550	 One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. 
42N	14	2	255560	 And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. 
42N	14	3	255570	 And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?" 
42N	14	4	255580	 But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. 
42N	14	5	255590	 And he said to them, "Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?" 
42N	14	6	255600	 And they could not reply to these things. 
42N	14	7	255610	 Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the places of honor, saying to them, 
42N	14	8	255620	 "When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him, 
42N	14	9	255630	 and he who invited you both will come and say to you, 'Give your place to this person,' and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. 
42N	14	10	255640	 But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, 'Friend, move up higher.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you. 
42N	14	11	255650	 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted." 
42N	14	12	255660	 He said also to the man who had invited him, "When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. 
42N	14	13	255670	 But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, 
42N	14	14	255680	 and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just." 
42N	14	15	255690	 When one of those who reclined at table with him heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!" 
42N	14	16	255700	 But he said to him, "A man once gave a great banquet and invited many. 
42N	14	17	255710	 And at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, 'Come, for everything is now ready.' 
42N	14	18	255720	 But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.' 
42N	14	19	255730	 And another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.' 
42N	14	20	255740	 And another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.' 
42N	14	21	255750	 So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, 'Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.' 
42N	14	22	255760	 And the servant said, 'Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.' 
42N	14	23	255770	 And the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled. 
42N	14	24	255780	 For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet.'" 
42N	14	25	255790	 Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, 
42N	14	26	255800	 "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 
42N	14	27	255810	 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 
42N	14	28	255820	 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 
42N	14	29	255830	 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 
42N	14	30	255840	 saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.' 
42N	14	31	255850	 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 
42N	14	32	255860	 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. 
42N	14	33	255870	 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. 
42N	14	34	255880	 "Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? 
42N	14	35	255890	 It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear." 
42N	15	1	255900	 Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. 
42N	15	2	255910	 And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them." 
42N	15	3	255920	 So he told them this parable: 
42N	15	4	255930	 "What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? 
42N	15	5	255940	 And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 
42N	15	6	255950	 And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.' 
42N	15	7	255960	 Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. 
42N	15	8	255970	 "Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it? 
42N	15	9	255980	 And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.' 
42N	15	10	255990	 Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents." 
42N	15	11	256000	 And he said, "There was a man who had two sons. 
42N	15	12	256010	 And the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.' And he divided his property between them. 
42N	15	13	256020	 Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. 
42N	15	14	256030	 And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. 
42N	15	15	256040	 So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. 
42N	15	16	256050	 And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything. 
42N	15	17	256060	 "But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger! 
42N	15	18	256070	 I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. 
42N	15	19	256080	 I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants."' 
42N	15	20	256090	 And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. 
42N	15	21	256100	 And the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.' 
42N	15	22	256110	 But the father said to his servants, 'Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. 
42N	15	23	256120	 And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate. 
42N	15	24	256130	 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.' And they began to celebrate. 
42N	15	25	256140	 "Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. 
42N	15	26	256150	 And he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant. 
42N	15	27	256160	 And he said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and sound.' 
42N	15	28	256170	 But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him, 
42N	15	29	256180	 but he answered his father, 'Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. 
42N	15	30	256190	 But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!' 
42N	15	31	256200	 And he said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. 
42N	15	32	256210	 It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.'" 
42N	16	1	256220	 He also said to the disciples, "There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. 
42N	16	2	256230	 And he called him and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.' 
42N	16	3	256240	 And the manager said to himself, 'What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. 
42N	16	4	256250	 I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.' 
42N	16	5	256260	 So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?' 
42N	16	6	256270	 He said, 'A hundred measures of oil.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.' 
42N	16	7	256280	 Then he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' He said, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.' 
42N	16	8	256290	 The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light. 
42N	16	9	256300	 And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings. 
42N	16	10	256310	 "One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. 
42N	16	11	256320	 If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? 
42N	16	12	256330	 And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own? 
42N	16	13	256340	 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money." 
42N	16	14	256350	 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him. 
42N	16	15	256360	 And he said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God. 
42N	16	16	256370	 "The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone forces his way into it. 
42N	16	17	256380	 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to become void. 
42N	16	18	256390	 "Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery. 
42N	16	19	256400	 "There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 
42N	16	20	256410	 And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 
42N	16	21	256420	 who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. 
42N	16	22	256430	 The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, 
42N	16	23	256440	 and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. 
42N	16	24	256450	 And he called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.' 
42N	16	25	256460	 But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. 
42N	16	26	256470	 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.' 
42N	16	27	256480	 And he said, 'Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house-- 
42N	16	28	256490	 for I have five brothers--so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.' 
42N	16	29	256500	 But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.' 
42N	16	30	256510	 And he said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.' 
42N	16	31	256520	 He said to him, 'If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.'" 
42N	17	1	256530	 And he said to his disciples, "Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come! 
42N	17	2	256540	 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin. 
42N	17	3	256550	 Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, 
42N	17	4	256560	 and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him." 
42N	17	5	256570	 The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" 
42N	17	6	256580	 And the Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you. 
42N	17	7	256590	 "Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, 'Come at once and recline at table'? 
42N	17	8	256600	 Will he not rather say to him, 'Prepare supper for me, and dress properly, and serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink'? 
42N	17	9	256610	 Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded? 
42N	17	10	256620	 So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, 'We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.'" 
42N	17	11	256630	 On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. 
42N	17	12	256640	 And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance 
42N	17	13	256650	 and lifted up their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us." 
42N	17	14	256660	 When he saw them he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went they were cleansed. 
42N	17	15	256670	 Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice; 
42N	17	16	256680	 and he fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. 
42N	17	17	256690	 Then Jesus answered, "Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? 
42N	17	18	256700	 Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?" 
42N	17	19	256710	 And he said to him, "Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well." 
42N	17	20	256720	 Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, "The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed, 
42N	17	21	256730	 nor will they say, 'Look, here it is!' or 'There!' for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you." 
42N	17	22	256740	 And he said to the disciples, "The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. 
42N	17	23	256750	 And they will say to you, 'Look, there!' or 'Look, here!' Do not go out or follow them. 
42N	17	24	256760	 For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day. 
42N	17	25	256770	 But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. 
42N	17	26	256780	 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 
42N	17	27	256790	 They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 
42N	17	28	256800	 Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot--they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, 
42N	17	29	256810	 but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all-- 
42N	17	30	256820	 so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed. 
42N	17	31	256830	 On that day, let the one who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn back. 
42N	17	32	256840	 Remember Lot's wife. 
42N	17	33	256850	 Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it. 
42N	17	34	256860	 I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken and the other left. 
42N	17	35	256870	 There will be two women grinding together. One will be taken and the other left." 
42N	17	36	256880	 [Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left.] 
42N	17	37	256890	 And they said to him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them, "Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather." 
42N	18	1	256900	 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. 
42N	18	2	256910	 He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. 
42N	18	3	256920	 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, 'Give me justice against my adversary.' 
42N	18	4	256930	 For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God nor respect man, 
42N	18	5	256940	 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.'" 
42N	18	6	256950	 And the Lord said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge says. 
42N	18	7	256960	 And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? 
42N	18	8	256970	 I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?" 
42N	18	9	256980	 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: 
42N	18	10	256990	 "Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 
42N	18	11	257000	 The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 
42N	18	12	257010	 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.' 
42N	18	13	257020	 But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!' 
42N	18	14	257030	 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted." 
42N	18	15	257040	 Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. 
42N	18	16	257050	 But Jesus called them to him, saying, "Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. 
42N	18	17	257060	 Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it." 
42N	18	18	257070	 And a ruler asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" 
42N	18	19	257080	 And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. 
42N	18	20	257090	 You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.'" 
42N	18	21	257100	 And he said, "All these I have kept from my youth." 
42N	18	22	257110	 When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." 
42N	18	23	257120	 But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was extremely rich. 
42N	18	24	257130	 Jesus, seeing that he had become sad, said, "How difficult it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! 
42N	18	25	257140	 For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God." 
42N	18	26	257150	 Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?" 
42N	18	27	257160	 But he said, "What is impossible with men is possible with God." 
42N	18	28	257170	 And Peter said, "See, we have left our homes and followed you." 
42N	18	29	257180	 And he said to them, "Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, 
42N	18	30	257190	 who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the age to come eternal life." 
42N	18	31	257200	 And taking the twelve, he said to them, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished. 
42N	18	32	257210	 For he will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spit upon. 
42N	18	33	257220	 And after flogging him, they will kill him, and on the third day he will rise." 
42N	18	34	257230	 But they understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what was said. 
42N	18	35	257240	 As he drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. 
42N	18	36	257250	 And hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what this meant. 
42N	18	37	257260	 They told him, "Jesus of Nazareth is passing by." 
42N	18	38	257270	 And he cried out, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!" 
42N	18	39	257280	 And those who were in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he cried out all the more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!" 
42N	18	40	257290	 And Jesus stopped and commanded him to be brought to him. And when he came near, he asked him, 
42N	18	41	257300	 "What do you want me to do for you?" He said, "Lord, let me recover my sight." 
42N	18	42	257310	 And Jesus said to him, "Recover your sight; your faith has made you well." 
42N	18	43	257320	 And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him, glorifying God. And all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God. 
42N	19	1	257330	 He entered Jericho and was passing through. 
42N	19	2	257340	 And there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich. 
42N	19	3	257350	 And he was seeking to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was small of stature. 
42N	19	4	257360	 So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way. 
42N	19	5	257370	 And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today." 
42N	19	6	257380	 So he hurried and came down and received him joyfully. 
42N	19	7	257390	 And when they saw it, they all grumbled, "He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner." 
42N	19	8	257400	 And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold." 
42N	19	9	257410	 And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham. 
42N	19	10	257420	 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost." 
42N	19	11	257430	 As they heard these things, he proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. 
42N	19	12	257440	 He said therefore, "A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return. 
42N	19	13	257450	 Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, 'Engage in business until I come.' 
42N	19	14	257460	 But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to reign over us.' 
42N	19	15	257470	 When he returned, having received the kingdom, he ordered these servants to whom he had given the money to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by doing business. 
42N	19	16	257480	 The first came before him, saying, 'Lord, your mina has made ten minas more.' 
42N	19	17	257490	 And he said to him, 'Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.' 
42N	19	18	257500	 And the second came, saying, 'Lord, your mina has made five minas.' 
42N	19	19	257510	 And he said to him, 'And you are to be over five cities.' 
42N	19	20	257520	 Then another came, saying, 'Lord, here is your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief; 
42N	19	21	257530	 for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You take what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.' 
42N	19	22	257540	 He said to him, 'I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow? 
42N	19	23	257550	 Why then did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I might have collected it with interest?' 
42N	19	24	257560	 And he said to those who stood by, 'Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has the ten minas.' 
42N	19	25	257570	 And they said to him, 'Lord, he has ten minas!' 
42N	19	26	257580	 'I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. 
42N	19	27	257590	 But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me.'" 
42N	19	28	257600	 And when he had said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 
42N	19	29	257610	 When he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, he sent two of the disciples, 
42N	19	30	257620	 saying, "Go into the village in front of you, where on entering you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet sat. Untie it and bring it here. 
42N	19	31	257630	 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' you shall say this: 'The Lord has need of it.'" 
42N	19	32	257640	 So those who were sent went away and found it just as he had told them. 
42N	19	33	257650	 And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, "Why are you untying the colt?" 
42N	19	34	257660	 And they said, "The Lord has need of it." 
42N	19	35	257670	 And they brought it to Jesus, and throwing their cloaks on the colt, they set Jesus on it. 
42N	19	36	257680	 And as he rode along, they spread their cloaks on the road. 
42N	19	37	257690	 As he was drawing near--already on the way down the Mount of Olives--the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen, 
42N	19	38	257700	 saying, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!" 
42N	19	39	257710	 And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples." 
42N	19	40	257720	 He answered, "I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out." 
42N	19	41	257730	 And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, 
42N	19	42	257740	 saying, "Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 
42N	19	43	257750	 For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side 
42N	19	44	257760	 and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation." 
42N	19	45	257770	 And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, 
42N	19	46	257780	 saying to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers." 
42N	19	47	257790	 And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, 
42N	19	48	257800	 but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words. 
42N	20	1	257810	 One day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up 
42N	20	2	257820	 and said to him, "Tell us by what authority you do these things, or who it is that gave you this authority." 
42N	20	3	257830	 He answered them, "I also will ask you a question. Now tell me, 
42N	20	4	257840	 was the baptism of John from heaven or from man?" 
42N	20	5	257850	 And they discussed it with one another, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why did you not believe him?' 
42N	20	6	257860	 But if we say, 'From man,' all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet." 
42N	20	7	257870	 So they answered that they did not know where it came from. 
42N	20	8	257880	 And Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things." 
42N	20	9	257890	 And he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while. 
42N	20	10	257900	 When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 
42N	20	11	257910	 And he sent another servant. But they also beat and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed. 
42N	20	12	257920	 And he sent yet a third. This one also they wounded and cast out. 
42N	20	13	257930	 Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.' 
42N	20	14	257940	 But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir. Let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.' 
42N	20	15	257950	 And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 
42N	20	16	257960	 He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this, they said, "Surely not!" 
42N	20	17	257970	 But he looked directly at them and said, "What then is this that is written: "'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone'? 
42N	20	18	257980	 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him." 
42N	20	19	257990	 The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people. 
42N	20	20	258000	 So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor. 
42N	20	21	258010	 So they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and show no partiality, but truly teach the way of God. 
42N	20	22	258020	 Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not?" 
42N	20	23	258030	 But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, 
42N	20	24	258040	 "Show me a denarius. Whose likeness and inscription does it have?" They said, "Caesar's." 
42N	20	25	258050	 He said to them, "Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." 
42N	20	26	258060	 And they were not able in the presence of the people to catch him in what he said, but marveling at his answer they became silent. 
42N	20	27	258070	 There came to him some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, 
42N	20	28	258080	 and they asked him a question, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. 
42N	20	29	258090	 Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children. 
42N	20	30	258100	 And the second 
42N	20	31	258110	 and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died. 
42N	20	32	258120	 Afterward the woman also died. 
42N	20	33	258130	 In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife." 
42N	20	34	258140	 And Jesus said to them, "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, 
42N	20	35	258150	 but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, 
42N	20	36	258160	 for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. 
42N	20	37	258170	 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. 
42N	20	38	258180	 Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him." 
42N	20	39	258190	 Then some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you have spoken well." 
42N	20	40	258200	 For they no longer dared to ask him any question. 
42N	20	41	258210	 But he said to them, "How can they say that the Christ is David's son? 
42N	20	42	258220	 For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, "'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, 
42N	20	43	258230	 until I make your enemies your footstool.' 
42N	20	44	258240	 David thus calls him Lord, so how is he his son?" 
42N	20	45	258250	 And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples, 
42N	20	46	258260	 "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, 
42N	20	47	258270	 who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation." 
42N	21	1	258280	 Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, 
42N	21	2	258290	 and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. 
42N	21	3	258300	 And he said, "Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. 
42N	21	4	258310	 For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on." 
42N	21	5	258320	 And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, 
42N	21	6	258330	 "As for these things that you see, the days will come when there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down." 
42N	21	7	258340	 And they asked him, "Teacher, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when these things are about to take place?" 
42N	21	8	258350	 And he said, "See that you are not led astray. For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he!' and, 'The time is at hand!' Do not go after them. 
42N	21	9	258360	 And when you hear of wars and tumults, do not be terrified, for these things must first take place, but the end will not be at once." 
42N	21	10	258370	 Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. 
42N	21	11	258380	 There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven. 
42N	21	12	258390	 But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake. 
42N	21	13	258400	 This will be your opportunity to bear witness. 
42N	21	14	258410	 Settle it therefore in your minds not to meditate beforehand how to answer, 
42N	21	15	258420	 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict. 
42N	21	16	258430	 You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death. 
42N	21	17	258440	 You will be hated by all for my name's sake. 
42N	21	18	258450	 But not a hair of your head will perish. 
42N	21	19	258460	 By your endurance you will gain your lives. 
42N	21	20	258470	 "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. 
42N	21	21	258480	 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it, 
42N	21	22	258490	 for these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. 
42N	21	23	258500	 Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and wrath against this people. 
42N	21	24	258510	 They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. 
42N	21	25	258520	 "And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, 
42N	21	26	258530	 people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 
42N	21	27	258540	 And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 
42N	21	28	258550	 Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near." 
42N	21	29	258560	 And he told them a parable: "Look at the fig tree, and all the trees. 
42N	21	30	258570	 As soon as they come out in leaf, you see for yourselves and know that the summer is already near. 
42N	21	31	258580	 So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near. 
42N	21	32	258590	 Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all has taken place. 
42N	21	33	258600	 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. 
42N	21	34	258610	 "But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap. 
42N	21	35	258620	 For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 
42N	21	36	258630	 But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man." 
42N	21	37	258640	 And every day he was teaching in the temple, but at night he went out and lodged on the mount called Olivet. 
42N	21	38	258650	 And early in the morning all the people came to him in the temple to hear him. 
42N	22	1	258660	 Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread drew near, which is called the Passover. 
42N	22	2	258670	 And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to put him to death, for they feared the people. 
42N	22	3	258680	 Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve. 
42N	22	4	258690	 He went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers how he might betray him to them. 
42N	22	5	258700	 And they were glad, and agreed to give him money. 
42N	22	6	258710	 So he consented and sought an opportunity to betray him to them in the absence of a crowd. 
42N	22	7	258720	 Then came the day of Unleavened Bread, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. 
42N	22	8	258730	 So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat it." 
42N	22	9	258740	 They said to him, "Where will you have us prepare it?" 
42N	22	10	258750	 He said to them, "Behold, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house that he enters 
42N	22	11	258760	 and tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?' 
42N	22	12	258770	 And he will show you a large upper room furnished; prepare it there." 
42N	22	13	258780	 And they went and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover. 
42N	22	14	258790	 And when the hour came, he reclined at table, and the apostles with him. 
42N	22	15	258800	 And he said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. 
42N	22	16	258810	 For I tell you I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God." 
42N	22	17	258820	 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he said, "Take this, and divide it among yourselves. 
42N	22	18	258830	 For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes." 
42N	22	19	258840	 And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me." 
42N	22	20	258850	 And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, "This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood. 
42N	22	21	258860	 But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table. 
42N	22	22	258870	 For the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!" 
42N	22	23	258880	 And they began to question one another, which of them it could be who was going to do this. 
42N	22	24	258890	 A dispute also arose among them, as to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest. 
42N	22	25	258900	 And he said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those in authority over them are called benefactors. 
42N	22	26	258910	 But not so with you. Rather, let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves. 
42N	22	27	258920	 For who is the greater, one who reclines at table or one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as the one who serves. 
42N	22	28	258930	 "You are those who have stayed with me in my trials, 
42N	22	29	258940	 and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom, 
42N	22	30	258950	 that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 
42N	22	31	258960	 "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, 
42N	22	32	258970	 but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers." 
42N	22	33	258980	 Peter said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death." 
42N	22	34	258990	 Jesus said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow this day, until you deny three times that you know me." 
42N	22	35	259000	 And he said to them, "When I sent you out with no moneybag or knapsack or sandals, did you lack anything?" They said, "Nothing." 
42N	22	36	259010	 He said to them, "But now let the one who has a moneybag take it, and likewise a knapsack. And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one. 
42N	22	37	259020	 For I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled in me: 'And he was numbered with the transgressors.' For what is written about me has its fulfillment." 
42N	22	38	259030	 And they said, "Look, Lord, here are two swords." And he said to them, "It is enough." 
42N	22	39	259040	 And he came out and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him. 
42N	22	40	259050	 And when he came to the place, he said to them, "Pray that you may not enter into temptation." 
42N	22	41	259060	 And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw, and knelt down and prayed, 
42N	22	42	259070	 saying, "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done." 
42N	22	43	259080	 And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him. 
42N	22	44	259090	 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground. 
42N	22	45	259100	 And when he rose from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping for sorrow, 
42N	22	46	259110	 and he said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation." 
42N	22	47	259120	 While he was still speaking, there came a crowd, and the man called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He drew near to Jesus to kiss him, 
42N	22	48	259130	 but Jesus said to him, "Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?" 
42N	22	49	259140	 And when those who were around him saw what would follow, they said, "Lord, shall we strike with the sword?" 
42N	22	50	259150	 And one of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear. 
42N	22	51	259160	 But Jesus said, "No more of this!" And he touched his ear and healed him. 
42N	22	52	259170	 Then Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders, who had come out against him, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs? 
42N	22	53	259180	 When I was with you day after day in the temple, you did not lay hands on me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness." 
42N	22	54	259190	 Then they seized him and led him away, bringing him into the high priest's house, and Peter was following at a distance. 
42N	22	55	259200	 And when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them. 
42N	22	56	259210	 Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the light and looking closely at him, said, "This man also was with him." 
42N	22	57	259220	 But he denied it, saying, "Woman, I do not know him." 
42N	22	58	259230	 And a little later someone else saw him and said, "You also are one of them." But Peter said, "Man, I am not." 
42N	22	59	259240	 And after an interval of about an hour still another insisted, saying, "Certainly this man also was with him, for he too is a Galilean." 
42N	22	60	259250	 But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you are talking about." And immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed. 
42N	22	61	259260	 And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the saying of the Lord, how he had said to him, "Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times." 
42N	22	62	259270	 And he went out and wept bitterly. 
42N	22	63	259280	 Now the men who were holding Jesus in custody were mocking him as they beat him. 
42N	22	64	259290	 They also blindfolded him and kept asking him, "Prophesy! Who is it that struck you?" 
42N	22	65	259300	 And they said many other things against him, blaspheming him. 
42N	22	66	259310	 When day came, the assembly of the elders of the people gathered together, both chief priests and scribes. And they led him away to their council, and they said, 
42N	22	67	259320	 "If you are the Christ, tell us." But he said to them, "If I tell you, you will not believe, 
42N	22	68	259330	 and if I ask you, you will not answer. 
42N	22	69	259340	 But from now on the Son of Man shall be seated at the right hand of the power of God." 
42N	22	70	259350	 So they all said, "Are you the Son of God, then?" And he said to them, "You say that I am." 
42N	22	71	259360	 Then they said, "What further testimony do we need? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips." 
42N	23	1	259370	 Then the whole company of them arose and brought him before Pilate. 
42N	23	2	259380	 And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king." 
42N	23	3	259390	 And Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him, "You have said so." 
42N	23	4	259400	 Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no guilt in this man." 
42N	23	5	259410	 But they were urgent, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee even to this place." 
42N	23	6	259420	 When Pilate heard this, he asked whether the man was a Galilean. 
42N	23	7	259430	 And when he learned that he belonged to Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who was himself in Jerusalem at that time. 
42N	23	8	259440	 When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had long desired to see him, because he had heard about him, and he was hoping to see some sign done by him. 
42N	23	9	259450	 So he questioned him at some length, but he made no answer. 
42N	23	10	259460	 The chief priests and the scribes stood by, vehemently accusing him. 
42N	23	11	259470	 And Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, arraying him in splendid clothing, he sent him back to Pilate. 
42N	23	12	259480	 And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before this they had been at enmity with each other. 
42N	23	13	259490	 Pilate then called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, 
42N	23	14	259500	 and said to them, "You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. And after examining him before you, behold, I did not find this man guilty of any of your charges against him. 
42N	23	15	259510	 Neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Look, nothing deserving death has been done by him. 
42N	23	16	259520	 I will therefore punish and release him." 
42N	23	17	259530	 [Now he was obliged to release one man to them at the festival.] 
42N	23	18	259540	 But they all cried out together, "Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas"-- 
42N	23	19	259550	 a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city and for murder. 
42N	23	20	259560	 Pilate addressed them once more, desiring to release Jesus, 
42N	23	21	259570	 but they kept shouting, "Crucify, crucify him!" 
42N	23	22	259580	 A third time he said to them, "Why, what evil has he done? I have found in him no guilt deserving death. I will therefore punish and release him." 
42N	23	23	259590	 But they were urgent, demanding with loud cries that he should be crucified. And their voices prevailed. 
42N	23	24	259600	 So Pilate decided that their demand should be granted. 
42N	23	25	259610	 He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus over to their will. 
42N	23	26	259620	 And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus. 
42N	23	27	259630	 And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him. 
42N	23	28	259640	 But turning to them Jesus said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 
42N	23	29	259650	 For behold, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!' 
42N	23	30	259660	 Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us,' and to the hills, 'Cover us.' 
42N	23	31	259670	 For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?" 
42N	23	32	259680	 Two others, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him. 
42N	23	33	259690	 And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. 
42N	23	34	259700	 And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." And they cast lots to divide his garments. 
42N	23	35	259710	 And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!" 
42N	23	36	259720	 The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine 
42N	23	37	259730	 and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!" 
42N	23	38	259740	 There was also an inscription over him, "This is the King of the Jews." 
42N	23	39	259750	 One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!" 
42N	23	40	259760	 But the other rebuked him, saying, "Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 
42N	23	41	259770	 And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong." 
42N	23	42	259780	 And he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." 
42N	23	43	259790	 And he said to him, "Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise." 
42N	23	44	259800	 It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, 
42N	23	45	259810	 while the sun's light failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. 
42N	23	46	259820	 Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" And having said this he breathed his last. 
42N	23	47	259830	 Now when the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God, saying, "Certainly this man was innocent!" 
42N	23	48	259840	 And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts. 
42N	23	49	259850	 And all his acquaintances and the women who had followed him from Galilee stood at a distance watching these things. 
42N	23	50	259860	 Now there was a man named Joseph, from the Jewish town of Arimathea. He was a member of the council, a good and righteous man, 
42N	23	51	259870	 who had not consented to their decision and action; and he was looking for the kingdom of God. 
42N	23	52	259880	 This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. 
42N	23	53	259890	 Then he took it down and wrapped it in a linen shroud and laid him in a tomb cut in stone, where no one had ever yet been laid. 
42N	23	54	259900	 It was the day of Preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning. 
42N	23	55	259910	 The women who had come with him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was laid. 
42N	23	56	259920	 Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. 
42N	24	1	259930	 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. 
42N	24	2	259940	 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 
42N	24	3	259950	 but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 
42N	24	4	259960	 While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. 
42N	24	5	259970	 And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead? 
42N	24	6	259980	 He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, 
42N	24	7	259990	 that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise." 
42N	24	8	260000	 And they remembered his words, 
42N	24	9	260010	 and returning from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. 
42N	24	10	260020	 Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles, 
42N	24	11	260030	 but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. 
42N	24	12	260040	 But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home marveling at what had happened. 
42N	24	13	260050	 That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, 
42N	24	14	260060	 and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. 
42N	24	15	260070	 While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. 
42N	24	16	260080	 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. 
42N	24	17	260090	 And he said to them, "What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?" And they stood still, looking sad. 
42N	24	18	260100	 Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?" 
42N	24	19	260110	 And he said to them, "What things?" And they said to him, "Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, 
42N	24	20	260120	 and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. 
42N	24	21	260130	 But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. 
42N	24	22	260140	 Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning, 
42N	24	23	260150	 and when they did not find his body, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. 
42N	24	24	260160	 Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see." 
42N	24	25	260170	 And he said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 
42N	24	26	260180	 Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?" 
42N	24	27	260190	 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. 
42N	24	28	260200	 So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He acted as if he were going farther, 
42N	24	29	260210	 but they urged him strongly, saying, "Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent." So he went in to stay with them. 
42N	24	30	260220	 When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them. 
42N	24	31	260230	 And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And he vanished from their sight. 
42N	24	32	260240	 They said to each other, "Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?" 
42N	24	33	260250	 And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem. And they found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together, 
42N	24	34	260260	 saying, "The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!" 
42N	24	35	260270	 Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread. 
42N	24	36	260280	 As they were talking about these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, "Peace to you!" 
42N	24	37	260290	 But they were startled and frightened and thought they saw a spirit. 
42N	24	38	260300	 And he said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? 
42N	24	39	260310	 See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have." 
42N	24	40	260320	 And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. 
42N	24	41	260330	 And while they still disbelieved for joy and were marveling, he said to them, "Have you anything here to eat?" 
42N	24	42	260340	 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 
42N	24	43	260350	 and he took it and ate before them. 
42N	24	44	260360	 Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled." 
42N	24	45	260370	 Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, 
42N	24	46	260380	 and said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, 
42N	24	47	260390	 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 
42N	24	48	260400	 You are witnesses of these things. 
42N	24	49	260410	 And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high." 
42N	24	50	260420	 Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them. 
42N	24	51	260430	 While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven. 
42N	24	52	260440	 And they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, 
42N	24	53	260450	 and were continually in the temple blessing God. 
43N	1	1	260460	 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 
43N	1	2	260470	 He was in the beginning with God. 
43N	1	3	260480	 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 
43N	1	4	260490	 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 
43N	1	5	260500	 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. 
43N	1	6	260510	 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 
43N	1	7	260520	 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. 
43N	1	8	260530	 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. 
43N	1	9	260540	 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. 
43N	1	10	260550	 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 
43N	1	11	260560	 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 
43N	1	12	260570	 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 
43N	1	13	260580	 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. 
43N	1	14	260590	 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 
43N	1	15	260600	 (John bore witness about him, and cried out, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.'") 
43N	1	16	260610	 And from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. 
43N	1	17	260620	 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 
43N	1	18	260630	 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known. 
43N	1	19	260640	 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?" 
43N	1	20	260650	 He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, "I am not the Christ." 
43N	1	21	260660	 And they asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" And he answered, "No." 
43N	1	22	260670	 So they said to him, "Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?" 
43N	1	23	260680	 He said, "I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as the prophet Isaiah said." 
43N	1	24	260690	 (Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.) 
43N	1	25	260700	 They asked him, "Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?" 
43N	1	26	260710	 John answered them, "I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know, 
43N	1	27	260720	 even he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie." 
43N	1	28	260730	 These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing. 
43N	1	29	260740	 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 
43N	1	30	260750	 This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.' 
43N	1	31	260760	 I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel." 
43N	1	32	260770	 And John bore witness: "I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him. 
43N	1	33	260780	 I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.' 
43N	1	34	260790	 And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God." 
43N	1	35	260800	 The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples, 
43N	1	36	260810	 and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!" 
43N	1	37	260820	 The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. 
43N	1	38	260830	 Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, "What are you seeking?" And they said to him, "Rabbi" (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?" 
43N	1	39	260840	 He said to them, "Come and you will see." So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour. 
43N	1	40	260850	 One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. 
43N	1	41	260860	 He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which means Christ). 
43N	1	42	260870	 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "So you are Simon the son of John? You shall be called Cephas" (which means Peter). 
43N	1	43	260880	 The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, "Follow me." 
43N	1	44	260890	 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. 
43N	1	45	260900	 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." 
43N	1	46	260910	 Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." 
43N	1	47	260920	 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!" 
43N	1	48	260930	 Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." 
43N	1	49	260940	 Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" 
43N	1	50	260950	 Jesus answered him, "Because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these." 
43N	1	51	260960	 And he said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man." 
43N	2	1	260970	 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 
43N	2	2	260980	 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. 
43N	2	3	260990	 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine." 
43N	2	4	261000	 And Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come." 
43N	2	5	261010	 His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you." 
43N	2	6	261020	 Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 
43N	2	7	261030	 Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the jars with water." And they filled them up to the brim. 
43N	2	8	261040	 And he said to them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast." So they took it. 
43N	2	9	261050	 When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom 
43N	2	10	261060	 and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now." 
43N	2	11	261070	 This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him. 
43N	2	12	261080	 After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days. 
43N	2	13	261090	 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 
43N	2	14	261100	 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. 
43N	2	15	261110	 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. 
43N	2	16	261120	 And he told those who sold the pigeons, "Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade." 
43N	2	17	261130	 His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me." 
43N	2	18	261140	 So the Jews said to him, "What sign do you show us for doing these things?" 
43N	2	19	261150	 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." 
43N	2	20	261160	 The Jews then said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?" 
43N	2	21	261170	 But he was speaking about the temple of his body. 
43N	2	22	261180	 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken. 
43N	2	23	261190	 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. 
43N	2	24	261200	 But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people 
43N	2	25	261210	 and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man. 
43N	3	1	261220	 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 
43N	3	2	261230	 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him." 
43N	3	3	261240	 Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." 
43N	3	4	261250	 Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?" 
43N	3	5	261260	 Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 
43N	3	6	261270	 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 
43N	3	7	261280	 Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.' 
43N	3	8	261290	 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit." 
43N	3	9	261300	 Nicodemus said to him, "How can these things be?" 
43N	3	10	261310	 Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things? 
43N	3	11	261320	 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony. 
43N	3	12	261330	 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 
43N	3	13	261340	 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 
43N	3	14	261350	 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 
43N	3	15	261360	 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. 
43N	3	16	261370	 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 
43N	3	17	261380	 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 
43N	3	18	261390	 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 
43N	3	19	261400	 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 
43N	3	20	261410	 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 
43N	3	21	261420	 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God." 
43N	3	22	261430	 After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing. 
43N	3	23	261440	 John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized 
43N	3	24	261450	 (for John had not yet been put in prison). 
43N	3	25	261460	 Now a discussion arose between some of John's disciples and a Jew over purification. 
43N	3	26	261470	 And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness--look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him." 
43N	3	27	261480	 John answered, "A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven. 
43N	3	28	261490	 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.' 
43N	3	29	261500	 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete. 
43N	3	30	261510	 He must increase, but I must decrease." 
43N	3	31	261520	 He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all. 
43N	3	32	261530	 He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony. 
43N	3	33	261540	 Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true. 
43N	3	34	261550	 For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure. 
43N	3	35	261560	 The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand. 
43N	3	36	261570	 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. 
43N	4	1	261580	 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 
43N	4	2	261590	 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 
43N	4	3	261600	 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 
43N	4	4	261610	 And he had to pass through Samaria. 
43N	4	5	261620	 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 
43N	4	6	261630	 Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour. 
43N	4	7	261640	 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." 
43N	4	8	261650	 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 
43N	4	9	261660	 The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 
43N	4	10	261670	 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." 
43N	4	11	261680	 The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 
43N	4	12	261690	 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock." 
43N	4	13	261700	 Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 
43N	4	14	261710	 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." 
43N	4	15	261720	 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water." 
43N	4	16	261730	 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." 
43N	4	17	261740	 The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband'; 
43N	4	18	261750	 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true." 
43N	4	19	261760	 The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 
43N	4	20	261770	 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship." 
43N	4	21	261780	 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 
43N	4	22	261790	 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 
43N	4	23	261800	 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 
43N	4	24	261810	 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." 
43N	4	25	261820	 The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things." 
43N	4	26	261830	 Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am he." 
43N	4	27	261840	 Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, "What do you seek?" or, "Why are you talking with her?" 
43N	4	28	261850	 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 
43N	4	29	261860	 "Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?" 
43N	4	30	261870	 They went out of the town and were coming to him. 
43N	4	31	261880	 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." 
43N	4	32	261890	 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about." 
43N	4	33	261900	 So the disciples said to one another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?" 
43N	4	34	261910	 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. 
43N	4	35	261920	 Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, then comes the harvest'? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. 
43N	4	36	261930	 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 
43N	4	37	261940	 For here the saying holds true, 'One sows and another reaps.' 
43N	4	38	261950	 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor." 
43N	4	39	261960	 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me all that I ever did." 
43N	4	40	261970	 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 
43N	4	41	261980	 And many more believed because of his word. 
43N	4	42	261990	 They said to the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world." 
43N	4	43	262000	 After the two days he departed for Galilee. 
43N	4	44	262010	 (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) 
43N	4	45	262020	 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast. 
43N	4	46	262030	 So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. 
43N	4	47	262040	 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 
43N	4	48	262050	 So Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe." 
43N	4	49	262060	 The official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies." 
43N	4	50	262070	 Jesus said to him, "Go; your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. 
43N	4	51	262080	 As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering. 
43N	4	52	262090	 So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him." 
43N	4	53	262100	 The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live." And he himself believed, and all his household. 
43N	4	54	262110	 This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee. 
43N	5	1	262120	 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 
43N	5	2	262130	 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. 
43N	5	3	262140	 In these lay a multitude of invalids--blind, lame, and paralyzed [waiting for the moving of the water;] 
43N	5	4	262150	 [for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool, and stirred the water: whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.] 
43N	5	5	262160	 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 
43N	5	6	262170	 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?" 
43N	5	7	262180	 The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me." 
43N	5	8	262190	 Jesus said to him, "Get up, take up your bed, and walk." 
43N	5	9	262200	 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath. 
43N	5	10	262210	 So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed." 
43N	5	11	262220	 But he answered them, "The man who healed me, that man said to me, 'Take up your bed, and walk.'" 
43N	5	12	262230	 They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your bed and walk'?" 
43N	5	13	262240	 Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. 
43N	5	14	262250	 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you." 
43N	5	15	262260	 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. 
43N	5	16	262270	 And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. 
43N	5	17	262280	 But Jesus answered them, "My Father is working until now, and I am working." 
43N	5	18	262290	 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. 
43N	5	19	262300	 So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. 
43N	5	20	262310	 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel. 
43N	5	21	262320	 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will. 
43N	5	22	262330	 The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, 
43N	5	23	262340	 that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. 
43N	5	24	262350	 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. 
43N	5	25	262360	 "Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. 
43N	5	26	262370	 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. 
43N	5	27	262380	 And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. 
43N	5	28	262390	 Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 
43N	5	29	262400	 and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. 
43N	5	30	262410	 "I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me. 
43N	5	31	262420	 If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not deemed true. 
43N	5	32	262430	 There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true. 
43N	5	33	262440	 You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. 
43N	5	34	262450	 Not that the testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved. 
43N	5	35	262460	 He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. 
43N	5	36	262470	 But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me. 
43N	5	37	262480	 And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen, 
43N	5	38	262490	 and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent. 
43N	5	39	262500	 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, 
43N	5	40	262510	 yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. 
43N	5	41	262520	 I do not receive glory from people. 
43N	5	42	262530	 But I know that you do not have the love of God within you. 
43N	5	43	262540	 I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. 
43N	5	44	262550	 How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? 
43N	5	45	262560	 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope. 
43N	5	46	262570	 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me. 
43N	5	47	262580	 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?" 
43N	6	1	262590	 After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. 
43N	6	2	262600	 And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. 
43N	6	3	262610	 Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. 
43N	6	4	262620	 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. 
43N	6	5	262630	 Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?" 
43N	6	6	262640	 He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. 
43N	6	7	262650	 Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little." 
43N	6	8	262660	 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, 
43N	6	9	262670	 "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?" 
43N	6	10	262680	 Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number. 
43N	6	11	262690	 Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted. 
43N	6	12	262700	 And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, "Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost." 
43N	6	13	262710	 So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten. 
43N	6	14	262720	 When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, "This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!" 
43N	6	15	262730	 Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself. 
43N	6	16	262740	 When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, 
43N	6	17	262750	 got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. 
43N	6	18	262760	 The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing. 
43N	6	19	262770	 When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were frightened. 
43N	6	20	262780	 But he said to them, "It is I; do not be afraid." 
43N	6	21	262790	 Then they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going. 
43N	6	22	262800	 On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone. 
43N	6	23	262810	 Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. 
43N	6	24	262820	 So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. 
43N	6	25	262830	 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?" 
43N	6	26	262840	 Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. 
43N	6	27	262850	 Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal." 
43N	6	28	262860	 Then they said to him, "What must we do, to be doing the works of God?" 
43N	6	29	262870	 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent." 
43N	6	30	262880	 So they said to him, "Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? 
43N	6	31	262890	 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'" 
43N	6	32	262900	 Jesus then said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 
43N	6	33	262910	 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." 
43N	6	34	262920	 They said to him, "Sir, give us this bread always." 
43N	6	35	262930	 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. 
43N	6	36	262940	 But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. 
43N	6	37	262950	 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. 
43N	6	38	262960	 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. 
43N	6	39	262970	 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. 
43N	6	40	262980	 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day." 
43N	6	41	262990	 So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven." 
43N	6	42	263000	 They said, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?" 
43N	6	43	263010	 Jesus answered them, "Do not grumble among yourselves. 
43N	6	44	263020	 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. 
43N	6	45	263030	 It is written in the Prophets, 'And they will all be taught by God.' Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me-- 
43N	6	46	263040	 not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father. 
43N	6	47	263050	 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. 
43N	6	48	263060	 I am the bread of life. 
43N	6	49	263070	 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 
43N	6	50	263080	 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 
43N	6	51	263090	 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh." 
43N	6	52	263100	 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" 
43N	6	53	263110	 So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 
43N	6	54	263120	 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 
43N	6	55	263130	 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 
43N	6	56	263140	 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. 
43N	6	57	263150	 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. 
43N	6	58	263160	 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever." 
43N	6	59	263170	 Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum. 
43N	6	60	263180	 When many of his disciples heard it, they said, "This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?" 
43N	6	61	263190	 But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, "Do you take offense at this? 
43N	6	62	263200	 Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 
43N	6	63	263210	 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. 
43N	6	64	263220	 But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) 
43N	6	65	263230	 And he said, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father." 
43N	6	66	263240	 After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. 
43N	6	67	263250	 So Jesus said to the Twelve, "Do you want to go away as well?" 
43N	6	68	263260	 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, 
43N	6	69	263270	 and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God." 
43N	6	70	263280	 Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you, the Twelve? And yet one of you is a devil." 
43N	6	71	263290	 He spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the Twelve, was going to betray him. 
43N	7	1	263300	 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. 
43N	7	2	263310	 Now the Jews' Feast of Booths was at hand. 
43N	7	3	263320	 So his brothers said to him, "Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. 
43N	7	4	263330	 For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world." 
43N	7	5	263340	 For not even his brothers believed in him. 
43N	7	6	263350	 Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. 
43N	7	7	263360	 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil. 
43N	7	8	263370	 You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come." 
43N	7	9	263380	 After saying this, he remained in Galilee. 
43N	7	10	263390	 But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private. 
43N	7	11	263400	 The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, "Where is he?" 
43N	7	12	263410	 And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, "He is a good man," others said, "No, he is leading the people astray." 
43N	7	13	263420	 Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him. 
43N	7	14	263430	 About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching. 
43N	7	15	263440	 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?" 
43N	7	16	263450	 So Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. 
43N	7	17	263460	 If anyone's will is to do God's will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority. 
43N	7	18	263470	 The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood. 
43N	7	19	263480	 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?" 
43N	7	20	263490	 The crowd answered, "You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?" 
43N	7	21	263500	 Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel at it. 
43N	7	22	263510	 Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. 
43N	7	23	263520	 If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well? 
43N	7	24	263530	 Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment." 
43N	7	25	263540	 Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, "Is not this the man whom they seek to kill? 
43N	7	26	263550	 And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ? 
43N	7	27	263560	 But we know where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from." 
43N	7	28	263570	 So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, "You know me, and you know where I come from? But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know. 
43N	7	29	263580	 I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me." 
43N	7	30	263590	 So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. 
43N	7	31	263600	 Yet many of the people believed in him. They said, "When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?" 
43N	7	32	263610	 The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. 
43N	7	33	263620	 Jesus then said, "I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me. 
43N	7	34	263630	 You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come." 
43N	7	35	263640	 The Jews said to one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? 
43N	7	36	263650	 What does he mean by saying, 'You will seek me and you will not find me,' and, 'Where I am you cannot come'?" 
43N	7	37	263660	 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 
43N	7	38	263670	 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'" 
43N	7	39	263680	 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. 
43N	7	40	263690	 When they heard these words, some of the people said, "This really is the Prophet." 
43N	7	41	263700	 Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Is the Christ to come from Galilee? 
43N	7	42	263710	 Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" 
43N	7	43	263720	 So there was a division among the people over him. 
43N	7	44	263730	 Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him. 
43N	7	45	263740	 The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why did you not bring him?" 
43N	7	46	263750	 The officers answered, "No one ever spoke like this man!" 
43N	7	47	263760	 The Pharisees answered them, "Have you also been deceived? 
43N	7	48	263770	 Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? 
43N	7	49	263780	 But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed." 
43N	7	50	263790	 Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, 
43N	7	51	263800	 "Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?" 
43N	7	52	263810	 They replied, "Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee." 
43N	7	53	263820	 [[They went each to his own house, 
43N	8	1	263830	 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 
43N	8	2	263840	 Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. 
43N	8	3	263850	 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst 
43N	8	4	263860	 they said to him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. 
43N	8	5	263870	 Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?" 
43N	8	6	263880	 This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 
43N	8	7	263890	 And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her." 
43N	8	8	263900	 And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. 
43N	8	9	263910	 But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 
43N	8	10	263920	 Jesus stood up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" 
43N	8	11	263930	 She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more."]] 
43N	8	12	263940	 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." 
43N	8	13	263950	 So the Pharisees said to him, "You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true." 
43N	8	14	263960	 Jesus answered, "Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going. 
43N	8	15	263970	 You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one. 
43N	8	16	263980	 Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me. 
43N	8	17	263990	 In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true. 
43N	8	18	264000	 I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me." 
43N	8	19	264010	 They said to him therefore, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also." 
43N	8	20	264020	 These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come. 
43N	8	21	264030	 So he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come." 
43N	8	22	264040	 So the Jews said, "Will he kill himself, since he says, 'Where I am going, you cannot come'?" 
43N	8	23	264050	 He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. 
43N	8	24	264060	 I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins." 
43N	8	25	264070	 So they said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been telling you from the beginning. 
43N	8	26	264080	 I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him." 
43N	8	27	264090	 They did not understand that he had been speaking to them about the Father. 
43N	8	28	264100	 So Jesus said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me. 
43N	8	29	264110	 And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him." 
43N	8	30	264120	 As he was saying these things, many believed in him. 
43N	8	31	264130	 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 
43N	8	32	264140	 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." 
43N	8	33	264150	 They answered him, "We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, 'You will become free'?" 
43N	8	34	264160	 Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. 
43N	8	35	264170	 The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. 
43N	8	36	264180	 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. 
43N	8	37	264190	 I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you. 
43N	8	38	264200	 I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father." 
43N	8	39	264210	 They answered him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, 
43N	8	40	264220	 but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did. 
43N	8	41	264230	 You are doing the works your father did." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father--even God." 
43N	8	42	264240	 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me. 
43N	8	43	264250	 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. 
43N	8	44	264260	 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 
43N	8	45	264270	 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. 
43N	8	46	264280	 Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? 
43N	8	47	264290	 Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God." 
43N	8	48	264300	 The Jews answered him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?" 
43N	8	49	264310	 Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. 
43N	8	50	264320	 Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge. 
43N	8	51	264330	 Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death." 
43N	8	52	264340	 The Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, 'If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.' 
43N	8	53	264350	 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?" 
43N	8	54	264360	 Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, 'He is our God.' 
43N	8	55	264370	 But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word. 
43N	8	56	264380	 Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad." 
43N	8	57	264390	 So the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?" 
43N	8	58	264400	 Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am." 
43N	8	59	264410	 So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple. 
43N	9	1	264420	 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 
43N	9	2	264430	 And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" 
43N	9	3	264440	 Jesus answered, "It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. 
43N	9	4	264450	 We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. 
43N	9	5	264460	 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world." 
43N	9	6	264470	 Having said these things, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud 
43N	9	7	264480	 and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing. 
43N	9	8	264490	 The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?" 
43N	9	9	264500	 Some said, "It is he." Others said, "No, but he is like him." He kept saying, "I am the man." 
43N	9	10	264510	 So they said to him, "Then how were your eyes opened?" 
43N	9	11	264520	 He answered, "The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed and received my sight." 
43N	9	12	264530	 They said to him, "Where is he?" He said, "I do not know." 
43N	9	13	264540	 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. 
43N	9	14	264550	 Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. 
43N	9	15	264560	 So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see." 
43N	9	16	264570	 Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" And there was a division among them. 
43N	9	17	264580	 So they said again to the blind man, "What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?" He said, "He is a prophet." 
43N	9	18	264590	 The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight 
43N	9	19	264600	 and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?" 
43N	9	20	264610	 His parents answered, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. 
43N	9	21	264620	 But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself." 
43N	9	22	264630	 (His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.) 
43N	9	23	264640	 Therefore his parents said, "He is of age; ask him." 
43N	9	24	264650	 So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner." 
43N	9	25	264660	 He answered, "Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see." 
43N	9	26	264670	 They said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?" 
43N	9	27	264680	 He answered them, "I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?" 
43N	9	28	264690	 And they reviled him, saying, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. 
43N	9	29	264700	 We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from." 
43N	9	30	264710	 The man answered, "Why, this is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. 
43N	9	31	264720	 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him. 
43N	9	32	264730	 Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. 
43N	9	33	264740	 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing." 
43N	9	34	264750	 They answered him, "You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?" And they cast him out. 
43N	9	35	264760	 Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?" 
43N	9	36	264770	 He answered, "And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?" 
43N	9	37	264780	 Jesus said to him, "You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking to you." 
43N	9	38	264790	 He said, "Lord, I believe," and he worshiped him. 
43N	9	39	264800	 Jesus said, "For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind." 
43N	9	40	264810	 Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?" 
43N	9	41	264820	 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, 'We see,' your guilt remains. 
43N	10	1	264830	 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. 
43N	10	2	264840	 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 
43N	10	3	264850	 To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 
43N	10	4	264860	 When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 
43N	10	5	264870	 A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers." 
43N	10	6	264880	 This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them. 
43N	10	7	264890	 So Jesus again said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 
43N	10	8	264900	 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 
43N	10	9	264910	 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. 
43N	10	10	264920	 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. 
43N	10	11	264930	 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 
43N	10	12	264940	 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 
43N	10	13	264950	 He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 
43N	10	14	264960	 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 
43N	10	15	264970	 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. 
43N	10	16	264980	 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. 
43N	10	17	264990	 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. 
43N	10	18	265000	 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father." 
43N	10	19	265010	 There was again a division among the Jews because of these words. 
43N	10	20	265020	 Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane; why listen to him?" 
43N	10	21	265030	 Others said, "These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?" 
43N	10	22	265040	 At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, 
43N	10	23	265050	 and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon. 
43N	10	24	265060	 So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly." 
43N	10	25	265070	 Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name bear witness about me, 
43N	10	26	265080	 but you do not believe because you are not part of my flock. 
43N	10	27	265090	 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 
43N	10	28	265100	 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 
43N	10	29	265110	 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. 
43N	10	30	265120	 I and the Father are one." 
43N	10	31	265130	 The Jews picked up stones again to stone him. 
43N	10	32	265140	 Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?" 
43N	10	33	265150	 The Jews answered him, "It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God." 
43N	10	34	265160	 Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'? 
43N	10	35	265170	 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came--and Scripture cannot be broken-- 
43N	10	36	265180	 do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'? 
43N	10	37	265190	 If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; 
43N	10	38	265200	 but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father." 
43N	10	39	265210	 Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands. 
43N	10	40	265220	 He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained. 
43N	10	41	265230	 And many came to him. And they said, "John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true." 
43N	10	42	265240	 And many believed in him there. 
43N	11	1	265250	 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 
43N	11	2	265260	 It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. 
43N	11	3	265270	 So the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is ill." 
43N	11	4	265280	 But when Jesus heard it he said, "This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it." 
43N	11	5	265290	 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 
43N	11	6	265300	 So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. 
43N	11	7	265310	 Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let us go to Judea again." 
43N	11	8	265320	 The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?" 
43N	11	9	265330	 Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 
43N	11	10	265340	 But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him." 
43N	11	11	265350	 After saying these things, he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him." 
43N	11	12	265360	 The disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover." 
43N	11	13	265370	 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep. 
43N	11	14	265380	 Then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus has died, 
43N	11	15	265390	 and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him." 
43N	11	16	265400	 So Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him." 
43N	11	17	265410	 Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. 
43N	11	18	265420	 Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off, 
43N	11	19	265430	 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother. 
43N	11	20	265440	 So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house. 
43N	11	21	265450	 Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 
43N	11	22	265460	 But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you." 
43N	11	23	265470	 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." 
43N	11	24	265480	 Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day." 
43N	11	25	265490	 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, 
43N	11	26	265500	 and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?" 
43N	11	27	265510	 She said to him, "Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world." 
43N	11	28	265520	 When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying in private, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you." 
43N	11	29	265530	 And when she heard it, she rose quickly and went to him. 
43N	11	30	265540	 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him. 
43N	11	31	265550	 When the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary rise quickly and go out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there. 
43N	11	32	265560	 Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." 
43N	11	33	265570	 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. 
43N	11	34	265580	 And he said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see." 
43N	11	35	265590	 Jesus wept. 
43N	11	36	265600	 So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" 
43N	11	37	265610	 But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?" 
43N	11	38	265620	 Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. 
43N	11	39	265630	 Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days." 
43N	11	40	265640	 Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?" 
43N	11	41	265650	 So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 
43N	11	42	265660	 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me." 
43N	11	43	265670	 When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out." 
43N	11	44	265680	 The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go." 
43N	11	45	265690	 Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him, 
43N	11	46	265700	 but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. 
43N	11	47	265710	 So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the Council and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs many signs. 
43N	11	48	265720	 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation." 
43N	11	49	265730	 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all. 
43N	11	50	265740	 Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish." 
43N	11	51	265750	 He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, 
43N	11	52	265760	 and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. 
43N	11	53	265770	 So from that day on they made plans to put him to death. 
43N	11	54	265780	 Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples. 
43N	11	55	265790	 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves. 
43N	11	56	265800	 They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast at all?" 
43N	11	57	265810	 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him. 
43N	12	1	265820	 Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 
43N	12	2	265830	 So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table. 
43N	12	3	265840	 Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 
43N	12	4	265850	 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said, 
43N	12	5	265860	 "Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?" 
43N	12	6	265870	 He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it. 
43N	12	7	265880	 Jesus said, "Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my burial. 
43N	12	8	265890	 For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me." 
43N	12	9	265900	 When the large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came, not only on account of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 
43N	12	10	265910	 So the chief priests made plans to put Lazarus to death as well, 
43N	12	11	265920	 because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus. 
43N	12	12	265930	 The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 
43N	12	13	265940	 So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!" 
43N	12	14	265950	 And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written, 
43N	12	15	265960	 "Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt!" 
43N	12	16	265970	 His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him. 
43N	12	17	265980	 The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness. 
43N	12	18	265990	 The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign. 
43N	12	19	266000	 So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him." 
43N	12	20	266010	 Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. 
43N	12	21	266020	 So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus." 
43N	12	22	266030	 Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. 
43N	12	23	266040	 And Jesus answered them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 
43N	12	24	266050	 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 
43N	12	25	266060	 Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 
43N	12	26	266070	 If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him. 
43N	12	27	266080	 "Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? But for this purpose I have come to this hour. 
43N	12	28	266090	 Father, glorify your name." Then a voice came from heaven: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again." 
43N	12	29	266100	 The crowd that stood there and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him." 
43N	12	30	266110	 Jesus answered, "This voice has come for your sake, not mine. 
43N	12	31	266120	 Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out. 
43N	12	32	266130	 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself." 
43N	12	33	266140	 He said this to show by what kind of death he was going to die. 
43N	12	34	266150	 So the crowd answered him, "We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?" 
43N	12	35	266160	 So Jesus said to them, "The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. 
43N	12	36	266170	 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them. 
43N	12	37	266180	 Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him, 
43N	12	38	266190	 so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: "Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" 
43N	12	39	266200	 Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said, 
43N	12	40	266210	 "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them." 
43N	12	41	266220	 Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him. 
43N	12	42	266230	 Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue; 
43N	12	43	266240	 for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God. 
43N	12	44	266250	 And Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. 
43N	12	45	266260	 And whoever sees me sees him who sent me. 
43N	12	46	266270	 I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness. 
43N	12	47	266280	 If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. 
43N	12	48	266290	 The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day. 
43N	12	49	266300	 For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment--what to say and what to speak. 
43N	12	50	266310	 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me." 
43N	13	1	266320	 Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 
43N	13	2	266330	 During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, 
43N	13	3	266340	 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, 
43N	13	4	266350	 rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. 
43N	13	5	266360	 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. 
43N	13	6	266370	 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, do you wash my feet?" 
43N	13	7	266380	 Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand." 
43N	13	8	266390	 Peter said to him, "You shall never wash my feet." Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no share with me." 
43N	13	9	266400	 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!" 
43N	13	10	266410	 Jesus said to him, "The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you." 
43N	13	11	266420	 For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, "Not all of you are clean." 
43N	13	12	266430	 When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, "Do you understand what I have done to you? 
43N	13	13	266440	 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. 
43N	13	14	266450	 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. 
43N	13	15	266460	 For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. 
43N	13	16	266470	 Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 
43N	13	17	266480	 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. 
43N	13	18	266490	 I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, 'He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.' 
43N	13	19	266500	 I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he. 
43N	13	20	266510	 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me." 
43N	13	21	266520	 After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, "Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me." 
43N	13	22	266530	 The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke. 
43N	13	23	266540	 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table close to Jesus, 
43N	13	24	266550	 so Simon Peter motioned to him to ask Jesus of whom he was speaking. 
43N	13	25	266560	 So that disciple, leaning back against Jesus, said to him, "Lord, who is it?" 
43N	13	26	266570	 Jesus answered, "It is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it." So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. 
43N	13	27	266580	 Then after he had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, "What you are going to do, do quickly." 
43N	13	28	266590	 Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him. 
43N	13	29	266600	 Some thought that, because Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him, "Buy what we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor. 
43N	13	30	266610	 So, after receiving the morsel of bread, he immediately went out. And it was night. 
43N	13	31	266620	 When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 
43N	13	32	266630	 If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once. 
43N	13	33	266640	 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, 'Where I am going you cannot come.' 
43N	13	34	266650	 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 
43N	13	35	266660	 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." 
43N	13	36	266670	 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered him, "Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward." 
43N	13	37	266680	 Peter said to him, "Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you." 
43N	13	38	266690	 Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times. 
43N	14	1	266700	 "Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 
43N	14	2	266710	 In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 
43N	14	3	266720	 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. 
43N	14	4	266730	 And you know the way to where I am going." 
43N	14	5	266740	 Thomas said to him, "Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?" 
43N	14	6	266750	 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 
43N	14	7	266760	 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him." 
43N	14	8	266770	 Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us." 
43N	14	9	266780	 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? 
43N	14	10	266790	 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. 
43N	14	11	266800	 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves. 
43N	14	12	266810	 "Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. 
43N	14	13	266820	 Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 
43N	14	14	266830	 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. 
43N	14	15	266840	 "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 
43N	14	16	266850	 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 
43N	14	17	266860	 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. 
43N	14	18	266870	 "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 
43N	14	19	266880	 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 
43N	14	20	266890	 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 
43N	14	21	266900	 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him." 
43N	14	22	266910	 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?" 
43N	14	23	266920	 Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 
43N	14	24	266930	 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me. 
43N	14	25	266940	 "These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. 
43N	14	26	266950	 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. 
43N	14	27	266960	 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. 
43N	14	28	266970	 You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 
43N	14	29	266980	 And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe. 
43N	14	30	266990	 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me, 
43N	14	31	267000	 but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here. 
43N	15	1	267010	 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 
43N	15	2	267020	 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 
43N	15	3	267030	 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 
43N	15	4	267040	 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 
43N	15	5	267050	 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 
43N	15	6	267060	 If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. 
43N	15	7	267070	 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 
43N	15	8	267080	 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. 
43N	15	9	267090	 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 
43N	15	10	267100	 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. 
43N	15	11	267110	 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. 
43N	15	12	267120	 "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 
43N	15	13	267130	 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 
43N	15	14	267140	 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 
43N	15	15	267150	 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 
43N	15	16	267160	 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 
43N	15	17	267170	 These things I command you, so that you will love one another. 
43N	15	18	267180	 "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 
43N	15	19	267190	 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 
43N	15	20	267200	 Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. 
43N	15	21	267210	 But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. 
43N	15	22	267220	 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. 
43N	15	23	267230	 Whoever hates me hates my Father also. 
43N	15	24	267240	 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. 
43N	15	25	267250	 But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: 'They hated me without a cause.' 
43N	15	26	267260	 "But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. 
43N	15	27	267270	 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning. 
43N	16	1	267280	 "I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. 
43N	16	2	267290	 They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. 
43N	16	3	267300	 And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. 
43N	16	4	267310	 But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. "I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. 
43N	16	5	267320	 But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?' 
43N	16	6	267330	 But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 
43N	16	7	267340	 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. 
43N	16	8	267350	 And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: 
43N	16	9	267360	 concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; 
43N	16	10	267370	 concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; 
43N	16	11	267380	 concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. 
43N	16	12	267390	 "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 
43N	16	13	267400	 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 
43N	16	14	267410	 He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 
43N	16	15	267420	 All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 
43N	16	16	267430	 "A little while, and you will see me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me." 
43N	16	17	267440	 So some of his disciples said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me'; and, 'because I am going to the Father'?" 
43N	16	18	267450	 So they were saying, "What does he mean by 'a little while'? We do not know what he is talking about." 
43N	16	19	267460	 Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, "Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, 'A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me'? 
43N	16	20	267470	 Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy. 
43N	16	21	267480	 When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. 
43N	16	22	267490	 So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. 
43N	16	23	267500	 In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. 
43N	16	24	267510	 Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full. 
43N	16	25	267520	 "I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father. 
43N	16	26	267530	 In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf; 
43N	16	27	267540	 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. 
43N	16	28	267550	 I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father." 
43N	16	29	267560	 His disciples said, "Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not using figurative speech! 
43N	16	30	267570	 Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that you came from God." 
43N	16	31	267580	 Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe? 
43N	16	32	267590	 Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. 
43N	16	33	267600	 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world." 
43N	17	1	267610	 When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, 
43N	17	2	267620	 since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 
43N	17	3	267630	 And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 
43N	17	4	267640	 I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. 
43N	17	5	267650	 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. 
43N	17	6	267660	 "I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 
43N	17	7	267670	 Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. 
43N	17	8	267680	 For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. 
43N	17	9	267690	 I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. 
43N	17	10	267700	 All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 
43N	17	11	267710	 And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. 
43N	17	12	267720	 While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 
43N	17	13	267730	 But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 
43N	17	14	267740	 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 
43N	17	15	267750	 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. 
43N	17	16	267760	 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 
43N	17	17	267770	 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 
43N	17	18	267780	 As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 
43N	17	19	267790	 And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth. 
43N	17	20	267800	 "I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 
43N	17	21	267810	 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 
43N	17	22	267820	 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 
43N	17	23	267830	 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. 
43N	17	24	267840	 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. 
43N	17	25	267850	 O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. 
43N	17	26	267860	 I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them." 
43N	18	1	267870	 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron Valley, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. 
43N	18	2	267880	 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples. 
43N	18	3	267890	 So Judas, having procured a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons. 
43N	18	4	267900	 Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, "Whom do you seek?" 
43N	18	5	267910	 They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." Jesus said to them, "I am he." Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them. 
43N	18	6	267920	 When Jesus said to them, "I am he," they drew back and fell to the ground. 
43N	18	7	267930	 So he asked them again, "Whom do you seek?" And they said, "Jesus of Nazareth." 
43N	18	8	267940	 Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he. So, if you seek me, let these men go." 
43N	18	9	267950	 This was to fulfill the word that he had spoken: "Of those whom you gave me I have lost not one." 
43N	18	10	267960	 Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear. (The servant's name was Malchus.) 
43N	18	11	267970	 So Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?" 
43N	18	12	267980	 So the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound him. 
43N	18	13	267990	 First they led him to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. 
43N	18	14	268000	 It was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it would be expedient that one man should die for the people. 
43N	18	15	268010	 Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Since that disciple was known to the high priest, he entered with Jesus into the court of the high priest, 
43N	18	16	268020	 but Peter stood outside at the door. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the servant girl who kept watch at the door, and brought Peter in. 
43N	18	17	268030	 The servant girl at the door said to Peter, "You also are not one of this man's disciples, are you?" He said, "I am not." 
43N	18	18	268040	 Now the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold, and they were standing and warming themselves. Peter also was with them, standing and warming himself. 
43N	18	19	268050	 The high priest then questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching. 
43N	18	20	268060	 Jesus answered him, "I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret. 
43N	18	21	268070	 Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them; they know what I said." 
43N	18	22	268080	 When he had said these things, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, "Is that how you answer the high priest?" 
43N	18	23	268090	 Jesus answered him, "If what I said is wrong, bear witness about the wrong; but if what I said is right, why do you strike me?" 
43N	18	24	268100	 Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest. 
43N	18	25	268110	 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, "You also are not one of his disciples, are you?" He denied it and said, "I am not." 
43N	18	26	268120	 One of the servants of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, "Did I not see you in the garden with him?" 
43N	18	27	268130	 Peter again denied it, and at once a rooster crowed. 
43N	18	28	268140	 Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters. It was early morning. They themselves did not enter the governor's headquarters, so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover. 
43N	18	29	268150	 So Pilate went outside to them and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?" 
43N	18	30	268160	 They answered him, "If this man were not doing evil, we would not have delivered him over to you." 
43N	18	31	268170	 Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law." The Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death." 
43N	18	32	268180	 This was to fulfill the word that Jesus had spoken to show by what kind of death he was going to die. 
43N	18	33	268190	 So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" 
43N	18	34	268200	 Jesus answered, "Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?" 
43N	18	35	268210	 Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?" 
43N	18	36	268220	 Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world." 
43N	18	37	268230	 Then Pilate said to him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world--to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice." 
43N	18	38	268240	 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, "I find no guilt in him. 
43N	18	39	268250	 But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?" 
43N	18	40	268260	 They cried out again, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber. 
43N	19	1	268270	 Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. 
43N	19	2	268280	 And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. 
43N	19	3	268290	 They came up to him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and struck him with their hands. 
43N	19	4	268300	 Pilate went out again and said to them, "See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him." 
43N	19	5	268310	 So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Behold the man!" 
43N	19	6	268320	 When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, "Crucify him, crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him." 
43N	19	7	268330	 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God." 
43N	19	8	268340	 When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid. 
43N	19	9	268350	 He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer. 
43N	19	10	268360	 So Pilate said to him, "You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?" 
43N	19	11	268370	 Jesus answered him, "You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin." 
43N	19	12	268380	 From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, "If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar." 
43N	19	13	268390	 So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic Gabbatha. 
43N	19	14	268400	 Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold your King!" 
43N	19	15	268410	 They cried out, "Away with him, away with him, crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar." 
43N	19	16	268420	 So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, 
43N	19	17	268430	 and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. 
43N	19	18	268440	 There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. 
43N	19	19	268450	 Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews." 
43N	19	20	268460	 Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. 
43N	19	21	268470	 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews,' but rather, 'This man said, I am King of the Jews.'" 
43N	19	22	268480	 Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written." 
43N	19	23	268490	 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom, 
43N	19	24	268500	 so they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be." This was to fulfill the Scripture which says, "They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots." So the soldiers did these things, 
43N	19	25	268510	 but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 
43N	19	26	268520	 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!" 
43N	19	27	268530	 Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home. 
43N	19	28	268540	 After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), "I thirst." 
43N	19	29	268550	 A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. 
43N	19	30	268560	 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, "It is finished," and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. 
43N	19	31	268570	 Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. 
43N	19	32	268580	 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him. 
43N	19	33	268590	 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 
43N	19	34	268600	 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. 
43N	19	35	268610	 He who saw it has borne witness--his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth--that you also may believe. 
43N	19	36	268620	 For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: "Not one of his bones will be broken." 
43N	19	37	268630	 And again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they have pierced." 
43N	19	38	268640	 After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body. 
43N	19	39	268650	 Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight. 
43N	19	40	268660	 So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. 
43N	19	41	268670	 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. 
43N	19	42	268680	 So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there. 
43N	20	1	268690	 Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 
43N	20	2	268700	 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him." 
43N	20	3	268710	 So Peter went out with the other disciple, and they were going toward the tomb. 
43N	20	4	268720	 Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 
43N	20	5	268730	 And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. 
43N	20	6	268740	 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there, 
43N	20	7	268750	 and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself. 
43N	20	8	268760	 Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; 
43N	20	9	268770	 for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead. 
43N	20	10	268780	 Then the disciples went back to their homes. 
43N	20	11	268790	 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb. 
43N	20	12	268800	 And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. 
43N	20	13	268810	 They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him." 
43N	20	14	268820	 Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. 
43N	20	15	268830	 Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?" Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away." 
43N	20	16	268840	 Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him in Aramaic, "Rabboni!" (which means Teacher). 
43N	20	17	268850	 Jesus said to her, "Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" 
43N	20	18	268860	 Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord"--and that he had said these things to her. 
43N	20	19	268870	 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you." 
43N	20	20	268880	 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. 
43N	20	21	268890	 Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you." 
43N	20	22	268900	 And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 
43N	20	23	268910	 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld." 
43N	20	24	268920	 Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. 
43N	20	25	268930	 So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe." 
43N	20	26	268940	 Eight days later, his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you." 
43N	20	27	268950	 Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe." 
43N	20	28	268960	 Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!" 
43N	20	29	268970	 Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." 
43N	20	30	268980	 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 
43N	20	31	268990	 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. 
43N	21	1	269000	 After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias, and he revealed himself in this way. 
43N	21	2	269010	 Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together. 
43N	21	3	269020	 Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." They said to him, "We will go with you." They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. 
43N	21	4	269030	 Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. 
43N	21	5	269040	 Jesus said to them, "Children, do you have any fish?" They answered him, "No." 
43N	21	6	269050	 He said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some." So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, because of the quantity of fish. 
43N	21	7	269060	 That disciple whom Jesus loved therefore said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment, for he was stripped for work, and threw himself into the sea. 
43N	21	8	269070	 The other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from the land, but about a hundred yards off. 
43N	21	9	269080	 When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire in place, with fish laid out on it, and bread. 
43N	21	10	269090	 Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish that you have just caught." 
43N	21	11	269100	 So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, 153 of them. And although there were so many, the net was not torn. 
43N	21	12	269110	 Jesus said to them, "Come and have breakfast." Now none of the disciples dared ask him, "Who are you?" They knew it was the Lord. 
43N	21	13	269120	 Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so with the fish. 
43N	21	14	269130	 This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead. 
43N	21	15	269140	 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs." 
43N	21	16	269150	 He said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep." 
43N	21	17	269160	 He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" and he said to him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep. 
43N	21	18	269170	 Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go." 
43N	21	19	269180	 (This he said to show by what kind of death he was to glorify God.) And after saying this he said to him, "Follow me." 
43N	21	20	269190	 Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them, the one who had been reclining at table close to him and had said, "Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?" 
43N	21	21	269200	 When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, "Lord, what about this man?" 
43N	21	22	269210	 Jesus said to him, "If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me!" 
43N	21	23	269220	 So the saying spread abroad among the brothers that this disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die, but, "If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?" 
43N	21	24	269230	 This is the disciple who is bearing witness about these things, and who has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true. 
43N	21	25	269240	 Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. 
44N	1	1	269250	 In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, 
44N	1	2	269260	 until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. 
44N	1	3	269270	 He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. 
44N	1	4	269280	 And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, "you heard from me; 
44N	1	5	269290	 for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now." 
44N	1	6	269300	 So when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?" 
44N	1	7	269310	 He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. 
44N	1	8	269320	 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." 
44N	1	9	269330	 And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. 
44N	1	10	269340	 And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, 
44N	1	11	269350	 and said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven." 
44N	1	12	269360	 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away. 
44N	1	13	269370	 And when they had entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James. 
44N	1	14	269380	 All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers. 
44N	1	15	269390	 In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (the company of persons was in all about 120) and said, 
44N	1	16	269400	 "Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus. 
44N	1	17	269410	 For he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in this ministry." 
44N	1	18	269420	 (Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out. 
44N	1	19	269430	 And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the field was called in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.) 
44N	1	20	269440	 "For it is written in the Book of Psalms, "'May his camp become desolate, and let there be no one to dwell in it'; and "'Let another take his office.' 
44N	1	21	269450	 So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, 
44N	1	22	269460	 beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us--one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection." 
44N	1	23	269470	 And they put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also called Justus, and Matthias. 
44N	1	24	269480	 And they prayed and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen 
44N	1	25	269490	 to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place." 
44N	1	26	269500	 And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles. 
44N	2	1	269510	 When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. 
44N	2	2	269520	 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 
44N	2	3	269530	 And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. 
44N	2	4	269540	 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. 
44N	2	5	269550	 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. 
44N	2	6	269560	 And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language. 
44N	2	7	269570	 And they were amazed and astonished, saying, "Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? 
44N	2	8	269580	 And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language? 
44N	2	9	269590	 Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 
44N	2	10	269600	 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, 
44N	2	11	269610	 both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians--we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God." 
44N	2	12	269620	 And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, "What does this mean?" 
44N	2	13	269630	 But others mocking said, "They are filled with new wine." 
44N	2	14	269640	 But Peter, standing with the eleven, lifted up his voice and addressed them: "Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give ear to my words. 
44N	2	15	269650	 For these people are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. 
44N	2	16	269660	 But this is what was uttered through the prophet Joel: 
44N	2	17	269670	 "'And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; 
44N	2	18	269680	 even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. 
44N	2	19	269690	 And I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke; 
44N	2	20	269700	 the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day. 
44N	2	21	269710	 And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.' 
44N	2	22	269720	 "Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know-- 
44N	2	23	269730	 this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. 
44N	2	24	269740	 God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. 
44N	2	25	269750	 For David says concerning him, "'I saw the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken; 
44N	2	26	269760	 therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; my flesh also will dwell in hope. 
44N	2	27	269770	 For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption. 
44N	2	28	269780	 You have made known to me the paths of life; you will make me full of gladness with your presence.' 
44N	2	29	269790	 "Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 
44N	2	30	269800	 Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne, 
44N	2	31	269810	 he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. 
44N	2	32	269820	 This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses. 
44N	2	33	269830	 Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing. 
44N	2	34	269840	 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, "'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, 
44N	2	35	269850	 until I make your enemies your footstool.' 
44N	2	36	269860	 Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified." 
44N	2	37	269870	 Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?" 
44N	2	38	269880	 And Peter said to them, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 
44N	2	39	269890	 For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself." 
44N	2	40	269900	 And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation." 
44N	2	41	269910	 So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls. 
44N	2	42	269920	 And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. 
44N	2	43	269930	 And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. 
44N	2	44	269940	 And all who believed were together and had all things in common. 
44N	2	45	269950	 And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. 
44N	2	46	269960	 And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, 
44N	2	47	269970	 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved. 
44N	3	1	269980	 Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. 
44N	3	2	269990	 And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate to ask alms of those entering the temple. 
44N	3	3	270000	 Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive alms. 
44N	3	4	270010	 And Peter directed his gaze at him, as did John, and said, "Look at us." 
44N	3	5	270020	 And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them. 
44N	3	6	270030	 But Peter said, "I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!" 
44N	3	7	270040	 And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong. 
44N	3	8	270050	 And leaping up he stood and began to walk, and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God. 
44N	3	9	270060	 And all the people saw him walking and praising God, 
44N	3	10	270070	 and recognized him as the one who sat at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, asking for alms. And they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him. 
44N	3	11	270080	 While he clung to Peter and John, all the people, utterly astounded, ran together to them in the portico called Solomon's. 
44N	3	12	270090	 And when Peter saw it he addressed the people: "Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk? 
44N	3	13	270100	 The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him. 
44N	3	14	270110	 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, 
44N	3	15	270120	 and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses. 
44N	3	16	270130	 And his name--by faith in his name--has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all. 
44N	3	17	270140	 "And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. 
44N	3	18	270150	 But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled. 
44N	3	19	270160	 Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, 
44N	3	20	270170	 that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, 
44N	3	21	270180	 whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago. 
44N	3	22	270190	 Moses said, 'The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you. 
44N	3	23	270200	 And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people.' 
44N	3	24	270210	 And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also proclaimed these days. 
44N	3	25	270220	 You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.' 
44N	3	26	270230	 God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness." 
44N	4	1	270240	 And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, 
44N	4	2	270250	 greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 
44N	4	3	270260	 And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening. 
44N	4	4	270270	 But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand. 
44N	4	5	270280	 On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem, 
44N	4	6	270290	 with Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. 
44N	4	7	270300	 And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, "By what power or by what name did you do this?" 
44N	4	8	270310	 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers of the people and elders, 
44N	4	9	270320	 if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, 
44N	4	10	270330	 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead--by him this man is standing before you well. 
44N	4	11	270340	 This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. 
44N	4	12	270350	 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." 
44N	4	13	270360	 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus. 
44N	4	14	270370	 But seeing the man who was healed standing beside them, they had nothing to say in opposition. 
44N	4	15	270380	 But when they had commanded them to leave the council, they conferred with one another, 
44N	4	16	270390	 saying, "What shall we do with these men? For that a notable sign has been performed through them is evident to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. 
44N	4	17	270400	 But in order that it may spread no further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name." 
44N	4	18	270410	 So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. 
44N	4	19	270420	 But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, 
44N	4	20	270430	 for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard." 
44N	4	21	270440	 And when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people, for all were praising God for what had happened. 
44N	4	22	270450	 For the man on whom this sign of healing was performed was more than forty years old. 
44N	4	23	270460	 When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them. 
44N	4	24	270470	 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, "Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, 
44N	4	25	270480	 who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, "'Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain? 
44N	4	26	270490	 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed'-- 
44N	4	27	270500	 for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, 
44N	4	28	270510	 to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. 
44N	4	29	270520	 And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness, 
44N	4	30	270530	 while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus." 
44N	4	31	270540	 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness. 
44N	4	32	270550	 Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common. 
44N	4	33	270560	 And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. 
44N	4	34	270570	 There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold 
44N	4	35	270580	 and laid it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need. 
44N	4	36	270590	 Thus Joseph, who was also called by the apostles Barnabas (which means son of encouragement), a Levite, a native of Cyprus, 
44N	4	37	270600	 sold a field that belonged to him and brought the money and laid it at the apostles' feet. 
44N	5	1	270610	 But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, 
44N	5	2	270620	 and with his wife's knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles' feet. 
44N	5	3	270630	 But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? 
44N	5	4	270640	 While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God." 
44N	5	5	270650	 When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all who heard of it. 
44N	5	6	270660	 The young men rose and wrapped him up and carried him out and buried him. 
44N	5	7	270670	 After an interval of about three hours his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. 
44N	5	8	270680	 And Peter said to her, "Tell me whether you sold the land for so much." And she said, "Yes, for so much." 
44N	5	9	270690	 But Peter said to her, "How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out." 
44N	5	10	270700	 Immediately she fell down at his feet and breathed her last. When the young men came in they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband. 
44N	5	11	270710	 And great fear came upon the whole church and upon all who heard of these things. 
44N	5	12	270720	 Now many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon's Portico. 
44N	5	13	270730	 None of the rest dared join them, but the people held them in high esteem. 
44N	5	14	270740	 And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women, 
44N	5	15	270750	 so that they even carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them. 
44N	5	16	270760	 The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all healed. 
44N	5	17	270770	 But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy 
44N	5	18	270780	 they arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison. 
44N	5	19	270790	 But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said, 
44N	5	20	270800	 "Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life." 
44N	5	21	270810	 And when they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and began to teach. Now when the high priest came, and those who were with him, they called together the council and all the senate of the people of Israel and sent to the prison to have them brought. 
44N	5	22	270820	 But when the officers came, they did not find them in the prison, so they returned and reported, 
44N	5	23	270830	 "We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them we found no one inside." 
44N	5	24	270840	 Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were greatly perplexed about them, wondering what this would come to. 
44N	5	25	270850	 And someone came and told them, "Look! The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people." 
44N	5	26	270860	 Then the captain with the officers went and brought them, but not by force, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people. 
44N	5	27	270870	 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them, 
44N	5	28	270880	 saying, "We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man's blood upon us." 
44N	5	29	270890	 But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men. 
44N	5	30	270900	 The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree. 
44N	5	31	270910	 God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. 
44N	5	32	270920	 And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him." 
44N	5	33	270930	 When they heard this, they were enraged and wanted to kill them. 
44N	5	34	270940	 But a Pharisee in the council named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law held in honor by all the people, stood up and gave orders to put the men outside for a little while. 
44N	5	35	270950	 And he said to them, "Men of Israel, take care what you are about to do with these men. 
44N	5	36	270960	 For before these days Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined him. He was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing. 
44N	5	37	270970	 After him Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of the census and drew away some of the people after him. He too perished, and all who followed him were scattered. 
44N	5	38	270980	 So in the present case I tell you, keep away from these men and let them alone, for if this plan or this undertaking is of man, it will fail; 
44N	5	39	270990	 but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You might even be found opposing God!" So they took his advice, 
44N	5	40	271000	 and when they had called in the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. 
44N	5	41	271010	 Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name. 
44N	5	42	271020	 And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ. 
44N	6	1	271030	 Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. 
44N	6	2	271040	 And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, "It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. 
44N	6	3	271050	 Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. 
44N	6	4	271060	 But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word." 
44N	6	5	271070	 And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch. 
44N	6	6	271080	 These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands on them. 
44N	6	7	271090	 And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith. 
44N	6	8	271100	 And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people. 
44N	6	9	271110	 Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and disputed with Stephen. 
44N	6	10	271120	 But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking. 
44N	6	11	271130	 Then they secretly instigated men who said, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God." 
44N	6	12	271140	 And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the council, 
44N	6	13	271150	 and they set up false witnesses who said, "This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law, 
44N	6	14	271160	 for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses delivered to us." 
44N	6	15	271170	 And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw that his face was like the face of an angel. 
44N	7	1	271180	 And the high priest said, "Are these things so?" 
44N	7	2	271190	 And Stephen said: "Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, 
44N	7	3	271200	 and said to him, 'Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.' 
44N	7	4	271210	 Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living. 
44N	7	5	271220	 Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot's length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child. 
44N	7	6	271230	 And God spoke to this effect--that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years. 
44N	7	7	271240	 'But I will judge the nation that they serve,' said God, 'and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.' 
44N	7	8	271250	 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs. 
44N	7	9	271260	 "And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him 
44N	7	10	271270	 and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household. 
44N	7	11	271280	 Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food. 
44N	7	12	271290	 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit. 
44N	7	13	271300	 And on the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh. 
44N	7	14	271310	 And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all. 
44N	7	15	271320	 And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he and our fathers, 
44N	7	16	271330	 and they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem. 
44N	7	17	271340	 "But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt 
44N	7	18	271350	 until there arose over Egypt another king who did not know Joseph. 
44N	7	19	271360	 He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, so that they would not be kept alive. 
44N	7	20	271370	 At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God's sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father's house, 
44N	7	21	271380	 and when he was exposed, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son. 
44N	7	22	271390	 And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds. 
44N	7	23	271400	 "When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel. 
44N	7	24	271410	 And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian. 
44N	7	25	271420	 He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand, but they did not understand. 
44N	7	26	271430	 And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, 'Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong each other?' 
44N	7	27	271440	 But the man who was wronging his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? 
44N	7	28	271450	 Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?' 
44N	7	29	271460	 At this retort Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons. 
44N	7	30	271470	 "Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush. 
44N	7	31	271480	 When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and as he drew near to look, there came the voice of the Lord: 
44N	7	32	271490	 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.' And Moses trembled and did not dare to look. 
44N	7	33	271500	 Then the Lord said to him, 'Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. 
44N	7	34	271510	 I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.' 
44N	7	35	271520	 "This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge?'--this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. 
44N	7	36	271530	 This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years. 
44N	7	37	271540	 This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers.' 
44N	7	38	271550	 This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living oracles to give to us. 
44N	7	39	271560	 Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned to Egypt, 
44N	7	40	271570	 saying to Aaron, 'Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.' 
44N	7	41	271580	 And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and were rejoicing in the works of their hands. 
44N	7	42	271590	 But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: "'Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices, during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? 
44N	7	43	271600	 You took up the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images that you made to worship; and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.' 
44N	7	44	271610	 "Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen. 
44N	7	45	271620	 Our fathers in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our fathers. So it was until the days of David, 
44N	7	46	271630	 who found favor in the sight of God and asked to find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob. 
44N	7	47	271640	 But it was Solomon who built a house for him. 
44N	7	48	271650	 Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by hands, as the prophet says, 
44N	7	49	271660	 "'Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest? 
44N	7	50	271670	 Did not my hand make all these things?' 
44N	7	51	271680	 "You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you. 
44N	7	52	271690	 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered, 
44N	7	53	271700	 you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it." 
44N	7	54	271710	 Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him. 
44N	7	55	271720	 But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. 
44N	7	56	271730	 And he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God." 
44N	7	57	271740	 But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him. 
44N	7	58	271750	 Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. 
44N	7	59	271760	 And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." 
44N	7	60	271770	 And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." And when he had said this, he fell asleep. 
44N	8	1	271780	 And Saul approved of his execution. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. 
44N	8	2	271790	 Devout men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him. 
44N	8	3	271800	 But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison. 
44N	8	4	271810	 Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word. 
44N	8	5	271820	 Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ. 
44N	8	6	271830	 And the crowds with one accord paid attention to what was being said by Philip when they heard him and saw the signs that he did. 
44N	8	7	271840	 For unclean spirits, crying out with a loud voice, came out of many who had them, and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed. 
44N	8	8	271850	 So there was much joy in that city. 
44N	8	9	271860	 But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great. 
44N	8	10	271870	 They all paid attention to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, "This man is the power of God that is called Great." 
44N	8	11	271880	 And they paid attention to him because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic. 
44N	8	12	271890	 But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. 
44N	8	13	271900	 Even Simon himself believed, and after being baptized he continued with Philip. And seeing signs and great miracles performed, he was amazed. 
44N	8	14	271910	 Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John, 
44N	8	15	271920	 who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, 
44N	8	16	271930	 for he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 
44N	8	17	271940	 Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. 
44N	8	18	271950	 Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money, 
44N	8	19	271960	 saying, "Give me this power also, so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit." 
44N	8	20	271970	 But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money! 
44N	8	21	271980	 You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right before God. 
44N	8	22	271990	 Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you. 
44N	8	23	272000	 For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity." 
44N	8	24	272010	 And Simon answered, "Pray for me to the Lord, that nothing of what you have said may come upon me." 
44N	8	25	272020	 Now when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans. 
44N	8	26	272030	 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." This is a desert place. 
44N	8	27	272040	 And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship 
44N	8	28	272050	 and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. 
44N	8	29	272060	 And the Spirit said to Philip, "Go over and join this chariot." 
44N	8	30	272070	 So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, "Do you understand what you are reading?" 
44N	8	31	272080	 And he said, "How can I, unless someone guides me?" And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. 
44N	8	32	272090	 Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this: "Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he opens not his mouth. 
44N	8	33	272100	 In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth." 
44N	8	34	272110	 And the eunuch said to Philip, "About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?" 
44N	8	35	272120	 Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus. 
44N	8	36	272130	 And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?" 
44N	8	37	272140	 [And Philip said, "If you believe with all your heart, you may." And he replied, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God."] 
44N	8	38	272150	 And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. 
44N	8	39	272160	 And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing. 
44N	8	40	272170	 But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he preached the gospel to all the towns until he came to Caesarea. 
44N	9	1	272180	 But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 
44N	9	2	272190	 and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. 
44N	9	3	272200	 Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. 
44N	9	4	272210	 And falling to the ground he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?" 
44N	9	5	272220	 And he said, "Who are you, Lord?" And he said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. 
44N	9	6	272230	 But rise and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do." 
44N	9	7	272240	 The men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one. 
44N	9	8	272250	 Saul rose from the ground, and although his eyes were opened, he saw nothing. So they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus. 
44N	9	9	272260	 And for three days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank. 
44N	9	10	272270	 Now there was a disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias." And he said, "Here I am, Lord." 
44N	9	11	272280	 And the Lord said to him, "Rise and go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas look for a man of Tarsus named Saul, for behold, he is praying, 
44N	9	12	272290	 and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him so that he might regain his sight." 
44N	9	13	272300	 But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem. 
44N	9	14	272310	 And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name." 
44N	9	15	272320	 But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. 
44N	9	16	272330	 For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name." 
44N	9	17	272340	 So Ananias departed and entered the house. And laying his hands on him he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road by which you came has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit." 
44N	9	18	272350	 And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized; 
44N	9	19	272360	 and taking food, he was strengthened. For some days he was with the disciples at Damascus. 
44N	9	20	272370	 And immediately he proclaimed Jesus in the synagogues, saying, "He is the Son of God." 
44N	9	21	272380	 And all who heard him were amazed and said, "Is not this the man who made havoc in Jerusalem of those who called upon this name? And has he not come here for this purpose, to bring them bound before the chief priests?" 
44N	9	22	272390	 But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus was the Christ. 
44N	9	23	272400	 When many days had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him, 
44N	9	24	272410	 but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night in order to kill him, 
44N	9	25	272420	 but his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket. 
44N	9	26	272430	 And when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples. And they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple. 
44N	9	27	272440	 But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and declared to them how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus. 
44N	9	28	272450	 So he went in and out among them at Jerusalem, preaching boldly in the name of the Lord. 
44N	9	29	272460	 And he spoke and disputed against the Hellenists. But they were seeking to kill him. 
44N	9	30	272470	 And when the brothers learned this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus. 
44N	9	31	272480	 So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied. 
44N	9	32	272490	 Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda. 
44N	9	33	272500	 There he found a man named Aeneas, bedridden for eight years, who was paralyzed. 
44N	9	34	272510	 And Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed." And immediately he rose. 
44N	9	35	272520	 And all the residents of Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord. 
44N	9	36	272530	 Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity. 
44N	9	37	272540	 In those days she became ill and died, and when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room. 
44N	9	38	272550	 Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, urging him, "Please come to us without delay." 
44N	9	39	272560	 So Peter rose and went with them. And when he arrived, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping and showing tunics and other garments that Dorcas made while she was with them. 
44N	9	40	272570	 But Peter put them all outside, and knelt down and prayed; and turning to the body he said, "Tabitha, arise." And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up. 
44N	9	41	272580	 And he gave her his hand and raised her up. Then calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive. 
44N	9	42	272590	 And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord. 
44N	9	43	272600	 And he stayed in Joppa for many days with one Simon, a tanner. 
44N	10	1	272610	 At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, 
44N	10	2	272620	 a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. 
44N	10	3	272630	 About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, "Cornelius." 
44N	10	4	272640	 And he stared at him in terror and said, "What is it, Lord?" And he said to him, "Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. 
44N	10	5	272650	 And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter. 
44N	10	6	272660	 He is lodging with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea." 
44N	10	7	272670	 When the angel who spoke to him had departed, he called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among those who attended him, 
44N	10	8	272680	 and having related everything to them, he sent them to Joppa. 
44N	10	9	272690	 The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. 
44N	10	10	272700	 And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance 
44N	10	11	272710	 and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. 
44N	10	12	272720	 In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. 
44N	10	13	272730	 And there came a voice to him: "Rise, Peter; kill and eat." 
44N	10	14	272740	 But Peter said, "By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean." 
44N	10	15	272750	 And the voice came to him again a second time, "What God has made clean, do not call common." 
44N	10	16	272760	 This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven. 
44N	10	17	272770	 Now while Peter was inwardly perplexed as to what the vision that he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood at the gate 
44N	10	18	272780	 and called out to ask whether Simon who was called Peter was lodging there. 
44N	10	19	272790	 And while Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold, three men are looking for you. 
44N	10	20	272800	 Rise and go down and accompany them without hesitation, for I have sent them." 
44N	10	21	272810	 And Peter went down to the men and said, "I am the one you are looking for. What is the reason for your coming?" 
44N	10	22	272820	 And they said, "Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to hear what you have to say." 
44N	10	23	272830	 So he invited them in to be his guests. The next day he rose and went away with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him. 
44N	10	24	272840	 And on the following day they entered Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends. 
44N	10	25	272850	 When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshiped him. 
44N	10	26	272860	 But Peter lifted him up, saying, "Stand up; I too am a man." 
44N	10	27	272870	 And as he talked with him, he went in and found many persons gathered. 
44N	10	28	272880	 And he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean. 
44N	10	29	272890	 So when I was sent for, I came without objection. I ask then why you sent for me." 
44N	10	30	272900	 And Cornelius said, "Four days ago, about this hour, I was praying in my house at the ninth hour, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing 
44N	10	31	272910	 and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God. 
44N	10	32	272920	 Send therefore to Joppa and ask for Simon who is called Peter. He is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea.' 
44N	10	33	272930	 So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here in the presence of God to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord." 
44N	10	34	272940	 So Peter opened his mouth and said: "Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, 
44N	10	35	272950	 but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. 
44N	10	36	272960	 As for the word that he sent to Israel, preaching good news of peace through Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all), 
44N	10	37	272970	 you yourselves know what happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed: 
44N	10	38	272980	 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. 
44N	10	39	272990	 And we are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree, 
44N	10	40	273000	 but God raised him on the third day and made him to appear, 
44N	10	41	273010	 not to all the people but to us who had been chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. 
44N	10	42	273020	 And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead. 
44N	10	43	273030	 To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name." 
44N	10	44	273040	 While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word. 
44N	10	45	273050	 And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles. 
44N	10	46	273060	 For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared, 
44N	10	47	273070	 "Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?" 
44N	10	48	273080	 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days. 
44N	11	1	273090	 Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 
44N	11	2	273100	 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, saying, 
44N	11	3	273110	 "You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them." 
44N	11	4	273120	 But Peter began and explained it to them in order: 
44N	11	5	273130	 "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, something like a great sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to me. 
44N	11	6	273140	 Looking at it closely, I observed animals and beasts of prey and reptiles and birds of the air. 
44N	11	7	273150	 And I heard a voice saying to me, 'Rise, Peter; kill and eat.' 
44N	11	8	273160	 But I said, 'By no means, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth.' 
44N	11	9	273170	 But the voice answered a second time from heaven, 'What God has made clean, do not call common.' 
44N	11	10	273180	 This happened three times, and all was drawn up again into heaven. 
44N	11	11	273190	 And behold, at that very moment three men arrived at the house in which we were, sent to me from Caesarea. 
44N	11	12	273200	 And the Spirit told me to go with them, making no distinction. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered the man's house. 
44N	11	13	273210	 And he told us how he had seen the angel stand in his house and say, 'Send to Joppa and bring Simon who is called Peter; 
44N	11	14	273220	 he will declare to you a message by which you will be saved, you and all your household.' 
44N	11	15	273230	 As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning. 
44N	11	16	273240	 And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.' 
44N	11	17	273250	 If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God's way?" 
44N	11	18	273260	 When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, "Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life." 
44N	11	19	273270	 Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews. 
44N	11	20	273280	 But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Hellenists also, preaching the Lord Jesus. 
44N	11	21	273290	 And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord. 
44N	11	22	273300	 The report of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. 
44N	11	23	273310	 When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose, 
44N	11	24	273320	 for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great many people were added to the Lord. 
44N	11	25	273330	 So Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, 
44N	11	26	273340	 and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians. 
44N	11	27	273350	 Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. 
44N	11	28	273360	 And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world (this took place in the days of Claudius). 
44N	11	29	273370	 So the disciples determined, everyone according to his ability, to send relief to the brothers living in Judea. 
44N	11	30	273380	 And they did so, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul. 
44N	12	1	273390	 About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church. 
44N	12	2	273400	 He killed James the brother of John with the sword, 
44N	12	3	273410	 and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread. 
44N	12	4	273420	 And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people. 
44N	12	5	273430	 So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church. 
44N	12	6	273440	 Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison. 
44N	12	7	273450	 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, "Get up quickly." And the chains fell off his hands. 
44N	12	8	273460	 And the angel said to him, "Dress yourself and put on your sandals." And he did so. And he said to him, "Wrap your cloak around you and follow me." 
44N	12	9	273470	 And he went out and followed him. He did not know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision. 
44N	12	10	273480	 When they had passed the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened for them of its own accord, and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel left him. 
44N	12	11	273490	 When Peter came to himself, he said, "Now I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting." 
44N	12	12	273500	 When he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose other name was Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying. 
44N	12	13	273510	 And when he knocked at the door of the gateway, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer. 
44N	12	14	273520	 Recognizing Peter's voice, in her joy she did not open the gate but ran in and reported that Peter was standing at the gate. 
44N	12	15	273530	 They said to her, "You are out of your mind." But she kept insisting that it was so, and they kept saying, "It is his angel!" 
44N	12	16	273540	 But Peter continued knocking, and when they opened, they saw him and were amazed. 
44N	12	17	273550	 But motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, "Tell these things to James and to the brothers." Then he departed and went to another place. 
44N	12	18	273560	 Now when day came, there was no little disturbance among the soldiers over what had become of Peter. 
44N	12	19	273570	 And after Herod searched for him and did not find him, he examined the sentries and ordered that they should be put to death. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent time there. 
44N	12	20	273580	 Now Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they came to him with one accord, and having persuaded Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king's country for food. 
44N	12	21	273590	 On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat upon the throne, and delivered an oration to them. 
44N	12	22	273600	 And the people were shouting, "The voice of a god, and not of a man!" 
44N	12	23	273610	 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last. 
44N	12	24	273620	 But the word of God increased and multiplied. 
44N	12	25	273630	 And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had completed their service, bringing with them John, whose other name was Mark. 
44N	13	1	273640	 Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a member of the court of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. 
44N	13	2	273650	 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." 
44N	13	3	273660	 Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off. 
44N	13	4	273670	 So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus. 
44N	13	5	273680	 When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John to assist them. 
44N	13	6	273690	 When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus. 
44N	13	7	273700	 He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence, who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God. 
44N	13	8	273710	 But Elymas the magician (for that is the meaning of his name) opposed them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith. 
44N	13	9	273720	 But Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him 
44N	13	10	273730	 and said, "You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? 
44N	13	11	273740	 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and unable to see the sun for a time." Immediately mist and darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand. 
44N	13	12	273750	 Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had occurred, for he was astonished at the teaching of the Lord. 
44N	13	13	273760	 Now Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John left them and returned to Jerusalem, 
44N	13	14	273770	 but they went on from Perga and came to Antioch in Pisidia. And on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down. 
44N	13	15	273780	 After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent a message to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of encouragement for the people, say it." 
44N	13	16	273790	 So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said: "Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen. 
44N	13	17	273800	 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it. 
44N	13	18	273810	 And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness. 
44N	13	19	273820	 And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance. 
44N	13	20	273830	 All this took about 450 years. And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. 
44N	13	21	273840	 Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. 
44N	13	22	273850	 And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, 'I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.' 
44N	13	23	273860	 Of this man's offspring God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised. 
44N	13	24	273870	 Before his coming, John had proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. 
44N	13	25	273880	 And as John was finishing his course, he said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but behold, after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.' 
44N	13	26	273890	 "Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation. 
44N	13	27	273900	 For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him. 
44N	13	28	273910	 And though they found in him no guilt worthy of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed. 
44N	13	29	273920	 And when they had carried out all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb. 
44N	13	30	273930	 But God raised him from the dead, 
44N	13	31	273940	 and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people. 
44N	13	32	273950	 And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, 
44N	13	33	273960	 this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, "'You are my Son, today I have begotten you.' 
44N	13	34	273970	 And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way, "'I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.' 
44N	13	35	273980	 Therefore he says also in another psalm, "'You will not let your Holy One see corruption.' 
44N	13	36	273990	 For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption, 
44N	13	37	274000	 but he whom God raised up did not see corruption. 
44N	13	38	274010	 Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, 
44N	13	39	274020	 and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses. 
44N	13	40	274030	 Beware, therefore, lest what is said in the Prophets should come about: 
44N	13	41	274040	 "'Look, you scoffers, be astounded and perish; for I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will not believe, even if one tells it to you.'" 
44N	13	42	274050	 As they went out, the people begged that these things might be told them the next Sabbath. 
44N	13	43	274060	 And after the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who, as they spoke with them, urged them to continue in the grace of God. 
44N	13	44	274070	 The next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord. 
44N	13	45	274080	 But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, reviling him. 
44N	13	46	274090	 And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles. 
44N	13	47	274100	 For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, "'I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.'" 
44N	13	48	274110	 And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed. 
44N	13	49	274120	 And the word of the Lord was spreading throughout the whole region. 
44N	13	50	274130	 But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district. 
44N	13	51	274140	 But they shook off the dust from their feet against them and went to Iconium. 
44N	13	52	274150	 And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit. 
44N	14	1	274160	 Now at Iconium they entered together into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed. 
44N	14	2	274170	 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers. 
44N	14	3	274180	 So they remained for a long time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands. 
44N	14	4	274190	 But the people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews and some with the apostles. 
44N	14	5	274200	 When an attempt was made by both Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat them and to stone them, 
44N	14	6	274210	 they learned of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding country, 
44N	14	7	274220	 and there they continued to preach the gospel. 
44N	14	8	274230	 Now at Lystra there was a man sitting who could not use his feet. He was crippled from birth and had never walked. 
44N	14	9	274240	 He listened to Paul speaking. And Paul, looking intently at him and seeing that he had faith to be made well, 
44N	14	10	274250	 said in a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet." And he sprang up and began walking. 
44N	14	11	274260	 And when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in Lycaonian, "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!" 
44N	14	12	274270	 Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker. 
44N	14	13	274280	 And the priest of Zeus, whose temple was at the entrance to the city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates and wanted to offer sacrifice with the crowds. 
44N	14	14	274290	 But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their garments and rushed out into the crowd, crying out, 
44N	14	15	274300	 "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them. 
44N	14	16	274310	 In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways. 
44N	14	17	274320	 Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness." 
44N	14	18	274330	 Even with these words they scarcely restrained the people from offering sacrifice to them. 
44N	14	19	274340	 But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. 
44N	14	20	274350	 But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city, and on the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe. 
44N	14	21	274360	 When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, 
44N	14	22	274370	 strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God. 
44N	14	23	274380	 And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed. 
44N	14	24	274390	 Then they passed through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia. 
44N	14	25	274400	 And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia, 
44N	14	26	274410	 and from there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work that they had fulfilled. 
44N	14	27	274420	 And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles. 
44N	14	28	274430	 And they remained no little time with the disciples. 
44N	15	1	274440	 But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved." 
44N	15	2	274450	 And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question. 
44N	15	3	274460	 So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers. 
44N	15	4	274470	 When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them. 
44N	15	5	274480	 But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, "It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses." 
44N	15	6	274490	 The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter. 
44N	15	7	274500	 And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. 
44N	15	8	274510	 And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, 
44N	15	9	274520	 and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith. 
44N	15	10	274530	 Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? 
44N	15	11	274540	 But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will." 
44N	15	12	274550	 And all the assembly fell silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles. 
44N	15	13	274560	 After they finished speaking, James replied, "Brothers, listen to me. 
44N	15	14	274570	 Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name. 
44N	15	15	274580	 And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written, 
44N	15	16	274590	 "'After this I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it, 
44N	15	17	274600	 that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things 
44N	15	18	274610	 known from of old.' 
44N	15	19	274620	 Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, 
44N	15	20	274630	 but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood. 
44N	15	21	274640	 For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues." 
44N	15	22	274650	 Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers, 
44N	15	23	274660	 with the following letter: "The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings. 
44N	15	24	274670	 Since we have heard that some persons have gone out from us and troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions, 
44N	15	25	274680	 it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, 
44N	15	26	274690	 men who have risked their lives for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
44N	15	27	274700	 We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth. 
44N	15	28	274710	 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: 
44N	15	29	274720	 that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell." 
44N	15	30	274730	 So when they were sent off, they went down to Antioch, and having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter. 
44N	15	31	274740	 And when they had read it, they rejoiced because of its encouragement. 
44N	15	32	274750	 And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many words. 
44N	15	33	274760	 And after they had spent some time, they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them. 
44N	15	34	274770	 [But it seemed good to Silas to remain there.] 
44N	15	35	274780	 But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also. 
44N	15	36	274790	 And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us return and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are." 
44N	15	37	274800	 Now Barnabas wanted to take with them John called Mark. 
44N	15	38	274810	 But Paul thought best not to take with them one who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work. 
44N	15	39	274820	 And there arose a sharp disagreement, so that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus, 
44N	15	40	274830	 but Paul chose Silas and departed, having been commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord. 
44N	15	41	274840	 And he went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. 
44N	16	1	274850	 Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. 
44N	16	2	274860	 He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. 
44N	16	3	274870	 Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. 
44N	16	4	274880	 As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. 
44N	16	5	274890	 So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily. 
44N	16	6	274900	 And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. 
44N	16	7	274910	 And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them. 
44N	16	8	274920	 So, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas. 
44N	16	9	274930	 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us." 
44N	16	10	274940	 And when Paul had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them. 
44N	16	11	274950	 So, setting sail from Troas, we made a direct voyage to Samothrace, and the following day to Neapolis, 
44N	16	12	274960	 and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We remained in this city some days. 
44N	16	13	274970	 And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to the riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together. 
44N	16	14	274980	 One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul. 
44N	16	15	274990	 And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay." And she prevailed upon us. 
44N	16	16	275000	 As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling. 
44N	16	17	275010	 She followed Paul and us, crying out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation." 
44N	16	18	275020	 And this she kept doing for many days. Paul, having become greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And it came out that very hour. 
44N	16	19	275030	 But when her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers. 
44N	16	20	275040	 And when they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men are Jews, and they are disturbing our city. 
44N	16	21	275050	 They advocate customs that are not lawful for us as Romans to accept or practice." 
44N	16	22	275060	 The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates tore the garments off them and gave orders to beat them with rods. 
44N	16	23	275070	 And when they had inflicted many blows upon them, they threw them into prison, ordering the jailer to keep them safely. 
44N	16	24	275080	 Having received this order, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks. 
44N	16	25	275090	 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, 
44N	16	26	275100	 and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were unfastened. 
44N	16	27	275110	 When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. 
44N	16	28	275120	 But Paul cried with a loud voice, "Do not harm yourself, for we are all here." 
44N	16	29	275130	 And the jailer called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas. 
44N	16	30	275140	 Then he brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" 
44N	16	31	275150	 And they said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household." 
44N	16	32	275160	 And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. 
44N	16	33	275170	 And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family. 
44N	16	34	275180	 Then he brought them up into his house and set food before them. And he rejoiced along with his entire household that he had believed in God. 
44N	16	35	275190	 But when it was day, the magistrates sent the police, saying, "Let those men go." 
44N	16	36	275200	 And the jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent to let you go. Therefore come out now and go in peace." 
44N	16	37	275210	 But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men who are Roman citizens, and have thrown us into prison; and do they now throw us out secretly? No! Let them come themselves and take us out." 
44N	16	38	275220	 The police reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Roman citizens. 
44N	16	39	275230	 So they came and apologized to them. And they took them out and asked them to leave the city. 
44N	16	40	275240	 So they went out of the prison and visited Lydia. And when they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them and departed. 
44N	17	1	275250	 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. 
44N	17	2	275260	 And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 
44N	17	3	275270	 explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ." 
44N	17	4	275280	 And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women. 
44N	17	5	275290	 But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd. 
44N	17	6	275300	 And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, "These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also, 
44N	17	7	275310	 and Jason has received them, and they are all acting against the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus." 
44N	17	8	275320	 And the people and the city authorities were disturbed when they heard these things. 
44N	17	9	275330	 And when they had taken money as security from Jason and the rest, they let them go. 
44N	17	10	275340	 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. 
44N	17	11	275350	 Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. 
44N	17	12	275360	 Many of them therefore believed, with not a few Greek women of high standing as well as men. 
44N	17	13	275370	 But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea also, they came there too, agitating and stirring up the crowds. 
44N	17	14	275380	 Then the brothers immediately sent Paul off on his way to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there. 
44N	17	15	275390	 Those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and after receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they departed. 
44N	17	16	275400	 Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols. 
44N	17	17	275410	 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there. 
44N	17	18	275420	 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, "What does this babbler wish to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities"--because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. 
44N	17	19	275430	 And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? 
44N	17	20	275440	 For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean." 
44N	17	21	275450	 Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new. 
44N	17	22	275460	 So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: "Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. 
44N	17	23	275470	 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, 'To the unknown god.' What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. 
44N	17	24	275480	 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, 
44N	17	25	275490	 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. 
44N	17	26	275500	 And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, 
44N	17	27	275510	 that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, 
44N	17	28	275520	 for "'In him we live and move and have our being'; as even some of your own poets have said, "'For we are indeed his offspring.' 
44N	17	29	275530	 Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. 
44N	17	30	275540	 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, 
44N	17	31	275550	 because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead." 
44N	17	32	275560	 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked. But others said, "We will hear you again about this." 
44N	17	33	275570	 So Paul went out from their midst. 
44N	17	34	275580	 But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them. 
44N	18	1	275590	 After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 
44N	18	2	275600	 And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to see them, 
44N	18	3	275610	 and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade. 
44N	18	4	275620	 And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks. 
44N	18	5	275630	 When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus. 
44N	18	6	275640	 And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles." 
44N	18	7	275650	 And he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God. His house was next door to the synagogue. 
44N	18	8	275660	 Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized. 
44N	18	9	275670	 And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, "Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent, 
44N	18	10	275680	 for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many in this city who are my people." 
44N	18	11	275690	 And he stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. 
44N	18	12	275700	 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him before the tribunal, 
44N	18	13	275710	 saying, "This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to the law." 
44N	18	14	275720	 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it were a matter of wrongdoing or vicious crime, O Jews, I would have reason to accept your complaint. 
44N	18	15	275730	 But since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of these things." 
44N	18	16	275740	 And he drove them from the tribunal. 
44N	18	17	275750	 And they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to any of this. 
44N	18	18	275760	 After this, Paul stayed many days longer and then took leave of the brothers and set sail for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila. At Cenchreae he had cut his hair, for he was under a vow. 
44N	18	19	275770	 And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there, but he himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews. 
44N	18	20	275780	 When they asked him to stay for a longer period, he declined. 
44N	18	21	275790	 But on taking leave of them he said, "I will return to you if God wills," and he set sail from Ephesus. 
44N	18	22	275800	 When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church, and then went down to Antioch. 
44N	18	23	275810	 After spending some time there, he departed and went from one place to the next through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples. 
44N	18	24	275820	 Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, competent in the Scriptures. 
44N	18	25	275830	 He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John. 
44N	18	26	275840	 He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him and explained to him the way of God more accurately. 
44N	18	27	275850	 And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed, 
44N	18	28	275860	 for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus. 
44N	19	1	275870	 And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. 
44N	19	2	275880	 And he said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" And they said, "No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit." 
44N	19	3	275890	 And he said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism." 
44N	19	4	275900	 And Paul said, "John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus." 
44N	19	5	275910	 On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 
44N	19	6	275920	 And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying. 
44N	19	7	275930	 There were about twelve men in all. 
44N	19	8	275940	 And he entered the synagogue and for three months spoke boldly, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God. 
44N	19	9	275950	 But when some became stubborn and continued in unbelief, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them and took the disciples with him, reasoning daily in the hall of Tyrannus. 
44N	19	10	275960	 This continued for two years, so that all the residents of Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks. 
44N	19	11	275970	 And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, 
44N	19	12	275980	 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them. 
44N	19	13	275990	 Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, "I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims." 
44N	19	14	276000	 Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this. 
44N	19	15	276010	 But the evil spirit answered them, "Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?" 
44N	19	16	276020	 And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. 
44N	19	17	276030	 And this became known to all the residents of Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks. And fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was extolled. 
44N	19	18	276040	 Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices. 
44N	19	19	276050	 And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver. 
44N	19	20	276060	 So the word of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily. 
44N	19	21	276070	 Now after these events Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem, saying, "After I have been there, I must also see Rome." 
44N	19	22	276080	 And having sent into Macedonia two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while. 
44N	19	23	276090	 About that time there arose no little disturbance concerning the Way. 
44N	19	24	276100	 For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen. 
44N	19	25	276110	 These he gathered together, with the workmen in similar trades, and said, "Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth. 
44N	19	26	276120	 And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, saying that gods made with hands are not gods. 
44N	19	27	276130	 And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be counted as nothing, and that she may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world worship." 
44N	19	28	276140	 When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!" 
44N	19	29	276150	 So the city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed together into the theater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul's companions in travel. 
44N	19	30	276160	 But when Paul wished to go in among the crowd, the disciples would not let him. 
44N	19	31	276170	 And even some of the Asiarchs, who were friends of his, sent to him and were urging him not to venture into the theater. 
44N	19	32	276180	 Now some cried out one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together. 
44N	19	33	276190	 Some of the crowd prompted Alexander, whom the Jews had put forward. And Alexander, motioning with his hand, wanted to make a defense to the crowd. 
44N	19	34	276200	 But when they recognized that he was a Jew, for about two hours they all cried out with one voice, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!" 
44N	19	35	276210	 And when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, "Men of Ephesus, who is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great Artemis, and of the sacred stone that fell from the sky? 
44N	19	36	276220	 Seeing then that these things cannot be denied, you ought to be quiet and do nothing rash. 
44N	19	37	276230	 For you have brought these men here who are neither sacrilegious nor blasphemers of our goddess. 
44N	19	38	276240	 If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen with him have a complaint against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them bring charges against one another. 
44N	19	39	276250	 But if you seek anything further, it shall be settled in the regular assembly. 
44N	19	40	276260	 For we really are in danger of being charged with rioting today, since there is no cause that we can give to justify this commotion." 
44N	19	41	276270	 And when he had said these things, he dismissed the assembly. 
44N	20	1	276280	 After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia. 
44N	20	2	276290	 When he had gone through those regions and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece. 
44N	20	3	276300	 There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia. 
44N	20	4	276310	 Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus. 
44N	20	5	276320	 These went on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas, 
44N	20	6	276330	 but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days. 
44N	20	7	276340	 On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight. 
44N	20	8	276350	 There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered. 
44N	20	9	276360	 And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. 
44N	20	10	276370	 But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, "Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him." 
44N	20	11	276380	 And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed. 
44N	20	12	276390	 And they took the youth away alive, and were not a little comforted. 
44N	20	13	276400	 But going ahead to the ship, we set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for so he had arranged, intending himself to go by land. 
44N	20	14	276410	 And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went to Mitylene. 
44N	20	15	276420	 And sailing from there we came the following day opposite Chios; the next day we touched at Samos; and the day after that we went to Miletus. 
44N	20	16	276430	 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia, for he was hastening to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost. 
44N	20	17	276440	 Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him. 
44N	20	18	276450	 And when they came to him, he said to them: "You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia, 
44N	20	19	276460	 serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews; 
44N	20	20	276470	 how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house, 
44N	20	21	276480	 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. 
44N	20	22	276490	 And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, 
44N	20	23	276500	 except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me. 
44N	20	24	276510	 But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. 
44N	20	25	276520	 And now, behold, I know that none of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom will see my face again. 
44N	20	26	276530	 Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all of you, 
44N	20	27	276540	 for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God. 
44N	20	28	276550	 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. 
44N	20	29	276560	 I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; 
44N	20	30	276570	 and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them. 
44N	20	31	276580	 Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish everyone with tears. 
44N	20	32	276590	 And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. 
44N	20	33	276600	 I coveted no one's silver or gold or apparel. 
44N	20	34	276610	 You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities and to those who were with me. 
44N	20	35	276620	 In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'" 
44N	20	36	276630	 And when he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all. 
44N	20	37	276640	 And there was much weeping on the part of all; they embraced Paul and kissed him, 
44N	20	38	276650	 being sorrowful most of all because of the word he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they accompanied him to the ship. 
44N	21	1	276660	 And when we had parted from them and set sail, we came by a straight course to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara. 
44N	21	2	276670	 And having found a ship crossing to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail. 
44N	21	3	276680	 When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left we sailed to Syria and landed at Tyre, for there the ship was to unload its cargo. 
44N	21	4	276690	 And having sought out the disciples, we stayed there for seven days. And through the Spirit they were telling Paul not to go on to Jerusalem. 
44N	21	5	276700	 When our days there were ended, we departed and went on our journey, and they all, with wives and children, accompanied us until we were outside the city. And kneeling down on the beach, we prayed 
44N	21	6	276710	 and said farewell to one another. Then we went on board the ship, and they returned home. 
44N	21	7	276720	 When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais, and we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for one day. 
44N	21	8	276730	 On the next day we departed and came to Caesarea, and we entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him. 
44N	21	9	276740	 He had four unmarried daughters, who prophesied. 
44N	21	10	276750	 While we were staying for many days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. 
44N	21	11	276760	 And coming to us, he took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'This is how the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'" 
44N	21	12	276770	 When we heard this, we and the people there urged him not to go up to Jerusalem. 
44N	21	13	276780	 Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be imprisoned but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." 
44N	21	14	276790	 And since he would not be persuaded, we ceased and said, "Let the will of the Lord be done." 
44N	21	15	276800	 After these days we got ready and went up to Jerusalem. 
44N	21	16	276810	 And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing us to the house of Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we should lodge. 
44N	21	17	276820	 When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly. 
44N	21	18	276830	 On the following day Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders were present. 
44N	21	19	276840	 After greeting them, he related one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry. 
44N	21	20	276850	 And when they heard it, they glorified God. And they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed. They are all zealous for the law, 
44N	21	21	276860	 and they have been told about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or walk according to our customs. 
44N	21	22	276870	 What then is to be done? They will certainly hear that you have come. 
44N	21	23	276880	 Do therefore what we tell you. We have four men who are under a vow; 
44N	21	24	276890	 take these men and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may shave their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself also live in observance of the law. 
44N	21	25	276900	 But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality." 
44N	21	26	276910	 Then Paul took the men, and the next day he purified himself along with them and went into the temple, giving notice when the days of purification would be fulfilled and the offering presented for each one of them. 
44N	21	27	276920	 When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, seeing him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd and laid hands on him, 
44N	21	28	276930	 crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against the people and the law and this place. Moreover, he even brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place." 
44N	21	29	276940	 For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple. 
44N	21	30	276950	 Then all the city was stirred up, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut. 
44N	21	31	276960	 And as they were seeking to kill him, word came to the tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion. 
44N	21	32	276970	 He at once took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. And when they saw the tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul. 
44N	21	33	276980	 Then the tribune came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. He inquired who he was and what he had done. 
44N	21	34	276990	 Some in the crowd were shouting one thing, some another. And as he could not learn the facts because of the uproar, he ordered him to be brought into the barracks. 
44N	21	35	277000	 And when he came to the steps, he was actually carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd, 
44N	21	36	277010	 for the mob of the people followed, crying out, "Away with him!" 
44N	21	37	277020	 As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he said to the tribune, "May I say something to you?" And he said, "Do you know Greek? 
44N	21	38	277030	 Are you not the Egyptian, then, who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the Assassins out into the wilderness?" 
44N	21	39	277040	 Paul replied, "I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no obscure city. I beg you, permit me to speak to the people." 
44N	21	40	277050	 And when he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the steps, motioned with his hand to the people. And when there was a great hush, he addressed them in the Hebrew language, saying: 
44N	22	1	277060	 "Brothers and fathers, hear the defense that I now make before you." 
44N	22	2	277070	 And when they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew language, they became even more quiet. And he said: 
44N	22	3	277080	 "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God as all of you are this day. 
44N	22	4	277090	 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering to prison both men and women, 
44N	22	5	277100	 as the high priest and the whole council of elders can bear me witness. From them I received letters to the brothers, and I journeyed toward Damascus to take those also who were there and bring them in bonds to Jerusalem to be punished. 
44N	22	6	277110	 "As I was on my way and drew near to Damascus, about noon a great light from heaven suddenly shone around me. 
44N	22	7	277120	 And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?' 
44N	22	8	277130	 And I answered, 'Who are you, Lord?' And he said to me, 'I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting.' 
44N	22	9	277140	 Now those who were with me saw the light but did not understand the voice of the one who was speaking to me. 
44N	22	10	277150	 And I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' And the Lord said to me, 'Rise, and go into Damascus, and there you will be told all that is appointed for you to do.' 
44N	22	11	277160	 And since I could not see because of the brightness of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me, and came into Damascus. 
44N	22	12	277170	 "And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there, 
44N	22	13	277180	 came to me, and standing by me said to me, 'Brother Saul, receive your sight.' And at that very hour I received my sight and saw him. 
44N	22	14	277190	 And he said, 'The God of our fathers appointed you to know his will, to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from his mouth; 
44N	22	15	277200	 for you will be a witness for him to everyone of what you have seen and heard. 
44N	22	16	277210	 And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.' 
44N	22	17	277220	 "When I had returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance 
44N	22	18	277230	 and saw him saying to me, 'Make haste and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.' 
44N	22	19	277240	 And I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in you. 
44N	22	20	277250	 And when the blood of Stephen your witness was being shed, I myself was standing by and approving and watching over the garments of those who killed him.' 
44N	22	21	277260	 And he said to me, 'Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'" 
44N	22	22	277270	 Up to this word they listened to him. Then they raised their voices and said, "Away with such a fellow from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live." 
44N	22	23	277280	 And as they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and flinging dust into the air, 
44N	22	24	277290	 the tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, saying that he should be examined by flogging, to find out why they were shouting against him like this. 
44N	22	25	277300	 But when they had stretched him out for the whips, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, "Is it lawful for you to flog a man who is a Roman citizen and uncondemned?" 
44N	22	26	277310	 When the centurion heard this, he went to the tribune and said to him, "What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman citizen." 
44N	22	27	277320	 So the tribune came and said to him, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" And he said, "Yes." 
44N	22	28	277330	 The tribune answered, "I bought this citizenship for a large sum." Paul said, "But I am a citizen by birth." 
44N	22	29	277340	 So those who were about to examine him withdrew from him immediately, and the tribune also was afraid, for he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had bound him. 
44N	22	30	277350	 But on the next day, desiring to know the real reason why he was being accused by the Jews, he unbound him and commanded the chief priests and all the council to meet, and he brought Paul down and set him before them. 
44N	23	1	277360	 And looking intently at the council, Paul said, "Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience up to this day." 
44N	23	2	277370	 And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth. 
44N	23	3	277380	 Then Paul said to him, "God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?" 
44N	23	4	277390	 Those who stood by said, "Would you revile God's high priest?" 
44N	23	5	277400	 And Paul said, "I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written, 'You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.'" 
44N	23	6	277410	 Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial." 
44N	23	7	277420	 And when he had said this, a dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided. 
44N	23	8	277430	 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all. 
44N	23	9	277440	 Then a great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees' party stood up and contended sharply, "We find nothing wrong in this man. What if a spirit or an angel spoke to him?" 
44N	23	10	277450	 And when the dissension became violent, the tribune, afraid that Paul would be torn to pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him away from among them by force and bring him into the barracks. 
44N	23	11	277460	 The following night the Lord stood by him and said, "Take courage, for as you have testified to the facts about me in Jerusalem, so you must testify also in Rome." 
44N	23	12	277470	 When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. 
44N	23	13	277480	 There were more than forty who made this conspiracy. 
44N	23	14	277490	 They went to the chief priests and elders and said, "We have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul. 
44N	23	15	277500	 Now therefore you, along with the council, give notice to the tribune to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more exactly. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near." 
44N	23	16	277510	 Now the son of Paul's sister heard of their ambush, so he went and entered the barracks and told Paul. 
44N	23	17	277520	 Paul called one of the centurions and said, "Take this young man to the tribune, for he has something to tell him." 
44N	23	18	277530	 So he took him and brought him to the tribune and said, "Paul the prisoner called me and asked me to bring this young man to you, as he has something to say to you." 
44N	23	19	277540	 The tribune took him by the hand, and going aside asked him privately, "What is it that you have to tell me?" 
44N	23	20	277550	 And he said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though they were going to inquire somewhat more closely about him. 
44N	23	21	277560	 But do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in ambush for him, who have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now they are ready, waiting for your consent." 
44N	23	22	277570	 So the tribune dismissed the young man, charging him, "Tell no one that you have informed me of these things." 
44N	23	23	277580	 Then he called two of the centurions and said, "Get ready two hundred soldiers, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go as far as Caesarea at the third hour of the night. 
44N	23	24	277590	 Also provide mounts for Paul to ride and bring him safely to Felix the governor." 
44N	23	25	277600	 And he wrote a letter to this effect: 
44N	23	26	277610	 "Claudius Lysias, to his Excellency the governor Felix, greetings. 
44N	23	27	277620	 This man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them when I came upon them with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman citizen. 
44N	23	28	277630	 And desiring to know the charge for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their council. 
44N	23	29	277640	 I found that he was being accused about questions of their law, but charged with nothing deserving death or imprisonment. 
44N	23	30	277650	 And when it was disclosed to me that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, ordering his accusers also to state before you what they have against him." 
44N	23	31	277660	 So the soldiers, according to their instructions, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris. 
44N	23	32	277670	 And on the next day they returned to the barracks, letting the horsemen go on with him. 
44N	23	33	277680	 When they had come to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they presented Paul also before him. 
44N	23	34	277690	 On reading the letter, he asked what province he was from. And when he learned that he was from Cilicia, 
44N	23	35	277700	 he said, "I will give you a hearing when your accusers arrive." And he commanded him to be guarded in Herod's praetorium. 
44N	24	1	277710	 And after five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a spokesman, one Tertullus. They laid before the governor their case against Paul. 
44N	24	2	277720	 And when he had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying: "Since through you we enjoy much peace, and since by your foresight, most excellent Felix, reforms are being made for this nation, 
44N	24	3	277730	 in every way and everywhere we accept this with all gratitude. 
44N	24	4	277740	 But, to detain you no further, I beg you in your kindness to hear us briefly. 
44N	24	5	277750	 For we have found this man a plague, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world and is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes. 
44N	24	6	277760	 He even tried to profane the temple, but we seized him [and we would have judged him according to our law.] 
44N	24	7	277770	 [But the chief captain Lysias came and with great violence took him out of our hands,] 
44N	24	8	277780	 [commanding his accusers to come before you.] By examining him yourself you will be able to find out from him about everything of which we accuse him." 
44N	24	9	277790	 The Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that all these things were so. 
44N	24	10	277800	 And when the governor had nodded to him to speak, Paul replied: "Knowing that for many years you have been a judge over this nation, I cheerfully make my defense. 
44N	24	11	277810	 You can verify that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship in Jerusalem, 
44N	24	12	277820	 and they did not find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the temple or in the synagogues or in the city. 
44N	24	13	277830	 Neither can they prove to you what they now bring up against me. 
44N	24	14	277840	 But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets, 
44N	24	15	277850	 having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust. 
44N	24	16	277860	 So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man. 
44N	24	17	277870	 Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings. 
44N	24	18	277880	 While I was doing this, they found me purified in the temple, without any crowd or tumult. But some Jews from Asia-- 
44N	24	19	277890	 they ought to be here before you and to make an accusation, should they have anything against me. 
44N	24	20	277900	 Or else let these men themselves say what wrongdoing they found when I stood before the council, 
44N	24	21	277910	 other than this one thing that I cried out while standing among them: 'It is with respect to the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you this day.'" 
44N	24	22	277920	 But Felix, having a rather accurate knowledge of the Way, put them off, saying, "When Lysias the tribune comes down, I will decide your case." 
44N	24	23	277930	 Then he gave orders to the centurion that he should be kept in custody but have some liberty, and that none of his friends should be prevented from attending to his needs. 
44N	24	24	277940	 After some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus. 
44N	24	25	277950	 And as he reasoned about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, "Go away for the present. When I get an opportunity I will summon you." 
44N	24	26	277960	 At the same time he hoped that money would be given him by Paul. So he sent for him often and conversed with him. 
44N	24	27	277970	 When two years had elapsed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus. And desiring to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul in prison. 
44N	25	1	277980	 Now three days after Festus had arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea. 
44N	25	2	277990	 And the chief priests and the principal men of the Jews laid out their case against Paul, and they urged him, 
44N	25	3	278000	 asking as a favor against Paul that he summon him to Jerusalem--because they were planning an ambush to kill him on the way. 
44N	25	4	278010	 Festus replied that Paul was being kept at Caesarea and that he himself intended to go there shortly. 
44N	25	5	278020	 "So," said he, "let the men of authority among you go down with me, and if there is anything wrong about the man, let them bring charges against him." 
44N	25	6	278030	 After he stayed among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea. And the next day he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be brought. 
44N	25	7	278040	 When he had arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him that they could not prove. 
44N	25	8	278050	 Paul argued in his defense, "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I committed any offense." 
44N	25	9	278060	 But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, "Do you wish to go up to Jerusalem and there be tried on these charges before me?" 
44N	25	10	278070	 But Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's tribunal, where I ought to be tried. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you yourself know very well. 
44N	25	11	278080	 If then I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything for which I deserve to die, I do not seek to escape death. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar." 
44N	25	12	278090	 Then Festus, when he had conferred with his council, answered, "To Caesar you have appealed; to Caesar you shall go." 
44N	25	13	278100	 Now when some days had passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea and greeted Festus. 
44N	25	14	278110	 And as they stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king, saying, "There is a man left prisoner by Felix, 
44N	25	15	278120	 and when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid out their case against him, asking for a sentence of condemnation against him. 
44N	25	16	278130	 I answered them that it was not the custom of the Romans to give up anyone before the accused met the accusers face to face and had opportunity to make his defense concerning the charge laid against him. 
44N	25	17	278140	 So when they came together here, I made no delay, but on the next day took my seat on the tribunal and ordered the man to be brought. 
44N	25	18	278150	 When the accusers stood up, they brought no charge in his case of such evils as I supposed. 
44N	25	19	278160	 Rather they had certain points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who was dead, but whom Paul asserted to be alive. 
44N	25	20	278170	 Being at a loss how to investigate these questions, I asked whether he wanted to go to Jerusalem and be tried there regarding them. 
44N	25	21	278180	 But when Paul had appealed to be kept in custody for the decision of the emperor, I ordered him to be held until I could send him to Caesar." 
44N	25	22	278190	 Then Agrippa said to Festus, "I would like to hear the man myself." "Tomorrow," said he, "you will hear him." 
44N	25	23	278200	 So on the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and they entered the audience hall with the military tribunes and the prominent men of the city. Then, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in. 
44N	25	24	278210	 And Festus said, "King Agrippa and all who are present with us, you see this man about whom the whole Jewish people petitioned me, both in Jerusalem and here, shouting that he ought not to live any longer. 
44N	25	25	278220	 But I found that he had done nothing deserving death. And as he himself appealed to the emperor, I decided to go ahead and send him. 
44N	25	26	278230	 But I have nothing definite to write to my lord about him. Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that, after we have examined him, I may have something to write. 
44N	25	27	278240	 For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to indicate the charges against him." 
44N	26	1	278250	 So Agrippa said to Paul, "You have permission to speak for yourself." Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense: 
44N	26	2	278260	 "I consider myself fortunate that it is before you, King Agrippa, I am going to make my defense today against all the accusations of the Jews, 
44N	26	3	278270	 especially because you are familiar with all the customs and controversies of the Jews. Therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently. 
44N	26	4	278280	 "My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews. 
44N	26	5	278290	 They have known for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I have lived as a Pharisee. 
44N	26	6	278300	 And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers, 
44N	26	7	278310	 to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope I am accused by Jews, O king! 
44N	26	8	278320	 Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead? 
44N	26	9	278330	 "I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things in opposing the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 
44N	26	10	278340	 And I did so in Jerusalem. I not only locked up many of the saints in prison after receiving authority from the chief priests, but when they were put to death I cast my vote against them. 
44N	26	11	278350	 And I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme, and in raging fury against them I persecuted them even to foreign cities. 
44N	26	12	278360	 "In this connection I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests. 
44N	26	13	278370	 At midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, that shone around me and those who journeyed with me. 
44N	26	14	278380	 And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.' 
44N	26	15	278390	 And I said, 'Who are you, Lord?' And the Lord said, 'I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. 
44N	26	16	278400	 But rise and stand upon your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and witness to the things in which you have seen me and to those in which I will appear to you, 
44N	26	17	278410	 delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles--to whom I am sending you 
44N	26	18	278420	 to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.' 
44N	26	19	278430	 "Therefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, 
44N	26	20	278440	 but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance. 
44N	26	21	278450	 For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me. 
44N	26	22	278460	 To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass: 
44N	26	23	278470	 that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles." 
44N	26	24	278480	 And as he was saying these things in his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are out of your mind; your great learning is driving you out of your mind." 
44N	26	25	278490	 But Paul said, "I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I am speaking true and rational words. 
44N	26	26	278500	 For the king knows about these things, and to him I speak boldly. For I am persuaded that none of these things has escaped his notice, for this has not been done in a corner. 
44N	26	27	278510	 King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe." 
44N	26	28	278520	 And Agrippa said to Paul, "In a short time would you persuade me to be a Christian?" 
44N	26	29	278530	 And Paul said, "Whether short or long, I would to God that not only you but also all who hear me this day might become such as I am--except for these chains." 
44N	26	30	278540	 Then the king rose, and the governor and Bernice and those who were sitting with them. 
44N	26	31	278550	 And when they had withdrawn, they said to one another, "This man is doing nothing to deserve death or imprisonment." 
44N	26	32	278560	 And Agrippa said to Festus, "This man could have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar." 
44N	27	1	278570	 And when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius. 
44N	27	2	278580	 And embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, we put to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica. 
44N	27	3	278590	 The next day we put in at Sidon. And Julius treated Paul kindly and gave him leave to go to his friends and be cared for. 
44N	27	4	278600	 And putting out to sea from there we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us. 
44N	27	5	278610	 And when we had sailed across the open sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia. 
44N	27	6	278620	 There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy and put us on board. 
44N	27	7	278630	 We sailed slowly for a number of days and arrived with difficulty off Cnidus, and as the wind did not allow us to go farther, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Salmone. 
44N	27	8	278640	 Coasting along it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea. 
44N	27	9	278650	 Since much time had passed, and the voyage was now dangerous because even the Fast was already over, Paul advised them, 
44N	27	10	278660	 saying, "Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives." 
44N	27	11	278670	 But the centurion paid more attention to the pilot and to the owner of the ship than to what Paul said. 
44N	27	12	278680	 And because the harbor was not suitable to spend the winter in, the majority decided to put out to sea from there, on the chance that somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, facing both southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there. 
44N	27	13	278690	 Now when the south wind blew gently, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to the shore. 
44N	27	14	278700	 But soon a tempestuous wind, called the northeaster, struck down from the land. 
44N	27	15	278710	 And when the ship was caught and could not face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along. 
44N	27	16	278720	 Running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we managed with difficulty to secure the ship's boat. 
44N	27	17	278730	 After hoisting it up, they used supports to undergird the ship. Then, fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the gear, and thus they were driven along. 
44N	27	18	278740	 Since we were violently storm-tossed, they began the next day to jettison the cargo. 
44N	27	19	278750	 And on the third day they threw the ship's tackle overboard with their own hands. 
44N	27	20	278760	 When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned. 
44N	27	21	278770	 Since they had been without food for a long time, Paul stood up among them and said, "Men, you should have listened to me and not have set sail from Crete and incurred this injury and loss. 
44N	27	22	278780	 Yet now I urge you to take heart, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship. 
44N	27	23	278790	 For this very night there stood before me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship, 
44N	27	24	278800	 and he said, 'Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.' 
44N	27	25	278810	 So take heart, men, for I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told. 
44N	27	26	278820	 But we must run aground on some island." 
44N	27	27	278830	 When the fourteenth night had come, as we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land. 
44N	27	28	278840	 So they took a sounding and found twenty fathoms. A little farther on they took a sounding again and found fifteen fathoms. 
44N	27	29	278850	 And fearing that we might run on the rocks, they let down four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come. 
44N	27	30	278860	 And as the sailors were seeking to escape from the ship, and had lowered the ship's boat into the sea under pretense of laying out anchors from the bow, 
44N	27	31	278870	 Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, "Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved." 
44N	27	32	278880	 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship's boat and let it go. 
44N	27	33	278890	 As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food, saying, "Today is the fourteenth day that you have continued in suspense and without food, having taken nothing. 
44N	27	34	278900	 Therefore I urge you to take some food. For it will give you strength, for not a hair is to perish from the head of any of you." 
44N	27	35	278910	 And when he had said these things, he took bread, and giving thanks to God in the presence of all he broke it and began to eat. 
44N	27	36	278920	 Then they all were encouraged and ate some food themselves. 
44N	27	37	278930	 (We were in all 276 persons in the ship.) 
44N	27	38	278940	 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea. 
44N	27	39	278950	 Now when it was day, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, on which they planned if possible to run the ship ashore. 
44N	27	40	278960	 So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the ropes that tied the rudders. Then hoisting the foresail to the wind they made for the beach. 
44N	27	41	278970	 But striking a reef, they ran the vessel aground. The bow stuck and remained immovable, and the stern was being broken up by the surf. 
44N	27	42	278980	 The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners, lest any should swim away and escape. 
44N	27	43	278990	 But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and make for the land, 
44N	27	44	279000	 and the rest on planks or on pieces of the ship. And so it was that all were brought safely to land. 
44N	28	1	279010	 After we were brought safely through, we then learned that the island was called Malta. 
44N	28	2	279020	 The native people showed us unusual kindness, for they kindled a fire and welcomed us all, because it had begun to rain and was cold. 
44N	28	3	279030	 When Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and put them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened on his hand. 
44N	28	4	279040	 When the native people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "No doubt this man is a murderer. Though he has escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live." 
44N	28	5	279050	 He, however, shook off the creature into the fire and suffered no harm. 
44N	28	6	279060	 They were waiting for him to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But when they had waited a long time and saw no misfortune come to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god. 
44N	28	7	279070	 Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us and entertained us hospitably for three days. 
44N	28	8	279080	 It happened that the father of Publius lay sick with fever and dysentery. And Paul visited him and prayed, and putting his hands on him healed him. 
44N	28	9	279090	 And when this had taken place, the rest of the people on the island who had diseases also came and were cured. 
44N	28	10	279100	 They also honored us greatly, and when we were about to sail, they put on board whatever we needed. 
44N	28	11	279110	 After three months we set sail in a ship that had wintered in the island, a ship of Alexandria, with the twin gods as a figurehead. 
44N	28	12	279120	 Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there for three days. 
44N	28	13	279130	 And from there we made a circuit and arrived at Rhegium. And after one day a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli. 
44N	28	14	279140	 There we found brothers and were invited to stay with them for seven days. And so we came to Rome. 
44N	28	15	279150	 And the brothers there, when they heard about us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. On seeing them, Paul thanked God and took courage. 
44N	28	16	279160	 And when we came into Rome, Paul was allowed to stay by himself, with the soldier that guarded him. 
44N	28	17	279170	 After three days he called together the local leaders of the Jews, and when they had gathered, he said to them, "Brothers, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans. 
44N	28	18	279180	 When they had examined me, they wished to set me at liberty, because there was no reason for the death penalty in my case. 
44N	28	19	279190	 But because the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar--though I had no charge to bring against my nation. 
44N	28	20	279200	 For this reason, therefore, I have asked to see you and speak with you, since it is because of the hope of Israel that I am wearing this chain." 
44N	28	21	279210	 And they said to him, "We have received no letters from Judea about you, and none of the brothers coming here has reported or spoken any evil about you. 
44N	28	22	279220	 But we desire to hear from you what your views are, for with regard to this sect we know that everywhere it is spoken against." 
44N	28	23	279230	 When they had appointed a day for him, they came to him at his lodging in greater numbers. From morning till evening he expounded to them, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets. 
44N	28	24	279240	 And some were convinced by what he said, but others disbelieved. 
44N	28	25	279250	 And disagreeing among themselves, they departed after Paul had made one statement: "The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet: 
44N	28	26	279260	 "'Go to this people, and say, You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive. 
44N	28	27	279270	 For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.' 
44N	28	28	279280	 Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen." 
44N	28	29	279290	 [And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, having much dispute among themselves.] 
44N	28	30	279300	 He lived there two whole years at his own expense, and welcomed all who came to him, 
44N	28	31	279310	 proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance. 
45N	1	1	279320	 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, 
45N	1	2	279330	 which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, 
45N	1	3	279340	 concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh 
45N	1	4	279350	 and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, 
45N	1	5	279360	 through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, 
45N	1	6	279370	 including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ, 
45N	1	7	279380	 To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 
45N	1	8	279390	 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. 
45N	1	9	279400	 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you 
45N	1	10	279410	 always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to you. 
45N	1	11	279420	 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you-- 
45N	1	12	279430	 that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine. 
45N	1	13	279440	 I want you to know, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles. 
45N	1	14	279450	 I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. 
45N	1	15	279460	 So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. 
45N	1	16	279470	 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 
45N	1	17	279480	 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith." 
45N	1	18	279490	 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 
45N	1	19	279500	 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 
45N	1	20	279510	 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 
45N	1	21	279520	 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 
45N	1	22	279530	 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 
45N	1	23	279540	 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. 
45N	1	24	279550	 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 
45N	1	25	279560	 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. 
45N	1	26	279570	 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 
45N	1	27	279580	 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. 
45N	1	28	279590	 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 
45N	1	29	279600	 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 
45N	1	30	279610	 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 
45N	1	31	279620	 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 
45N	1	32	279630	 Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. 
45N	2	1	279640	 Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. 
45N	2	2	279650	 We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. 
45N	2	3	279660	 Do you suppose, O man--you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself--that you will escape the judgment of God? 
45N	2	4	279670	 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 
45N	2	5	279680	 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. 
45N	2	6	279690	 He will render to each one according to his works: 
45N	2	7	279700	 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; 
45N	2	8	279710	 but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. 
45N	2	9	279720	 There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, 
45N	2	10	279730	 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. 
45N	2	11	279740	 For God shows no partiality. 
45N	2	12	279750	 For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 
45N	2	13	279760	 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. 
45N	2	14	279770	 For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 
45N	2	15	279780	 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them 
45N	2	16	279790	 on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus. 
45N	2	17	279800	 But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God 
45N	2	18	279810	 and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law; 
45N	2	19	279820	 and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 
45N	2	20	279830	 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth-- 
45N	2	21	279840	 you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? 
45N	2	22	279850	 You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 
45N	2	23	279860	 You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law. 
45N	2	24	279870	 For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you." 
45N	2	25	279880	 For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. 
45N	2	26	279890	 So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? 
45N	2	27	279900	 Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law. 
45N	2	28	279910	 For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. 
45N	2	29	279920	 But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God. 
45N	3	1	279930	 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? 
45N	3	2	279940	 Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. 
45N	3	3	279950	 What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? 
45N	3	4	279960	 By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, "That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged." 
45N	3	5	279970	 But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) 
45N	3	6	279980	 By no means! For then how could God judge the world? 
45N	3	7	279990	 But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner? 
45N	3	8	280000	 And why not do evil that good may come?--as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just. 
45N	3	9	280010	 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, 
45N	3	10	280020	 as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one; 
45N	3	11	280030	 no one understands; no one seeks for God. 
45N	3	12	280040	 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one." 
45N	3	13	280050	 "Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips." 
45N	3	14	280060	 "Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness." 
45N	3	15	280070	 "Their feet are swift to shed blood; 
45N	3	16	280080	 in their paths are ruin and misery, 
45N	3	17	280090	 and the way of peace they have not known." 
45N	3	18	280100	 "There is no fear of God before their eyes." 
45N	3	19	280110	 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 
45N	3	20	280120	 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. 
45N	3	21	280130	 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it-- 
45N	3	22	280140	 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 
45N	3	23	280150	 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 
45N	3	24	280160	 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 
45N	3	25	280170	 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. 
45N	3	26	280180	 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. 
45N	3	27	280190	 Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. 
45N	3	28	280200	 For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law. 
45N	3	29	280210	 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 
45N	3	30	280220	 since God is one--who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. 
45N	3	31	280230	 Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law. 
45N	4	1	280240	 What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? 
45N	4	2	280250	 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 
45N	4	3	280260	 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness." 
45N	4	4	280270	 Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. 
45N	4	5	280280	 And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, 
45N	4	6	280290	 just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works: 
45N	4	7	280300	 "Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; 
45N	4	8	280310	 blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin." 
45N	4	9	280320	 Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness. 
45N	4	10	280330	 How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised. 
45N	4	11	280340	 He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well, 
45N	4	12	280350	 and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised. 
45N	4	13	280360	 For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. 
45N	4	14	280370	 For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. 
45N	4	15	280380	 For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression. 
45N	4	16	280390	 That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring--not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, 
45N	4	17	280400	 as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"--in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. 
45N	4	18	280410	 In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be." 
45N	4	19	280420	 He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb. 
45N	4	20	280430	 No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, 
45N	4	21	280440	 fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. 
45N	4	22	280450	 That is why his faith was "counted to him as righteousness." 
45N	4	23	280460	 But the words "it was counted to him" were not written for his sake alone, 
45N	4	24	280470	 but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, 
45N	4	25	280480	 who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification. 
45N	5	1	280490	 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 
45N	5	2	280500	 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 
45N	5	3	280510	 More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 
45N	5	4	280520	 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 
45N	5	5	280530	 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. 
45N	5	6	280540	 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 
45N	5	7	280550	 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person--though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die-- 
45N	5	8	280560	 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 
45N	5	9	280570	 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. 
45N	5	10	280580	 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. 
45N	5	11	280590	 More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. 
45N	5	12	280600	 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned-- 
45N	5	13	280610	 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. 
45N	5	14	280620	 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. 
45N	5	15	280630	 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. 
45N	5	16	280640	 And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification. 
45N	5	17	280650	 For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ. 
45N	5	18	280660	 Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. 
45N	5	19	280670	 For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous. 
45N	5	20	280680	 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 
45N	5	21	280690	 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
45N	6	1	280700	 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 
45N	6	2	280710	 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 
45N	6	3	280720	 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 
45N	6	4	280730	 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 
45N	6	5	280740	 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 
45N	6	6	280750	 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 
45N	6	7	280760	 For one who has died has been set free from sin. 
45N	6	8	280770	 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 
45N	6	9	280780	 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 
45N	6	10	280790	 For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 
45N	6	11	280800	 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. 
45N	6	12	280810	 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 
45N	6	13	280820	 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 
45N	6	14	280830	 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. 
45N	6	15	280840	 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 
45N	6	16	280850	 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 
45N	6	17	280860	 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 
45N	6	18	280870	 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 
45N	6	19	280880	 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. 
45N	6	20	280890	 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 
45N	6	21	280900	 But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 
45N	6	22	280910	 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. 
45N	6	23	280920	 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 
45N	7	1	280930	 Or do you not know, brothers--for I am speaking to those who know the law--that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? 
45N	7	2	280940	 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. 
45N	7	3	280950	 Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. 
45N	7	4	280960	 Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. 
45N	7	5	280970	 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. 
45N	7	6	280980	 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code. 
45N	7	7	280990	 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet." 
45N	7	8	281000	 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. 
45N	7	9	281010	 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. 
45N	7	10	281020	 The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. 
45N	7	11	281030	 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 
45N	7	12	281040	 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. 
45N	7	13	281050	 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. 
45N	7	14	281060	 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 
45N	7	15	281070	 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 
45N	7	16	281080	 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 
45N	7	17	281090	 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 
45N	7	18	281100	 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 
45N	7	19	281110	 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 
45N	7	20	281120	 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 
45N	7	21	281130	 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 
45N	7	22	281140	 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 
45N	7	23	281150	 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 
45N	7	24	281160	 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 
45N	7	25	281170	 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. 
45N	8	1	281180	 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 
45N	8	2	281190	 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 
45N	8	3	281200	 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 
45N	8	4	281210	 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 
45N	8	5	281220	 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 
45N	8	6	281230	 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 
45N	8	7	281240	 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. 
45N	8	8	281250	 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 
45N	8	9	281260	 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 
45N	8	10	281270	 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 
45N	8	11	281280	 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. 
45N	8	12	281290	 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 
45N	8	13	281300	 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 
45N	8	14	281310	 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 
45N	8	15	281320	 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" 
45N	8	16	281330	 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 
45N	8	17	281340	 and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. 
45N	8	18	281350	 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 
45N	8	19	281360	 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. 
45N	8	20	281370	 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope 
45N	8	21	281380	 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 
45N	8	22	281390	 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. 
45N	8	23	281400	 And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 
45N	8	24	281410	 For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? 
45N	8	25	281420	 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. 
45N	8	26	281430	 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. 
45N	8	27	281440	 And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. 
45N	8	28	281450	 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. 
45N	8	29	281460	 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 
45N	8	30	281470	 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. 
45N	8	31	281480	 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 
45N	8	32	281490	 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 
45N	8	33	281500	 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 
45N	8	34	281510	 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died--more than that, who was raised--who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. 
45N	8	35	281520	 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 
45N	8	36	281530	 As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." 
45N	8	37	281540	 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 
45N	8	38	281550	 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 
45N	8	39	281560	 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 
45N	9	1	281570	 I am speaking the truth in Christ--I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit-- 
45N	9	2	281580	 that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 
45N	9	3	281590	 For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. 
45N	9	4	281600	 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. 
45N	9	5	281610	 To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. 
45N	9	6	281620	 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, 
45N	9	7	281630	 and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named." 
45N	9	8	281640	 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring. 
45N	9	9	281650	 For this is what the promise said: "About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son." 
45N	9	10	281660	 And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, 
45N	9	11	281670	 though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad--in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls-- 
45N	9	12	281680	 she was told, "The older will serve the younger." 
45N	9	13	281690	 As it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated." 
45N	9	14	281700	 What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means! 
45N	9	15	281710	 For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." 
45N	9	16	281720	 So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. 
45N	9	17	281730	 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." 
45N	9	18	281740	 So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills. 
45N	9	19	281750	 You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?" 
45N	9	20	281760	 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?" 
45N	9	21	281770	 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? 
45N	9	22	281780	 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 
45N	9	23	281790	 in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory-- 
45N	9	24	281800	 even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? 
45N	9	25	281810	 As indeed he says in Hosea, "Those who were not my people I will call 'my people,' and her who was not beloved I will call 'beloved.'" 
45N	9	26	281820	 "And in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there they will be called 'sons of the living God.'" 
45N	9	27	281830	 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved, 
45N	9	28	281840	 for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay." 
45N	9	29	281850	 And as Isaiah predicted, "If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring, we would have been like Sodom and become like Gomorrah." 
45N	9	30	281860	 What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; 
45N	9	31	281870	 but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law. 
45N	9	32	281880	 Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, 
45N	9	33	281890	 as it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame." 
45N	10	1	281900	 Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. 
45N	10	2	281910	 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 
45N	10	3	281920	 For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. 
45N	10	4	281930	 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. 
45N	10	5	281940	 For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. 
45N	10	6	281950	 But the righteousness based on faith says, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down) 
45N	10	7	281960	 or "'Who will descend into the abyss?'" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 
45N	10	8	281970	 But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); 
45N	10	9	281980	 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 
45N	10	10	281990	 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. 
45N	10	11	282000	 For the Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame." 
45N	10	12	282010	 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. 
45N	10	13	282020	 For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." 
45N	10	14	282030	 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 
45N	10	15	282040	 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!" 
45N	10	16	282050	 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?" 
45N	10	17	282060	 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. 
45N	10	18	282070	 But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have, for "Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world." 
45N	10	19	282080	 But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry." 
45N	10	20	282090	 Then Isaiah is so bold as to say, "I have been found by those who did not seek me; I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me." 
45N	10	21	282100	 But of Israel he says, "All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people." 
45N	11	1	282110	 I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. 
45N	11	2	282120	 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel? 
45N	11	3	282130	 "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life." 
45N	11	4	282140	 But what is God's reply to him? "I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal." 
45N	11	5	282150	 So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. 
45N	11	6	282160	 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. 
45N	11	7	282170	 What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened, 
45N	11	8	282180	 as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day." 
45N	11	9	282190	 And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them; 
45N	11	10	282200	 let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and bend their backs forever." 
45N	11	11	282210	 So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. 
45N	11	12	282220	 Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean! 
45N	11	13	282230	 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry 
45N	11	14	282240	 in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them. 
45N	11	15	282250	 For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead? 
45N	11	16	282260	 If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 
45N	11	17	282270	 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, 
45N	11	18	282280	 do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you. 
45N	11	19	282290	 Then you will say, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in." 
45N	11	20	282300	 That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear. 
45N	11	21	282310	 For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. 
45N	11	22	282320	 Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off. 
45N	11	23	282330	 And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again. 
45N	11	24	282340	 For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree. 
45N	11	25	282350	 Lest you be wise in your own sight, I want you to understand this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 
45N	11	26	282360	 And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, "The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob"; 
45N	11	27	282370	 "and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins." 
45N	11	28	282380	 As regards the gospel, they are enemies of God for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers. 
45N	11	29	282390	 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 
45N	11	30	282400	 For just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience, 
45N	11	31	282410	 so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now receive mercy. 
45N	11	32	282420	 For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all. 
45N	11	33	282430	 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! 
45N	11	34	282440	 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?" 
45N	11	35	282450	 "Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?" 
45N	11	36	282460	 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. 
45N	12	1	282470	 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 
45N	12	2	282480	 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. 
45N	12	3	282490	 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. 
45N	12	4	282500	 For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, 
45N	12	5	282510	 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. 
45N	12	6	282520	 Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; 
45N	12	7	282530	 if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; 
45N	12	8	282540	 the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness. 
45N	12	9	282550	 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. 
45N	12	10	282560	 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. 
45N	12	11	282570	 Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. 
45N	12	12	282580	 Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. 
45N	12	13	282590	 Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. 
45N	12	14	282600	 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. 
45N	12	15	282610	 Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. 
45N	12	16	282620	 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. 
45N	12	17	282630	 Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. 
45N	12	18	282640	 If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. 
45N	12	19	282650	 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord." 
45N	12	20	282660	 To the contrary, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head." 
45N	12	21	282670	 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. 
45N	13	1	282680	 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 
45N	13	2	282690	 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 
45N	13	3	282700	 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 
45N	13	4	282710	 for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. 
45N	13	5	282720	 Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. 
45N	13	6	282730	 For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. 
45N	13	7	282740	 Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed. 
45N	13	8	282750	 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 
45N	13	9	282760	 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 
45N	13	10	282770	 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. 
45N	13	11	282780	 Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. 
45N	13	12	282790	 The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. 
45N	13	13	282800	 Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. 
45N	13	14	282810	 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. 
45N	14	1	282820	 As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. 
45N	14	2	282830	 One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. 
45N	14	3	282840	 Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. 
45N	14	4	282850	 Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. 
45N	14	5	282860	 One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. 
45N	14	6	282870	 The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. 
45N	14	7	282880	 For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. 
45N	14	8	282890	 For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. 
45N	14	9	282900	 For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. 
45N	14	10	282910	 Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; 
45N	14	11	282920	 for it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God." 
45N	14	12	282930	 So then each of us will give an account of himself to God. 
45N	14	13	282940	 Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother. 
45N	14	14	282950	 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean. 
45N	14	15	282960	 For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died. 
45N	14	16	282970	 So do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil. 
45N	14	17	282980	 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 
45N	14	18	282990	 Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men. 
45N	14	19	283000	 So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding. 
45N	14	20	283010	 Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats. 
45N	14	21	283020	 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble. 
45N	14	22	283030	 The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves. 
45N	14	23	283040	 But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin. 
45N	15	1	283050	 We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 
45N	15	2	283060	 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. 
45N	15	3	283070	 For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me." 
45N	15	4	283080	 For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. 
45N	15	5	283090	 May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, 
45N	15	6	283100	 that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
45N	15	7	283110	 Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God. 
45N	15	8	283120	 For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs, 
45N	15	9	283130	 and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name." 
45N	15	10	283140	 And again it is said, "Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people." 
45N	15	11	283150	 And again, "Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples extol him." 
45N	15	12	283160	 And again Isaiah says, "The root of Jesse will come, even he who arises to rule the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles hope." 
45N	15	13	283170	 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. 
45N	15	14	283180	 I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another. 
45N	15	15	283190	 But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God 
45N	15	16	283200	 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. 
45N	15	17	283210	 In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God. 
45N	15	18	283220	 For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience--by word and deed, 
45N	15	19	283230	 by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God--so that from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ; 
45N	15	20	283240	 and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation, 
45N	15	21	283250	 but as it is written, "Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand." 
45N	15	22	283260	 This is the reason why I have so often been hindered from coming to you. 
45N	15	23	283270	 But now, since I no longer have any room for work in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to come to you, 
45N	15	24	283280	 I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain, and to be helped on my journey there by you, once I have enjoyed your company for a while. 
45N	15	25	283290	 At present, however, I am going to Jerusalem bringing aid to the saints. 
45N	15	26	283300	 For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem. 
45N	15	27	283310	 For they were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings. 
45N	15	28	283320	 When therefore I have completed this and have delivered to them what has been collected, I will leave for Spain by way of you. 
45N	15	29	283330	 I know that when I come to you I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ. 
45N	15	30	283340	 I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf, 
45N	15	31	283350	 that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, 
45N	15	32	283360	 so that by God's will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company. 
45N	15	33	283370	 May the God of peace be with you all. Amen. 
45N	16	1	283380	 I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae, 
45N	16	2	283390	 that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well. 
45N	16	3	283400	 Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, 
45N	16	4	283410	 who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well. 
45N	16	5	283420	 Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia. 
45N	16	6	283430	 Greet Mary, who has worked hard for you. 
45N	16	7	283440	 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners. They are well known to the apostles, and they were in Christ before me. 
45N	16	8	283450	 Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord. 
45N	16	9	283460	 Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys. 
45N	16	10	283470	 Greet Apelles, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the family of Aristobulus. 
45N	16	11	283480	 Greet my kinsman Herodion. Greet those in the Lord who belong to the family of Narcissus. 
45N	16	12	283490	 Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphaena and Tryphosa. Greet the beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord. 
45N	16	13	283500	 Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord; also his mother, who has been a mother to me as well. 
45N	16	14	283510	 Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them. 
45N	16	15	283520	 Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them. 
45N	16	16	283530	 Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you. 
45N	16	17	283540	 I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. 
45N	16	18	283550	 For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive. 
45N	16	19	283560	 For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil. 
45N	16	20	283570	 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. 
45N	16	21	283580	 Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen. 
45N	16	22	283590	 I Tertius, who wrote this letter, greet you in the Lord. 
45N	16	23	283600	 Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you. 
45N	16	24	283610	 [The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.] 
45N	16	25	283620	 Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages 
45N	16	26	283630	 but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith-- 
45N	16	27	283640	 to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen. 
46N	1	1	283650	 Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, 
46N	1	2	283660	 To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: 
46N	1	3	283670	 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 
46N	1	4	283680	 I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, 
46N	1	5	283690	 that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge-- 
46N	1	6	283700	 even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you-- 
46N	1	7	283710	 so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
46N	1	8	283720	 who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
46N	1	9	283730	 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. 
46N	1	10	283740	 I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. 
46N	1	11	283750	 For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. 
46N	1	12	283760	 What I mean is that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," or "I follow Apollos," or "I follow Cephas," or "I follow Christ." 
46N	1	13	283770	 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? 
46N	1	14	283780	 I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, 
46N	1	15	283790	 so that no one may say that you were baptized in my name. 
46N	1	16	283800	 (I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.) 
46N	1	17	283810	 For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. 
46N	1	18	283820	 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 
46N	1	19	283830	 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart." 
46N	1	20	283840	 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 
46N	1	21	283850	 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. 
46N	1	22	283860	 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 
46N	1	23	283870	 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 
46N	1	24	283880	 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 
46N	1	25	283890	 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 
46N	1	26	283900	 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 
46N	1	27	283910	 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 
46N	1	28	283920	 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 
46N	1	29	283930	 so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. 
46N	1	30	283940	 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 
46N	1	31	283950	 so that, as it is written, "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord." 
46N	2	1	283960	 And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. 
46N	2	2	283970	 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 
46N	2	3	283980	 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, 
46N	2	4	283990	 and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 
46N	2	5	284000	 that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. 
46N	2	6	284010	 Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. 
46N	2	7	284020	 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 
46N	2	8	284030	 None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 
46N	2	9	284040	 But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"-- 
46N	2	10	284050	 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 
46N	2	11	284060	 For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 
46N	2	12	284070	 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 
46N	2	13	284080	 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. 
46N	2	14	284090	 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 
46N	2	15	284100	 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 
46N	2	16	284110	 "For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ. 
46N	3	1	284120	 But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. 
46N	3	2	284130	 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, 
46N	3	3	284140	 for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? 
46N	3	4	284150	 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not being merely human? 
46N	3	5	284160	 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. 
46N	3	6	284170	 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 
46N	3	7	284180	 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 
46N	3	8	284190	 He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. 
46N	3	9	284200	 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building. 
46N	3	10	284210	 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. 
46N	3	11	284220	 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 
46N	3	12	284230	 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw-- 
46N	3	13	284240	 each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 
46N	3	14	284250	 If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. 
46N	3	15	284260	 If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire. 
46N	3	16	284270	 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? 
46N	3	17	284280	 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple. 
46N	3	18	284290	 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. 
46N	3	19	284300	 For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness," 
46N	3	20	284310	 and again, "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile." 
46N	3	21	284320	 So let no one boast in men. For all things are yours, 
46N	3	22	284330	 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future--all are yours, 
46N	3	23	284340	 and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's. 
46N	4	1	284350	 This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. 
46N	4	2	284360	 Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy. 
46N	4	3	284370	 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself. 
46N	4	4	284380	 For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me. 
46N	4	5	284390	 Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God. 
46N	4	6	284400	 I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another. 
46N	4	7	284410	 For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it? 
46N	4	8	284420	 Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you! 
46N	4	9	284430	 For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men. 
46N	4	10	284440	 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. 
46N	4	11	284450	 To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless, 
46N	4	12	284460	 and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; 
46N	4	13	284470	 when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things. 
46N	4	14	284480	 I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. 
46N	4	15	284490	 For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. 
46N	4	16	284500	 I urge you, then, be imitators of me. 
46N	4	17	284510	 That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church. 
46N	4	18	284520	 Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. 
46N	4	19	284530	 But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power. 
46N	4	20	284540	 For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power. 
46N	4	21	284550	 What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness? 
46N	5	1	284560	 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. 
46N	5	2	284570	 And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. 
46N	5	3	284580	 For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. 
46N	5	4	284590	 When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 
46N	5	5	284600	 you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. 
46N	5	6	284610	 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 
46N	5	7	284620	 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 
46N	5	8	284630	 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 
46N	5	9	284640	 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people-- 
46N	5	10	284650	 not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 
46N	5	11	284660	 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler--not even to eat with such a one. 
46N	5	12	284670	 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? 
46N	5	13	284680	 God judges those outside. "Purge the evil person from among you." 
46N	6	1	284690	 When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? 
46N	6	2	284700	 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? 
46N	6	3	284710	 Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! 
46N	6	4	284720	 So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? 
46N	6	5	284730	 I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, 
46N	6	6	284740	 but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? 
46N	6	7	284750	 To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? 
46N	6	8	284760	 But you yourselves wrong and defraud--even your own brothers! 
46N	6	9	284770	 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 
46N	6	10	284780	 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 
46N	6	11	284790	 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 
46N	6	12	284800	 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything. 
46N	6	13	284810	 "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"--and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 
46N	6	14	284820	 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. 
46N	6	15	284830	 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 
46N	6	16	284840	 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh." 
46N	6	17	284850	 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 
46N	6	18	284860	 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 
46N	6	19	284870	 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 
46N	6	20	284880	 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. 
46N	7	1	284890	 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: "It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman." 
46N	7	2	284900	 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 
46N	7	3	284910	 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. 
46N	7	4	284920	 For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 
46N	7	5	284930	 Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 
46N	7	6	284940	 Now as a concession, not a command, I say this. 
46N	7	7	284950	 I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another. 
46N	7	8	284960	 To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single as I am. 
46N	7	9	284970	 But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion. 
46N	7	10	284980	 To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband 
46N	7	11	284990	 (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife. 
46N	7	12	285000	 To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. 
46N	7	13	285010	 If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. 
46N	7	14	285020	 For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. 
46N	7	15	285030	 But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace. 
46N	7	16	285040	 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife? 
46N	7	17	285050	 Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches. 
46N	7	18	285060	 Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone at the time of his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek circumcision. 
46N	7	19	285070	 For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God. 
46N	7	20	285080	 Each one should remain in the condition in which he was called. 
46N	7	21	285090	 Were you a slave when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.) 
46N	7	22	285100	 For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a slave of Christ. 
46N	7	23	285110	 You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men. 
46N	7	24	285120	 So, brothers, in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God. 
46N	7	25	285130	 Now concerning the betrothed, I have no command from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy. 
46N	7	26	285140	 I think that in view of the present distress it is good for a person to remain as he is. 
46N	7	27	285150	 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife. 
46N	7	28	285160	 But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that. 
46N	7	29	285170	 This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, 
46N	7	30	285180	 and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods, 
46N	7	31	285190	 and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away. 
46N	7	32	285200	 I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. 
46N	7	33	285210	 But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, 
46N	7	34	285220	 and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. 
46N	7	35	285230	 I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord. 
46N	7	36	285240	 If anyone thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry--it is no sin. 
46N	7	37	285250	 But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well. 
46N	7	38	285260	 So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better. 
46N	7	39	285270	 A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. 
46N	7	40	285280	 Yet in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too have the Spirit of God. 
46N	8	1	285290	 Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge." This "knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up. 
46N	8	2	285300	 If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. 
46N	8	3	285310	 But if anyone loves God, he is known by God. 
46N	8	4	285320	 Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one." 
46N	8	5	285330	 For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth--as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"-- 
46N	8	6	285340	 yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist. 
46N	8	7	285350	 However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 
46N	8	8	285360	 Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. 
46N	8	9	285370	 But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. 
46N	8	10	285380	 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols? 
46N	8	11	285390	 And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. 
46N	8	12	285400	 Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. 
46N	8	13	285410	 Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble. 
46N	9	1	285420	 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord? 
46N	9	2	285430	 If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. 
46N	9	3	285440	 This is my defense to those who would examine me. 
46N	9	4	285450	 Do we not have the right to eat and drink? 
46N	9	5	285460	 Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? 
46N	9	6	285470	 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living? 
46N	9	7	285480	 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk? 
46N	9	8	285490	 Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same? 
46N	9	9	285500	 For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain." Is it for oxen that God is concerned? 
46N	9	10	285510	 Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop. 
46N	9	11	285520	 If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you? 
46N	9	12	285530	 If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ. 
46N	9	13	285540	 Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings? 
46N	9	14	285550	 In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel. 
46N	9	15	285560	 But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing these things to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of my ground for boasting. 
46N	9	16	285570	 For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! 
46N	9	17	285580	 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with a stewardship. 
46N	9	18	285590	 What then is my reward? That in my preaching I may present the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel. 
46N	9	19	285600	 For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. 
46N	9	20	285610	 To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. 
46N	9	21	285620	 To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. 
46N	9	22	285630	 To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. 
46N	9	23	285640	 I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings. 
46N	9	24	285650	 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. 
46N	9	25	285660	 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 
46N	9	26	285670	 So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. 
46N	9	27	285680	 But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. 
46N	10	1	285690	 For I want you to know, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 
46N	10	2	285700	 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 
46N	10	3	285710	 and all ate the same spiritual food, 
46N	10	4	285720	 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. 
46N	10	5	285730	 Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 
46N	10	6	285740	 Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did. 
46N	10	7	285750	 Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play." 
46N	10	8	285760	 We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. 
46N	10	9	285770	 We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents, 
46N	10	10	285780	 nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer. 
46N	10	11	285790	 Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come. 
46N	10	12	285800	 Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. 
46N	10	13	285810	 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. 
46N	10	14	285820	 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. 
46N	10	15	285830	 I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. 
46N	10	16	285840	 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? 
46N	10	17	285850	 Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. 
46N	10	18	285860	 Consider the people of Israel: are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar? 
46N	10	19	285870	 What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? 
46N	10	20	285880	 No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. 
46N	10	21	285890	 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. 
46N	10	22	285900	 Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? 
46N	10	23	285910	 "All things are lawful," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful," but not all things build up. 
46N	10	24	285920	 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor. 
46N	10	25	285930	 Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience. 
46N	10	26	285940	 For "the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof." 
46N	10	27	285950	 If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience. 
46N	10	28	285960	 But if someone says to you, "This has been offered in sacrifice," then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience-- 
46N	10	29	285970	 I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else's conscience? 
46N	10	30	285980	 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks? 
46N	10	31	285990	 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 
46N	10	32	286000	 Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, 
46N	10	33	286010	 just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved. 
46N	11	1	286020	 Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. 
46N	11	2	286030	 Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. 
46N	11	3	286040	 But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. 
46N	11	4	286050	 Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, 
46N	11	5	286060	 but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. 
46N	11	6	286070	 For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head. 
46N	11	7	286080	 For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man. 
46N	11	8	286090	 For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. 
46N	11	9	286100	 Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. 
46N	11	10	286110	 That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels. 
46N	11	11	286120	 Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman; 
46N	11	12	286130	 for as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God. 
46N	11	13	286140	 Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a wife to pray to God with her head uncovered? 
46N	11	14	286150	 Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him, 
46N	11	15	286160	 but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering. 
46N	11	16	286170	 If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God. 
46N	11	17	286180	 But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. 
46N	11	18	286190	 For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part, 
46N	11	19	286200	 for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized. 
46N	11	20	286210	 When you come together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat. 
46N	11	21	286220	 For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk. 
46N	11	22	286230	 What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not. 
46N	11	23	286240	 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 
46N	11	24	286250	 and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." 
46N	11	25	286260	 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." 
46N	11	26	286270	 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. 
46N	11	27	286280	 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. 
46N	11	28	286290	 Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 
46N	11	29	286300	 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. 
46N	11	30	286310	 That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. 
46N	11	31	286320	 But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. 
46N	11	32	286330	 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world. 
46N	11	33	286340	 So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another-- 
46N	11	34	286350	 if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home--so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things I will give directions when I come. 
46N	12	1	286360	 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. 
46N	12	2	286370	 You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. 
46N	12	3	286380	 Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says "Jesus is accursed!" and no one can say "Jesus is Lord" except in the Holy Spirit. 
46N	12	4	286390	 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 
46N	12	5	286400	 and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; 
46N	12	6	286410	 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. 
46N	12	7	286420	 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 
46N	12	8	286430	 For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 
46N	12	9	286440	 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 
46N	12	10	286450	 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 
46N	12	11	286460	 All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills. 
46N	12	12	286470	 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 
46N	12	13	286480	 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--Jews or Greeks, slaves or free--and all were made to drink of one Spirit. 
46N	12	14	286490	 For the body does not consist of one member but of many. 
46N	12	15	286500	 If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. 
46N	12	16	286510	 And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. 
46N	12	17	286520	 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? 
46N	12	18	286530	 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. 
46N	12	19	286540	 If all were a single member, where would the body be? 
46N	12	20	286550	 As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. 
46N	12	21	286560	 The eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you," nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you." 
46N	12	22	286570	 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 
46N	12	23	286580	 and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, 
46N	12	24	286590	 which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, 
46N	12	25	286600	 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. 
46N	12	26	286610	 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. 
46N	12	27	286620	 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 
46N	12	28	286630	 And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. 
46N	12	29	286640	 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 
46N	12	30	286650	 Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? 
46N	12	31	286660	 But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way. 
46N	13	1	286670	 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 
46N	13	2	286680	 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 
46N	13	3	286690	 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 
46N	13	4	286700	 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 
46N	13	5	286710	 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 
46N	13	6	286720	 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 
46N	13	7	286730	 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 
46N	13	8	286740	 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 
46N	13	9	286750	 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 
46N	13	10	286760	 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 
46N	13	11	286770	 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 
46N	13	12	286780	 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 
46N	13	13	286790	 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 
46N	14	1	286800	 Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. 
46N	14	2	286810	 For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. 
46N	14	3	286820	 On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. 
46N	14	4	286830	 The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. 
46N	14	5	286840	 Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up. 
46N	14	6	286850	 Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching? 
46N	14	7	286860	 If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will anyone know what is played? 
46N	14	8	286870	 And if the bugle gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for battle? 
46N	14	9	286880	 So with yourselves, if with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is said? For you will be speaking into the air. 
46N	14	10	286890	 There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning, 
46N	14	11	286900	 but if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me. 
46N	14	12	286910	 So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church. 
46N	14	13	286920	 Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray for the power to interpret. 
46N	14	14	286930	 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful. 
46N	14	15	286940	 What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also. 
46N	14	16	286950	 Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say "Amen" to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying? 
46N	14	17	286960	 For you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up. 
46N	14	18	286970	 I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you. 
46N	14	19	286980	 Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue. 
46N	14	20	286990	 Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. 
46N	14	21	287000	 In the Law it is written, "By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord." 
46N	14	22	287010	 Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers. 
46N	14	23	287020	 If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds? 
46N	14	24	287030	 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all, 
46N	14	25	287040	 the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you. 
46N	14	26	287050	 What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up. 
46N	14	27	287060	 If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret. 
46N	14	28	287070	 But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God. 
46N	14	29	287080	 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said. 
46N	14	30	287090	 If a revelation is made to another sitting there, let the first be silent. 
46N	14	31	287100	 For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged, 
46N	14	32	287110	 and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets. 
46N	14	33	287120	 For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints, 
46N	14	34	287130	 the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. 
46N	14	35	287140	 If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church. 
46N	14	36	287150	 Or was it from you that the word of God came? Or are you the only ones it has reached? 
46N	14	37	287160	 If anyone thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that the things I am writing to you are a command of the Lord. 
46N	14	38	287170	 If anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized. 
46N	14	39	287180	 So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues. 
46N	14	40	287190	 But all things should be done decently and in order. 
46N	15	1	287200	 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 
46N	15	2	287210	 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you--unless you believed in vain. 
46N	15	3	287220	 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 
46N	15	4	287230	 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 
46N	15	5	287240	 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 
46N	15	6	287250	 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. 
46N	15	7	287260	 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 
46N	15	8	287270	 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. 
46N	15	9	287280	 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 
46N	15	10	287290	 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. 
46N	15	11	287300	 Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed. 
46N	15	12	287310	 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 
46N	15	13	287320	 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 
46N	15	14	287330	 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. 
46N	15	15	287340	 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. 
46N	15	16	287350	 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. 
46N	15	17	287360	 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. 
46N	15	18	287370	 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 
46N	15	19	287380	 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied. 
46N	15	20	287390	 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 
46N	15	21	287400	 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. 
46N	15	22	287410	 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 
46N	15	23	287420	 But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. 
46N	15	24	287430	 Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. 
46N	15	25	287440	 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 
46N	15	26	287450	 The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 
46N	15	27	287460	 For "God has put all things in subjection under his feet." But when it says, "all things are put in subjection," it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. 
46N	15	28	287470	 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all. 
46N	15	29	287480	 Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf? 
46N	15	30	287490	 Why are we in danger every hour? 
46N	15	31	287500	 I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day! 
46N	15	32	287510	 What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die." 
46N	15	33	287520	 Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals." 
46N	15	34	287530	 Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame. 
46N	15	35	287540	 But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?" 
46N	15	36	287550	 You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 
46N	15	37	287560	 And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. 
46N	15	38	287570	 But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. 
46N	15	39	287580	 For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 
46N	15	40	287590	 There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another. 
46N	15	41	287600	 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory. 
46N	15	42	287610	 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 
46N	15	43	287620	 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 
46N	15	44	287630	 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 
46N	15	45	287640	 Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 
46N	15	46	287650	 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 
46N	15	47	287660	 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 
46N	15	48	287670	 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. 
46N	15	49	287680	 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. 
46N	15	50	287690	 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 
46N	15	51	287700	 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 
46N	15	52	287710	 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 
46N	15	53	287720	 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 
46N	15	54	287730	 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory." 
46N	15	55	287740	 "O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?" 
46N	15	56	287750	 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 
46N	15	57	287760	 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 
46N	15	58	287770	 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. 
46N	16	1	287780	 Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. 
46N	16	2	287790	 On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come. 
46N	16	3	287800	 And when I arrive, I will send those whom you accredit by letter to carry your gift to Jerusalem. 
46N	16	4	287810	 If it seems advisable that I should go also, they will accompany me. 
46N	16	5	287820	 I will visit you after passing through Macedonia, for I intend to pass through Macedonia, 
46N	16	6	287830	 and perhaps I will stay with you or even spend the winter, so that you may help me on my journey, wherever I go. 
46N	16	7	287840	 For I do not want to see you now just in passing. I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits. 
46N	16	8	287850	 But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, 
46N	16	9	287860	 for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries. 
46N	16	10	287870	 When Timothy comes, see that you put him at ease among you, for he is doing the work of the Lord, as I am. 
46N	16	11	287880	 So let no one despise him. Help him on his way in peace, that he may return to me, for I am expecting him with the brothers. 
46N	16	12	287890	 Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brothers, but it was not at all his will to come now. He will come when he has opportunity. 
46N	16	13	287900	 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 
46N	16	14	287910	 Let all that you do be done in love. 
46N	16	15	287920	 Now I urge you, brothers--you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints-- 
46N	16	16	287930	 be subject to such as these, and to every fellow worker and laborer. 
46N	16	17	287940	 I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they have made up for your absence, 
46N	16	18	287950	 for they refreshed my spirit as well as yours. Give recognition to such men. 
46N	16	19	287960	 The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord. 
46N	16	20	287970	 All the brothers send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss. 
46N	16	21	287980	 I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. 
46N	16	22	287990	 If anyone has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come! 
46N	16	23	288000	 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. 
46N	16	24	288010	 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. 
47N	1	1	288020	 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia: 
47N	1	2	288030	 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 
47N	1	3	288040	 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 
47N	1	4	288050	 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 
47N	1	5	288060	 For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. 
47N	1	6	288070	 If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. 
47N	1	7	288080	 Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort. 
47N	1	8	288090	 For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. 
47N	1	9	288100	 Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. 
47N	1	10	288110	 He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again. 
47N	1	11	288120	 You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many. 
47N	1	12	288130	 For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you. 
47N	1	13	288140	 For we are not writing to you anything other than what you read and acknowledge and I hope you will fully acknowledge-- 
47N	1	14	288150	 just as you did partially acknowledge us--that on the day of our Lord Jesus you will boast of us as we will boast of you. 
47N	1	15	288160	 Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a second experience of grace. 
47N	1	16	288170	 I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on my way to Judea. 
47N	1	17	288180	 Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans according to the flesh, ready to say "Yes, yes" and "No, no" at the same time? 
47N	1	18	288190	 As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No. 
47N	1	19	288200	 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes. 
47N	1	20	288210	 For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory. 
47N	1	21	288220	 And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, 
47N	1	22	288230	 and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. 
47N	1	23	288240	 But I call God to witness against me--it was to spare you that I refrained from coming again to Corinth. 
47N	1	24	288250	 Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith. 
47N	2	1	288260	 For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you. 
47N	2	2	288270	 For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained? 
47N	2	3	288280	 And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all. 
47N	2	4	288290	 For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you. 
47N	2	5	288300	 Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure--not to put it too severely--to all of you. 
47N	2	6	288310	 For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough, 
47N	2	7	288320	 so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 
47N	2	8	288330	 So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. 
47N	2	9	288340	 For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything. 
47N	2	10	288350	 Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ, 
47N	2	11	288360	 so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs. 
47N	2	12	288370	 When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord, 
47N	2	13	288380	 my spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia. 
47N	2	14	288390	 But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. 
47N	2	15	288400	 For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, 
47N	2	16	288410	 to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? 
47N	2	17	288420	 For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ. 
47N	3	1	288430	 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? 
47N	3	2	288440	 You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. 
47N	3	3	288450	 And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. 
47N	3	4	288460	 Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. 
47N	3	5	288470	 Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, 
47N	3	6	288480	 who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 
47N	3	7	288490	 Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses' face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, 
47N	3	8	288500	 will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory? 
47N	3	9	288510	 For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory. 
47N	3	10	288520	 Indeed, in this case, what once had glory has come to have no glory at all, because of the glory that surpasses it. 
47N	3	11	288530	 For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, much more will what is permanent have glory. 
47N	3	12	288540	 Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, 
47N	3	13	288550	 not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. 
47N	3	14	288560	 But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away. 
47N	3	15	288570	 Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. 
47N	3	16	288580	 But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. 
47N	3	17	288590	 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 
47N	3	18	288600	 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. 
47N	4	1	288610	 Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. 
47N	4	2	288620	 But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God. 
47N	4	3	288630	 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing. 
47N	4	4	288640	 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 
47N	4	5	288650	 For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. 
47N	4	6	288660	 For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 
47N	4	7	288670	 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. 
47N	4	8	288680	 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; 
47N	4	9	288690	 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 
47N	4	10	288700	 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. 
47N	4	11	288710	 For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 
47N	4	12	288720	 So death is at work in us, but life in you. 
47N	4	13	288730	 Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, "I believed, and so I spoke," we also believe, and so we also speak, 
47N	4	14	288740	 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. 
47N	4	15	288750	 For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God. 
47N	4	16	288760	 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 
47N	4	17	288770	 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 
47N	4	18	288780	 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. 
47N	5	1	288790	 For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 
47N	5	2	288800	 For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, 
47N	5	3	288810	 if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. 
47N	5	4	288820	 For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened--not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 
47N	5	5	288830	 He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. 
47N	5	6	288840	 So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, 
47N	5	7	288850	 for we walk by faith, not by sight. 
47N	5	8	288860	 Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 
47N	5	9	288870	 So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. 
47N	5	10	288880	 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil. 
47N	5	11	288890	 Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience. 
47N	5	12	288900	 We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart. 
47N	5	13	288910	 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 
47N	5	14	288920	 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 
47N	5	15	288930	 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. 
47N	5	16	288940	 From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. 
47N	5	17	288950	 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 
47N	5	18	288960	 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 
47N	5	19	288970	 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 
47N	5	20	288980	 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 
47N	5	21	288990	 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 
47N	6	1	289000	 Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. 
47N	6	2	289010	 For he says, "In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you." Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. 
47N	6	3	289020	 We put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, 
47N	6	4	289030	 but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, 
47N	6	5	289040	 beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; 
47N	6	6	289050	 by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; 
47N	6	7	289060	 by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; 
47N	6	8	289070	 through honor and dishonor, through slander and praise. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; 
47N	6	9	289080	 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and yet not killed; 
47N	6	10	289090	 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything. 
47N	6	11	289100	 We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide open. 
47N	6	12	289110	 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections. 
47N	6	13	289120	 In return (I speak as to children) widen your hearts also. 
47N	6	14	289130	 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? 
47N	6	15	289140	 What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? 
47N	6	16	289150	 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 
47N	6	17	289160	 Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, 
47N	6	18	289170	 and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty." 
47N	7	1	289180	 Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God. 
47N	7	2	289190	 Make room in your hearts for us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one. 
47N	7	3	289200	 I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together. 
47N	7	4	289210	 I am acting with great boldness toward you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy. 
47N	7	5	289220	 For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn--fighting without and fear within. 
47N	7	6	289230	 But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, 
47N	7	7	289240	 and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted by you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more. 
47N	7	8	289250	 For even if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it--though I did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while. 
47N	7	9	289260	 As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. 
47N	7	10	289270	 For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. 
47N	7	11	289280	 For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter. 
47N	7	12	289290	 So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the one who did the wrong, nor for the sake of the one who suffered the wrong, but in order that your earnestness for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God. 
47N	7	13	289300	 Therefore we are comforted. And besides our own comfort, we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. 
47N	7	14	289310	 For whatever boasts I made to him about you, I was not put to shame. But just as everything we said to you was true, so also our boasting before Titus has proved true. 
47N	7	15	289320	 And his affection for you is even greater, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling. 
47N	7	16	289330	 I rejoice, because I have perfect confidence in you. 
47N	8	1	289340	 We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, 
47N	8	2	289350	 for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. 
47N	8	3	289360	 For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord, 
47N	8	4	289370	 begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints-- 
47N	8	5	289380	 and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us. 
47N	8	6	289390	 Accordingly, we urged Titus that as he had started, so he should complete among you this act of grace. 
47N	8	7	289400	 But as you excel in everything--in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you--see that you excel in this act of grace also. 
47N	8	8	289410	 I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine. 
47N	8	9	289420	 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich. 
47N	8	10	289430	 And in this matter I give my judgment: this benefits you, who a year ago started not only to do this work but also to desire to do it. 
47N	8	11	289440	 So now finish doing it as well, so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have. 
47N	8	12	289450	 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have. 
47N	8	13	289460	 For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of fairness 
47N	8	14	289470	 your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness. 
47N	8	15	289480	 As it is written, "Whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack." 
47N	8	16	289490	 But thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same earnest care I have for you. 
47N	8	17	289500	 For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest he is going to you of his own accord. 
47N	8	18	289510	 With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his preaching of the gospel. 
47N	8	19	289520	 And not only that, but he has been appointed by the churches to travel with us as we carry out this act of grace that is being ministered by us, for the glory of the Lord himself and to show our good will. 
47N	8	20	289530	 We take this course so that no one should blame us about this generous gift that is being administered by us, 
47N	8	21	289540	 for we aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord's sight but also in the sight of man. 
47N	8	22	289550	 And with them we are sending our brother whom we have often tested and found earnest in many matters, but who is now more earnest than ever because of his great confidence in you. 
47N	8	23	289560	 As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for your benefit. And as for our brothers, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ. 
47N	8	24	289570	 So give proof before the churches of your love and of our boasting about you to these men. 
47N	9	1	289580	 Now it is superfluous for me to write to you about the ministry for the saints, 
47N	9	2	289590	 for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year. And your zeal has stirred up most of them. 
47N	9	3	289600	 But I am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you may not prove empty in this matter, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be. 
47N	9	4	289610	 Otherwise, if some Macedonians come with me and find that you are not ready, we would be humiliated--to say nothing of you--for being so confident. 
47N	9	5	289620	 So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for the gift you have promised, so that it may be ready as a willing gift, not as an exaction. 
47N	9	6	289630	 The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 
47N	9	7	289640	 Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 
47N	9	8	289650	 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. 
47N	9	9	289660	 As it is written, "He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever." 
47N	9	10	289670	 He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. 
47N	9	11	289680	 You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. 
47N	9	12	289690	 For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God. 
47N	9	13	289700	 By their approval of this service, they will glorify God because of your submission flowing from your confession of the gospel of Christ, and the generosity of your contribution for them and for all others, 
47N	9	14	289710	 while they long for you and pray for you, because of the surpassing grace of God upon you. 
47N	9	15	289720	 Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift! 
47N	10	1	289730	 I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ--I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away!-- 
47N	10	2	289740	 I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of walking according to the flesh. 
47N	10	3	289750	 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 
47N	10	4	289760	 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. 
47N	10	5	289770	 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, 
47N	10	6	289780	 being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete. 
47N	10	7	289790	 Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ's, so also are we. 
47N	10	8	289800	 For even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be ashamed. 
47N	10	9	289810	 I do not want to appear to be frightening you with my letters. 
47N	10	10	289820	 For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account." 
47N	10	11	289830	 Let such a person understand that what we say by letter when absent, we do when present. 
47N	10	12	289840	 Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding. 
47N	10	13	289850	 But we will not boast beyond limits, but will boast only with regard to the area of influence God assigned to us, to reach even to you. 
47N	10	14	289860	 For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you. For we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ. 
47N	10	15	289870	 We do not boast beyond limit in the labors of others. But our hope is that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you may be greatly enlarged, 
47N	10	16	289880	 so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in another's area of influence. 
47N	10	17	289890	 "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord." 
47N	10	18	289900	 For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends. 
47N	11	1	289910	 I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! 
47N	11	2	289920	 For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. 
47N	11	3	289930	 But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. 
47N	11	4	289940	 For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough. 
47N	11	5	289950	 Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles. 
47N	11	6	289960	 Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge; indeed, in every way we have made this plain to you in all things. 
47N	11	7	289970	 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God's gospel to you free of charge? 
47N	11	8	289980	 I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you. 
47N	11	9	289990	 And when I was with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way. 
47N	11	10	290000	 As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia. 
47N	11	11	290010	 And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do! 
47N	11	12	290020	 And what I do I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do. 
47N	11	13	290030	 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 
47N	11	14	290040	 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 
47N	11	15	290050	 So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds. 
47N	11	16	290060	 I repeat, let no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. 
47N	11	17	290070	 What I am saying with this boastful confidence, I say not with the Lord's authority but as a fool. 
47N	11	18	290080	 Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast. 
47N	11	19	290090	 For you gladly bear with fools, being wise yourselves! 
47N	11	20	290100	 For you bear it if someone makes slaves of you, or devours you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face. 
47N	11	21	290110	 To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that! But whatever anyone else dares to boast of--I am speaking as a fool--I also dare to boast of that. 
47N	11	22	290120	 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I. 
47N	11	23	290130	 Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one--I am talking like a madman--with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. 
47N	11	24	290140	 Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. 
47N	11	25	290150	 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; 
47N	11	26	290160	 on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; 
47N	11	27	290170	 in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. 
47N	11	28	290180	 And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches. 
47N	11	29	290190	 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant? 
47N	11	30	290200	 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. 
47N	11	31	290210	 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying. 
47N	11	32	290220	 At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to seize me, 
47N	11	33	290230	 but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands. 
47N	12	1	290240	 I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. 
47N	12	2	290250	 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven--whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. 
47N	12	3	290260	 And I know that this man was caught up into paradise--whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows-- 
47N	12	4	290270	 and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter. 
47N	12	5	290280	 On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses. 
47N	12	6	290290	 Though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. 
47N	12	7	290300	 So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 
47N	12	8	290310	 Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 
47N	12	9	290320	 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 
47N	12	10	290330	 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 
47N	12	11	290340	 I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing. 
47N	12	12	290350	 The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works. 
47N	12	13	290360	 For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong! 
47N	12	14	290370	 Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. 
47N	12	15	290380	 I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less? 
47N	12	16	290390	 But granting that I myself did not burden you, I was crafty, you say, and got the better of you by deceit. 
47N	12	17	290400	 Did I take advantage of you through any of those whom I sent to you? 
47N	12	18	290410	 I urged Titus to go, and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not act in the same spirit? Did we not take the same steps? 
47N	12	19	290420	 Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved. 
47N	12	20	290430	 For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish--that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder. 
47N	12	21	290440	 I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality that they have practiced. 
47N	13	1	290450	 This is the third time I am coming to you. Every charge must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. 
47N	13	2	290460	 I warned those who sinned before and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that if I come again I will not spare them-- 
47N	13	3	290470	 since you seek proof that Christ is speaking in me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you. 
47N	13	4	290480	 For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God. 
47N	13	5	290490	 Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless indeed you fail to meet the test! 
47N	13	6	290500	 I hope you will find out that we have not failed the test. 
47N	13	7	290510	 But we pray to God that you may not do wrong--not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may seem to have failed. 
47N	13	8	290520	 For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth. 
47N	13	9	290530	 For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. Your restoration is what we pray for. 
47N	13	10	290540	 For this reason I write these things while I am away from you, that when I come I may not have to be severe in my use of the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down. 
47N	13	11	290550	 Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. 
47N	13	12	290560	 Greet one another with a holy kiss. 
47N	13	13	290570	 All the saints greet you. 
47N	13	14	290580	 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 
48N	1	1	290590	 Paul, an apostle--not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead-- 
48N	1	2	290600	 and all the brothers who are with me, To the churches of Galatia: 
48N	1	3	290610	 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 
48N	1	4	290620	 who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 
48N	1	5	290630	 to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. 
48N	1	6	290640	 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel-- 
48N	1	7	290650	 not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 
48N	1	8	290660	 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. 
48N	1	9	290670	 As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed. 
48N	1	10	290680	 For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ. 
48N	1	11	290690	 For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel. 
48N	1	12	290700	 For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. 
48N	1	13	290710	 For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it. 
48N	1	14	290720	 And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers. 
48N	1	15	290730	 But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace, 
48N	1	16	290740	 was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone; 
48N	1	17	290750	 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus. 
48N	1	18	290760	 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and remained with him fifteen days. 
48N	1	19	290770	 But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord's brother. 
48N	1	20	290780	 (In what I am writing to you, before God, I do not lie!) 
48N	1	21	290790	 Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. 
48N	1	22	290800	 And I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ. 
48N	1	23	290810	 They only were hearing it said, "He who used to persecute us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy." 
48N	1	24	290820	 And they glorified God because of me. 
48N	2	1	290830	 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me. 
48N	2	2	290840	 I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain. 
48N	2	3	290850	 But even Titus, who was with me, was not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek. 
48N	2	4	290860	 Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in--who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery-- 
48N	2	5	290870	 to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you. 
48N	2	6	290880	 And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)--those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me. 
48N	2	7	290890	 On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised 
48N	2	8	290900	 (for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles), 
48N	2	9	290910	 and when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. 
48N	2	10	290920	 Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do. 
48N	2	11	290930	 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. 
48N	2	12	290940	 For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. 
48N	2	13	290950	 And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. 
48N	2	14	290960	 But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, "If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?" 
48N	2	15	290970	 We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; 
48N	2	16	290980	 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified. 
48N	2	17	290990	 But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not! 
48N	2	18	291000	 For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor. 
48N	2	19	291010	 For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. 
48N	2	20	291020	 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 
48N	2	21	291030	 I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose. 
48N	3	1	291040	 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. 
48N	3	2	291050	 Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? 
48N	3	3	291060	 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? 
48N	3	4	291070	 Did you suffer so many things in vain--if indeed it was in vain? 
48N	3	5	291080	 Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith-- 
48N	3	6	291090	 just as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"? 
48N	3	7	291100	 Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. 
48N	3	8	291110	 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed." 
48N	3	9	291120	 So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith. 
48N	3	10	291130	 For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them." 
48N	3	11	291140	 Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith." 
48N	3	12	291150	 But the law is not of faith, rather "The one who does them shall live by them." 
48N	3	13	291160	 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us--for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree"-- 
48N	3	14	291170	 so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith. 
48N	3	15	291180	 To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. 
48N	3	16	291190	 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many, but referring to one, "And to your offspring," who is Christ. 
48N	3	17	291200	 This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void. 
48N	3	18	291210	 For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise. 
48N	3	19	291220	 Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary. 
48N	3	20	291230	 Now an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one. 
48N	3	21	291240	 Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law. 
48N	3	22	291250	 But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 
48N	3	23	291260	 Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. 
48N	3	24	291270	 So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. 
48N	3	25	291280	 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, 
48N	3	26	291290	 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. 
48N	3	27	291300	 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 
48N	3	28	291310	 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 
48N	3	29	291320	 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise. 
48N	4	1	291330	 I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, 
48N	4	2	291340	 but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. 
48N	4	3	291350	 In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. 
48N	4	4	291360	 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 
48N	4	5	291370	 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 
48N	4	6	291380	 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" 
48N	4	7	291390	 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God. 
48N	4	8	291400	 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. 
48N	4	9	291410	 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? 
48N	4	10	291420	 You observe days and months and seasons and years! 
48N	4	11	291430	 I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain. 
48N	4	12	291440	 Brothers, I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong. 
48N	4	13	291450	 You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first, 
48N	4	14	291460	 and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus. 
48N	4	15	291470	 What then has become of the blessing you felt? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me. 
48N	4	16	291480	 Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth? 
48N	4	17	291490	 They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them. 
48N	4	18	291500	 It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and not only when I am present with you, 
48N	4	19	291510	 my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you! 
48N	4	20	291520	 I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you. 
48N	4	21	291530	 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? 
48N	4	22	291540	 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. 
48N	4	23	291550	 But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise. 
48N	4	24	291560	 Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. 
48N	4	25	291570	 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. 
48N	4	26	291580	 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. 
48N	4	27	291590	 For it is written, "Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband." 
48N	4	28	291600	 Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. 
48N	4	29	291610	 But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. 
48N	4	30	291620	 But what does the Scripture say? "Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman." 
48N	4	31	291630	 So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman. 
48N	5	1	291640	 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. 
48N	5	2	291650	 Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. 
48N	5	3	291660	 I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. 
48N	5	4	291670	 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. 
48N	5	5	291680	 For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. 
48N	5	6	291690	 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love. 
48N	5	7	291700	 You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? 
48N	5	8	291710	 This persuasion is not from him who calls you. 
48N	5	9	291720	 A little leaven leavens the whole lump. 
48N	5	10	291730	 I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view than mine, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is. 
48N	5	11	291740	 But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed. 
48N	5	12	291750	 I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves! 
48N	5	13	291760	 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 
48N	5	14	291770	 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 
48N	5	15	291780	 But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another. 
48N	5	16	291790	 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 
48N	5	17	291800	 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 
48N	5	18	291810	 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 
48N	5	19	291820	 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 
48N	5	20	291830	 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 
48N	5	21	291840	 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 
48N	5	22	291850	 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 
48N	5	23	291860	 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 
48N	5	24	291870	 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 
48N	5	25	291880	 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. 
48N	5	26	291890	 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. 
48N	6	1	291900	 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. 
48N	6	2	291910	 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 
48N	6	3	291920	 For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 
48N	6	4	291930	 But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. 
48N	6	5	291940	 For each will have to bear his own load. 
48N	6	6	291950	 One who is taught the word must share all good things with the one who teaches. 
48N	6	7	291960	 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. 
48N	6	8	291970	 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. 
48N	6	9	291980	 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. 
48N	6	10	291990	 So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith. 
48N	6	11	292000	 See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand. 
48N	6	12	292010	 It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. 
48N	6	13	292020	 For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. 
48N	6	14	292030	 But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 
48N	6	15	292040	 For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. 
48N	6	16	292050	 And as for all who walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God. 
48N	6	17	292060	 From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus. 
48N	6	18	292070	 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen. 
49N	1	1	292080	 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus: 
49N	1	2	292090	 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 
49N	1	3	292100	 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 
49N	1	4	292110	 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 
49N	1	5	292120	 he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 
49N	1	6	292130	 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. 
49N	1	7	292140	 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 
49N	1	8	292150	 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 
49N	1	9	292160	 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 
49N	1	10	292170	 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. 
49N	1	11	292180	 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 
49N	1	12	292190	 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. 
49N	1	13	292200	 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 
49N	1	14	292210	 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. 
49N	1	15	292220	 For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, 
49N	1	16	292230	 I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, 
49N	1	17	292240	 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, 
49N	1	18	292250	 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 
49N	1	19	292260	 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might 
49N	1	20	292270	 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, 
49N	1	21	292280	 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. 
49N	1	22	292290	 And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, 
49N	1	23	292300	 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. 
49N	2	1	292310	 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 
49N	2	2	292320	 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience-- 
49N	2	3	292330	 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 
49N	2	4	292340	 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 
49N	2	5	292350	 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved-- 
49N	2	6	292360	 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 
49N	2	7	292370	 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 
49N	2	8	292380	 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 
49N	2	9	292390	 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 
49N	2	10	292400	 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. 
49N	2	11	292410	 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands-- 
49N	2	12	292420	 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 
49N	2	13	292430	 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 
49N	2	14	292440	 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 
49N	2	15	292450	 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 
49N	2	16	292460	 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 
49N	2	17	292470	 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. 
49N	2	18	292480	 For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 
49N	2	19	292490	 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 
49N	2	20	292500	 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 
49N	2	21	292510	 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 
49N	2	22	292520	 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit. 
49N	3	1	292530	 For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles-- 
49N	3	2	292540	 assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you, 
49N	3	3	292550	 how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. 
49N	3	4	292560	 When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, 
49N	3	5	292570	 which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. 
49N	3	6	292580	 This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel. 
49N	3	7	292590	 Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace, which was given me by the working of his power. 
49N	3	8	292600	 To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, 
49N	3	9	292610	 and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things, 
49N	3	10	292620	 so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. 
49N	3	11	292630	 This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, 
49N	3	12	292640	 in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him. 
49N	3	13	292650	 So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory. 
49N	3	14	292660	 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 
49N	3	15	292670	 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 
49N	3	16	292680	 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 
49N	3	17	292690	 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith--that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 
49N	3	18	292700	 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 
49N	3	19	292710	 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 
49N	3	20	292720	 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, 
49N	3	21	292730	 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen. 
49N	4	1	292740	 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 
49N	4	2	292750	 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 
49N	4	3	292760	 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 
49N	4	4	292770	 There is one body and one Spirit--just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call-- 
49N	4	5	292780	 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 
49N	4	6	292790	 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. 
49N	4	7	292800	 But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. 
49N	4	8	292810	 Therefore it says, "When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men." 
49N	4	9	292820	 (In saying, "He ascended," what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? 
49N	4	10	292830	 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) 
49N	4	11	292840	 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 
49N	4	12	292850	 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 
49N	4	13	292860	 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 
49N	4	14	292870	 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 
49N	4	15	292880	 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 
49N	4	16	292890	 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. 
49N	4	17	292900	 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 
49N	4	18	292910	 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 
49N	4	19	292920	 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 
49N	4	20	292930	 But that is not the way you learned Christ!-- 
49N	4	21	292940	 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 
49N	4	22	292950	 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 
49N	4	23	292960	 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 
49N	4	24	292970	 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. 
49N	4	25	292980	 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 
49N	4	26	292990	 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 
49N	4	27	293000	 and give no opportunity to the devil. 
49N	4	28	293010	 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. 
49N	4	29	293020	 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. 
49N	4	30	293030	 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 
49N	4	31	293040	 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 
49N	4	32	293050	 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. 
49N	5	1	293060	 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. 
49N	5	2	293070	 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. 
49N	5	3	293080	 But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. 
49N	5	4	293090	 Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. 
49N	5	5	293100	 For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 
49N	5	6	293110	 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 
49N	5	7	293120	 Therefore do not become partners with them; 
49N	5	8	293130	 for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 
49N	5	9	293140	 (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), 
49N	5	10	293150	 and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. 
49N	5	11	293160	 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. 
49N	5	12	293170	 For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. 
49N	5	13	293180	 But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, 
49N	5	14	293190	 for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." 
49N	5	15	293200	 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 
49N	5	16	293210	 making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. 
49N	5	17	293220	 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 
49N	5	18	293230	 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, 
49N	5	19	293240	 addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, 
49N	5	20	293250	 giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
49N	5	21	293260	 submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. 
49N	5	22	293270	 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 
49N	5	23	293280	 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 
49N	5	24	293290	 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. 
49N	5	25	293300	 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 
49N	5	26	293310	 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 
49N	5	27	293320	 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 
49N	5	28	293330	 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 
49N	5	29	293340	 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 
49N	5	30	293350	 because we are members of his body. 
49N	5	31	293360	 "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." 
49N	5	32	293370	 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 
49N	5	33	293380	 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. 
49N	6	1	293390	 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 
49N	6	2	293400	 "Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise), 
49N	6	3	293410	 "that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land." 
49N	6	4	293420	 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. 
49N	6	5	293430	 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, 
49N	6	6	293440	 not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 
49N	6	7	293450	 rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, 
49N	6	8	293460	 knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free. 
49N	6	9	293470	 Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him. 
49N	6	10	293480	 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 
49N	6	11	293490	 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. 
49N	6	12	293500	 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. 
49N	6	13	293510	 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. 
49N	6	14	293520	 Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 
49N	6	15	293530	 and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. 
49N	6	16	293540	 In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; 
49N	6	17	293550	 and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, 
49N	6	18	293560	 praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, 
49N	6	19	293570	 and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, 
49N	6	20	293580	 for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak. 
49N	6	21	293590	 So that you also may know how I am and what I am doing, Tychicus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will tell you everything. 
49N	6	22	293600	 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage your hearts. 
49N	6	23	293610	 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 
49N	6	24	293620	 Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible. 
50N	1	1	293630	 Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons: 
50N	1	2	293640	 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 
50N	1	3	293650	 I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, 
50N	1	4	293660	 always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, 
50N	1	5	293670	 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. 
50N	1	6	293680	 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. 
50N	1	7	293690	 It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. 
50N	1	8	293700	 For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus. 
50N	1	9	293710	 And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, 
50N	1	10	293720	 so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, 
50N	1	11	293730	 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. 
50N	1	12	293740	 I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel, 
50N	1	13	293750	 so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ. 
50N	1	14	293760	 And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold to speak the word without fear. 
50N	1	15	293770	 Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will. 
50N	1	16	293780	 The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. 
50N	1	17	293790	 The former proclaim Christ out of rivalry, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment. 
50N	1	18	293800	 What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice, 
50N	1	19	293810	 for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance, 
50N	1	20	293820	 as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death. 
50N	1	21	293830	 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 
50N	1	22	293840	 If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. 
50N	1	23	293850	 I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. 
50N	1	24	293860	 But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account. 
50N	1	25	293870	 Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith, 
50N	1	26	293880	 so that in me you may have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus, because of my coming to you again. 
50N	1	27	293890	 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, 
50N	1	28	293900	 and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God. 
50N	1	29	293910	 For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake, 
50N	1	30	293920	 engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have. 
50N	2	1	293930	 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 
50N	2	2	293940	 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 
50N	2	3	293950	 Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 
50N	2	4	293960	 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 
50N	2	5	293970	 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 
50N	2	6	293980	 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 
50N	2	7	293990	 but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 
50N	2	8	294000	 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 
50N	2	9	294010	 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 
50N	2	10	294020	 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 
50N	2	11	294030	 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 
50N	2	12	294040	 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, 
50N	2	13	294050	 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. 
50N	2	14	294060	 Do all things without grumbling or questioning, 
50N	2	15	294070	 that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, 
50N	2	16	294080	 holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain. 
50N	2	17	294090	 Even if I am to be poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. 
50N	2	18	294100	 Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me. 
50N	2	19	294110	 I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be cheered by news of you. 
50N	2	20	294120	 For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare. 
50N	2	21	294130	 For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. 
50N	2	22	294140	 But you know Timothy's proven worth, how as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel. 
50N	2	23	294150	 I hope therefore to send him just as soon as I see how it will go with me, 
50N	2	24	294160	 and I trust in the Lord that shortly I myself will come also. 
50N	2	25	294170	 I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need, 
50N	2	26	294180	 for he has been longing for you all and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill. 
50N	2	27	294190	 Indeed he was ill, near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. 
50N	2	28	294200	 I am the more eager to send him, therefore, that you may rejoice at seeing him again, and that I may be less anxious. 
50N	2	29	294210	 So receive him in the Lord with all joy, and honor such men, 
50N	2	30	294220	 for he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was lacking in your service to me. 
50N	3	1	294230	 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you. 
50N	3	2	294240	 Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh. 
50N	3	3	294250	 For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh-- 
50N	3	4	294260	 though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: 
50N	3	5	294270	 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; 
50N	3	6	294280	 as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. 
50N	3	7	294290	 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 
50N	3	8	294300	 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 
50N	3	9	294310	 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith-- 
50N	3	10	294320	 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 
50N	3	11	294330	 that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. 
50N	3	12	294340	 Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 
50N	3	13	294350	 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 
50N	3	14	294360	 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 
50N	3	15	294370	 Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. 
50N	3	16	294380	 Only let us hold true to what we have attained. 
50N	3	17	294390	 Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. 
50N	3	18	294400	 For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. 
50N	3	19	294410	 Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. 
50N	3	20	294420	 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 
50N	3	21	294430	 who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. 
50N	4	1	294440	 Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved. 
50N	4	2	294450	 I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. 
50N	4	3	294460	 Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. 
50N	4	4	294470	 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 
50N	4	5	294480	 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; 
50N	4	6	294490	 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 
50N	4	7	294500	 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 
50N	4	8	294510	 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. 
50N	4	9	294520	 What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me--practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. 
50N	4	10	294530	 I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity. 
50N	4	11	294540	 Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. 
50N	4	12	294550	 I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. 
50N	4	13	294560	 I can do all things through him who strengthens me. 
50N	4	14	294570	 Yet it was kind of you to share my trouble. 
50N	4	15	294580	 And you Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church entered into partnership with me in giving and receiving, except you only. 
50N	4	16	294590	 Even in Thessalonica you sent me help for my needs once and again. 
50N	4	17	294600	 Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that increases to your credit. 
50N	4	18	294610	 I have received full payment, and more. I am well supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God. 
50N	4	19	294620	 And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. 
50N	4	20	294630	 To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen. 
50N	4	21	294640	 Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you. 
50N	4	22	294650	 All the saints greet you, especially those of Caesar's household. 
50N	4	23	294660	 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. 
51N	1	1	294670	 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, 
51N	1	2	294680	 To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. 
51N	1	3	294690	 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 
51N	1	4	294700	 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, 
51N	1	5	294710	 because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, 
51N	1	6	294720	 which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and growing--as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth, 
51N	1	7	294730	 just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf 
51N	1	8	294740	 and has made known to us your love in the Spirit. 
51N	1	9	294750	 And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 
51N	1	10	294760	 so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. 
51N	1	11	294770	 May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, 
51N	1	12	294780	 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. 
51N	1	13	294790	 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 
51N	1	14	294800	 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. 
51N	1	15	294810	 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 
51N	1	16	294820	 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things were created through him and for him. 
51N	1	17	294830	 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 
51N	1	18	294840	 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. 
51N	1	19	294850	 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 
51N	1	20	294860	 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. 
51N	1	21	294870	 And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, 
51N	1	22	294880	 he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, 
51N	1	23	294890	 if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister. 
51N	1	24	294900	 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church, 
51N	1	25	294910	 of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, 
51N	1	26	294920	 the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints. 
51N	1	27	294930	 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 
51N	1	28	294940	 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. 
51N	1	29	294950	 For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me. 
51N	2	1	294960	 For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, 
51N	2	2	294970	 that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, 
51N	2	3	294980	 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 
51N	2	4	294990	 I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. 
51N	2	5	295000	 For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. 
51N	2	6	295010	 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 
51N	2	7	295020	 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. 
51N	2	8	295030	 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. 
51N	2	9	295040	 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, 
51N	2	10	295050	 and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. 
51N	2	11	295060	 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 
51N	2	12	295070	 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. 
51N	2	13	295080	 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 
51N	2	14	295090	 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 
51N	2	15	295100	 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him. 
51N	2	16	295110	 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. 
51N	2	17	295120	 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. 
51N	2	18	295130	 Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, 
51N	2	19	295140	 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God. 
51N	2	20	295150	 If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations-- 
51N	2	21	295160	 "Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch" 
51N	2	22	295170	 (referring to things that all perish as they are used)--according to human precepts and teachings? 
51N	2	23	295180	 These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh. 
51N	3	1	295190	 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 
51N	3	2	295200	 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 
51N	3	3	295210	 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 
51N	3	4	295220	 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 
51N	3	5	295230	 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 
51N	3	6	295240	 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 
51N	3	7	295250	 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 
51N	3	8	295260	 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 
51N	3	9	295270	 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 
51N	3	10	295280	 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 
51N	3	11	295290	 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. 
51N	3	12	295300	 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 
51N	3	13	295310	 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 
51N	3	14	295320	 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 
51N	3	15	295330	 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 
51N	3	16	295340	 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 
51N	3	17	295350	 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. 
51N	3	18	295360	 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 
51N	3	19	295370	 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. 
51N	3	20	295380	 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. 
51N	3	21	295390	 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. 
51N	3	22	295400	 Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. 
51N	3	23	295410	 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, 
51N	3	24	295420	 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. 
51N	3	25	295430	 For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality. 
51N	4	1	295440	 Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. 
51N	4	2	295450	 Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. 
51N	4	3	295460	 At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison-- 
51N	4	4	295470	 that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. 
51N	4	5	295480	 Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. 
51N	4	6	295490	 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. 
51N	4	7	295500	 Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord. 
51N	4	8	295510	 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts, 
51N	4	9	295520	 and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here. 
51N	4	10	295530	 Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you have received instructions--if he comes to you, welcome him), 
51N	4	11	295540	 and Jesus who is called Justus. These are the only men of the circumcision among my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me. 
51N	4	12	295550	 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God. 
51N	4	13	295560	 For I bear him witness that he has worked hard for you and for those in Laodicea and in Hierapolis. 
51N	4	14	295570	 Luke the beloved physician greets you, as does Demas. 
51N	4	15	295580	 Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house. 
51N	4	16	295590	 And when this letter has been read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that you also read the letter from Laodicea. 
51N	4	17	295600	 And say to Archippus, "See that you fulfill the ministry that you have received in the Lord." 
51N	4	18	295610	 I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you. 
52N	1	1	295620	 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace. 
52N	1	2	295630	 We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, 
52N	1	3	295640	 remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. 
52N	1	4	295650	 For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you, 
52N	1	5	295660	 because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake. 
52N	1	6	295670	 And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit, 
52N	1	7	295680	 so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. 
52N	1	8	295690	 For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere, so that we need not say anything. 
52N	1	9	295700	 For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 
52N	1	10	295710	 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come. 
52N	2	1	295720	 For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain. 
52N	2	2	295730	 But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict. 
52N	2	3	295740	 For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive, 
52N	2	4	295750	 but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts. 
52N	2	5	295760	 For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed--God is witness. 
52N	2	6	295770	 Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ. 
52N	2	7	295780	 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children. 
52N	2	8	295790	 So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us. 
52N	2	9	295800	 For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. 
52N	2	10	295810	 You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers. 
52N	2	11	295820	 For you know how, like a father with his children, 
52N	2	12	295830	 we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory. 
52N	2	13	295840	 And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers. 
52N	2	14	295850	 For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews, 
52N	2	15	295860	 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind 
52N	2	16	295870	 by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved--so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last! 
52N	2	17	295880	 But since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face, 
52N	2	18	295890	 because we wanted to come to you--I, Paul, again and again--but Satan hindered us. 
52N	2	19	295900	 For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you? 
52N	2	20	295910	 For you are our glory and joy. 
52N	3	1	295920	 Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left behind at Athens alone, 
52N	3	2	295930	 and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith, 
52N	3	3	295940	 that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this. 
52N	3	4	295950	 For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, just as it has come to pass, and just as you know. 
52N	3	5	295960	 For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain. 
52N	3	6	295970	 But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you-- 
52N	3	7	295980	 for this reason, brothers, in all our distress and affliction we have been comforted about you through your faith. 
52N	3	8	295990	 For now we live, if you are standing fast in the Lord. 
52N	3	9	296000	 For what thanksgiving can we return to God for you, for all the joy that we feel for your sake before our God, 
52N	3	10	296010	 as we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith? 
52N	3	11	296020	 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you, 
52N	3	12	296030	 and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you, 
52N	3	13	296040	 so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. 
52N	4	1	296050	 Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. 
52N	4	2	296060	 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 
52N	4	3	296070	 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 
52N	4	4	296080	 that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 
52N	4	5	296090	 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; 
52N	4	6	296100	 that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. 
52N	4	7	296110	 For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. 
52N	4	8	296120	 Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you. 
52N	4	9	296130	 Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another, 
52N	4	10	296140	 for that indeed is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more, 
52N	4	11	296150	 and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, 
52N	4	12	296160	 so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one. 
52N	4	13	296170	 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 
52N	4	14	296180	 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 
52N	4	15	296190	 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 
52N	4	16	296200	 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 
52N	4	17	296210	 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 
52N	4	18	296220	 Therefore encourage one another with these words. 
52N	5	1	296230	 Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. 
52N	5	2	296240	 For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 
52N	5	3	296250	 While people are saying, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. 
52N	5	4	296260	 But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. 
52N	5	5	296270	 For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. 
52N	5	6	296280	 So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. 
52N	5	7	296290	 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. 
52N	5	8	296300	 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. 
52N	5	9	296310	 For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 
52N	5	10	296320	 who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him. 
52N	5	11	296330	 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. 
52N	5	12	296340	 We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, 
52N	5	13	296350	 and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves. 
52N	5	14	296360	 And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. 
52N	5	15	296370	 See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone. 
52N	5	16	296380	 Rejoice always, 
52N	5	17	296390	 pray without ceasing, 
52N	5	18	296400	 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 
52N	5	19	296410	 Do not quench the Spirit. 
52N	5	20	296420	 Do not despise prophecies, 
52N	5	21	296430	 but test everything; hold fast what is good. 
52N	5	22	296440	 Abstain from every form of evil. 
52N	5	23	296450	 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
52N	5	24	296460	 He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it. 
52N	5	25	296470	 Brothers, pray for us. 
52N	5	26	296480	 Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss. 
52N	5	27	296490	 I put you under oath before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers. 
52N	5	28	296500	 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. 
53N	1	1	296510	 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: 
53N	1	2	296520	 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 
53N	1	3	296530	 We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. 
53N	1	4	296540	 Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. 
53N	1	5	296550	 This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering-- 
53N	1	6	296560	 since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 
53N	1	7	296570	 and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels 
53N	1	8	296580	 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 
53N	1	9	296590	 They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 
53N	1	10	296600	 when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed. 
53N	1	11	296610	 To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, 
53N	1	12	296620	 so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. 
53N	2	1	296630	 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, 
53N	2	2	296640	 not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 
53N	2	3	296650	 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 
53N	2	4	296660	 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. 
53N	2	5	296670	 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 
53N	2	6	296680	 And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. 
53N	2	7	296690	 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. 
53N	2	8	296700	 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. 
53N	2	9	296710	 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, 
53N	2	10	296720	 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 
53N	2	11	296730	 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, 
53N	2	12	296740	 in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 
53N	2	13	296750	 But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. 
53N	2	14	296760	 To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
53N	2	15	296770	 So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter. 
53N	2	16	296780	 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, 
53N	2	17	296790	 comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word. 
53N	3	1	296800	 Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you, 
53N	3	2	296810	 and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith. 
53N	3	3	296820	 But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one. 
53N	3	4	296830	 And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things that we command. 
53N	3	5	296840	 May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ. 
53N	3	6	296850	 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us. 
53N	3	7	296860	 For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you, 
53N	3	8	296870	 nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you. 
53N	3	9	296880	 It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate. 
53N	3	10	296890	 For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. 
53N	3	11	296900	 For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. 
53N	3	12	296910	 Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living. 
53N	3	13	296920	 As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good. 
53N	3	14	296930	 If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed. 
53N	3	15	296940	 Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother. 
53N	3	16	296950	 Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all. 
53N	3	17	296960	 I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. This is the sign of genuineness in every letter of mine; it is the way I write. 
53N	3	18	296970	 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. 
54N	1	1	296980	 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope, 
54N	1	2	296990	 To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 
54N	1	3	297000	 As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, 
54N	1	4	297010	 nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith. 
54N	1	5	297020	 The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. 
54N	1	6	297030	 Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion, 
54N	1	7	297040	 desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions. 
54N	1	8	297050	 Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, 
54N	1	9	297060	 understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, 
54N	1	10	297070	 the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, 
54N	1	11	297080	 in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted. 
54N	1	12	297090	 I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service, 
54N	1	13	297100	 though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, 
54N	1	14	297110	 and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 
54N	1	15	297120	 The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. 
54N	1	16	297130	 But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life. 
54N	1	17	297140	 To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. 
54N	1	18	297150	 This charge I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, 
54N	1	19	297160	 holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith, 
54N	1	20	297170	 among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme. 
54N	2	1	297180	 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, 
54N	2	2	297190	 for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. 
54N	2	3	297200	 This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, 
54N	2	4	297210	 who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 
54N	2	5	297220	 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 
54N	2	6	297230	 who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. 
54N	2	7	297240	 For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. 
54N	2	8	297250	 I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; 
54N	2	9	297260	 likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, 
54N	2	10	297270	 but with what is proper for women who profess godliness--with good works. 
54N	2	11	297280	 Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. 
54N	2	12	297290	 I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. 
54N	2	13	297300	 For Adam was formed first, then Eve; 
54N	2	14	297310	 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. 
54N	2	15	297320	 Yet she will be saved through childbearing--if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control. 
54N	3	1	297330	 The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. 
54N	3	2	297340	 Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 
54N	3	3	297350	 not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. 
54N	3	4	297360	 He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, 
54N	3	5	297370	 for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church? 
54N	3	6	297380	 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil. 
54N	3	7	297390	 Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil. 
54N	3	8	297400	 Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain. 
54N	3	9	297410	 They must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience. 
54N	3	10	297420	 And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless. 
54N	3	11	297430	 Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things. 
54N	3	12	297440	 Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well. 
54N	3	13	297450	 For those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus. 
54N	3	14	297460	 I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these things to you so that, 
54N	3	15	297470	 if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth. 
54N	3	16	297480	 Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory. 
54N	4	1	297490	 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, 
54N	4	2	297500	 through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, 
54N	4	3	297510	 who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 
54N	4	4	297520	 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 
54N	4	5	297530	 for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer. 
54N	4	6	297540	 If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed. 
54N	4	7	297550	 Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness; 
54N	4	8	297560	 for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come. 
54N	4	9	297570	 The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance. 
54N	4	10	297580	 For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe. 
54N	4	11	297590	 Command and teach these things. 
54N	4	12	297600	 Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. 
54N	4	13	297610	 Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching. 
54N	4	14	297620	 Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you. 
54N	4	15	297630	 Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress. 
54N	4	16	297640	 Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers. 
54N	5	1	297650	 Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, 
54N	5	2	297660	 older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity. 
54N	5	3	297670	 Honor widows who are truly widows. 
54N	5	4	297680	 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. 
54N	5	5	297690	 She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day, 
54N	5	6	297700	 but she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives. 
54N	5	7	297710	 Command these things as well, so that they may be without reproach. 
54N	5	8	297720	 But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. 
54N	5	9	297730	 Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband, 
54N	5	10	297740	 and having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work. 
54N	5	11	297750	 But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their passions draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry 
54N	5	12	297760	 and so incur condemnation for having abandoned their former faith. 
54N	5	13	297770	 Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not. 
54N	5	14	297780	 So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander. 
54N	5	15	297790	 For some have already strayed after Satan. 
54N	5	16	297800	 If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care for them. Let the church not be burdened, so that it may care for those who are truly widows. 
54N	5	17	297810	 Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching. 
54N	5	18	297820	 For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain," and, "The laborer deserves his wages." 
54N	5	19	297830	 Do not admit a charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses. 
54N	5	20	297840	 As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear. 
54N	5	21	297850	 In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing nothing from partiality. 
54N	5	22	297860	 Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor take part in the sins of others; keep yourself pure. 
54N	5	23	297870	 (No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.) 
54N	5	24	297880	 The sins of some men are conspicuous, going before them to judgment, but the sins of others appear later. 
54N	5	25	297890	 So also good works are conspicuous, and even those that are not cannot remain hidden. 
54N	6	1	297900	 Let all who are under a yoke as slaves regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. 
54N	6	2	297910	 Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things. 
54N	6	3	297920	 If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, 
54N	6	4	297930	 he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, 
54N	6	5	297940	 and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain. 
54N	6	6	297950	 Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment, 
54N	6	7	297960	 for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. 
54N	6	8	297970	 But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. 
54N	6	9	297980	 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 
54N	6	10	297990	 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs. 
54N	6	11	298000	 But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. 
54N	6	12	298010	 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 
54N	6	13	298020	 I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, 
54N	6	14	298030	 to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
54N	6	15	298040	 which he will display at the proper time--he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 
54N	6	16	298050	 who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen. 
54N	6	17	298060	 As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. 
54N	6	18	298070	 They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, 
54N	6	19	298080	 thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life. 
54N	6	20	298090	 O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called "knowledge," 
54N	6	21	298100	 for by professing it some have swerved from the faith. Grace be with you. 
55N	1	1	298110	 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus, 
55N	1	2	298120	 To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 
55N	1	3	298130	 I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day. 
55N	1	4	298140	 As I remember your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy. 
55N	1	5	298150	 I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well. 
55N	1	6	298160	 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, 
55N	1	7	298170	 for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. 
55N	1	8	298180	 Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God, 
55N	1	9	298190	 who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, 
55N	1	10	298200	 and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 
55N	1	11	298210	 for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher, 
55N	1	12	298220	 which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me. 
55N	1	13	298230	 Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 
55N	1	14	298240	 By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you. 
55N	1	15	298250	 You are aware that all who are in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. 
55N	1	16	298260	 May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains, 
55N	1	17	298270	 but when he arrived in Rome he searched for me earnestly and found me-- 
55N	1	18	298280	 may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that Day!--and you well know all the service he rendered at Ephesus. 
55N	2	1	298290	 You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, 
55N	2	2	298300	 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. 
55N	2	3	298310	 Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 
55N	2	4	298320	 No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. 
55N	2	5	298330	 An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. 
55N	2	6	298340	 It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. 
55N	2	7	298350	 Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything. 
55N	2	8	298360	 Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, 
55N	2	9	298370	 for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound! 
55N	2	10	298380	 Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. 
55N	2	11	298390	 The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him; 
55N	2	12	298400	 if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us; 
55N	2	13	298410	 if we are faithless, he remains faithful-- for he cannot deny himself. 
55N	2	14	298420	 Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. 
55N	2	15	298430	 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. 
55N	2	16	298440	 But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, 
55N	2	17	298450	 and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, 
55N	2	18	298460	 who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some. 
55N	2	19	298470	 But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity." 
55N	2	20	298480	 Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable. 
55N	2	21	298490	 Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work. 
55N	2	22	298500	 So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. 
55N	2	23	298510	 Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. 
55N	2	24	298520	 And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 
55N	2	25	298530	 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, 
55N	2	26	298540	 and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will. 
55N	3	1	298550	 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 
55N	3	2	298560	 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 
55N	3	3	298570	 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 
55N	3	4	298580	 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 
55N	3	5	298590	 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. 
55N	3	6	298600	 For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, 
55N	3	7	298610	 always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. 
55N	3	8	298620	 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith. 
55N	3	9	298630	 But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men. 
55N	3	10	298640	 You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, 
55N	3	11	298650	 my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra--which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me. 
55N	3	12	298660	 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 
55N	3	13	298670	 while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 
55N	3	14	298680	 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it 
55N	3	15	298690	 and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 
55N	3	16	298700	 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 
55N	3	17	298710	 that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. 
55N	4	1	298720	 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 
55N	4	2	298730	 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 
55N	4	3	298740	 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 
55N	4	4	298750	 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 
55N	4	5	298760	 As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. 
55N	4	6	298770	 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. 
55N	4	7	298780	 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 
55N	4	8	298790	 Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing. 
55N	4	9	298800	 Do your best to come to me soon. 
55N	4	10	298810	 For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. 
55N	4	11	298820	 Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry. 
55N	4	12	298830	 Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus. 
55N	4	13	298840	 When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments. 
55N	4	14	298850	 Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds. 
55N	4	15	298860	 Beware of him yourself, for he strongly opposed our message. 
55N	4	16	298870	 At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them! 
55N	4	17	298880	 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's mouth. 
55N	4	18	298890	 The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen. 
55N	4	19	298900	 Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus. 
55N	4	20	298910	 Erastus remained at Corinth, and I left Trophimus, who was ill, at Miletus. 
55N	4	21	298920	 Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus sends greetings to you, as do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brothers. 
55N	4	22	298930	 The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you. 
56N	1	1	298940	 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, 
56N	1	2	298950	 in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began 
56N	1	3	298960	 and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior; 
56N	1	4	298970	 To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. 
56N	1	5	298980	 This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you-- 
56N	1	6	298990	 if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. 
56N	1	7	299000	 For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, 
56N	1	8	299010	 but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. 
56N	1	9	299020	 He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it. 
56N	1	10	299030	 For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party. 
56N	1	11	299040	 They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach. 
56N	1	12	299050	 One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons." 
56N	1	13	299060	 This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, 
56N	1	14	299070	 not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth. 
56N	1	15	299080	 To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. 
56N	1	16	299090	 They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work. 
56N	2	1	299100	 But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. 
56N	2	2	299110	 Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. 
56N	2	3	299120	 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, 
56N	2	4	299130	 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, 
56N	2	5	299140	 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. 
56N	2	6	299150	 Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. 
56N	2	7	299160	 Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, 
56N	2	8	299170	 and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us. 
56N	2	9	299180	 Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, 
56N	2	10	299190	 not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior. 
56N	2	11	299200	 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 
56N	2	12	299210	 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 
56N	2	13	299220	 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 
56N	2	14	299230	 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works. 
56N	2	15	299240	 Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you. 
56N	3	1	299250	 Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, 
56N	3	2	299260	 to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people. 
56N	3	3	299270	 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. 
56N	3	4	299280	 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 
56N	3	5	299290	 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, 
56N	3	6	299300	 whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 
56N	3	7	299310	 so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. 
56N	3	8	299320	 The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people. 
56N	3	9	299330	 But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless. 
56N	3	10	299340	 As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, 
56N	3	11	299350	 knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned. 
56N	3	12	299360	 When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there. 
56N	3	13	299370	 Do your best to speed Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way; see that they lack nothing. 
56N	3	14	299380	 And let our people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful. 
56N	3	15	299390	 All who are with me send greetings to you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. 
57N	1	1	299400	 Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker 
57N	1	2	299410	 and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house: 
57N	1	3	299420	 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 
57N	1	4	299430	 I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers, 
57N	1	5	299440	 because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints, 
57N	1	6	299450	 and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ. 
57N	1	7	299460	 For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you. 
57N	1	8	299470	 Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required, 
57N	1	9	299480	 yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you--I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus-- 
57N	1	10	299490	 I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I became in my imprisonment. 
57N	1	11	299500	 (Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.) 
57N	1	12	299510	 I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart. 
57N	1	13	299520	 I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel, 
57N	1	14	299530	 but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own accord. 
57N	1	15	299540	 For this perhaps is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back forever, 
57N	1	16	299550	 no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother--especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. 
57N	1	17	299560	 So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me. 
57N	1	18	299570	 If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account. 
57N	1	19	299580	 I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it--to say nothing of your owing me even your own self. 
57N	1	20	299590	 Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ. 
57N	1	21	299600	 Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say. 
57N	1	22	299610	 At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping that through your prayers I will be graciously given to you. 
57N	1	23	299620	 Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you, 
57N	1	24	299630	 and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers. 
57N	1	25	299640	 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. 
58N	1	1	299650	 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 
58N	1	2	299660	 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. 
58N	1	3	299670	 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 
58N	1	4	299680	 having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. 
58N	1	5	299690	 For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my Son, today I have begotten you"? Or again, "I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son"? 
58N	1	6	299700	 And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, "Let all God's angels worship him." 
58N	1	7	299710	 Of the angels he says, "He makes his angels winds, and his ministers a flame of fire." 
58N	1	8	299720	 But of the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom. 
58N	1	9	299730	 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions." 
58N	1	10	299740	 And, "You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands; 
58N	1	11	299750	 they will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment, 
58N	1	12	299760	 like a robe you will roll them up, like a garment they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will have no end." 
58N	1	13	299770	 And to which of the angels has he ever said, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet"? 
58N	1	14	299780	 Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation? 
58N	2	1	299790	 Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. 
58N	2	2	299800	 For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, 
58N	2	3	299810	 how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard, 
58N	2	4	299820	 while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will. 
58N	2	5	299830	 Now it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking. 
58N	2	6	299840	 It has been testified somewhere, "What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you care for him? 
58N	2	7	299850	 You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor, 
58N	2	8	299860	 putting everything in subjection under his feet." Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him. 
58N	2	9	299870	 But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. 
58N	2	10	299880	 For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. 
58N	2	11	299890	 For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, 
58N	2	12	299900	 saying, "I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise." 
58N	2	13	299910	 And again, "I will put my trust in him." And again, "Behold, I and the children God has given me." 
58N	2	14	299920	 Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, 
58N	2	15	299930	 and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. 
58N	2	16	299940	 For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham. 
58N	2	17	299950	 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 
58N	2	18	299960	 For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. 
58N	3	1	299970	 Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, 
58N	3	2	299980	 who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house. 
58N	3	3	299990	 For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses--as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. 
58N	3	4	300000	 (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) 
58N	3	5	300010	 Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, 
58N	3	6	300020	 but Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope. 
58N	3	7	300030	 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, if you hear his voice, 
58N	3	8	300040	 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, 
58N	3	9	300050	 where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. 
58N	3	10	300060	 Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, 'They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.' 
58N	3	11	300070	 As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest.'" 
58N	3	12	300080	 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 
58N	3	13	300090	 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 
58N	3	14	300100	 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. 
58N	3	15	300110	 As it is said, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." 
58N	3	16	300120	 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? 
58N	3	17	300130	 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 
58N	3	18	300140	 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 
58N	3	19	300150	 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. 
58N	4	1	300160	 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. 
58N	4	2	300170	 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. 
58N	4	3	300180	 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest,'" although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. 
58N	4	4	300190	 For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works." 
58N	4	5	300200	 And again in this passage he said, "They shall not enter my rest." 
58N	4	6	300210	 Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, 
58N	4	7	300220	 again he appoints a certain day, "Today," saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts." 
58N	4	8	300230	 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. 
58N	4	9	300240	 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 
58N	4	10	300250	 for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. 
58N	4	11	300260	 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. 
58N	4	12	300270	 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 
58N	4	13	300280	 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account. 
58N	4	14	300290	 Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 
58N	4	15	300300	 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. 
58N	4	16	300310	 Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. 
58N	5	1	300320	 For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. 
58N	5	2	300330	 He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness. 
58N	5	3	300340	 Because of this he is obligated to offer sacrifice for his own sins just as he does for those of the people. 
58N	5	4	300350	 And no one takes this honor for himself, but only when called by God, just as Aaron was. 
58N	5	5	300360	 So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, "You are my Son, today I have begotten you"; 
58N	5	6	300370	 as he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek." 
58N	5	7	300380	 In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. 
58N	5	8	300390	 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. 
58N	5	9	300400	 And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, 
58N	5	10	300410	 being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. 
58N	5	11	300420	 About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 
58N	5	12	300430	 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, 
58N	5	13	300440	 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. 
58N	5	14	300450	 But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil. 
58N	6	1	300460	 Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, 
58N	6	2	300470	 and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. 
58N	6	3	300480	 And this we will do if God permits. 
58N	6	4	300490	 For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, 
58N	6	5	300500	 and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, 
58N	6	6	300510	 and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. 
58N	6	7	300520	 For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God. 
58N	6	8	300530	 But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned. 
58N	6	9	300540	 Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things--things that belong to salvation. 
58N	6	10	300550	 For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do. 
58N	6	11	300560	 And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, 
58N	6	12	300570	 so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 
58N	6	13	300580	 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself, 
58N	6	14	300590	 saying, "Surely I will bless you and multiply you." 
58N	6	15	300600	 And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise. 
58N	6	16	300610	 For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation. 
58N	6	17	300620	 So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, 
58N	6	18	300630	 so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us. 
58N	6	19	300640	 We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, 
58N	6	20	300650	 where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. 
58N	7	1	300660	 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 
58N	7	2	300670	 and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace. 
58N	7	3	300680	 He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever. 
58N	7	4	300690	 See how great this man was to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the spoils! 
58N	7	5	300700	 And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take tithes from the people, that is, from their brothers, though these also are descended from Abraham. 
58N	7	6	300710	 But this man who does not have his descent from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises. 
58N	7	7	300720	 It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior. 
58N	7	8	300730	 In the one case tithes are received by mortal men, but in the other case, by one of whom it is testified that he lives. 
58N	7	9	300740	 One might even say that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham, 
58N	7	10	300750	 for he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchizedek met him. 
58N	7	11	300760	 Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron? 
58N	7	12	300770	 For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well. 
58N	7	13	300780	 For the one of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar. 
58N	7	14	300790	 For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests. 
58N	7	15	300800	 This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek, 
58N	7	16	300810	 who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible life. 
58N	7	17	300820	 For it is witnessed of him, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek." 
58N	7	18	300830	 For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness 
58N	7	19	300840	 (for the law made nothing perfect); but on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God. 
58N	7	20	300850	 And it was not without an oath. For those who formerly became priests were made such without an oath, 
58N	7	21	300860	 but this one was made a priest with an oath by the one who said to him: "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever.'" 
58N	7	22	300870	 This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant. 
58N	7	23	300880	 The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office, 
58N	7	24	300890	 but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever. 
58N	7	25	300900	 Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. 
58N	7	26	300910	 For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. 
58N	7	27	300920	 He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself. 
58N	7	28	300930	 For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever. 
58N	8	1	300940	 Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, 
58N	8	2	300950	 a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man. 
58N	8	3	300960	 For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. 
58N	8	4	300970	 Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law. 
58N	8	5	300980	 They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, "See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain." 
58N	8	6	300990	 But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. 
58N	8	7	301000	 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. 
58N	8	8	301010	 For he finds fault with them when he says: "Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 
58N	8	9	301020	 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. 
58N	8	10	301030	 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 
58N	8	11	301040	 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. 
58N	8	12	301050	 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more." 
58N	8	13	301060	 In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. 
58N	9	1	301070	 Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness. 
58N	9	2	301080	 For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place. 
58N	9	3	301090	 Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place, 
58N	9	4	301100	 having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron's staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant. 
58N	9	5	301110	 Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail. 
58N	9	6	301120	 These preparations having thus been made, the priests go regularly into the first section, performing their ritual duties, 
58N	9	7	301130	 but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people. 
58N	9	8	301140	 By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing 
58N	9	9	301150	 (which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper, 
58N	9	10	301160	 but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation. 
58N	9	11	301170	 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) 
58N	9	12	301180	 he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. 
58N	9	13	301190	 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, 
58N	9	14	301200	 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. 
58N	9	15	301210	 Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. 
58N	9	16	301220	 For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. 
58N	9	17	301230	 For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. 
58N	9	18	301240	 Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood. 
58N	9	19	301250	 For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 
58N	9	20	301260	 saying, "This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you." 
58N	9	21	301270	 And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship. 
58N	9	22	301280	 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. 
58N	9	23	301290	 Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 
58N	9	24	301300	 For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. 
58N	9	25	301310	 Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, 
58N	9	26	301320	 for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 
58N	9	27	301330	 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, 
58N	9	28	301340	 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him. 
58N	10	1	301350	 For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. 
58N	10	2	301360	 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? 
58N	10	3	301370	 But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 
58N	10	4	301380	 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 
58N	10	5	301390	 Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; 
58N	10	6	301400	 in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. 
58N	10	7	301410	 Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.'" 
58N	10	8	301420	 When he said above, "You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings" (these are offered according to the law), 
58N	10	9	301430	 then he added, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He does away with the first in order to establish the second. 
58N	10	10	301440	 And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 
58N	10	11	301450	 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 
58N	10	12	301460	 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 
58N	10	13	301470	 waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 
58N	10	14	301480	 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. 
58N	10	15	301490	 And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying, 
58N	10	16	301500	 "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds," 
58N	10	17	301510	 then he adds, "I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more." 
58N	10	18	301520	 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin. 
58N	10	19	301530	 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 
58N	10	20	301540	 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, 
58N	10	21	301550	 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 
58N	10	22	301560	 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 
58N	10	23	301570	 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. 
58N	10	24	301580	 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 
58N	10	25	301590	 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. 
58N	10	26	301600	 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 
58N	10	27	301610	 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. 
58N	10	28	301620	 Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. 
58N	10	29	301630	 How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? 
58N	10	30	301640	 For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge his people." 
58N	10	31	301650	 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 
58N	10	32	301660	 But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, 
58N	10	33	301670	 sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. 
58N	10	34	301680	 For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one. 
58N	10	35	301690	 Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. 
58N	10	36	301700	 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 
58N	10	37	301710	 For, "Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay; 
58N	10	38	301720	 but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him." 
58N	10	39	301730	 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls. 
58N	11	1	301740	 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 
58N	11	2	301750	 For by it the people of old received their commendation. 
58N	11	3	301760	 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. 
58N	11	4	301770	 By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. 
58N	11	5	301780	 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. 
58N	11	6	301790	 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. 
58N	11	7	301800	 By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. 
58N	11	8	301810	 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 
58N	11	9	301820	 By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. 
58N	11	10	301830	 For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God. 
58N	11	11	301840	 By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised. 
58N	11	12	301850	 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore. 
58N	11	13	301860	 These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. 
58N	11	14	301870	 For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 
58N	11	15	301880	 If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. 
58N	11	16	301890	 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city. 
58N	11	17	301900	 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son, 
58N	11	18	301910	 of whom it was said, "Through Isaac shall your offspring be named." 
58N	11	19	301920	 He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back. 
58N	11	20	301930	 By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau. 
58N	11	21	301940	 By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff. 
58N	11	22	301950	 By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones. 
58N	11	23	301960	 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king's edict. 
58N	11	24	301970	 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, 
58N	11	25	301980	 choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 
58N	11	26	301990	 He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. 
58N	11	27	302000	 By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. 
58N	11	28	302010	 By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them. 
58N	11	29	302020	 By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned. 
58N	11	30	302030	 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days. 
58N	11	31	302040	 By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies. 
58N	11	32	302050	 And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets-- 
58N	11	33	302060	 who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 
58N	11	34	302070	 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. 
58N	11	35	302080	 Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life. 
58N	11	36	302090	 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 
58N	11	37	302100	 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated-- 
58N	11	38	302110	 of whom the world was not worthy--wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. 
58N	11	39	302120	 And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised, 
58N	11	40	302130	 since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. 
58N	12	1	302140	 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 
58N	12	2	302150	 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. 
58N	12	3	302160	 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. 
58N	12	4	302170	 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 
58N	12	5	302180	 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. 
58N	12	6	302190	 For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives." 
58N	12	7	302200	 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 
58N	12	8	302210	 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 
58N	12	9	302220	 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 
58N	12	10	302230	 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. 
58N	12	11	302240	 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. 
58N	12	12	302250	 Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, 
58N	12	13	302260	 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed. 
58N	12	14	302270	 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. 
58N	12	15	302280	 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no "root of bitterness" springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; 
58N	12	16	302290	 that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. 
58N	12	17	302300	 For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears. 
58N	12	18	302310	 For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest 
58N	12	19	302320	 and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them. 
58N	12	20	302330	 For they could not endure the order that was given, "If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned." 
58N	12	21	302340	 Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I tremble with fear." 
58N	12	22	302350	 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, 
58N	12	23	302360	 and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 
58N	12	24	302370	 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. 
58N	12	25	302380	 See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven. 
58N	12	26	302390	 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens." 
58N	12	27	302400	 This phrase, "Yet once more," indicates the removal of things that are shaken--that is, things that have been made--in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. 
58N	12	28	302410	 Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, 
58N	12	29	302420	 for our God is a consuming fire. 
58N	13	1	302430	 Let brotherly love continue. 
58N	13	2	302440	 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 
58N	13	3	302450	 Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body. 
58N	13	4	302460	 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. 
58N	13	5	302470	 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." 
58N	13	6	302480	 So we can confidently say, "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?" 
58N	13	7	302490	 Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. 
58N	13	8	302500	 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. 
58N	13	9	302510	 Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them. 
58N	13	10	302520	 We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat. 
58N	13	11	302530	 For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp. 
58N	13	12	302540	 So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. 
58N	13	13	302550	 Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. 
58N	13	14	302560	 For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. 
58N	13	15	302570	 Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. 
58N	13	16	302580	 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. 
58N	13	17	302590	 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you. 
58N	13	18	302600	 Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to act honorably in all things. 
58N	13	19	302610	 I urge you the more earnestly to do this in order that I may be restored to you the sooner. 
58N	13	20	302620	 Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, 
58N	13	21	302630	 equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. 
58N	13	22	302640	 I appeal to you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly. 
58N	13	23	302650	 You should know that our brother Timothy has been released, with whom I shall see you if he comes soon. 
58N	13	24	302660	 Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who come from Italy send you greetings. 
58N	13	25	302670	 Grace be with all of you. 
59N	1	1	302680	 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. 
59N	1	2	302690	 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 
59N	1	3	302700	 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 
59N	1	4	302710	 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. 
59N	1	5	302720	 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. 
59N	1	6	302730	 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. 
59N	1	7	302740	 For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 
59N	1	8	302750	 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. 
59N	1	9	302760	 Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, 
59N	1	10	302770	 and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away. 
59N	1	11	302780	 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits. 
59N	1	12	302790	 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. 
59N	1	13	302800	 Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. 
59N	1	14	302810	 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. 
59N	1	15	302820	 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death. 
59N	1	16	302830	 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. 
59N	1	17	302840	 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. 
59N	1	18	302850	 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. 
59N	1	19	302860	 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 
59N	1	20	302870	 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 
59N	1	21	302880	 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 
59N	1	22	302890	 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 
59N	1	23	302900	 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 
59N	1	24	302910	 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 
59N	1	25	302920	 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. 
59N	1	26	302930	 If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless. 
59N	1	27	302940	 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. 
59N	2	1	302950	 My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. 
59N	2	2	302960	 For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, 
59N	2	3	302970	 and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, "You sit here in a good place," while you say to the poor man, "You stand over there," or, "Sit down at my feet," 
59N	2	4	302980	 have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? 
59N	2	5	302990	 Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? 
59N	2	6	303000	 But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court? 
59N	2	7	303010	 Are they not the ones who blaspheme the honorable name by which you were called? 
59N	2	8	303020	 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well. 
59N	2	9	303030	 But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 
59N	2	10	303040	 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. 
59N	2	11	303050	 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. 
59N	2	12	303060	 So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. 
59N	2	13	303070	 For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. 
59N	2	14	303080	 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 
59N	2	15	303090	 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 
59N	2	16	303100	 and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? 
59N	2	17	303110	 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. 
59N	2	18	303120	 But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. 
59N	2	19	303130	 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe--and shudder! 
59N	2	20	303140	 Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? 
59N	2	21	303150	 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? 
59N	2	22	303160	 You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; 
59N	2	23	303170	 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"--and he was called a friend of God. 
59N	2	24	303180	 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 
59N	2	25	303190	 And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? 
59N	2	26	303200	 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead. 
59N	3	1	303210	 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. 
59N	3	2	303220	 For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. 
59N	3	3	303230	 If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. 
59N	3	4	303240	 Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. 
59N	3	5	303250	 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 
59N	3	6	303260	 And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. 
59N	3	7	303270	 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 
59N	3	8	303280	 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 
59N	3	9	303290	 With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. 
59N	3	10	303300	 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 
59N	3	11	303310	 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? 
59N	3	12	303320	 Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water. 
59N	3	13	303330	 Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. 
59N	3	14	303340	 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. 
59N	3	15	303350	 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 
59N	3	16	303360	 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. 
59N	3	17	303370	 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. 
59N	3	18	303380	 And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. 
59N	4	1	303390	 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? 
59N	4	2	303400	 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 
59N	4	3	303410	 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. 
59N	4	4	303420	 You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 
59N	4	5	303430	 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, "He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us"? 
59N	4	6	303440	 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble." 
59N	4	7	303450	 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 
59N	4	8	303460	 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 
59N	4	9	303470	 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 
59N	4	10	303480	 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. 
59N	4	11	303490	 Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. 
59N	4	12	303500	 There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? 
59N	4	13	303510	 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"-- 
59N	4	14	303520	 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 
59N	4	15	303530	 Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." 
59N	4	16	303540	 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 
59N	4	17	303550	 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. 
59N	5	1	303560	 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. 
59N	5	2	303570	 Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. 
59N	5	3	303580	 Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. 
59N	5	4	303590	 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. 
59N	5	5	303600	 You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. 
59N	5	6	303610	 You have condemned and murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you. 
59N	5	7	303620	 Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. 
59N	5	8	303630	 You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. 
59N	5	9	303640	 Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door. 
59N	5	10	303650	 As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. 
59N	5	11	303660	 Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful. 
59N	5	12	303670	 But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your "yes" be yes and your "no" be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation. 
59N	5	13	303680	 Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. 
59N	5	14	303690	 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 
59N	5	15	303700	 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 
59N	5	16	303710	 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. 
59N	5	17	303720	 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. 
59N	5	18	303730	 Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit. 
59N	5	19	303740	 My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, 
59N	5	20	303750	 let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins. 
60N	1	1	303760	 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 
60N	1	2	303770	 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. 
60N	1	3	303780	 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 
60N	1	4	303790	 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 
60N	1	5	303800	 who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 
60N	1	6	303810	 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 
60N	1	7	303820	 so that the tested genuineness of your faith--more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire--may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 
60N	1	8	303830	 Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, 
60N	1	9	303840	 obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls. 
60N	1	10	303850	 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, 
60N	1	11	303860	 inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. 
60N	1	12	303870	 It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look. 
60N	1	13	303880	 Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 
60N	1	14	303890	 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, 
60N	1	15	303900	 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 
60N	1	16	303910	 since it is written, "You shall be holy, for I am holy." 
60N	1	17	303920	 And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, 
60N	1	18	303930	 knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 
60N	1	19	303940	 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. 
60N	1	20	303950	 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you 
60N	1	21	303960	 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. 
60N	1	22	303970	 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, 
60N	1	23	303980	 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; 
60N	1	24	303990	 for "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, 
60N	1	25	304000	 but the word of the Lord remains forever." And this word is the good news that was preached to you. 
60N	2	1	304010	 So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 
60N	2	2	304020	 Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation-- 
60N	2	3	304030	 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. 
60N	2	4	304040	 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 
60N	2	5	304050	 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 
60N	2	6	304060	 For it stands in Scripture: "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame." 
60N	2	7	304070	 So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, "The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone," 
60N	2	8	304080	 and "A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. 
60N	2	9	304090	 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 
60N	2	10	304100	 Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 
60N	2	11	304110	 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. 
60N	2	12	304120	 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation. 
60N	2	13	304130	 Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, 
60N	2	14	304140	 or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. 
60N	2	15	304150	 For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. 
60N	2	16	304160	 Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. 
60N	2	17	304170	 Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor. 
60N	2	18	304180	 Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust. 
60N	2	19	304190	 For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. 
60N	2	20	304200	 For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. 
60N	2	21	304210	 For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. 
60N	2	22	304220	 He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. 
60N	2	23	304230	 When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. 
60N	2	24	304240	 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. 
60N	2	25	304250	 For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. 
60N	3	1	304260	 Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, 
60N	3	2	304270	 when they see your respectful and pure conduct. 
60N	3	3	304280	 Do not let your adorning be external--the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear-- 
60N	3	4	304290	 but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. 
60N	3	5	304300	 For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, 
60N	3	6	304310	 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening. 
60N	3	7	304320	 Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. 
60N	3	8	304330	 Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. 
60N	3	9	304340	 Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing. 
60N	3	10	304350	 For "Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; 
60N	3	11	304360	 let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it. 
60N	3	12	304370	 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil." 
60N	3	13	304380	 Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good? 
60N	3	14	304390	 But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, 
60N	3	15	304400	 but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, 
60N	3	16	304410	 having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. 
60N	3	17	304420	 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil. 
60N	3	18	304430	 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, 
60N	3	19	304440	 in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, 
60N	3	20	304450	 because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. 
60N	3	21	304460	 Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 
60N	3	22	304470	 who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him. 
60N	4	1	304480	 Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 
60N	4	2	304490	 so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God. 
60N	4	3	304500	 For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. 
60N	4	4	304510	 With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; 
60N	4	5	304520	 but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. 
60N	4	6	304530	 For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does. 
60N	4	7	304540	 The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers. 
60N	4	8	304550	 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. 
60N	4	9	304560	 Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. 
60N	4	10	304570	 As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: 
60N	4	11	304580	 whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies--in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. 
60N	4	12	304590	 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. 
60N	4	13	304600	 But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. 
60N	4	14	304610	 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. 
60N	4	15	304620	 But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler. 
60N	4	16	304630	 Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name. 
60N	4	17	304640	 For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? 
60N	4	18	304650	 And "If the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?" 
60N	4	19	304660	 Therefore let those who suffer according to God's will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good. 
60N	5	1	304670	 So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: 
60N	5	2	304680	 shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; 
60N	5	3	304690	 not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. 
60N	5	4	304700	 And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. 
60N	5	5	304710	 Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." 
60N	5	6	304720	 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, 
60N	5	7	304730	 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. 
60N	5	8	304740	 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 
60N	5	9	304750	 Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. 
60N	5	10	304760	 And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. 
60N	5	11	304770	 To him be the dominion forever and ever. Amen. 
60N	5	12	304780	 By Silvanus, a faithful brother as I regard him, I have written briefly to you, exhorting and declaring that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it. 
60N	5	13	304790	 She who is at Babylon, who is likewise chosen, sends you greetings, and so does Mark, my son. 
60N	5	14	304800	 Greet one another with the kiss of love. Peace to all of you who are in Christ. 
61N	1	1	304810	 Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: 
61N	1	2	304820	 May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. 
61N	1	3	304830	 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 
61N	1	4	304840	 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. 
61N	1	5	304850	 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, 
61N	1	6	304860	 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 
61N	1	7	304870	 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. 
61N	1	8	304880	 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
61N	1	9	304890	 For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. 
61N	1	10	304900	 Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. 
61N	1	11	304910	 For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 
61N	1	12	304920	 Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have. 
61N	1	13	304930	 I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder, 
61N	1	14	304940	 since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. 
61N	1	15	304950	 And I will make every effort so that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things. 
61N	1	16	304960	 For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 
61N	1	17	304970	 For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased," 
61N	1	18	304980	 we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain. 
61N	1	19	304990	 And we have something more sure, the prophetic word, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, 
61N	1	20	305000	 knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. 
61N	1	21	305010	 For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 
61N	2	1	305020	 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 
61N	2	2	305030	 And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. 
61N	2	3	305040	 And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. 
61N	2	4	305050	 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; 
61N	2	5	305060	 if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; 
61N	2	6	305070	 if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; 
61N	2	7	305080	 and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked 
61N	2	8	305090	 (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); 
61N	2	9	305100	 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, 
61N	2	10	305110	 and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones, 
61N	2	11	305120	 whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord. 
61N	2	12	305130	 But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction, 
61N	2	13	305140	 suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you. 
61N	2	14	305150	 They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children! 
61N	2	15	305160	 Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing, 
61N	2	16	305170	 but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet's madness. 
61N	2	17	305180	 These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved. 
61N	2	18	305190	 For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error. 
61N	2	19	305200	 They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. 
61N	2	20	305210	 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 
61N	2	21	305220	 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. 
61N	2	22	305230	 What the true proverb says has happened to them: "The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire." 
61N	3	1	305240	 This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, 
61N	3	2	305250	 that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, 
61N	3	3	305260	 knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. 
61N	3	4	305270	 They will say, "Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation." 
61N	3	5	305280	 For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, 
61N	3	6	305290	 and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. 
61N	3	7	305300	 But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly. 
61N	3	8	305310	 But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 
61N	3	9	305320	 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 
61N	3	10	305330	 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. 
61N	3	11	305340	 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 
61N	3	12	305350	 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! 
61N	3	13	305360	 But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. 
61N	3	14	305370	 Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace. 
61N	3	15	305380	 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 
61N	3	16	305390	 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. 
61N	3	17	305400	 You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. 
61N	3	18	305410	 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. 
62N	1	1	305420	 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life-- 
62N	1	2	305430	 the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us-- 
62N	1	3	305440	 that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. 
62N	1	4	305450	 And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete. 
62N	1	5	305460	 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 
62N	1	6	305470	 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 
62N	1	7	305480	 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 
62N	1	8	305490	 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 
62N	1	9	305500	 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 
62N	1	10	305510	 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. 
62N	2	1	305520	 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 
62N	2	2	305530	 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. 
62N	2	3	305540	 And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. 
62N	2	4	305550	 Whoever says "I know him" but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, 
62N	2	5	305560	 but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: 
62N	2	6	305570	 whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked. 
62N	2	7	305580	 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. 
62N	2	8	305590	 At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. 
62N	2	9	305600	 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. 
62N	2	10	305610	 Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. 
62N	2	11	305620	 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. 
62N	2	12	305630	 I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name's sake. 
62N	2	13	305640	 I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the Father. 
62N	2	14	305650	 I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one. 
62N	2	15	305660	 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 
62N	2	16	305670	 For all that is in the world--the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions--is not from the Father but is from the world. 
62N	2	17	305680	 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. 
62N	2	18	305690	 Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. 
62N	2	19	305700	 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. 
62N	2	20	305710	 But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. 
62N	2	21	305720	 I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. 
62N	2	22	305730	 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. 
62N	2	23	305740	 No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. 
62N	2	24	305750	 Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. 
62N	2	25	305760	 And this is the promise that he made to us--eternal life. 
62N	2	26	305770	 I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you. 
62N	2	27	305780	 But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie--just as it has taught you, abide in him. 
62N	2	28	305790	 And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. 
62N	2	29	305800	 If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him. 
62N	3	1	305810	 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 
62N	3	2	305820	 Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. 
62N	3	3	305830	 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. 
62N	3	4	305840	 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. 
62N	3	5	305850	 You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. 
62N	3	6	305860	 No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. 
62N	3	7	305870	 Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. 
62N	3	8	305880	 Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. 
62N	3	9	305890	 No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God. 
62N	3	10	305900	 By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother. 
62N	3	11	305910	 For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 
62N	3	12	305920	 We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous. 
62N	3	13	305930	 Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you. 
62N	3	14	305940	 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. 
62N	3	15	305950	 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 
62N	3	16	305960	 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 
62N	3	17	305970	 But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? 
62N	3	18	305980	 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. 
62N	3	19	305990	 By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; 
62N	3	20	306000	 for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. 
62N	3	21	306010	 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; 
62N	3	22	306020	 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. 
62N	3	23	306030	 And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. 
62N	3	24	306040	 Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us. 
62N	4	1	306050	 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 
62N	4	2	306060	 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 
62N	4	3	306070	 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. 
62N	4	4	306080	 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 
62N	4	5	306090	 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. 
62N	4	6	306100	 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error. 
62N	4	7	306110	 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 
62N	4	8	306120	 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 
62N	4	9	306130	 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 
62N	4	10	306140	 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 
62N	4	11	306150	 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 
62N	4	12	306160	 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. 
62N	4	13	306170	 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 
62N	4	14	306180	 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 
62N	4	15	306190	 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 
62N	4	16	306200	 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 
62N	4	17	306210	 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. 
62N	4	18	306220	 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 
62N	4	19	306230	 We love because he first loved us. 
62N	4	20	306240	 If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 
62N	4	21	306250	 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. 
62N	5	1	306260	 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. 
62N	5	2	306270	 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 
62N	5	3	306280	 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. 
62N	5	4	306290	 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith. 
62N	5	5	306300	 Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? 
62N	5	6	306310	 This is he who came by water and blood--Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 
62N	5	7	306320	 For there are three that testify: 
62N	5	8	306330	 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. 
62N	5	9	306340	 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son. 
62N	5	10	306350	 Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son. 
62N	5	11	306360	 And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 
62N	5	12	306370	 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. 
62N	5	13	306380	 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life. 
62N	5	14	306390	 And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. 
62N	5	15	306400	 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him. 
62N	5	16	306410	 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life--to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that. 
62N	5	17	306420	 All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death. 
62N	5	18	306430	 We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him. 
62N	5	19	306440	 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. 
62N	5	20	306450	 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. 
62N	5	21	306460	 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. 
63N	1	1	306470	 The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth, 
63N	1	2	306480	 because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever: 
63N	1	3	306490	 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, in truth and love. 
63N	1	4	306500	 I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father. 
63N	1	5	306510	 And now I ask you, dear lady--not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning--that we love one another. 
63N	1	6	306520	 And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it. 
63N	1	7	306530	 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist. 
63N	1	8	306540	 Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward. 
63N	1	9	306550	 Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 
63N	1	10	306560	 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, 
63N	1	11	306570	 for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works. 
63N	1	12	306580	 Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink. Instead I hope to come to you and talk face to face, so that our joy may be complete. 
63N	1	13	306590	 The children of your elect sister greet you. 
64N	1	1	306600	 The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth. 
64N	1	2	306610	 Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul. 
64N	1	3	306620	 For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth. 
64N	1	4	306630	 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. 
64N	1	5	306640	 Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are, 
64N	1	6	306650	 who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God. 
64N	1	7	306660	 For they have gone out for the sake of the name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles. 
64N	1	8	306670	 Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth. 
64N	1	9	306680	 I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. 
64N	1	10	306690	 So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church. 
64N	1	11	306700	 Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God. 
64N	1	12	306710	 Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself. We also add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true. 
64N	1	13	306720	 I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink. 
64N	1	14	306730	 I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face. (1:15) Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, every one of them. 
65N	1	1	306740	 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: 
65N	1	2	306750	 May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. 
65N	1	3	306760	 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. 
65N	1	4	306770	 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. 
65N	1	5	306780	 Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 
65N	1	6	306790	 And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day-- 
65N	1	7	306800	 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. 
65N	1	8	306810	 Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. 
65N	1	9	306820	 But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you." 
65N	1	10	306830	 But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. 
65N	1	11	306840	 Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam's error and perished in Korah's rebellion. 
65N	1	12	306850	 These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; 
65N	1	13	306860	 wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever. 
65N	1	14	306870	 It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, 
65N	1	15	306880	 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him." 
65N	1	16	306890	 These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage. 
65N	1	17	306900	 But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
65N	1	18	306910	 They said to you, "In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions." 
65N	1	19	306920	 It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit. 
65N	1	20	306930	 But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, 
65N	1	21	306940	 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. 
65N	1	22	306950	 And have mercy on those who doubt; 
65N	1	23	306960	 save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh. 
65N	1	24	306970	 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, 
65N	1	25	306980	 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. 
66N	1	1	306990	 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 
66N	1	2	307000	 who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. 
66N	1	3	307010	 Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. 
66N	1	4	307020	 John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, 
66N	1	5	307030	 and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood 
66N	1	6	307040	 and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. 
66N	1	7	307050	 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen. 
66N	1	8	307060	 "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty." 
66N	1	9	307070	 I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 
66N	1	10	307080	 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet 
66N	1	11	307090	 saying, "Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea." 
66N	1	12	307100	 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, 
66N	1	13	307110	 and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest. 
66N	1	14	307120	 The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, 
66N	1	15	307130	 his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters. 
66N	1	16	307140	 In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength. 
66N	1	17	307150	 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, "Fear not, I am the first and the last, 
66N	1	18	307160	 and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades. 
66N	1	19	307170	 Write therefore the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this. 
66N	1	20	307180	 As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches. 
66N	2	1	307190	 "To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: 'The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. 
66N	2	2	307200	 "'I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. 
66N	2	3	307210	 I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. 
66N	2	4	307220	 But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. 
66N	2	5	307230	 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. 
66N	2	6	307240	 Yet this you have: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. 
66N	2	7	307250	 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.' 
66N	2	8	307260	 "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: 'The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life. 
66N	2	9	307270	 "'I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. 
66N	2	10	307280	 Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. 
66N	2	11	307290	 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.' 
66N	2	12	307300	 "And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: 'The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword. 
66N	2	13	307310	 "'I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. 
66N	2	14	307320	 But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality. 
66N	2	15	307330	 So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. 
66N	2	16	307340	 Therefore repent. If not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth. 
66N	2	17	307350	 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.' 
66N	2	18	307360	 "And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: 'The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze. 
66N	2	19	307370	 "'I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. 
66N	2	20	307380	 But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. 
66N	2	21	307390	 I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. 
66N	2	22	307400	 Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works, 
66N	2	23	307410	 and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works. 
66N	2	24	307420	 But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden. 
66N	2	25	307430	 Only hold fast what you have until I come. 
66N	2	26	307440	 The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations, 
66N	2	27	307450	 and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father. 
66N	2	28	307460	 And I will give him the morning star. 
66N	2	29	307470	 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.' 
66N	3	1	307480	 "And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: 'The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. "'I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. 
66N	3	2	307490	 Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. 
66N	3	3	307500	 Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. 
66N	3	4	307510	 Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. 
66N	3	5	307520	 The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. 
66N	3	6	307530	 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.' 
66N	3	7	307540	 "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: 'The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens. 
66N	3	8	307550	 "'I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. 
66N	3	9	307560	 Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie--behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet and they will learn that I have loved you. 
66N	3	10	307570	 Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth. 
66N	3	11	307580	 I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown. 
66N	3	12	307590	 The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name. 
66N	3	13	307600	 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.' 
66N	3	14	307610	 "And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: 'The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation. 
66N	3	15	307620	 "'I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! 
66N	3	16	307630	 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. 
66N	3	17	307640	 For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. 
66N	3	18	307650	 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. 
66N	3	19	307660	 Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. 
66N	3	20	307670	 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. 
66N	3	21	307680	 The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. 
66N	3	22	307690	 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'" 
66N	4	1	307700	 After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this." 
66N	4	2	307710	 At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne. 
66N	4	3	307720	 And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald. 
66N	4	4	307730	 Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads. 
66N	4	5	307740	 From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God, 
66N	4	6	307750	 and before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal. And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind: 
66N	4	7	307760	 the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight. 
66N	4	8	307770	 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!" 
66N	4	9	307780	 And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, 
66N	4	10	307790	 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying, 
66N	4	11	307800	 "Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created." 
66N	5	1	307810	 Then I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals. 
66N	5	2	307820	 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?" 
66N	5	3	307830	 And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it, 
66N	5	4	307840	 and I began to weep loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it. 
66N	5	5	307850	 And one of the elders said to me, "Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals." 
66N	5	6	307860	 And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. 
66N	5	7	307870	 And he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne. 
66N	5	8	307880	 And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 
66N	5	9	307890	 And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, 
66N	5	10	307900	 and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth." 
66N	5	11	307910	 Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, 
66N	5	12	307920	 saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!" 
66N	5	13	307930	 And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, "To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!" 
66N	5	14	307940	 And the four living creatures said, "Amen!" and the elders fell down and worshiped. 
66N	6	1	307950	 Now I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, "Come!" 
66N	6	2	307960	 And I looked, and behold, a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer. 
66N	6	3	307970	 When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" 
66N	6	4	307980	 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword. 
66N	6	5	307990	 When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand. 
66N	6	6	308000	 And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!" 
66N	6	7	308010	 When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!" 
66N	6	8	308020	 And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider's name was Death, and Hades followed him. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth. 
66N	6	9	308030	 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne. 
66N	6	10	308040	 They cried out with a loud voice, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" 
66N	6	11	308050	 Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been. 
66N	6	12	308060	 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, 
66N	6	13	308070	 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. 
66N	6	14	308080	 The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. 
66N	6	15	308090	 Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, 
66N	6	16	308100	 calling to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, 
66N	6	17	308110	 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?" 
66N	7	1	308120	 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth or sea or against any tree. 
66N	7	2	308130	 Then I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea, 
66N	7	3	308140	 saying, "Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads." 
66N	7	4	308150	 And I heard the number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel: 
66N	7	5	308160	 12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed, 12,000 from the tribe of Reuben, 12,000 from the tribe of Gad, 
66N	7	6	308170	 12,000 from the tribe of Asher, 12,000 from the tribe of Naphtali, 12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh, 
66N	7	7	308180	 12,000 from the tribe of Simeon, 12,000 from the tribe of Levi, 12,000 from the tribe of Issachar, 
66N	7	8	308190	 12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun, 12,000 from the tribe of Joseph, 12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin were sealed. 
66N	7	9	308200	 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 
66N	7	10	308210	 and crying out with a loud voice, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!" 
66N	7	11	308220	 And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 
66N	7	12	308230	 saying, "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen." 
66N	7	13	308240	 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, "Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?" 
66N	7	14	308250	 I said to him, "Sir, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 
66N	7	15	308260	 "Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence. 
66N	7	16	308270	 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat. 
66N	7	17	308280	 For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes." 
66N	8	1	308290	 When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. 
66N	8	2	308300	 Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. 
66N	8	3	308310	 And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne, 
66N	8	4	308320	 and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel. 
66N	8	5	308330	 Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake. 
66N	8	6	308340	 Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them. 
66N	8	7	308350	 The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up. 
66N	8	8	308360	 The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. 
66N	8	9	308370	 A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. 
66N	8	10	308380	 The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. 
66N	8	11	308390	 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter. 
66N	8	12	308400	 The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light might be darkened, and a third of the day might be kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night. 
66N	8	13	308410	 Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew directly overhead, "Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!" 
66N	9	1	308420	 And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. 
66N	9	2	308430	 He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. 
66N	9	3	308440	 Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. 
66N	9	4	308450	 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 
66N	9	5	308460	 They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. 
66N	9	6	308470	 And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them. 
66N	9	7	308480	 In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces, 
66N	9	8	308490	 their hair like women's hair, and their teeth like lions' teeth; 
66N	9	9	308500	 they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle. 
66N	9	10	308510	 They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails. 
66N	9	11	308520	 They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon. 
66N	9	12	308530	 The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come. 
66N	9	13	308540	 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, 
66N	9	14	308550	 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates." 
66N	9	15	308560	 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind. 
66N	9	16	308570	 The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number. 
66N	9	17	308580	 And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions' heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. 
66N	9	18	308590	 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. 
66N	9	19	308600	 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound. 
66N	9	20	308610	 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, 
66N	9	21	308620	 nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts. 
66N	10	1	308630	 Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire. 
66N	10	2	308640	 He had a little scroll open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land, 
66N	10	3	308650	 and called out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring. When he called out, the seven thunders sounded. 
66N	10	4	308660	 And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down." 
66N	10	5	308670	 And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven 
66N	10	6	308680	 and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there would be no more delay, 
66N	10	7	308690	 but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants the prophets. 
66N	10	8	308700	 Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, "Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land." 
66N	10	9	308710	 So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, "Take and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey." 
66N	10	10	308720	 And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it. It was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter. 
66N	10	11	308730	 And I was told, "You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and languages and kings." 
66N	11	1	308740	 Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, "Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, 
66N	11	2	308750	 but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. 
66N	11	3	308760	 And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth." 
66N	11	4	308770	 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. 
66N	11	5	308780	 And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. 
66N	11	6	308790	 They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire. 
66N	11	7	308800	 And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, 
66N	11	8	308810	 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. 
66N	11	9	308820	 For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb, 
66N	11	10	308830	 and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth. 
66N	11	11	308840	 But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. 
66N	11	12	308850	 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here!" And they went up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them. 
66N	11	13	308860	 And at that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. 
66N	11	14	308870	 The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come. 
66N	11	15	308880	 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever." 
66N	11	16	308890	 And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God, 
66N	11	17	308900	 saying, "We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign. 
66N	11	18	308910	 The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth." 
66N	11	19	308920	 Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail. 
66N	12	1	308930	 And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. 
66N	12	2	308940	 She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. 
66N	12	3	308950	 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. 
66N	12	4	308960	 His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. 
66N	12	5	308970	 She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, 
66N	12	6	308980	 and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days. 
66N	12	7	308990	 Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back, 
66N	12	8	309000	 but he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. 
66N	12	9	309010	 And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world--he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. 
66N	12	10	309020	 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. 
66N	12	11	309030	 And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. 
66N	12	12	309040	 Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!" 
66N	12	13	309050	 And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. 
66N	12	14	309060	 But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time. 
66N	12	15	309070	 The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood. 
66N	12	16	309080	 But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth. 
66N	12	17	309090	 Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea. 
66N	13	1	309100	 And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. 
66N	13	2	309110	 And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. 
66N	13	3	309120	 One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. 
66N	13	4	309130	 And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?" 
66N	13	5	309140	 And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. 
66N	13	6	309150	 It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven. 
66N	13	7	309160	 Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation, 
66N	13	8	309170	 and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain. 
66N	13	9	309180	 If anyone has an ear, let him hear: 
66N	13	10	309190	 If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints. 
66N	13	11	309200	 Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. 
66N	13	12	309210	 It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed. 
66N	13	13	309220	 It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people, 
66N	13	14	309230	 and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 
66N	13	15	309240	 And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. 
66N	13	16	309250	 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, 
66N	13	17	309260	 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. 
66N	13	18	309270	 This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666. 
66N	14	1	309280	 Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. 
66N	14	2	309290	 And I heard a voice from heaven like the roar of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps, 
66N	14	3	309300	 and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. 
66N	14	4	309310	 It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb, 
66N	14	5	309320	 and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are blameless. 
66N	14	6	309330	 Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people. 
66N	14	7	309340	 And he said with a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water." 
66N	14	8	309350	 Another angel, a second, followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality." 
66N	14	9	309360	 And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, 
66N	14	10	309370	 he also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. 
66N	14	11	309380	 And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name." 
66N	14	12	309390	 Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus. 
66N	14	13	309400	 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on." "Blessed indeed," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!" 
66N	14	14	309410	 Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand. 
66N	14	15	309420	 And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, "Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe." 
66N	14	16	309430	 So he who sat on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was reaped. 
66N	14	17	309440	 Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. 
66N	14	18	309450	 And another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has authority over the fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, "Put in your sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe." 
66N	14	19	309460	 So the angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. 
66N	14	20	309470	 And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high as a horse's bridle, for 1,600 stadia. 
66N	15	1	309480	 Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and amazing, seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for with them the wrath of God is finished. 
66N	15	2	309490	 And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire--and also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands. 
66N	15	3	309500	 And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations! 
66N	15	4	309510	 Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed." 
66N	15	5	309520	 After this I looked, and the sanctuary of the tent of witness in heaven was opened, 
66N	15	6	309530	 and out of the sanctuary came the seven angels with the seven plagues, clothed in pure, bright linen, with golden sashes around their chests. 
66N	15	7	309540	 And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever, 
66N	15	8	309550	 and the sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished. 
66N	16	1	309560	 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, "Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God." 
66N	16	2	309570	 So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and harmful and painful sores came upon the people who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. 
66N	16	3	309580	 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing died that was in the sea. 
66N	16	4	309590	 The third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood. 
66N	16	5	309600	 And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say, "Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was, for you brought these judgments. 
66N	16	6	309610	 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve!" 
66N	16	7	309620	 And I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God the Almighty, true and just are your judgments!" 
66N	16	8	309630	 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire. 
66N	16	9	309640	 They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory. 
66N	16	10	309650	 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in anguish 
66N	16	11	309660	 and cursed the God of heaven for their pain and sores. They did not repent of their deeds. 
66N	16	12	309670	 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east. 
66N	16	13	309680	 And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs. 
66N	16	14	309690	 For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty. 
66N	16	15	309700	 ("Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!") 
66N	16	16	309710	 And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon. 
66N	16	17	309720	 The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, "It is done!" 
66N	16	18	309730	 And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there had never been since man was on the earth, so great was that earthquake. 
66N	16	19	309740	 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath. 
66N	16	20	309750	 And every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found. 
66N	16	21	309760	 And great hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, fell from heaven on people; and they cursed God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so severe. 
66N	17	1	309770	 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, 
66N	17	2	309780	 with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk." 
66N	17	3	309790	 And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. 
66N	17	4	309800	 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. 
66N	17	5	309810	 And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: "Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations." 
66N	17	6	309820	 And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I marveled greatly. 
66N	17	7	309830	 But the angel said to me, "Why do you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her. 
66N	17	8	309840	 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come. 
66N	17	9	309850	 This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated; 
66N	17	10	309860	 they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he does come he must remain only a little while. 
66N	17	11	309870	 As for the beast that was and is not, it is an eighth but it belongs to the seven, and it goes to destruction. 
66N	17	12	309880	 And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received royal power, but they are to receive authority as kings for one hour, together with the beast. 
66N	17	13	309890	 These are of one mind, and they hand over their power and authority to the beast. 
66N	17	14	309900	 They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful." 
66N	17	15	309910	 And the angel said to me, "The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages. 
66N	17	16	309920	 And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire, 
66N	17	17	309930	 for God has put it into their hearts to carry out his purpose by being of one mind and handing over their royal power to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled. 
66N	17	18	309940	 And the woman that you saw is the great city that has dominion over the kings of the earth." 
66N	18	1	309950	 After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was made bright with his glory. 
66N	18	2	309960	 And he called out with a mighty voice, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast. 
66N	18	3	309970	 For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living." 
66N	18	4	309980	 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; 
66N	18	5	309990	 for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. 
66N	18	6	310000	 Pay her back as she herself has paid back others, and repay her double for her deeds; mix a double portion for her in the cup she mixed. 
66N	18	7	310010	 As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning, since in her heart she says, 'I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see.' 
66N	18	8	310020	 For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her." 
66N	18	9	310030	 And the kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning. 
66N	18	10	310040	 They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, "Alas! Alas! You great city, you mighty city, Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come." 
66N	18	11	310050	 And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore, 
66N	18	12	310060	 cargo of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all kinds of scented wood, all kinds of articles of ivory, all kinds of articles of costly wood, bronze, iron and marble, 
66N	18	13	310070	 cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls. 
66N	18	14	310080	 "The fruit for which your soul longed has gone from you, and all your delicacies and your splendors are lost to you, never to be found again!" 
66N	18	15	310090	 The merchants of these wares, who gained wealth from her, will stand far off, in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning aloud, 
66N	18	16	310100	 "Alas, alas, for the great city that was clothed in fine linen, in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, with jewels, and with pearls! 
66N	18	17	310110	 For in a single hour all this wealth has been laid waste." And all shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off 
66N	18	18	310120	 and cried out as they saw the smoke of her burning, "What city was like the great city?" 
66N	18	19	310130	 And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out, "Alas, alas, for the great city where all who had ships at sea grew rich by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been laid waste. 
66N	18	20	310140	 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!" 
66N	18	21	310150	 Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found no more; 
66N	18	22	310160	 and the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will be heard in you no more, and a craftsman of any craft will be found in you no more, and the sound of the mill will be heard in you no more, 
66N	18	23	310170	 and the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery. 
66N	18	24	310180	 And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on earth." 
66N	19	1	310190	 After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out, "Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, 
66N	19	2	310200	 for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants." 
66N	19	3	310210	 Once more they cried out, "Hallelujah! The smoke from her goes up forever and ever." 
66N	19	4	310220	 And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, saying, "Amen. Hallelujah!" 
66N	19	5	310230	 And from the throne came a voice saying, "Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, small and great." 
66N	19	6	310240	 Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns. 
66N	19	7	310250	 Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; 
66N	19	8	310260	 it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure"-- for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints. 
66N	19	9	310270	 And the angel said to me, "Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb." And he said to me, "These are the true words of God." 
66N	19	10	310280	 Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, "You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God." For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. 
66N	19	11	310290	 Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. 
66N	19	12	310300	 His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. 
66N	19	13	310310	 He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. 
66N	19	14	310320	 And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. 
66N	19	15	310330	 From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. 
66N	19	16	310340	 On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords. 
66N	19	17	310350	 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly directly overhead, "Come, gather for the great supper of God, 
66N	19	18	310360	 to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great." 
66N	19	19	310370	 And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against him who was sitting on the horse and against his army. 
66N	19	20	310380	 And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. 
66N	19	21	310390	 And the rest were slain by the sword that came from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh. 
66N	20	1	310400	 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. 
66N	20	2	310410	 And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, 
66N	20	3	310420	 and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. 
66N	20	4	310430	 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 
66N	20	5	310440	 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. 
66N	20	6	310450	 Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years. 
66N	20	7	310460	 And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison 
66N	20	8	310470	 and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. 
66N	20	9	310480	 And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them, 
66N	20	10	310490	 and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. 
66N	20	11	310500	 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. 
66N	20	12	310510	 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. 
66N	20	13	310520	 And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. 
66N	20	14	310530	 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 
66N	20	15	310540	 And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. 
66N	21	1	310550	 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 
66N	21	2	310560	 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 
66N	21	3	310570	 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 
66N	21	4	310580	 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away." 
66N	21	5	310590	 And he who was seated on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." Also he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true." 
66N	21	6	310600	 And he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. 
66N	21	7	310610	 The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son. 
66N	21	8	310620	 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death." 
66N	21	9	310630	 Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, "Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb." 
66N	21	10	310640	 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, 
66N	21	11	310650	 having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. 
66N	21	12	310660	 It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed-- 
66N	21	13	310670	 on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. 
66N	21	14	310680	 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 
66N	21	15	310690	 And the one who spoke with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls. 
66N	21	16	310700	 The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width. And he measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia. Its length and width and height are equal. 
66N	21	17	310710	 He also measured its wall, 144 cubits by human measurement, which is also an angel's measurement. 
66N	21	18	310720	 The wall was built of jasper, while the city was pure gold, clear as glass. 
66N	21	19	310730	 The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of jewel. The first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, 
66N	21	20	310740	 the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. 
66N	21	21	310750	 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, transparent as glass. 
66N	21	22	310760	 And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. 
66N	21	23	310770	 And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. 
66N	21	24	310780	 By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, 
66N	21	25	310790	 and its gates will never be shut by day--and there will be no night there. 
66N	21	26	310800	 They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. 
66N	21	27	310810	 But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life. 
66N	22	1	310820	 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 
66N	22	2	310830	 through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 
66N	22	3	310840	 No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him. 
66N	22	4	310850	 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 
66N	22	5	310860	 And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever. 
66N	22	6	310870	 And he said to me, "These words are trustworthy and true. And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must soon take place." 
66N	22	7	310880	 "And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book." 
66N	22	8	310890	 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me, 
66N	22	9	310900	 but he said to me, "You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God." 
66N	22	10	310910	 And he said to me, "Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near. 
66N	22	11	310920	 Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy." 
66N	22	12	310930	 "Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay everyone for what he has done. 
66N	22	13	310940	 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end." 
66N	22	14	310950	 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates. 
66N	22	15	310960	 Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. 
66N	22	16	310970	 "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star." 
66N	22	17	310980	 The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come." And let the one who hears say, "Come." And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price. 
66N	22	18	310990	 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, 
66N	22	19	311000	 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book. 
66N	22	20	311010	 He who testifies to these things says, "Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! 
66N	22	21	311020	 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.