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δὲ — 3327x G1161 δέ
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Occurrences: 3322 times in 2868 verses
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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:2 - Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:6 - but streams[fn] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:10 - A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:12 - (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin[fn] and onyx are also there.)
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:14 - The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:17 - but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:20 - So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam[fn] no suitable helper was found.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1 - Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:3 - but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:17 - To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,' “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:1 - Adam[fn] made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.[fn] She said, “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth[fn] a man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:2 - Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:5 - but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:7 - If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:9 - Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I don't know,” he replied. “Am I my brother's keeper?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:16 - So Cain went out from the LORD's presence and lived in the land of Nod,[fn] east of Eden.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:18 - To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:22 - Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of[fn] bronze and iron. Tubal-Cain's sister was Naamah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:23 - Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:24 - If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:25 - Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth,[fn] saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:26 - Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on[fn] the name of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:3 - When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:4 - After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:6 - When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father[fn] of Enosh.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:22 - After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:2 - the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:3 - Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with[fn] humans forever, for they are mortal[fn]; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:4 - The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:5 - The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:8 - But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:9 - This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:10 - Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:11 - Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:16 - Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit[fn] high all around.[fn] Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:17 - I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:18 - But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:21 - You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:2 - Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:6 - Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:7 - And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:19 - They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:5 - The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:14 - By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:7 - As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:18 - The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:24 - When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:28 - After the flood Noah lived 350 years.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:1 - This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah's sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:6 - The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:7 - The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteka. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:8 - Cush was the father[fn] of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:15 - Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn,[fn] and of the Hittites,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:24 - Arphaxad was the father of[fn] Shelah, and Shelah the father of Eber.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:26 - Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:27 - This is the account of Terah's family line. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:4 - So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:6 - Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:11 - As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:12 - When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.' Then they will kill me but will let you live.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:14 - When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:18 - So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?” he said. “Why didn't you tell me she was your wife?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1 - So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:2 - Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:7 - And quarreling arose between Abram's herders and Lot's. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:8 - So Abram said to Lot, “Let's not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:9 - Is not the whole land before you? Let's part company. If you go to the left, I'll go to the right; if you go to the right, I'll go to the left.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12 - Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:13 - Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:1 - At the time when Amraphel was king of Shinar,[fn] Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goyim,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:4 - For twelve years they had been subject to Kedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:5 - In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:8 - Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboyim and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) marched out and drew up their battle lines in the Valley of Siddim
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:10 - Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some of the men fell into them and the rest fled to the hills.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:11 - The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food; then they went away.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:12 - They also carried off Abram's nephew Lot and his possessions, since he was living in Sodom.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:13 - A man who had escaped came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the great trees of Mamre the Amorite, a brother[fn] of Eshkol and Aner, all of whom were allied with Abram.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:14 - When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:17 - After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:18 - Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:21 - The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:22 - But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “With raised hand I have sworn an oath to the LORD, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:1 - After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield,[fn] your very great reward.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:2 - But Abram said, “Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit[fn] my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:3 - And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:5 - He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring[fn] be.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:7 - He also said to him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:9 - So the LORD said to him, “Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:10 - Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:11 - Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:12 - As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:14 - But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:15 - You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:16 - In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:17 - When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:1 - Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - so she said to Abram, “The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - “Your slave is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:7 - The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:9 - Then the angel of the LORD told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:16 - Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:1 - When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty[fn]; walk before me faithfully and be blameless.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:9 - Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:15 - God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:16 - I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:18 - And Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:19 - Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac.[fn] I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:20 - And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:21 - But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:22 - When he had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:24 - Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:25 - and his son Ishmael was thirteen;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:1 - The LORD appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:2 - Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:8 - He then brought some curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and set these before them. While they ate, he stood near them under a tree.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:9 - “Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked him. “There, in the tent,” he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:10 - Then one of them said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:11 - Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:12 - So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:13 - Then the LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:15 - Sarah was afraid, so she lied and said, “I did not laugh.” But he said, “Yes, you did laugh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:16 - When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:17 - Then the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:18 - Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:20 - Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:21 - that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:22 - The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:26 - The LORD said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?” “If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:29 - Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?” He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:30 - Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?” He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:31 - Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?” He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:32 - Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?” He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:33 - When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:1 - The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:6 - Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:7 - and said, “No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:10 - But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:11 - Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:12 - The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:14 - So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry[fn] his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:15 - With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:18 - But Lot said to them, “No, my lords,[fn] please!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:19 - Your[fn] servant has found favor in your[fn] eyes, and you[fn] have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can't flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I'll die.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:27 - Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:30 - Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:31 - One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as is the custom all over the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:33 - That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:34 - The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I slept with my father. Let's get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:35 - So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:38 - The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi[fn]; he is the father of the Ammonites[fn] of today.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” Then Abimelek king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:4 - Now Abimelek had not gone near her, so he said, “Lord, will you destroy an innocent nation?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:6 - Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:7 - Now return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, you may be sure that you and all who belong to you will die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:8 - Early the next morning Abimelek summoned all his officials, and when he told them all that had happened, they were very much afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:10 - And Abimelek asked Abraham, “What was your reason for doing this?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:11 - Abraham replied, “I said to myself, ‘There is surely no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:13 - And when God had me wander from my father's household, I said to her, ‘This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother.” ' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14 - Then Abimelek brought sheep and cattle and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham, and he returned Sarah his wife to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:16 - To Sarah he said, “I am giving your brother a thousand shekels[fn] of silver. This is to cover the offense against you before all who are with you; you are completely vindicated.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:17 - Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelek, his wife and his female slaves so they could have children again,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:4 - When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:5 - Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:6 - Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:9 - But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:11 - The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - But God said to him, “Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring[fn] will be reckoned.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:13 - I will make the son of the slave into a nation also, because he is your offspring.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:15 - When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:16 - Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she[fn] began to sob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:17 - God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:20 - God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:22 - At that time Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32 - After the treaty had been made at Beersheba, Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:34 - And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for a long time.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:1 - Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:3 - Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:5 - He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:6 - Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:7 - Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:8 - Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:11 - But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19 - Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:20 - Some time later Abraham was told, “Milkah is also a mother; she has borne sons to your brother Nahor:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:1 - Sarah lived to be a hundred and twenty-seven years old.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:2 - She died at Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep over her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:5 - The Hittites replied to Abraham,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:6 - “Sir, listen to us. You are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb for burying your dead.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:7 - Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:10 - Ephron the Hittite was sitting among his people and he replied to Abraham in the hearing of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:14 - Ephron answered Abraham,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:15 - “Listen to me, my lord; the land is worth four hundred shekels[fn] of silver, but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:5 - The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the country you came from?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:6 - “Make sure that you do not take my son back there,” Abraham said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8 - If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:13 - See, I am standing beside this spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:15 - Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milkah, who was the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:16 - The woman was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar and came up again.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:17 - The servant hurried to meet her and said, “Please give me a little water from your jar.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:18 - “Drink, my lord,” she said, and quickly lowered the jar to her hands and gave him a drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:21 - Without saying a word, the man watched her closely to learn whether or not the LORD had made his journey successful.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:22 - When the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka[fn] and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:29 - Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he hurried out to the man at the spring.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:31 - “Come, you who are blessed by the LORD,” he said. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:32 - So the man went to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and fodder were brought for the camels, and water for him and his men to wash their feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:35 - The LORD has blessed my master abundantly, and he has become wealthy. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:39 - “Then I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not come back with me?'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:45 - “Before I finished praying in my heart, Rebekah came out, with her jar on her shoulder. She went down to the spring and drew water, and I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:47 - “I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?' “She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milkah bore to him.' “Then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her arms,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:49 - Now if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, so I may know which way to turn.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:50 - Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we can say nothing to you one way or the other.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:52 - When Abraham's servant heard what they said, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55 - But her brother and her mother replied, “Let the young woman remain with us ten days or so; then you[fn] may go.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:56 - But he said to them, “Do not detain me, now that the LORD has granted success to my journey. Send me on my way so I may go to my master.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:57 - Then they said, “Let's call the young woman and ask her about it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:58 - So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?” “I will go,” she said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:61 - Then Rebekah and her attendants got ready and mounted the camels and went back with the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:62 - Now Isaac had come from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:65 - and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “He is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:67 - Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:1 - Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:2 - She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:3 - Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan; the descendants of Dedan were the Ashurites, the Letushites and the Leummites.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:4 - The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanok, Abida and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:5 - Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:7 - Abraham lived a hundred and seventy-five years.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:11 - After Abraham's death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:12 - This is the account of the family line of Abraham's son Ishmael, whom Sarah's slave, Hagar the Egyptian, bore to Abraham.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:18 - His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt, as you go toward Ashur. And they lived in hostility toward[fn] all the tribes related to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 - and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram[fn] and sister of Laban the Aramean.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:21 - Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:22 - The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:25 - The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:26 - After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau's heel; so he was named Jacob.[fn] Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:27 - The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:28 - Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:29 - Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:31 - Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:32 - “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:33 - But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:34 - Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left. So Esau despised his birthright.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:1 - Now there was a famine in the land—besides the previous famine in Abraham's time—and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines in Gerar.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:2 - The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:7 - When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:8 - When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelek king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:9 - So Abimelek summoned Isaac and said, “She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister'?” Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:10 - Then Abimelek said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the men might well have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:11 - So Abimelek gave orders to all the people: “Anyone who harms this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:12 - Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the LORD blessed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:14 - He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:16 - Then Abimelek said to Isaac, “Move away from us; you have become too powerful for us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:21 - Then they dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22 - He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth,[fn] saying, “Now the LORD has given us room and we will flourish in the land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:23 - From there he went up to Beersheba.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:25 - Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:27 - Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:32 - That day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug. They said, “We've found water!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:34 - When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:1 - When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” he answered.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:5 - Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 - Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “But my brother Esau is a hairy man while I have smooth skin.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:13 - His mother said to him, “My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:14 - So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:18 - He went to his father and said, “My father.” “Yes, my son,” he answered. “Who is it?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:20 - Isaac asked his son, “How did you find it so quickly, my son?” “The LORD your God gave me success,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21 - Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near so I can touch you, my son, to know whether you really are my son Esau or not.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22 - Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:24 - “Are you really my son Esau?” he asked. “I am,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:29 - May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:32 - His father Isaac asked him, “Who are you?” “I am your son,” he answered, “your firstborn, Esau.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:33 - Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him—and indeed he will be blessed!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:34 - When Esau heard his father's words, he burst out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me—me too, my father!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:35 - But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:37 - Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine. So what can I possibly do for you, my son?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:38 - Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:39 - His father Isaac answered him, “Your dwelling will be away from the earth's richness, away from the dew of heaven above.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:40 - You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 - Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Your brother Esau is planning to avenge himself by killing you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:46 - Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I'm disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:1 - So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him: “Do not marry a Canaanite woman.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:3 - May God Almighty[fn] bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6 - Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:13 - There above it[fn] stood the LORD, and he said: “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:16 - When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:1 - Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:4 - Jacob asked the shepherds, “My brothers, where are you from?” “We're from Harran,” they replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:5 - He said to them, “Do you know Laban, Nahor's grandson?” “Yes, we know him,” they answered.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:6 - Then Jacob asked them, “Is he well?” “Yes, he is,” they said, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8 - “We can't,” they replied, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of his uncle Laban, and Laban's sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle's sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:13 - As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister's son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:15 - Laban said to him, “Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:16 - Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:17 - Leah had weak[fn] eyes, but Rachel had a lovely figure and was beautiful.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18 - Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, “I'll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:19 - Laban said, “It's better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:21 - Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:22 - So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:24 - And Laban gave his servant Zilpah to his daughter as her attendant.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn't I? Why have you deceived me?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:26 - Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:28 - And Jacob did so. He finished the week with Leah, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:29 - Laban gave his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her attendant.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:30 - Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:31 - When the LORD saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:32 - Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben,[fn] for she said, “It is because the LORD has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:33 - She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “Because the LORD heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too.” So she named him Simeon.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:1 - When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I'll die!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2 - Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:3 - Then she said, “Here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:4 - So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:9 - When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:10 - Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:14 - During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son's mandrakes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:15 - But she said to her, “Wasn't it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son's mandrakes too?” “Very well,” Rachel said, “he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son's mandrakes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 - So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. “You must sleep with me,” she said. “I have hired you with my son's mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:22 - Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:23 - She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, “God has taken away my disgrace.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:25 - After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can go back to my own homeland.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:27 - But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:29 - Jacob said to him, “You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:31 - “What shall I give you?” he asked. “Don't give me anything,” Jacob replied. “But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:34 - “Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:36 - Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to tend the rest of Laban's flocks.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:37 - Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:40 - Jacob set apart the young of the flock by themselves, but made the rest face the streaked and dark-colored animals that belonged to Laban. Thus he made separate flocks for himself and did not put them with Laban's animals.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:41 - Whenever the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:42 - but if the animals were weak, he would not place them there. So the weak animals went to Laban and the strong ones to Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:1 - Jacob heard that Laban's sons were saying, “Jacob has taken everything our father owned and has gained all this wealth from what belonged to our father.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:3 - Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:4 - So Jacob sent word to Rachel and Leah to come out to the fields where his flocks were.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:5 - He said to them, “I see that your father's attitude toward me is not what it was before, but the God of my father has been with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:6 - You know that I've worked for your father with all my strength,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:7 - yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:8 - If he said, ‘The speckled ones will be your wages,' then all the flocks gave birth to speckled young; and if he said, ‘The streaked ones will be your wages,' then all the flocks bore streaked young.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:11 - The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob.' I answered, ‘Here I am.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:17 - Then Jacob put his children and his wives on camels,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father's household gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:20 - Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was running away.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:22 - On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:24 - Then God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:25 - Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there too.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:26 - Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You've deceived me, and you've carried off my daughters like captives in war.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:28 - You didn't even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. You have done a foolish thing.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:29 - I have the power to harm you; but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:31 - Jacob answered Laban, “I was afraid, because I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:32 - But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether there is anything of yours here with me; and if so, take it.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:33 - So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent and into the tent of the two female servants, but he found nothing. After he came out of Leah's tent, he entered Rachel's tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34 - Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them inside her camel's saddle and was sitting on them. Laban searched through everything in the tent but found nothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35 - Rachel said to her father, “Don't be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I'm having my period.” So he searched but could not find the household gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:36 - Jacob was angry and took Laban to task. “What is my crime?” he asked Laban. “How have I wronged you that you hunt me down?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:43 - Laban answered Jacob, “The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:44 - Come now, let's make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:45 - So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:46 - He said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:47 - Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:48 - Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me today.” That is why it was called Galeed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:55 - Early the next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then he left and returned home.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:2 - When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:3 - Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:7 - In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups,[fn] and the flocks and herds and camels as well.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:9 - Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, LORD, you who said to me, ‘Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will make you prosper,'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:10 - I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:12 - But you have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:16 - He put them in the care of his servants, each herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Go ahead of me, and keep some space between the herds.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:21 - So Jacob's gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:22 - That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:24 - So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:25 - When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:26 - Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:27 - The man asked him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he answered.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:28 - Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[fn] because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:29 - Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:31 - The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel,[fn] and he was limping because of his hip.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:1 - Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:3 - He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:5 - Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. “Who are these with you?” he asked. Jacob answered, “They are the children God has graciously given your servant.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:8 - Esau asked, “What's the meaning of all these flocks and herds I met?” “To find favor in your eyes, my lord,” he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:9 - But Esau said, “I already have plenty, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:10 - “No, please!” said Jacob. “If I have found favor in your eyes, accept this gift from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God, now that you have received me favorably.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:13 - But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender and that I must care for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard just one day, all the animals will die.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:14 - So let my lord go on ahead of his servant, while I move along slowly at the pace of the flocks and herds before me and the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:15 - Esau said, “Then let me leave some of my men with you.” “But why do that?” Jacob asked. “Just let me find favor in the eyes of my lord.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:16 - So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:1 - Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:4 - And Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as my wife.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:5 - When Jacob heard that his daughter Dinah had been defiled, his sons were in the fields with his livestock; so he did nothing about it until they came home.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:6 - Then Shechem's father Hamor went out to talk with Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:7 - Meanwhile, Jacob's sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened. They were shocked and furious, because Shechem had done an outrageous thing in[fn] Israel by sleeping with Jacob's daughter—a thing that should not be done.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:11 - Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and I will give you whatever you ask.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:13 - Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Jacob's sons replied deceitfully as they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamor.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:14 - They said to them, “We can't do such a thing; we can't give our sister to a man who is not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:17 - But if you will not agree to be circumcised, we'll take our sister and go.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:19 - The young man, who was the most honored of all his father's family, lost no time in doing what they said, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:20 - So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city to speak to the men of their city.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:21 - “These men are friendly toward us,” they said. “Let them live in our land and trade in it; the land has plenty of room for them. We can marry their daughters and they can marry ours.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:25 - Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:27 - The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and looted the city where[fn] their sister had been defiled.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:30 - Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me obnoxious to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land. We are few in number, and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:31 - But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:1 - Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:2 - So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:6 - Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:8 - Now Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried under the oak outside Bethel. So it was named Allon Bakuth.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:9 - After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram,[fn] God appeared to him again and blessed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:11 - And God said to him, “I am God Almighty[fn]; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:13 - Then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:16 - Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:17 - And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, “Don't despair, for you have another son.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:18 - As she breathed her last—for she was dying—she named her son Ben-Oni.[fn] But his father named him Benjamin.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:19 - So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:22 - While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father's concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it. Jacob had twelve sons:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:24 - The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:25 - The sons of Rachel's servant Bilhah: Dan and Naphtali.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:26 - The sons of Leah's servant Zilpah: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:27 - Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:28 - Isaac lived a hundred and eighty years.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:1 - This is the account of the family line of Esau (that is, Edom).
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:2 - Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite—
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:4 - Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath bore Reuel,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:6 - Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the members of his household, as well as his livestock and all his other animals and all the goods he had acquired in Canaan, and moved to a land some distance from his brother Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:8 - So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the hill country of Seir.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:9 - This is the account of the family line of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:11 - The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam and Kenaz.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:12 - Esau's son Eliphaz also had a concubine named Timna, who bore him Amalek. These were grandsons of Esau's wife Adah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:13 - The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. These were grandsons of Esau's wife Basemath.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:14 - The sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon, whom she bore to Esau: Jeush, Jalam and Korah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:18 - The sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah: Chiefs Jeush, Jalam and Korah. These were the chiefs descended from Esau's wife Oholibamah daughter of Anah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:20 - These were the sons of Seir the Horite, who were living in the region: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:22 - The sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam.[fn] Timna was Lotan's sister.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:23 - The sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho and Onam.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:25 - The children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah daughter of Anah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:26 - The sons of Dishon[fn]: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran and Keran.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:27 - The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan and Akan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:28 - The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:33 - When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah succeeded him as king.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:34 - When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites succeeded him as king.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:35 - When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, succeeded him as king. His city was named Avith.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:36 - When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah succeeded him as king.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:37 - When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth on the river succeeded him as king.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:38 - When Shaul died, Baal-Hanan son of Akbor succeeded him as king.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:39 - When Baal-Hanan son of Akbor died, Hadad[fn] succeeded him as king. His city was named Pau, and his wife's name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-Zahab.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:1 - Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - This is the account of Jacob's family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:3 - Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate[fn] robe for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:4 - When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:5 - Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:7 - We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:8 - His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:9 - Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:11 - His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:12 - Now his brothers had gone to graze their father's flocks near Shechem,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:13 - and Israel said to Joseph, “As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I am going to send you to them.” “Very well,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:14 - So he said to him, “Go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks, and bring word back to me.” Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. When Joseph arrived at Shechem,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:15 - a man found him wandering around in the fields and asked him, “What are you looking for?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:16 - He replied, “I'm looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:17 - “They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let's go to Dothan.' ” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:18 - But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:19 - “Here comes that dreamer!” they said to each other.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:21 - When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. “Let's not take his life,” he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:22 - “Don't shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don't lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:23 - So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the ornate robe he was wearing—
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:24 - and they took him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; there was no water in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:25 - As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:26 - Judah said to his brothers, “What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:27 - Come, let's sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.” His brothers agreed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:29 - When Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:30 - He went back to his brothers and said, “The boy isn't there! Where can I turn now?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:31 - Then they got Joseph's robe, slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:34 - Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:35 - All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said, “I will continue to mourn until I join my son in the grave.” So his father wept for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:36 - Meanwhile, the Midianites[fn] sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:1 - At that time, Judah left his brothers and went down to stay with a man of Adullam named Hirah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:5 - She gave birth to still another son and named him Shelah. It was at Kezib that she gave birth to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:7 - But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the LORD's sight; so the LORD put him to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:8 - Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother's wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:9 - But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother's wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:10 - What he did was wicked in the LORD's sight; so the LORD put him to death also.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:11 - Judah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father's household until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, just like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father's household.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12 - After a long time Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had recovered from his grief, he went up to Timnah, to the men who were shearing his sheep, and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:14 - she took off her widow's clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:16 - Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “And what will you give me to sleep with you?” she asked.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:17 - “I'll send you a young goat from my flock,” he said. “Will you give me something as a pledge until you send it?” she asked.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:18 - He said, “What pledge should I give you?” “Your seal and its cord, and the staff in your hand,” she answered. So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:20 - Meanwhile Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get his pledge back from the woman, but he did not find her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:21 - He asked the men who lived there, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “There hasn't been any shrine prostitute here,” they said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:23 - Then Judah said, “Let her keep what she has, or we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you didn't find her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:24 - About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant.” Judah said, “Bring her out and have her burned to death!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:25 - As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law. “I am pregnant by the man who owns these,” she said. And she added, “See if you recognize whose seal and cord and staff these are.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:26 - Judah recognized them and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I wouldn't give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not sleep with her again.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:27 - When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:28 - As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his wrist and said, “This one came out first.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:29 - But when he drew back his hand, his brother came out, and she said, “So this is how you have broken out!” And he was named Perez.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:1 - Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh's officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:3 - When his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD gave him success in everything he did,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:4 - Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:5 - From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the LORD blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the LORD was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:8 - But he refused. “With me in charge,” he told her, “my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:10 - And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:11 - One day he went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the household servants was inside.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:15 - When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:18 - But as soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:19 - When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is how your slave treated me,” he burned with anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:1 - Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:4 - The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he attended them. After they had been in custody for some time,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:6 - When Joseph came to them the next morning, he saw that they were dejected.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:8 - “We both had dreams,” they answered, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:10 - and on the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters ripened into grapes.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:17 - In the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:18 - “This is what it means,” Joseph said. “The three baskets are three days.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:20 - Now the third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:22 - but he impaled the chief baker, just as Joseph had said to them in his interpretation.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:23 - The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:1 - When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:3 - After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nile and stood beside those on the riverbank.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:4 - And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:6 - After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted—thin and scorched by the east wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:7 - The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy, full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up; it had been a dream.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:8 - In the morning his mind was troubled, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:12 - Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted them for us, giving each man the interpretation of his dream.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:13 - And things turned out exactly as he interpreted them to us: I was restored to my position, and the other man was impaled.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:14 - So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the dungeon. When he had shaved and changed his clothes, he came before Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:15 - Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:16 - “I cannot do it,” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17 - Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:21 - But even after they ate them, no one could tell that they had done so; they looked just as ugly as before. Then I woke up.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:23 - After them, seven other heads sprouted—withered and thin and scorched by the east wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:28 - “It is just as I said to Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:30 - but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will ravage the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:32 - The reason the dream was given to Pharaoh in two forms is that the matter has been firmly decided by God, and God will do it soon.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:37 - The plan seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his officials.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:39 - Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one so discerning and wise as you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:41 - So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:44 - Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your word no one will lift hand or foot in all Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:46 - Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from Pharaoh's presence and traveled throughout Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:50 - Before the years of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:51 - Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh[fn] and said, “It is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:52 - The second son he named Ephraim[fn] and said, “It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:53 - The seven years of abundance in Egypt came to an end,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54 - and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:55 - When all Egypt began to feel the famine, the people cried to Pharaoh for food. Then Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do what he tells you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:56 - When the famine had spread over the whole country, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe throughout Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:1 - When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you just keep looking at each other?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:3 - Then ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:4 - But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with the others, because he was afraid that harm might come to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:5 - So Israel's sons were among those who went to buy grain, for there was famine in the land of Canaan also.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:6 - Now Joseph was the governor of the land, the person who sold grain to all its people. So when Joseph's brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:7 - As soon as Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger and spoke harshly to them. “Where do you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied, “to buy food.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:8 - Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they did not recognize him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:10 - “No, my lord,” they answered. “Your servants have come to buy food.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:12 - “No!” he said to them. “You have come to see where our land is unprotected.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:13 - But they replied, “Your servants were twelve brothers, the sons of one man, who lives in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:14 - Joseph said to them, “It is just as I told you: You are spies!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:16 - Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If you are not, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:18 - On the third day, Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:19 - If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:20 - But you must bring your youngest brother to me, so that your words may be verified and that you may not die.” This they proceeded to do.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:22 - Reuben replied, “Didn't I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you wouldn't listen! Now we must give an accounting for his blood.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:23 - They did not realize that Joseph could understand them, since he was using an interpreter.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:24 - He turned away from them and began to weep, but then came back and spoke to them again. He had Simeon taken from them and bound before their eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:25 - Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, to put each man's silver back in his sack, and to give them provisions for their journey. After this was done for them,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:27 - At the place where they stopped for the night one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver in the mouth of his sack.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:29 - When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them. They said,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:31 - But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we are not spies.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:32 - We were twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in Canaan.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:33 - “Then the man who is lord over the land said to us, ‘This is how I will know whether you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers here with me, and take food for your starving households and go.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:35 - As they were emptying their sacks, there in each man's sack was his pouch of silver! When they and their father saw the money pouches, they were frightened.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:36 - Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my children. Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more, and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:37 - Then Reuben said to his father, “You may put both of my sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him back.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:38 - But Jacob said, “My son will not go down there with you; his brother is dead and he is the only one left. If harm comes to him on the journey you are taking, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in sorrow.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:1 - Now the famine was still severe in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:2 - So when they had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:3 - But Judah said to him, “The man warned us solemnly, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:5 - But if you will not send him, we will not go down, because the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:6 - Israel asked, “Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man you had another brother?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:7 - They replied, “The man questioned us closely about ourselves and our family. ‘Is your father still living?' he asked us. ‘Do you have another brother?' We simply answered his questions. How were we to know he would say, ‘Bring your brother down here'?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:8 - Then Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the boy along with me and we will go at once, so that we and you and our children may live and not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:9 - I myself will guarantee his safety; you can hold me personally responsible for him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:11 - Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down to the man as a gift—a little balm and a little honey, some spices and myrrh, some pistachio nuts and almonds.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:14 - And may God Almighty[fn] grant you mercy before the man so that he will let your other brother and Benjamin come back with you. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:15 - So the men took the gifts and double the amount of silver, and Benjamin also. They hurried down to Egypt and presented themselves to Joseph.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:16 - When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Take these men to my house, slaughter an animal and prepare a meal; they are to eat with me at noon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:17 - The man did as Joseph told him and took the men to Joseph's house.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:18 - Now the men were frightened when they were taken to his house. They thought, “We were brought here because of the silver that was put back into our sacks the first time. He wants to attack us and overpower us and seize us as slaves and take our donkeys.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:19 - So they went up to Joseph's steward and spoke to him at the entrance to the house.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:21 - But at the place where we stopped for the night we opened our sacks and each of us found his silver—the exact weight—in the mouth of his sack. So we have brought it back with us.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:23 - “It's all right,” he said. “Don't be afraid. Your God, the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks; I received your silver.” Then he brought Simeon out to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:25 - They prepared their gifts for Joseph's arrival at noon, because they had heard that they were to eat there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:26 - When Joseph came home, they presented to him the gifts they had brought into the house, and they bowed down before him to the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:27 - He asked them how they were, and then he said, “How is your aged father you told me about? Is he still living?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:28 - They replied, “Your servant our father is still alive and well.” And they bowed down, prostrating themselves before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:29 - As he looked about and saw his brother Benjamin, his own mother's son, he asked, “Is this your youngest brother, the one you told me about?” And he said, “God be gracious to you, my son.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:30 - Deeply moved at the sight of his brother, Joseph hurried out and looked for a place to weep. He went into his private room and wept there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:33 - The men had been seated before him in the order of their ages, from the firstborn to the youngest; and they looked at each other in astonishment.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:34 - When portions were served to them from Joseph's table, Benjamin's portion was five times as much as anyone else's. So they feasted and drank freely with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:2 - Then put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one's sack, along with the silver for his grain.” And he did as Joseph said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:4 - They had not gone far from the city when Joseph said to his steward, “Go after those men at once, and when you catch up with them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:5 - Isn't this the cup my master drinks from and also uses for divination? This is a wicked thing you have done.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:6 - When he caught up with them, he repeated these words to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:7 - But they said to him, “Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do anything like that!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:9 - If any of your servants is found to have it, he will die; and the rest of us will become my lord's slaves.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:10 - “Very well, then,” he said, “let it be as you say. Whoever is found to have it will become my slave; the rest of you will be free from blame.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:12 - Then the steward proceeded to search, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:14 - Joseph was still in the house when Judah and his brothers came in, and they threw themselves to the ground before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:15 - Joseph said to them, “What is this you have done? Don't you know that a man like me can find things out by divination?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:16 - “What can we say to my lord?” Judah replied. “What can we say? How can we prove our innocence? God has uncovered your servants' guilt. We are now my lord's slaves—we ourselves and the one who was found to have the cup.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:17 - But Joseph said, “Far be it from me to do such a thing! Only the man who was found to have the cup will become my slave. The rest of you, go back to your father in peace.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:18 - Then Judah went up to him and said: “Pardon your servant, my lord, let me speak a word to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, though you are equal to Pharaoh himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:20 - And we answered, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age. His brother is dead, and he is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:21 - “Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so I can see him for myself.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:22 - And we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father; if he leaves him, his father will die.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:23 - But you told your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:24 - When we went back to your servant my father, we told him what my lord had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:25 - “Then our father said, ‘Go back and buy a little more food.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:26 - But we said, ‘We cannot go down. Only if our youngest brother is with us will we go. We cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:27 - “Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:30 - “So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father, and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy's life,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:31 - sees that the boy isn't there, he will die. Your servants will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave in sorrow.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:33 - “Now then, please let your servant remain here as my lord's slave in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:2 - And he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh's household heard about it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:3 - Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living?” But his brothers were not able to answer him, because they were terrified at his presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:4 - Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come close to me.” When they had done so, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:16 - When the news reached Pharaoh's palace that Joseph's brothers had come, Pharaoh and all his officials were pleased.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:17 - Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals and return to the land of Canaan,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:19 - “You are also directed to tell them, ‘Do this: Take some carts from Egypt for your children and your wives, and get your father and come.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:21 - So the sons of Israel did this. Joseph gave them carts, as Pharaoh had commanded, and he also gave them provisions for their journey.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:22 - To each of them he gave new clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels[fn] of silver and five sets of clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:24 - Then he sent his brothers away, and as they were leaving he said to them, “Don't quarrel on the way!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:27 - But when they told him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the carts Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:28 - And Israel said, “I'm convinced! My son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:1 - So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:2 - And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, “Jacob! Jacob!” “Here I am,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5 - Then Jacob left Beersheba, and Israel's sons took their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to transport him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:8 - These are the names of the sons of Israel (Jacob and his descendants) who went to Egypt: Reuben the firstborn of Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:9 - The sons of Reuben: Hanok, Pallu, Hezron and Karmi.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:10 - The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:11 - The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:12 - The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez and Zerah (but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:13 - The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah,[fn] Jashub[fn] and Shimron.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:14 - The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon and Jahleel.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:16 - The sons of Gad: Zephon,[fn] Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi and Areli.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:17 - The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi and Beriah. Their sister was Serah. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:19 - The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:20 - In Egypt, Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:21 - The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim and Ard.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:23 - The son of Dan: Hushim.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:26 - All those who went to Egypt with Jacob—those who were his direct descendants, not counting his sons' wives—numbered sixty-six persons.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:27 - With the two sons[fn] who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob's family, which went to Egypt, were seventy[fn] in all.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:28 - Now Jacob sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. When they arrived in the region of Goshen,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:29 - Joseph had his chariot made ready and went to Goshen to meet his father Israel. As soon as Joseph appeared before him, he threw his arms around his father[fn] and wept for a long time.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:31 - Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, “I will go up and speak to Pharaoh and will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father's household, who were living in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:32 - The men are shepherds; they tend livestock, and they have brought along their flocks and herds and everything they own.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:1 - Joseph went and told Pharaoh, “My father and brothers, with their flocks and herds and everything they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:2 - He chose five of his brothers and presented them before Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:3 - Pharaoh asked the brothers, “What is your occupation?” “Your servants are shepherds,” they replied to Pharaoh, “just as our fathers were.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - They also said to him, “We have come to live here for a while, because the famine is severe in Canaan and your servants' flocks have no pasture. So now, please let your servants settle in Goshen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:5 - Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:7 - Then Joseph brought his father Jacob in and presented him before Pharaoh. After Jacob blessed[fn] Pharaoh,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:8 - Pharaoh asked him, “How old are you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:13 - There was no food, however, in the whole region because the famine was severe; both Egypt and Canaan wasted away because of the famine.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:14 - Joseph collected all the money that was to be found in Egypt and Canaan in payment for the grain they were buying, and he brought it to Pharaoh's palace.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:15 - When the money of the people of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all Egypt came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? Our money is all gone.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:16 - “Then bring your livestock,” said Joseph. “I will sell you food in exchange for your livestock, since your money is gone.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:17 - So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for their horses, their sheep and goats, their cattle and donkeys. And he brought them through that year with food in exchange for all their livestock.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:18 - When that year was over, they came to him the following year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord the fact that since our money is gone and our livestock belongs to you, there is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:23 - Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you so you can plant the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:24 - But when the crop comes in, give a fifth of it to Pharaoh. The other four-fifths you may keep as seed for the fields and as food for yourselves and your households and your children.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:27 - Now the Israelites settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and were fruitful and increased greatly in number.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:28 - Jacob lived in Egypt seventeen years, and the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:29 - When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise that you will show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:30 - but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me where they are buried.” “I will do as you say,” he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:1 - Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim along with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:2 - When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to you,” Israel rallied his strength and sat up on the bed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:6 - Any children born to you after them will be yours; in the territory they inherit they will be reckoned under the names of their brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - As I was returning from Paddan,[fn] to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan while we were still on the way, a little distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:8 - When Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he asked, “Who are these?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:9 - “They are the sons God has given me here,” Joseph said to his father. Then Israel said, “Bring them to me so I may bless them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:10 - Now Israel's eyes were failing because of old age, and he could hardly see. So Joseph brought his sons close to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:13 - And Joseph took both of them, Ephraim on his right toward Israel's left hand and Manasseh on his left toward Israel's right hand, and brought them close to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:14 - But Israel reached out his right hand and put it on Ephraim's head, though he was the younger, and crossing his arms, he put his left hand on Manasseh's head, even though Manasseh was the firstborn.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:17 - When Joseph saw his father placing his right hand on Ephraim's head he was displeased; so he took hold of his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:18 - Joseph said to him, “No, my father, this one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:21 - Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you[fn] and take you[fn] back to the land of your[fn] fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:22 - And to you I give one more ridge of land[fn] than to your brothers, the ridge I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:1 - Then Jacob called for his sons and said: “Gather around so I can tell you what will happen to you in days to come.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:19 - “Gad[fn] will be attacked by a band of raiders, but he will attack them at their heels.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:4 - When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh's court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:15 - When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:20 - You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:24 - Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:5 - The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy[fn] in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:6 - Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:7 - but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:8 - Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:9 - “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:12 - But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:16 - “When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:17 - The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:18 - Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:19 - The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:20 - So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:22 - Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:2 - and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:3 - But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket[fn] for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:5 - Then Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:6 - She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:8 - “Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby's mother.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:9 - Pharaoh's daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:10 - When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses,[fn] saying, “I drew him out of the water.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:11 - One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:12 - Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:13 - The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:14 - The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:15 - When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:16 - Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:17 - Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:18 - When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:19 - They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:20 - “And where is he?” Reuel asked his daughters. “Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:21 - Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:22 - Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,[fn] saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:23 - During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:2 - There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:3 - So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:4 - When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:6 - Then he said, “I am the God of your father,[fn] the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:7 - The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:12 - And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you[fn] will worship God on this mountain.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:19 - But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:21 - “And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:1 - Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The LORD did not appear to you'?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:2 - Then the LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:6 - Then the LORD said, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, the skin was leprous[fn]—it had become as white as snow.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:8 - Then the LORD said, “If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first sign, they may believe the second.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:10 - Moses said to the LORD, “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:11 - The LORD said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:16 - He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:18 - Then Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Let me return to my own people in Egypt to see if any of them are still alive.” Jethro said, “Go, and I wish you well.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:19 - Now the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you are dead.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:20 - So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:21 - The LORD said to Moses, “When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:22 - Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the LORD says: Israel is my firstborn son,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:24 - At a lodging place on the way, the LORD met Moses[fn] and was about to kill him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:27 - The LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:29 - Moses and Aaron brought together all the elders of the Israelites,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:31 - and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD was concerned about them and had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:6 - That same day Pharaoh gave this order to the slave drivers and overseers in charge of the people:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:10 - Then the slave drivers and the overseers went out and said to the people, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you any more straw.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:13 - The slave drivers kept pressing them, saying, “Complete the work required of you for each day, just as when you had straw.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:15 - Then the Israelite overseers went and appealed to Pharaoh: “Why have you treated your servants this way?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:19 - The Israelite overseers realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You are not to reduce the number of bricks required of you for each day.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:20 - When they left Pharaoh, they found Moses and Aaron waiting to meet them,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:22 - Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Why, Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Is this why you sent me?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:2 - God also said to Moses, “I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:9 - Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh labor.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:10 - Then the LORD said to Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:12 - But Moses said to the LORD, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips[fn]?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:13 - Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron about the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he commanded them to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:20 - Amram married his father's sister Jochebed, who bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:23 - Aaron married Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:24 - The sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah and Abiasaph. These were the Korahite clans.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:2 - You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:3 - But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:6 - Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD commanded them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:7 - Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:10 - So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:11 - Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:14 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh's heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:19 - The LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over the streams and canals, over the ponds and all the reservoirs—and they will turn to blood.' Blood will be everywhere in Egypt, even in vessels[fn] of wood and stone.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:22 - But the Egyptian magicians did the same things by their secret arts, and Pharaoh's heart became hard; he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:23 - Instead, he turned and went into his palace, and did not take even this to heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:24 - And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile to get drinking water, because they could not drink the water of the river.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:2 - If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:5 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the streams and canals and ponds, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:7 - But the magicians did the same things by their secret arts; they also made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9 - Moses said to Pharaoh, “I leave to you the honor of setting the time for me to pray for you and your officials and your people that you and your houses may be rid of the frogs, except for those that remain in the Nile.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:10 - “Tomorrow,” Pharaoh said. Moses replied, “It will be as you say, so that you may know there is no one like the LORD our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:12 - After Moses and Aaron left Pharaoh, Moses cried out to the LORD about the frogs he had brought on Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:13 - And the LORD did what Moses asked. The frogs died in the houses, in the courtyards and in the fields.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:15 - But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:16 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the ground,' and throughout the land of Egypt the dust will become gnats.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:18 - But when the magicians tried to produce gnats by their secret arts, they could not. Since the gnats were on people and animals everywhere,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:20 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and confront Pharaoh as he goes to the river and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:21 - If you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies on you and your officials, on your people and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies; even the ground will be covered with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:23 - I will make a distinction[fn] between my people and your people. This sign will occur tomorrow.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:24 - And the LORD did this. Dense swarms of flies poured into Pharaoh's palace and into the houses of his officials; throughout Egypt the land was ruined by the flies.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:25 - Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God here in the land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:29 - Moses answered, “As soon as I leave you, I will pray to the LORD, and tomorrow the flies will leave Pharaoh and his officials and his people. Only let Pharaoh be sure that he does not act deceitfully again by not letting the people go to offer sacrifices to the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:30 - Then Moses left Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:31 - and the LORD did what Moses asked. The flies left Pharaoh and his officials and his people; not a fly remained.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, so that they may worship me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:6 - And the next day the LORD did it: All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one animal belonging to the Israelites died.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:7 - Pharaoh investigated and found that not even one of the animals of the Israelites had died. Yet his heart was unyielding and he would not let the people go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:8 - Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from a furnace and have Moses toss it into the air in the presence of Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:12 - But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said to Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:13 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, confront Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:19 - Give an order now to bring your livestock and everything you have in the field to a place of shelter, because the hail will fall on every person and animal that has not been brought in and is still out in the field, and they will die.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:21 - But those who ignored the word of the LORD left their slaves and livestock in the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:22 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that hail will fall all over Egypt—on people and animals and on everything growing in the fields of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:23 - When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:24 - hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:25 - Throughout Egypt hail struck everything in the fields—both people and animals; it beat down everything growing in the fields and stripped every tree.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:27 - Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he said to them. “The LORD is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:29 - Moses replied, “When I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands in prayer to the LORD. The thunder will stop and there will be no more hail, so you may know that the earth is the LORD's.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:31 - (The flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley had headed and the flax was in bloom.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:32 - The wheat and spelt, however, were not destroyed, because they ripen later.)
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:33 - Then Moses left Pharaoh and went out of the city. He spread out his hands toward the LORD; the thunder and hail stopped, and the rain no longer poured down on the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:34 - When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had stopped, he sinned again: He and his officials hardened their hearts.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may perform these signs of mine among them
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:3 - So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:4 - If you refuse to let them go, I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:8 - Then Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. “Go, worship the LORD your God,” he said. “But tell me who will be going.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:11 - No! Have only the men go and worship the LORD, since that's what you have been asking for.” Then Moses and Aaron were driven out of Pharaoh's presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:12 - And the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over Egypt so that locusts swarm over the land and devour everything growing in the fields, everything left by the hail.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:16 - Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:18 - Moses then left Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:21 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness spreads over Egypt—darkness that can be felt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:22 - So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:23 - No one could see anyone else or move about for three days. Yet all the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:26 - Our livestock too must go with us; not a hoof is to be left behind. We have to use some of them in worshiping the LORD our God, and until we get there we will not know what we are to use to worship the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:27 - But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he was not willing to let them go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:29 - “Just as you say,” Moses replied. “I will never appear before you again.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:1 - Now the LORD had said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here, and when he does, he will drive you out completely.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:3 - (The LORD made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and Moses himself was highly regarded in Egypt by Pharaoh's officials and by the people.)
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:8 - All these officials of yours will come to me, bowing down before me and saying, ‘Go, you and all the people who follow you!' After that I will leave.” Then Moses, hot with anger, left Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:9 - The LORD had said to Moses, “Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you—so that my wonders may be multiplied in Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:10 - Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his country.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:1 - The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:4 - If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:10 - Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:11 - This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD's Passover.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:15 - For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:20 - Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:21 - Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:22 - Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:25 - When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:27 - then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.' ” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:29 - At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:32 - Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:34 - So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:35 - The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:37 - The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:40 - Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt[fn] was 430 years.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:43 - The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the regulations for the Passover meal: “No foreigner may eat it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:1 - The LORD said to Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:3 - Then Moses said to the people, “Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery, because the LORD brought you out of it with a mighty hand. Eat nothing containing yeast.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:6 - For seven days eat bread made without yeast and on the seventh day hold a festival to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:13 - Redeem with a lamb every firstborn donkey, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem every firstborn among your sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:14 - “In days to come, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?' say to him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:15 - When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed the firstborn of both people and animals in Egypt. This is why I sacrifice to the LORD the first male offspring of every womb and redeem each of my firstborn sons.'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:17 - When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, “If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18 - So God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea.[fn] The Israelites went up out of Egypt ready for battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:20 - After leaving Sukkoth they camped at Etham on the edge of the desert.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:21 - By day the LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:4 - And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them. But I will gain glory for myself through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” So the Israelites did this.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:8 - The LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out boldly.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:10 - As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:13 - Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:15 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:19 - Then the angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel's army, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front and stood behind them,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:21 - Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:23 - The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh's horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:24 - During the last watch of the night the LORD looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:26 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:27 - Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing toward[fn] it, and the LORD swept them into the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:29 - But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:31 - And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the LORD displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:19 - When Pharaoh's horses, chariots and horsemen[fn] went into the sea, the LORD brought the waters of the sea back over them, but the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:20 - Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron's sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:21 - Miriam sang to them: “Sing to the LORD, for he is highly exalted. Both horse and driver he has hurled into the sea.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:22 - Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:23 - When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah.[fn])
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:25 - Then Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became fit to drink. There the LORD issued a ruling and instruction for them and put them to the test.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:27 - Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:1 - The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:4 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:7 - and in the morning you will see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we, that you should grumble against us?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:8 - Moses also said, “You will know that it was the LORD when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:9 - Then Moses told Aaron, “Say to the entire Israelite community, ‘Come before the LORD, for he has heard your grumbling.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:10 - While Aaron was speaking to the whole Israelite community, they looked toward the desert, and there was the glory of the LORD appearing in the cloud.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:13 - That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:15 - When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread the LORD has given you to eat.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:17 - The Israelites did as they were told; some gathered much, some little.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:19 - Then Moses said to them, “No one is to keep any of it until morning.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:21 - Each morning everyone gathered as much as they needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:22 - On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much—two omers[fn] for each person—and the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:23 - He said to them, “This is what the LORD commanded: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of sabbath rest, a holy sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:25 - “Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a sabbath to the LORD. You will not find any of it on the ground today.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:26 - Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:27 - Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather it, but they found none.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:28 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you[fn] refuse to keep my commands and my instructions?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:31 - The people of Israel called the bread manna.[fn] It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:32 - Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Take an omer of manna and keep it for the generations to come, so they can see the bread I gave you to eat in the wilderness when I brought you out of Egypt.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:35 - The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:36 - (An omer is one-tenth of an ephah.)
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:1 - The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:3 - But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:4 - Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:5 - The LORD answered Moses, “Go out in front of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:6 - I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:8 - The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:9 - Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:11 - As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:12 - When Moses' hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands remained steady till sunset.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:14 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:1 - Now Jethro, the priest of Midian and father-in-law of Moses, heard of everything God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:2 - After Moses had sent away his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro received her
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:6 - Jethro had sent word to him, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:7 - So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and then went into the tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:9 - Jethro was delighted to hear about all the good things the LORD had done for Israel in rescuing them from the hand of the Egyptians.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:12 - Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and other sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses' father-in-law in the presence of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:13 - The next day Moses took his seat to serve as judge for the people, and they stood around him from morning till evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:14 - When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he said, “What is this you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge, while all these people stand around you from morning till evening?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:17 - Moses' father-in-law replied, “What you are doing is not good.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:22 - Have them serve as judges for the people at all times, but have them bring every difficult case to you; the simple cases they can decide themselves. That will make your load lighter, because they will share it with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:24 - Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:26 - They served as judges for the people at all times. The difficult cases they brought to Moses, but the simple ones they decided themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:27 - Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and Jethro returned to his own country.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:1 - On the first day of the third month after the Israelites left Egypt—on that very day—they came to the Desert of Sinai.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:6 - you[fn] will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:7 - So Moses went back and summoned the elders of the people and set before them all the words the LORD had commanded him to speak.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:8 - The people all responded together, “We will do everything the LORD has said.” So Moses brought their answer back to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:9 - The LORD said to Moses, “I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear me speaking with you and will always put their trust in you.” Then Moses told the LORD what the people had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:10 - And the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:14 - After Moses had gone down the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:16 - On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:18 - Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the LORD descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain[fn] trembled violently.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:19 - As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and the voice of God answered him.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:20 - The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:24 - The LORD replied, “Go down and bring Aaron up with you. But the priests and the people must not force their way through to come up to the LORD, or he will break out against them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:25 - So Moses went down to the people and told them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:10 - but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:18 - When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:21 - The people remained at a distance, while Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:22 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites this: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:25 - If you make an altar of stones for me, do not build it with dressed stones, for you will defile it if you use a tool on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:2 - “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:3 - If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:4 - If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:5 - “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:8 - If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself,[fn] he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:9 - If he selects her for his son, he must grant her the rights of a daughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:10 - If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:11 - If he does not provide her with these three things, she is to go free, without any payment of money.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:12 - “Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:13 - However, if it is not done intentionally, but God lets it happen, they are to flee to a place I will designate.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:18 - “If people quarrel and one person hits another with a stone or with their fist[fn] and the victim does not die but is confined to bed,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:21 - but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:22 - “If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely[fn] but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:23 - But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:27 - And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:28 - “If a bull gores a man or woman to death, the bull is to be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:29 - If, however, the bull has had the habit of goring and the owner has been warned but has not kept it penned up and it kills a man or woman, the bull is to be stoned and its owner also is to be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:30 - However, if payment is demanded, the owner may redeem his life by the payment of whatever is demanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:31 - This law also applies if the bull gores a son or daughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:32 - If the bull gores a male or female slave, the owner must pay thirty shekels[fn] of silver to the master of the slave, and the bull is to be stoned to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:34 - the one who opened the pit must pay the owner for the loss and take the dead animal in exchange.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:35 - “If anyone's bull injures someone else's bull and it dies, the two parties are to sell the live one and divide both the money and the dead animal equally.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:36 - However, if it was known that the bull had the habit of goring, yet the owner did not keep it penned up, the owner must pay, animal for animal, and take the dead animal in exchange.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:2 - “If a thief is caught breaking in at night and is struck a fatal blow, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:3 - but if it happens after sunrise, the defender is guilty of bloodshed. “Anyone who steals must certainly make restitution, but if they have nothing, they must be sold to pay for their theft.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:4 - If the stolen animal is found alive in their possession—whether ox or donkey or sheep—they must pay back double.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:5 - “If anyone grazes their livestock in a field or vineyard and lets them stray and they graze in someone else's field, the offender must make restitution from the best of their own field or vineyard.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:6 - “If a fire breaks out and spreads into thornbushes so that it burns shocks of grain or standing grain or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make restitution.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:8 - But if the thief is not found, the owner of the house must appear before the judges, and they must[fn] determine whether the owner of the house has laid hands on the other person's property.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:12 - But if the animal was stolen from the neighbor, restitution must be made to the owner.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:13 - If it was torn to pieces by a wild animal, the neighbor shall bring in the remains as evidence and shall not be required to pay for the torn animal.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:14 - “If anyone borrows an animal from their neighbor and it is injured or dies while the owner is not present, they must make restitution.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:15 - But if the owner is with the animal, the borrower will not have to pay. If the animal was hired, the money paid for the hire covers the loss.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:16 - “If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price, and she shall be his wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:17 - If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must still pay the bride-price for virgins.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:23 - If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:25 - “If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:26 - If you take your neighbor's cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:30 - Do the same with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:4 - “If you come across your enemy's ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:5 - If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:11 - but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what is left. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:12 - “Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:22 - If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:2 - but Moses alone is to approach the LORD; the others must not come near. And the people may not come up with him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:3 - When Moses went and told the people all the LORD's words and laws, they responded with one voice, “Everything the LORD has said we will do.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:4 - Moses then wrote down everything the LORD had said. He got up early the next morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:6 - Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splashed against the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:8 - Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:17 - To the Israelites the glory of the LORD looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:13 - Then make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:32 - Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand—three on one side and three on the other.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:3 - Join five of the curtains together, and do the same with the other five.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:5 - Put it under the ledge of the altar so that it is halfway up the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:12 - “The west end of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits[fn] wide and have curtains, with ten posts and ten bases.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:18 - The courtyard shall be a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide,[fn] with curtains of finely twisted linen five cubits[fn] high, and with bronze bases.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:33 - Make pomegranates of blue, purple and scarlet yarn around the hem of the robe, with gold bells between them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:12 - Take some of the bull's blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour out the rest of it at the base of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:14 - But burn the bull's flesh and its hide and its intestines outside the camp. It is a sin offering.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:21 - And take some blood from the altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. Then he and his sons and their garments will be consecrated.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:34 - And if any of the meat of the ordination ram or any bread is left over till morning, burn it up. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:13 - Each one who crosses over to those already counted is to give a half shekel,[fn] according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:15 - For six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:26 - So he stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” And all the Levites rallied to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:31 - So Moses went back to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:32 - But now, please forgive their sin—but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:34 - Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:11 - The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:12 - Moses said to the LORD, “You have been telling me, ‘Lead these people,' but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, ‘I know you by name and you have found favor with me.'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:23 - Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:20 - Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons. “No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:21 - “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:29 - When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:2 - For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a day of sabbath rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it is to be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:23 - with an opening in the center of the robe like the opening of a collar,[fn] and a band around this opening, so that it would not tear.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:32 - So all the work on the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:37 - but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out—until the day it lifted.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:9 - You are to wash the internal organs and the legs with water, and the priest is to burn all of it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:10 - “ ‘If the offering is a burnt offering from the flock, from either the sheep or the goats, you are to offer a male without defect.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:14 - “ ‘If the offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, you are to offer a dove or a young pigeon.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:1 - “ ‘When anyone brings a grain offering to the LORD, their offering is to be of the finest flour. They are to pour olive oil on it, put incense on it
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:4 - “ ‘If you bring a grain offering baked in an oven, it is to consist of the finest flour: either thick loaves made without yeast and with olive oil mixed in or thin loaves made without yeast and brushed with olive oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:5 - If your grain offering is prepared on a griddle, it is to be made of the finest flour mixed with oil, and without yeast.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:7 - If your grain offering is cooked in a pan, it is to be made of the finest flour and some olive oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:10 - The rest of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the food offerings presented to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:12 - You may bring them to the LORD as an offering of the firstfruits, but they are not to be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:14 - “ ‘If you bring a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, offer crushed heads of new grain roasted in the fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:1 - “ ‘If your offering is a fellowship offering, and you offer an animal from the herd, whether male or female, you are to present before the LORD an animal without defect.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:6 - “ ‘If you offer an animal from the flock as a fellowship offering to the LORD, you are to offer a male or female without defect.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:12 - “ ‘If your offering is a goat, you are to present it before the LORD,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:13 - “ ‘If the whole Israelite community sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD's commands, even though the community is unaware of the matter, when they realize their guilt
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:22 - “ ‘When a leader sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the commands of the LORD his God, when he realizes his guilt
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:27 - “ ‘If any member of the community sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD's commands, when they realize their guilt
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:32 - “ ‘If someone brings a lamb as their sin offering, they are to bring a female without defect.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:1 - “ ‘If anyone sins because they do not speak up when they hear a public charge to testify regarding something they have seen or learned about, they will be held responsible.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:3 - or if they touch human uncleanness (anything that would make them unclean) even though they are unaware of it, but then they learn of it and realize their guilt;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:7 - “ ‘Anyone who cannot afford a lamb is to bring two doves or two young pigeons to the LORD as a penalty for their sin—one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:9 - and is to splash some of the blood of the sin offering against the side of the altar; the rest of the blood must be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:11 - “ ‘If, however, they cannot afford two doves or two young pigeons, they are to bring as an offering for their sin a tenth of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour for a sin offering. They must not put olive oil or incense on it, because it is a sin offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:13 - In this way the priest will make atonement for them for any of these sins they have committed, and they will be forgiven. The rest of the offering will belong to the priest, as in the case of the grain offering.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:16 - Aaron and his sons shall eat the rest of it, but it is to be eaten without yeast in the sanctuary area; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:28 - The clay pot the meat is cooked in must be broken; but if it is cooked in a bronze pot, the pot is to be scoured and rinsed with water.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:18 - If any meat of the fellowship offering is eaten on the third day, the one who offered it will not be accepted. It will not be reckoned to their credit, for it has become impure; the person who eats any of it will be held responsible.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:20 - But if anyone who is unclean eats any meat of the fellowship offering belonging to the LORD, they must be cut off from their people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:4 - “ ‘There are some that only chew the cud or only have a divided hoof, but you must not eat them. The camel, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:36 - A spring, however, or a cistern for collecting water remains clean, but anyone who touches one of these carcasses is unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:37 - If a carcass falls on any seeds that are to be planted, they remain clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:38 - But if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:39 - “ ‘If an animal that you are allowed to eat dies, anyone who touches its carcass will be unclean till evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:5 - If she gives birth to a daughter, for two weeks the woman will be unclean, as during her period. Then she must wait sixty-six days to be purified from her bleeding.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:8 - But if she cannot afford a lamb, she is to bring two doves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:4 - If the shiny spot on the skin is white but does not appear to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest is to isolate the affected person for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:7 - But if the rash does spread in their skin after they have shown themselves to the priest to be pronounced clean, they must appear before the priest again.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:12 - “If the disease breaks out all over their skin and, so far as the priest can see, it covers all the skin of the affected person from head to foot,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:16 - If the raw flesh changes and turns white, they must go to the priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:21 - But if, when the priest examines it, there is no white hair in it and it is not more than skin deep and has faded, then the priest is to isolate them for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:22 - If it is spreading in the skin, the priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling disease.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:23 - But if the spot is unchanged and has not spread, it is only a scar from the boil, and the priest shall pronounce them clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:26 - But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in the spot and if it is not more than skin deep and has faded, then the priest is to isolate them for seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:27 - On the seventh day the priest is to examine that person, and if it is spreading in the skin, the priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:28 - If, however, the spot is unchanged and has not spread in the skin but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce them clean; it is only a scar from the burn.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:30 - the priest is to examine the sore, and if it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair in it is yellow and thin, the priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease on the head or chin.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:33 - then the man or woman must shave themselves, except for the affected area, and the priest is to keep them isolated another seven days.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:35 - But if the sore does spread in the skin after they are pronounced clean,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:37 - If, however, the sore is unchanged so far as the priest can see, and if black hair has grown in it, the affected person is healed. They are clean, and the priest shall pronounce them clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:41 - If he has lost his hair from the front of his scalp and has a bald forehead, he is clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:42 - But if he has a reddish-white sore on his bald head or forehead, it is a defiling disease breaking out on his head or forehead.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:51 - On the seventh day he is to examine it, and if the mold has spread in the fabric, the woven or knitted material, or the leather, whatever its use, it is a persistent defiling mold; the article is unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:53 - “But if, when the priest examines it, the mold has not spread in the fabric, the woven or knitted material, or the leather article,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:57 - But if it reappears in the fabric, in the woven or knitted material, or in the leather article, it is a spreading mold; whatever has the mold must be burned.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:17 - The priest is to put some of the oil remaining in his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:18 - The rest of the oil in his palm the priest shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed and make atonement for them before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:21 - “If, however, they are poor and cannot afford these, they must take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for them, together with a tenth of an ephah[fn] of the finest flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of oil,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:29 - The rest of the oil in his palm the priest shall put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to make atonement for them before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:43 - “If the defiling mold reappears in the house after the stones have been torn out and the house scraped and plastered,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:48 - “But if the priest comes to examine it and the mold has not spread after the house has been plastered, he shall pronounce the house clean, because the defiling mold is gone.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:8 - “ ‘If the man with the discharge spits on anyone who is clean, they must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:13 - “ ‘When a man is cleansed from his discharge, he is to count off seven days for his ceremonial cleansing; he must wash his clothes and bathe himself with fresh water, and he will be clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:23 - Whether it is the bed or anything she was sitting on, when anyone touches it, they will be unclean till evening.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:24 - “ ‘If a man has sexual relations with her and her monthly flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days; any bed he lies on will be unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:28 - “ ‘When she is cleansed from her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:28 - The man who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:16 - But if they do not wash their clothes and bathe themselves, they will be held responsible.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:7 - If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is impure and will not be accepted.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:8 - Whoever eats it will be held responsible because they have desecrated what is holy to the LORD; they must be cut off from their people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:23 - “ ‘When you enter the land and plant any kind of fruit tree, regard its fruit as forbidden.[fn] For three years you are to consider it forbidden[fn]; it must not be eaten.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:25 - But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way your harvest will be increased. I am the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:4 - If the members of the community close their eyes when that man sacrifices one of his children to Molek and if they fail to put him to death,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:14 - He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:11 - But if a priest buys a slave with money, or if slaves are born in his household, they may eat his food.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:13 - But if a priest's daughter becomes a widow or is divorced, yet has no children, and she returns to live in her father's household as in her youth, she may eat her father's food. No unauthorized person, however, may eat it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:23 - You may, however, present as a freewill offering an ox[fn] or a sheep that is deformed or stunted, but it will not be accepted in fulfillment of a vow.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:27 - “When a calf, a lamb or a goat is born, it is to remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as a food offering presented to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:29 - “When you sacrifice a thank offering to the LORD, sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:16 - anyone who blasphemes the name of the LORD is to be put to death. The entire assembly must stone them. Whether foreigner or native-born, when they blaspheme the Name they are to be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:4 - But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest, a sabbath to the LORD. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:14 - “ ‘If you sell land to any of your own people or buy land from them, do not take advantage of each other.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:20 - You may ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:25 - “ ‘If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative is to come and redeem what they have sold.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:26 - If, however, there is no one to redeem it for them but later on they prosper and acquire sufficient means to redeem it themselves,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - But if they do not acquire the means to repay, what was sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. It will be returned in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:30 - If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer and the buyer's descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:31 - But houses in villages without walls around them are to be considered as belonging to the open country. They can be redeemed, and they are to be returned in the Jubilee.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:35 - “ ‘If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:39 - “ ‘If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:47 - “ ‘If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner's clan,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:49 - An uncle or a cousin or any blood relative in their clan may redeem them. Or if they prosper, they may redeem themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:52 - If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, they are to compute that and pay for their redemption accordingly.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:54 - “ ‘Even if someone is not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:14 - “ ‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:27 - “ ‘If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:4 - for a female, set her value at thirty shekels[fn];
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:5 - for a person between the ages of five and twenty, set the value of a male at twenty shekels[fn] and of a female at ten shekels[fn];
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:6 - for a person between one month and five years, set the value of a male at five shekels[fn] of silver and that of a female at three shekels[fn] of silver;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:7 - for a person sixty years old or more, set the value of a male at fifteen shekels[fn] and of a female at ten shekels.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:8 - If anyone making the vow is too poor to pay the specified amount, the person being dedicated is to be presented to the priest, who will set the value according to what the one making the vow can afford.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:9 - “ ‘If what they vowed is an animal that is acceptable as an offering to the LORD, such an animal given to the LORD becomes holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:10 - They must not exchange it or substitute a good one for a bad one, or a bad one for a good one; if they should substitute one animal for another, both it and the substitute become holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:11 - If what they vowed is a ceremonially unclean animal—one that is not acceptable as an offering to the LORD—the animal must be presented to the priest,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:13 - If the owner wishes to redeem the animal, a fifth must be added to its value.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:15 - If the one who dedicates their house wishes to redeem it, they must add a fifth to its value, and the house will again become theirs.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16 - “ ‘If anyone dedicates to the LORD part of their family land, its value is to be set according to the amount of seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver to a homer[fn] of barley seed.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:17 - If they dedicate a field during the Year of Jubilee, the value that has been set remains.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:18 - But if they dedicate a field after the Jubilee, the priest will determine the value according to the number of years that remain until the next Year of Jubilee, and its set value will be reduced.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:19 - If the one who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, they must add a fifth to its value, and the field will again become theirs.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:20 - If, however, they do not redeem the field, or if they have sold it to someone else, it can never be redeemed.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:22 - “ ‘If anyone dedicates to the LORD a field they have bought, which is not part of their family land,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27 - If it is one of the unclean animals, it may be bought back at its set value, adding a fifth of the value to it. If it is not redeemed, it is to be sold at its set value.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 - “ ‘But nothing that a person owns and devotes[fn] to the LORD—whether a human being or an animal or family land—may be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:31 - Whoever would redeem any of their tithe must add a fifth of the value to it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:33 - No one may pick out the good from the bad or make any substitution. If anyone does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute become holy and cannot be redeemed.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:47 - The ancestral tribe of the Levites, however, was not counted along with the others.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53 - The Levites, however, are to set up their tents around the tabernacle of the covenant law so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are to be responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the covenant law.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:33 - The Levites, however, were not counted along with the other Israelites, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:42 - The Merarites were counted by their clans and families.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:8 - But if that person has no close relative to whom restitution can be made for the wrong, the restitution belongs to the LORD and must be given to the priest, along with the ram with which atonement is made for the wrongdoer.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:13 - so that another man has sexual relations with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act),
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:14 - and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure—or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure—
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:18 - After the priest has had the woman stand before the LORD, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:20 - But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”—
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:28 - If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:12 - “Then the Levites are to lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, using one for a sin offering to the LORD and the other for a burnt offering, to make atonement for the Levites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:26 - They may assist their brothers in performing their duties at the tent of meeting, but they themselves must not do the work. This, then, is how you are to assign the responsibilities of the Levites.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:14 - “ ‘A foreigner residing among you is also to celebrate the LORD's Passover in accordance with its rules and regulations. You must have the same regulations for both the foreigner and the native-born.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:4 - If only one is sounded, the leaders—the heads of the clans of Israel—are to assemble before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:9 - When you go into battle in your own land against an enemy who is oppressing you, sound a blast on the trumpets. Then you will be remembered by the LORD your God and rescued from your enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:6 - But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:7 - The manna was like coriander seed and looked like resin.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:15 - If this is how you are going to treat me, please go ahead and kill me—if I have found favor in your eyes—and do not let me face my own ruin.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:25 - Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took some of the power of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but did not do so again.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:6 - Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:9 - Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not be afraid of the people of the land, because we will devour them. Their protection is gone, but the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:23 - not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath to their ancestors. No one who has treated me with contempt will ever see it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:24 - But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - Since the Amalekites and the Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and set out toward the desert along the route to the Red Sea.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33 - Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:44 - Nevertheless, in their presumption they went up toward the highest point in the hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the LORD's covenant moved from the camp.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:8 - “ ‘When you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, for a special vow or a fellowship offering to the LORD,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:14 - For the generations to come, whenever a foreigner or anyone else living among you presents a food offering as an aroma pleasing to the LORD, they must do exactly as you do.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:22 - “ ‘Now if you as a community unintentionally fail to keep any of these commands the LORD gave Moses—
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:27 - “ ‘But if just one person sins unintentionally, that person must bring a year-old female goat for a sin offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:31 - As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:12 - They must purify themselves with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then they will be clean. But if they do not purify themselves on the third and seventh days, they will not be clean.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:18 - But Edom answered: “You may not pass through here; if you try, we will march out and attack you with the sword.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:19 - The Israelites replied: “We will go along the main road, and if we or our livestock drink any of your water, we will pay for it. We only want to pass through on foot—nothing else.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:20 - Again they answered: “You may not pass through.” Then Edom came out against them with a large and powerful army.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:5 - they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:31 - So Israel settled in the land of the Amorites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:30 - The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your own donkey, which you have always ridden, to this day? Have I been in the habit of doing this to you?” “No,” he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:31 - Then the LORD opened Balaam's eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with his sword drawn. So he bowed low and fell facedown.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:33 - The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If it had not turned away, I would certainly have killed you by now, but I would have spared it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:13 - Then Balak said to him, “Come with me to another place where you can see them; you will not see them all but only the outskirts of their camp. And from there, curse them for me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:15 - Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your offering while I meet with him over there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:6 - Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:14 - The name of the Israelite who was killed with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:5 - The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn son of Israel, were: through Hanok, the Hanokite clan; through Pallu, the Palluite clan;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:11 - The line of Korah, however, did not die out.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:19 - Er and Onan were sons of Judah, but they died in Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:20 - The descendants of Judah by their clans were: through Shelah, the Shelanite clan; through Perez, the Perezite clan; through Zerah, the Zerahite clan.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:9 - If he has no daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:10 - If he has no brothers, give his inheritance to his father's brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:11 - If his father had no brothers, give his inheritance to the nearest relative in his clan, that he may possess it. This is to have the force of law for the Israelites, as the LORD commanded Moses.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:3 - “When a young woman still living in her father's household makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:5 - But if her father forbids her when he hears about it, none of her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand; the LORD will release her because her father has forbidden her.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:6 - “If she marries after she makes a vow or after her lips utter a rash promise by which she obligates herself
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:8 - But if her husband forbids her when he hears about it, he nullifies the vow that obligates her or the rash promise by which she obligates herself, and the LORD will release her.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:10 - “If a woman living with her husband makes a vow or obligates herself by a pledge under oath
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:12 - But if her husband nullifies them when he hears about them, then none of the vows or pledges that came from her lips will stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the LORD will release her.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:14 - But if her husband says nothing to her about it from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or the pledges binding on her. He confirms them by saying nothing to her when he hears about them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:15 - If, however, he nullifies them some time after he hears about them, then he must bear the consequences of her wrongdoing.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:23 - “But if you fail to do this, you will be sinning against the LORD; and you may be sure that your sin will find you out.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:27 - But your servants, every man who is armed for battle, will cross over to fight before the LORD, just as our lord says.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:30 - But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must accept their possession with you in Canaan.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:55 - “ ‘But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:16 - “ ‘If anyone strikes someone a fatal blow with an iron object, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:17 - Or if anyone is holding a stone and strikes someone a fatal blow with it, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:18 - Or if anyone is holding a wooden object and strikes someone a fatal blow with it, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:20 - If anyone with malice aforethought shoves another or throws something at them intentionally so that they die
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:22 - “ ‘But if without enmity someone suddenly pushes another or throws something at them unintentionally
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:23 - or, without seeing them, drops on them a stone heavy enough to kill them, and they die, then since that other person was not an enemy and no harm was intended,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:26 - “ ‘But if the accused ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which they fled
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:4 - When the Year of Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and their property will be taken from the tribal inheritance of our ancestors.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:4 - but all of you who held fast to the LORD your God are still alive today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:20 - But as for you, the LORD took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of his inheritance, as you now are.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:22 - I will die in this land; I will not cross the Jordan; but you are about to cross over and take possession of that good land.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:25 - After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time—if you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God and arousing his anger,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14 - but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns, so that your male and female servants may rest, as you do.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:31 - But you stay here with me so that I may give you all the commands, decrees and laws you are to teach them to follow in the land I am giving them to possess.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:1 - When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:17 - You may say to yourselves, “These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:22 - Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:11 - But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:13 - So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul—
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:20 - When the LORD your God has enlarged your territory as he promised you, and you crave meat and say, “I would like some meat,” then you may eat as much of it as you want.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:21 - If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put his Name is too far away from you, you may slaughter animals from the herds and flocks the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and in your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:27 - Present your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God, both the meat and the blood. The blood of your sacrifices must be poured beside the altar of the LORD your God, but you may eat the meat.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:29 - The LORD your God will cut off before you the nations you are about to invade and dispossess. But when you have driven them out and settled in their land,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:1 - If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a sign or wonder,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6 - If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:12 - If you hear it said about one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you to live in
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:24 - But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the LORD your God and cannot carry your tithe (because the place where the LORD will choose to put his Name is so far away),
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:5 - if only you fully obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all these commands I am giving you today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:6 - For the LORD your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:7 - If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:12 - If any of your people—Hebrew men or women—sell themselves to you and serve you six years, in the seventh year you must let them go free.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:13 - And when you release them, do not send them away empty-handed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:16 - But if your servant says to you, “I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your family and is well off with you,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:21 - If an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:15 - For seven days celebrate the festival to the LORD your God at the place the LORD will choose. For the LORD your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:2 - If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns the LORD gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God in violation of his covenant,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:8 - If cases come before your courts that are too difficult for you to judge—whether bloodshed, lawsuits or assaults—take them to the place the LORD your God will choose.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:14 - When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:16 - The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them, for the LORD has told you, “You are not to go back that way again.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:2 - They shall have no inheritance among their fellow Israelites; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:6 - If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he is living, and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:9 - When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:14 - The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:21 - You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:1 - When the LORD your God has destroyed the nations whose land he is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their towns and houses,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:4 - This is the rule concerning anyone who kills a person and flees there for safety—anyone who kills a neighbor unintentionally, without malice aforethought.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:8 - If the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he promised on oath to your ancestors, and gives you the whole land he promised them,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:11 - But if out of hate someone lies in wait, assaults and kills a neighbor, and then flees to one of these cities,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:16 - If a malicious witness takes the stand to accuse someone of a crime,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:1 - When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:10 - When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:12 - If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:16 - However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:19 - When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees people, that you should besiege them?[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:1 - If someone is found slain, lying in a field in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who the killer was,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:9 - and you will have purged from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:10 - When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:15 - If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:22 - If someone guilty of a capital offense is put to death and their body is exposed on a pole,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:2 - If they do not live near you or if you do not know who owns it, take it home with you and keep it until they come looking for it. Then give it back.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:6 - If you come across a bird's nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:7 - You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:8 - When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:20 - If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman's virginity can be found,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:22 - If a man is found sleeping with another man's wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:23 - If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:25 - But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:9 - When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:20 - You may charge a foreigner interest, but not a fellow Israelite, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:21 - If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to pay it, for the LORD your God will certainly demand it of you and you will be guilty of sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:22 - But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:23 - Whatever your lips utter you must be sure to do, because you made your vow freely to the LORD your God with your own mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:25 - If you enter your neighbor's grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to their standing grain.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:7 - If someone is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite and treating or selling them as a slave, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:12 - If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge in your possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:19 - When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:20 - When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:21 - When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:1 - When people have a dispute, they are to take it to court and the judges will decide the case, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:3 - but the judge must not impose more than forty lashes. If the guilty party is flogged more than that, your fellow Israelite will be degraded in your eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:5 - If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband's brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:7 - However, if a man does not want to marry his brother's wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband's brother refuses to carry on his brother's name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:11 - If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:18 - When you were weary and worn out, they met you on your journey and attacked all who were lagging behind; they had no fear of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:12 - When you have finished setting aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you shall give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:12 - The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:43 - The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:44 - They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:29 - The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:2 - “I am now a hundred and twenty years old and I am no longer able to lead you. The LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:18 - And I will certainly hide my face in that day because of all their wickedness in turning to other gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:24 - After Moses finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:31 - For their rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:7 - Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:14 - Your wives, your children and your livestock may stay in the land that Moses gave you east of the Jordan, but all your fighting men, ready for battle, must cross over ahead of your fellow Israelites. You are to help them
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:18 - Whoever rebels against your word and does not obey it, whatever you may command them, will be put to death. Only be strong and courageous!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:5 - At dusk, when it was time to close the city gate, they left. I don't know which way they went. Go after them quickly. You may catch up with them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:6 - (But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax she had laid out on the roof.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:8 - Before the spies lay down for the night, she went up on the roof
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:18 - unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother, your brothers and all your family into your house.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:19 - If any of them go outside your house into the street, their blood will be on their own heads; we will not be responsible. As for those who are in the house with you, their blood will be on our head if a hand is laid on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:13 - And as soon as the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—set foot in the Jordan, its waters flowing downstream will be cut off and stand up in a heap.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:14 - So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:15 - Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water's edge,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16 - the water from upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a great distance away, at a town called Adam in the vicinity of Zarethan, while the water flowing down to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:9 - Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been[fn] in the middle of the Jordan at the spot where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant had stood. And they are there to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:10 - Now the priests who carried the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan until everything the LORD had commanded Joshua was done by the people, just as Moses had directed Joshua. The people hurried over,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:2 - At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites again.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:4 - Now this is why he did so: All those who came out of Egypt—all the men of military age—died in the wilderness on the way after leaving Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:7 - So he raised up their sons in their place, and these were the ones Joshua circumcised. They were still uncircumcised because they had not been circumcised on the way.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:8 - And after the whole nation had been circumcised, they remained where they were in camp until they were healed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:12 - The manna stopped the day after[fn] they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate the produce of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:14 - “Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the army of the LORD I have now come.” Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, “What message does my Lord[fn] have for his servant?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:3 - March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:9 - The armed guard marched ahead of the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard followed the ark. All this time the trumpets were sounding.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:10 - But Joshua had commanded the army, “Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:20 - When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - You shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:3 - So Joshua and the whole army moved out to attack Ai. He chose thirty thousand of his best fighting men and sent them out at night
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:7 - you are to rise up from ambush and take the city. The LORD your God will give it into your hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:12 - This bread of ours was warm when we packed it at home on the day we left to come to you. But now see how dry and moldy it is.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:17 - So the Israelites set out and on the third day came to their cities: Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth and Kiriath Jearim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:22 - Then Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said, “Why did you deceive us by saying, ‘We live a long way from you,' while actually you live near us?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:1 - Now Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Ai and totally destroyed[fn] it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and that the people of Gibeon had made a treaty of peace with Israel and had become their allies.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:11 - As they fled before Israel on the road down from Beth Horon to Azekah, the LORD hurled large hailstones down on them, and more of them died from the hail than were killed by the swords of the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:19 - But don't stop; pursue your enemies! Attack them from the rear and don't let them reach their cities, for the LORD your God has given them into your hand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:1 - When Jabin king of Hazor heard of this, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon, to the kings of Shimron and Akshaph,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:10 - At that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor and put its king to the sword. (Hazor had been the head of all these kingdoms.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:14 - The Israelites carried off for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but all the people they put to the sword until they completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:24 - This is what Moses had given to the tribe of Gad, according to its clans:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:8 - but my fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt in fear. I, however, followed the LORD my God wholeheartedly.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:12 - Now give me this hill country that the LORD promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the LORD helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:15 - (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba after Arba, who was the greatest man among the Anakites.) Then the land had rest from war.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:15 - From there he marched against the people living in Debir (formerly called Kiriath Sepher).
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:21 - The southernmost towns of the tribe of Judah in the Negev toward the boundary of Edom were: Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:6 - because the daughters of the tribe of Manasseh received an inheritance among the sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the descendants of Manasseh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:13 - However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they subjected the Canaanites to forced labor but did not drive them out completely.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:14 - The people of Joseph said to Joshua, “Why have you given us only one allotment and one portion for an inheritance? We are a numerous people, and the LORD has blessed us abundantly.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:6 - After you have written descriptions of the seven parts of the land, bring them here to me and I will cast lots for you in the presence of the LORD our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:11 - They gave them Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), with its surrounding pastureland, in the hill country of Judah. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:4 - Now that the LORD your God has given them rest as he promised, return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side of the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:3 - You yourselves have seen everything the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake; it was the LORD your God who fought for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:5 - The LORD your God himself will push them out for your sake. He will drive them out before you, and you will take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:14 - “Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the LORD your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15 - But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:33 - And Eleazar son of Aaron died and was buried at Gibeah, which had been allotted to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:10 - They advanced against the Canaanites living in Hebron (formerly called Kiriath Arba) and defeated Sheshai, Ahiman and Talmai.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:23 - When they sent men to spy out Bethel (formerly called Luz),
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:25 - So he showed them, and they put the city to the sword but spared the man and his whole family.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:33 - Neither did Naphtali drive out those living in Beth Shemesh or Beth Anath; but the Naphtalites too lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, and those living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath became forced laborers for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:39 - Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me. Let me make just one more request. Allow me one more test with the fleece, but this time make the fleece dry and let the ground be covered with dew.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:40 - That night God did so. Only the fleece was dry; all the ground was covered with dew.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:8 - So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites home but kept the three hundred, who took over the provisions and trumpets of the others. Now the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:10 - If you are afraid to attack, go down to the camp with your servant Purah
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:5 - He said to the men of Sukkoth, “Give my troops some bread; they are worn out, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:11 - Gideon went up by the route of the nomads east of Nobah and Jogbehah and attacked the unsuspecting army.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:35 - When he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, “Oh no, my daughter! You have brought me down and I am devastated. I have made a vow to the LORD that I cannot break.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:13 - “Agreed,” they answered. “We will only tie you up and hand you over to them. We will not kill you.” So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26 - Samson said to the servant who held his hand, “Put me where I can feel the pillars that support the temple, so that I may lean against them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:27 - Now the temple was crowded with men and women; all the rulers of the Philistines were there, and on the roof were about three thousand men and women watching Samson perform.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:22 - When they had gone some distance from Micah's house, the men who lived near Micah were called together and overtook the Danites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:18 - He answered, “We are on our way from Bethlehem in Judah to a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim where I live. I have been to Bethlehem in Judah and now I am going to the house of the LORD.[fn] No one has taken me in for the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:22 - While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:14 - At this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:16 - But Ruth replied, “Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:18 - When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:19 - So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:22 - So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:1 - Now Naomi had a relative on her husband's side, a man of standing from the clan of Elimelek, whose name was Boaz.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:2 - And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.” Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:13 - “May I continue to find favor in your eyes, my lord,” she said. “You have put me at ease by speaking kindly to your servant—though I do not have the standing of one of your servants.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:1 - One day Ruth's mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, I must find a home[fn] for you, where you will be well provided for.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:3 - Wash, put on perfume, and get dressed in your best clothes. Then go down to the threshing floor, but don't let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:5 - “I will do whatever you say,” Ruth answered.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:7 - When Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he went over to lie down at the far end of the grain pile. Ruth approached quietly, uncovered his feet and lay down.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:8 - In the middle of the night something startled the man; he turned—and there was a woman lying at his feet!
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:9 - “Who are you?” he asked. “I am your servant Ruth,” she said. “Spread the corner of your garment over me, since you are a guardian-redeemer[fn] of our family.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:13 - Stay here for the night, and in the morning if he wants to do his duty as your guardian-redeemer, good; let him redeem you. But if he is not willing, as surely as the LORD lives I will do it. Lie here until morning.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:14 - So she lay at his feet until morning, but got up before anyone could be recognized; and he said, “No one must know that a woman came to the threshing floor.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:16 - When Ruth came to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, “How did it go, my daughter?” Then she told her everything Boaz had done for her
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:18 - Then Naomi said, “Wait, my daughter, until you find out what happens. For the man will not rest until the matter is settled today.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:4 - I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and suggest that you buy it in the presence of these seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you[fn] will not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line.” “I will redeem it,” he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:19 - Hezron the father of Ram, Ram the father of Amminadab,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:17 - But he always went back to Ramah, where his home was, and there he also held court for Israel. And he built an altar there to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:16 - Saul replied, “He assured us that the donkeys had been found.” But he did not tell his uncle what Samuel had said about the kingship.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:15 - But if you do not obey the LORD, and if you rebel against his commands, his hand will be against you, as it was against your ancestors.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:21 - The price was two-thirds of a shekel[fn] for sharpening plow points and mattocks, and a third of a shekel[fn] for sharpening forks and axes and for repointing goads.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:7 - But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:9 - If he is able to fight and kill me, we will become your subjects; but if I overcome him and kill him, you will become our subjects and serve us.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:17 - Saul said to Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this and send my enemy away so that he escaped?” Michal told him, “He said to me, ‘Let me get away. Why should I kill you?' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:17 - “You are more righteous than I,” he said. “You have treated me well, but I have treated you badly.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:3 - When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:10 - Two hundred of them were too exhausted to cross the valley, but David and the other four hundred continued the pursuit.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:30 - (Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.)
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:5 - The king asked her, “What is troubling you?” She said, “I am a widow; my husband is dead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:6 - When Hushai came to him, Absalom said, “Ahithophel has given this advice. Should we do what he says? If not, give us your opinion.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:21 - After they had gone, the two climbed out of the well and went to inform King David. They said to him, “Set out and cross the river at once; Ahithophel has advised such and such against you.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:12 - But the man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels[fn] were weighed out into my hands, I would not lay a hand on the king's son. In our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.[fn]'
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:20 - “You are not the one to take the news today,” Joab told him. “You may take the news another time, but you must not do so today, because the king's son is dead.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:4 - Then the king said to Amasa, “Summon the men of Judah to come to me within three days, and be here yourself.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:13 - After Amasa had been removed from the road, everyone went on with Joab to pursue Sheba son of Bikri.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:17 - He went toward her, and she asked, “Are you Joab?” “I am,” he answered. She said, “Listen to what your servant has to say.” “I'm listening,” he said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:19 - We are the peaceful and faithful in Israel. You are trying to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why do you want to swallow up the LORD's inheritance?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:9 - He handed them over to the Gibeonites, who killed them and exposed their bodies on a hill before the LORD. All seven of them fell together; they were put to death during the first days of the harvest, just as the barley harvest was beginning.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:15 - David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:21 - And he struck down a huge Egyptian. Although the Egyptian had a spear in his hand, Benaiah went against him with a club. He snatched the spear from the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:14 - David said to Gad, “I am in deep distress. Let us fall into the hands of the LORD, for his mercy is great; but do not let me fall into human hands.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:17 - She said to him, “My lord, you yourself swore to me your servant by the LORD your God: ‘Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:13 - Now Adonijah, the son of Haggith, went to Bathsheba, Solomon's mother. Bathsheba asked him, “Do you come peacefully?” He answered, “Yes, peacefully.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:21 - So she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given in marriage to your brother Adonijah.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:8 - Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:22 - The other woman said, “No! The living one is my son; the dead one is yours.” But the first one insisted, “No! The dead one is yours; the living one is mine.” And so they argued before the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:6 - “But if you[fn] or your descendants turn away from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you[fn] and go off to serve other gods and worship them,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:36 - I will give one tribe to his son so that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put my Name.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:11 - My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:14 - Although he did not remove the high places, Asa's heart was fully committed to the LORD all his life.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:13 - Elijah said to her, “Don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:21 - Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people said nothing.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:9 - So he replied to Ben-Hadad's messengers, “Tell my lord the king, ‘Your servant will do all you demanded the first time, but this demand I cannot meet.' ” They left and took the answer back to Ben-Hadad.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:23 - Meanwhile, the officials of the king of Aram advised him, “Their gods are gods of the hills. That is why they were too strong for us. But if we fight them on the plains, surely we will be stronger than they.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:39 - As the king passed by, the prophet called out to him, “Your servant went into the thick of the battle, and someone came to me with a captive and said, ‘Guard this man. If he is missing, it will be your life for his life, or you must pay a talent[fn] of silver.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:2 - Ahab said to Naboth, “Let me have your vineyard to use for a vegetable garden, since it is close to my palace. In exchange I will give you a better vineyard or, if you prefer, I will pay you whatever it is worth.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:6 - He answered her, “Because I said to Naboth the Jezreelite, ‘Sell me your vineyard; or if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard in its place.' But he said, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:15 - But now bring me a harpist.” While the harpist was playing, the hand of the LORD came on Elisha
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:2 - Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?” “Your servant has nothing there at all,” she said, “except a small jar of olive oil.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:13 - Elisha said to him, “Tell her, ‘You have gone to all this trouble for us. Now what can be done for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?' ” She replied, “I have a home among my own people.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:16 - “About this time next year,” Elisha said, “you will hold a son in your arms.” “No, my lord!” she objected. “Please, man of God, don't mislead your servant!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:23 - “Why go to him today?” he asked. “It's not the New Moon or the Sabbath.” “That's all right,” she said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:26 - Run to meet her and ask her, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?' ” “Everything is all right,” she said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:28 - “Did I ask you for a son, my lord?” she said. “Didn't I tell you, ‘Don't raise my hopes'?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:3 - She said to her mistress, “If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:29 - While Josiah was king, Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went up to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to meet him in battle, but Necho faced him and killed him at Megiddo.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:28 - The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:29 - These were their descendants: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:40 - The sons of Shobal: Alvan,[fn] Manahath, Ebal, Shepho and Onam. The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:41 - The son of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hemdan,[fn] Eshban, Ithran and Keran.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:5 - said to David, “You will not get in here.” Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion—which is the City of David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:4 - The king's word, however, overruled Joab; so Joab left and went throughout Israel and then came back to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:26 - Ezri son of Kelub was in charge of the workers who farmed the land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:28 - Baal-Hanan the Gederite was in charge of the olive and sycamore-fig trees in the western foothills. Joash was in charge of the supplies of olive oil.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:30 - Obil the Ishmaelite was in charge of the camels. Jehdeiah the Meronothite was in charge of the donkeys.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:29 - As for the events of King David's reign, from beginning to end, they are written in the records of Samuel the seer, the records of Nathan the prophet and the records of Gad the seer,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:34 - “When your people go to war against their enemies, wherever you send them, and when they pray to you toward this city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:8 - With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people gained confidence from what Hezekiah the king of Judah said.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:64 - The whole company numbered 42,360,
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:12 - But because our ancestors angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldean, king of Babylon, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:9 - He had begun his journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month, and he arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month, for the gracious hand of his God was on him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:18 - even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your god, who brought you up out of Egypt,' or when they committed awful blasphemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:5 - When these days were over, the king gave a banquet, lasting seven days, in the enclosed garden of the king's palace, for all the people from the least to the greatest who were in the citadel of Susa.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:8 - By the king's command each guest was allowed to drink with no restrictions, for the king instructed all the wine stewards to serve each man what he wished.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:10 - On the seventh day, when King Xerxes was in high spirits from wine, he commanded the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar and Karkas—
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:7 - Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This young woman, who was also known as Esther, had a lovely figure and was beautiful. Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:11 - Every day he walked back and forth near the courtyard of the harem to find out how Esther was and what was happening to her.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:12 - Before a young woman's turn came to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh and six with perfumes and cosmetics.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:15 - When the turn came for Esther (the young woman Mordecai had adopted, the daughter of his uncle Abihail) to go to the king, she asked for nothing other than what Hegai, the king's eunuch who was in charge of the harem, suggested. And Esther won the favor of everyone who saw her.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:19 - When the virgins were assembled a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:20 - But Esther had kept secret her family background and nationality just as Mordecai had told her to do, for she continued to follow Mordecai's instructions as she had done when he was bringing her up.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:23 - And when the report was investigated and found to be true, the two officials were impaled on poles. All this was recorded in the book of the annals in the presence of the king.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:1 - After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him and giving him a seat of honor higher than that of all the other nobles.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:2 - All the royal officials at the king's gate knelt down and paid honor to Haman, for the king had commanded this concerning him. But Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:8 - Then Haman said to King Xerxes, “There is a certain people dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom who keep themselves separate. Their customs are different from those of all other people, and they do not obey the king's laws; it is not in the king's best interest to tolerate them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:11 - “Keep the money,” the king said to Haman, “and do with the people as you please.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:14 - A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued as law in every province and made known to the people of every nationality so they would be ready for that day.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:15 - The couriers went out, spurred on by the king's command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was bewildered.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:1 - When Mordecai learned of all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the city, wailing loudly and bitterly.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:4 - When Esther's eunuchs and female attendants came and told her about Mordecai, she was in great distress. She sent clothes for him to put on instead of his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:5 - Then Esther summoned Hathak, one of the king's eunuchs assigned to attend her, and ordered him to find out what was troubling Mordecai and why.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:7 - Mordecai told him everything that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury for the destruction of the Jews.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:9 - Hathak went back and reported to Esther what Mordecai had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:10 - Then she instructed him to say to Mordecai,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:14 - For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:16 - “Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:1 - On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the palace, in front of the king's hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the hall, facing the entrance.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:2 - When he saw Queen Esther standing in the court, he was pleased with her and held out to her the gold scepter that was in his hand. So Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:4 - “If it pleases the king,” replied Esther, “let the king, together with Haman, come today to a banquet I have prepared for him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:6 - As they were drinking wine, the king again asked Esther, “Now what is your petition? It will be given you. And what is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be granted.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:9 - Haman went out that day happy and in high spirits. But when he saw Mordecai at the king's gate and observed that he neither rose nor showed fear in his presence, he was filled with rage against Mordecai.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:14 - His wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Have a pole set up, reaching to a height of fifty cubits,[fn] and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai impaled on it. Then go with the king to the banquet and enjoy yourself.” This suggestion delighted Haman, and he had the pole set up.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:1 - That night the king could not sleep; so he ordered the book of the chronicles, the record of his reign, to be brought in and read to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:2 - It was found recorded there that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's officers who guarded the doorway, who had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:3 - “What honor and recognition has Mordecai received for this?” the king asked. “Nothing has been done for him,” his attendants answered.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:4 - The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to speak to the king about impaling Mordecai on the pole he had set up for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:6 - When Haman entered, the king asked him, “What should be done for the man the king delights to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Who is there that the king would rather honor than me?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:7 - So he answered the king, “For the man the king delights to honor,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:10 - “Go at once,” the king commanded Haman. “Get the robe and the horse and do just as you have suggested for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate. Do not neglect anything you have recommended.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:11 - So Haman got the robe and the horse. He robed Mordecai, and led him on horseback through the city streets, proclaiming before him, “This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:12 - Afterward Mordecai returned to the king's gate. But Haman rushed home, with his head covered in grief,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:1 - So the king and Haman went to Queen Esther's banquet,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:2 - and as they were drinking wine on the second day, the king again asked, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be granted.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:5 - King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, “Who is he? Where is he—the man who has dared to do such a thing?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:6 - Esther said, “An adversary and enemy! This vile Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and queen.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:7 - The king got up in a rage, left his wine and went out into the palace garden. But Haman, realizing that the king had already decided his fate, stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:8 - Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Will he even molest the queen while she is with me in the house?” As soon as the word left the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:9 - Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said, “A pole reaching to a height of fifty cubits[fn] stands by Haman's house. He had it set up for Mordecai, who spoke up to help the king.” The king said, “Impale him on it!”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:2 - The king took off his signet ring, which he had reclaimed from Haman, and presented it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed him over Haman's estate.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:4 - Then the king extended the gold scepter to Esther and she arose and stood before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:9 - At once the royal secretaries were summoned—on the twenty-third day of the third month, the month of Sivan. They wrote out all Mordecai's orders to the Jews, and to the satraps, governors and nobles of the 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush.[fn] These orders were written in the script of each province and the language of each people and also to the Jews in their own script and language.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:10 - Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes, sealed the dispatches with the king's signet ring, and sent them by mounted couriers, who rode fast horses especially bred for the king.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:13 - A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued as law in every province and made known to the people of every nationality so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:14 - The couriers, riding the royal horses, went out, spurred on by the king's command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:15 - When Mordecai left the king's presence, he was wearing royal garments of blue and white, a large crown of gold and a purple robe of fine linen. And the city of Susa held a joyous celebration.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:16 - For the Jews it was a time of happiness and joy, gladness and honor.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:12 - The king said to Queen Esther, “The Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman in the citadel of Susa. What have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? It will also be granted.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:16 - Meanwhile, the remainder of the Jews who were in the king's provinces also assembled to protect themselves and get relief from their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand of them but did not lay their hands on the plunder.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:18 - The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and fourteenth, and then on the fifteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:19 - That is why rural Jews—those living in villages—observe the fourteenth of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting, a day for giving presents to each other.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:20 - Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Xerxes, near and far,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:25 - But when the plot came to the king's attention,[fn] he issued written orders that the evil scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back onto his own head, and that he and his sons should be impaled on poles.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:27 - the Jews took it on themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should without fail observe these two days every year, in the way prescribed and at the time appointed.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:28 - These days should be remembered and observed in every generation by every family, and in every province and in every city. And these days of Purim should never fail to be celebrated by the Jews—nor should the memory of these days die out among their descendants.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 10:1 - King Xerxes imposed tribute throughout the empire, to its distant shores.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 10:3 - Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews, and held in high esteem by his many fellow Jews, because he worked for the good of his people and spoke up for the welfare of all the Jews.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:2 - He had seven sons and three daughters,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:4 - His sons used to hold feasts in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:9 - “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:15 - and the Sabeans attacked and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:17 - While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:19 - when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:1 - On another day the angels[fn] came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:3 - Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:4 - “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give all he has for his own life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:5 - But now stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:6 - The LORD said to Satan, “Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:7 - So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:9 - His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:10 - He replied, “You are talking like a foolish[fn] woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:11 - When Job's three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:12 - When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to weep aloud, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:5 - May gloom and utter darkness claim it once more; may a cloud settle over it; may blackness overwhelm it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:11 - “Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:12 - Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:13 - For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:18 - Captives also enjoy their ease; they no longer hear the slave driver's shout.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:20 - “Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter of soul,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:22 - who are filled with gladness and rejoice when they reach the grave?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:24 - For sighing has become my daily food; my groans pour out like water.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:1 - Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:2 - “If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:5 - But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:8 - As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:9 - At the breath of God they perish; at the blast of his anger they are no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:10 - The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:11 - The lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:13 - Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on people,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:18 - If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19 - how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:2 - Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:3 - I myself have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:4 - His children are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:5 - The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from among thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:7 - Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:8 - “But if I were you, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:13 - He catches the wise in their craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are swept away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:14 - Darkness comes upon them in the daytime; at noon they grope as in the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:15 - He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth; he saves them from the clutches of the powerful.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:16 - So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:17 - “Blessed is the one whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:19 - From six calamities he will rescue you; in seven no harm will touch you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:20 - In famine he will deliver you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:22 - You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the wild animals.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:24 - You will know that your tent is secure; you will take stock of your property and find nothing missing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:25 - You will know that your children will be many, and your descendants like the grass of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:26 - You will come to the grave in full vigor, like sheaves gathered in season.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:27 - “We have examined this, and it is true. So hear it and apply it to yourself.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:1 - Then Job replied:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:2 - “If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:5 - Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass, or an ox bellow when it has fodder?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:6 - Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow[fn]?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:9 - that God would be willing to crush me, to let loose his hand and cut off my life!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:13 - Do I have any power to help myself, now that success has been driven from me?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:14 - “Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:18 - Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go off into the wasteland and perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:21 - Now you too have proved to be of no help; you see something dreadful and are afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:24 - “Teach me, and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:27 - You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:28 - “But now be so kind as to look at me. Would I lie to your face?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:3 - so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:4 - When I lie down I think, ‘How long before I get up?' The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:5 - My body is clothed with worms and scabs, my skin is broken and festering.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:6 - “My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:13 - When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:15 - so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:20 - If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:21 - Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:1 - Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:5 - But if you will seek God earnestly and plead with the Almighty,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:7 - Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:8 - “Ask the former generation and find out what their ancestors learned,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:14 - What they trust in is fragile[fn]; what they rely on is a spider's web.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:15 - They lean on the web, but it gives way; they cling to it, but it does not hold.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:17 - it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks and looks for a place among the stones.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:19 - Surely its life withers away, and[fn] from the soil other plants grow.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:20 - “Surely God does not reject one who is blameless or strengthen the hands of evildoers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:21 - He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:22 - Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:1 - Then Job replied:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:6 - He shakes the earth from its place and makes its pillars tremble.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:7 - He speaks to the sun and it does not shine; he seals off the light of the stars.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:24 - When a land falls into the hands of the wicked, he blindfolds its judges. If it is not he, then who is it?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:25 - “My days are swifter than a runner; they fly away without a glimpse of joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:34 - someone to remove God's rod from me, so that his terror would frighten me no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:3 - Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the plans of the wicked?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:9 - Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:11 - clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:12 - You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:14 - If I sinned, you would be watching me and would not let my offense go unpunished.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:16 - If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:17 - You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:1 - Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:8 - They are higher than the heavens above—what can you do? They are deeper than the depths below—what can you know?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:10 - “If he comes along and confines you in prison and convenes a court, who can oppose him?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:11 - Surely he recognizes deceivers; and when he sees evil, does he not take note?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:12 - But the witless can no more become wise than a wild donkey's colt can be born human.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:13 - “Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:14 - if you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:15 - then, free of fault, you will lift up your face; you will stand firm and without fear.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:17 - Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:18 - You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:19 - You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid, and many will court your favor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:20 - But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; their hope will become a dying gasp.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:1 - Then Job replied:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:6 - The tents of marauders are undisturbed, and those who provoke God are secure— those God has in his hand.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:7 - “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:8 - or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:11 - Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes food?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:12 - Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:15 - If he holds back the waters, there is drought; if he lets them loose, they devastate the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:17 - He leads rulers away stripped and makes fools of judges.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:19 - He leads priests away stripped and overthrows officials long established.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:20 - He silences the lips of trusted advisers and takes away the discernment of elders.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:21 - He pours contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:22 - He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings utter darkness into the light.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:24 - He deprives the leaders of the earth of their reason; he makes them wander in a trackless waste.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25 - They grope in darkness with no light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:3 - But I desire to speak to the Almighty and to argue my case with God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:5 - If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:6 - Hear now my argument; listen to the pleas of my lips.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:7 - Will you speak wickedly on God's behalf? Will you speak deceitfully for him?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:8 - Will you show him partiality? Will you argue the case for God?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:10 - He would surely call you to account if you secretly showed partiality.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:11 - Would not his splendor terrify you? Would not the dread of him fall on you?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:12 - Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:27 - You fasten my feet in shackles; you keep close watch on all my paths by putting marks on the soles of my feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:2 - They spring up like flowers and wither away; like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:5 - A person's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:8 - Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:9 - yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:10 - But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:11 - As the water of a lake dries up or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:12 - so he lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, people will not awake or be roused from their sleep.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:15 - You will call and I will answer you; you will long for the creature your hands have made.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:21 - If their children are honored, they do not know it; if their offspring are brought low, they do not see it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:22 - They feel but the pain of their own bodies and mourn only for themselves.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:1 - Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:4 - But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:6 - Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; your own lips testify against you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:8 - Do you listen in on God's council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:13 - so that you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:15 - If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:16 - how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt, who drink up evil like water!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:20 - All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:21 - Terrifying sounds fill his ears; when all seems well, marauders attack him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:23 - He wanders about for food like a vulture; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:24 - Distress and anguish fill him with terror; troubles overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:25 - because he shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:26 - defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:28 - he will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no one lives, houses crumbling to rubble.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:30 - He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God's mouth will carry him away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:33 - He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:34 - For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:35 - They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb fashions deceit.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:1 - Then Job replied:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:4 - I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:5 - But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:6 - “Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:7 - Surely, God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:10 - People open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:11 - God has turned me over to the ungodly and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:15 - “I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and buried my brow in the dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:16 - My face is red with weeping, dark shadows ring my eyes;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:17 - yet my hands have been free of violence and my prayer is pure.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:19 - Even now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:20 - My intercessor is my friend[fn] as my eyes pour out tears to God;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:21 - on behalf of a man he pleads with God as one pleads for a friend.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:22 - “Only a few years will pass before I take the path of no return.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:1 - My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:6 - “God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:8 - The upright are appalled at this; the innocent are aroused against the ungodly.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:9 - Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways, and those with clean hands will grow stronger.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:10 - “But come on, all of you, try again! I will not find a wise man among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:11 - My days have passed, my plans are shattered. Yet the desires of my heart
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:13 - If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:1 - Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:6 - The light in his tent becomes dark; the lamp beside him goes out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:7 - The vigor of his step is weakened; his own schemes throw him down.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:8 - His feet thrust him into a net; he wanders into its mesh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:9 - A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him fast.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:11 - Terrors startle him on every side and dog his every step.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:12 - Calamity is hungry for him; disaster is ready for him when he falls.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:13 - It eats away parts of his skin; death's firstborn devours his limbs.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:14 - He is torn from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:20 - People of the west are appalled at his fate; those of the east are seized with horror.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:21 - Surely such is the dwelling of an evil man; such is the place of one who does not know God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:1 - Then Job replied:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:4 - If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:5 - If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:6 - then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:9 - He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:10 - He tears me down on every side till I am gone; he uproots my hope like a tree.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:12 - His troops advance in force; they build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:13 - “He has alienated my family from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:17 - My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:18 - Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:20 - I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:22 - Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:23 - “Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:28 - “If you say, ‘How we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him,[fn]'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:1 - Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:5 - that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:6 - Though the pride of the godless person reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:7 - he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:8 - Like a dream he flies away, no more to be found, banished like a vision of the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:10 - His children must make amends to the poor; his own hands must give back his wealth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:16 - He will suck the poison of serpents; the fangs of an adder will kill him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:19 - For he has oppressed the poor and left them destitute; he has seized houses he did not build.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:22 - In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him; the full force of misery will come upon him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:25 - He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:26 - total darkness lies in wait for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:27 - The heavens will expose his guilt; the earth will rise up against him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:1 - Then Job replied:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:3 - Bear with me while I speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:7 - Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:8 - They see their children established around them, their offspring before their eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:9 - Their homes are safe and free from fear; the rod of God is not on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:10 - Their bulls never fail to breed; their cows calve and do not miscarry.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:11 - They send forth their children as a flock; their little ones dance about.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:13 - They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:14 - Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:16 - But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:17 - “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does calamity come upon them, the fate God allots in his anger?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:18 - How often are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a gale?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:20 - Let their own eyes see their destruction; let them drink the cup of the wrath of the Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:22 - “Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he judges even the highest?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:23 - One person dies in full vigor, completely secure and at ease,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:24 - well nourished in body,[fn] bones rich with marrow.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:25 - Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having enjoyed anything good.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:26 - Side by side they lie in the dust, and worms cover them both.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:34 - “So how can you console me with your nonsense? Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:1 - Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:6 - You demanded security from your relatives for no reason; you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:8 - though you were a powerful man, owning land— an honored man, living on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:9 - And you sent widows away empty-handed and broke the strength of the fatherless.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:11 - why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:12 - “Is not God in the heights of heaven? And see how lofty are the highest stars!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:18 - Yet it was he who filled their houses with good things, so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:19 - The righteous see their ruin and rejoice; the innocent mock them, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:22 - Accept instruction from his mouth and lay up his words in your heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:23 - If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored: If you remove wickedness far from your tent
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:25 - then the Almighty will be your gold, the choicest silver for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:28 - What you decide on will be done, and light will shine on your ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:1 - Then Job replied:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:4 - I would state my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:5 - I would find out what he would answer me, and consider what he would say to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:7 - There the upright can establish their innocence before him, and there I would be delivered forever from my judge.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:8 - “But if I go to the east, he is not there; if I go to the west, I do not find him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:11 - My feet have closely followed his steps; I have kept to his way without turning aside.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:12 - I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:13 - “But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? He does whatever he pleases.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:15 - That is why I am terrified before him; when I think of all this, I fear him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:16 - God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:1 - “Why does the Almighty not set times for judgment? Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:2 - There are those who move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:5 - Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:6 - They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:7 - Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:9 - The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:10 - Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:11 - They crush olives among the terraces[fn]; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:12 - The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help. But God charges no one with wrongdoing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:13 - “There are those who rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:14 - When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up, kills the poor and needy, and in the night steals forth like a thief.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:19 - As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:20 - The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; the wicked are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:22 - But God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they have no assurance of life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:24 - For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:25 - “If this is not so, who can prove me false and reduce my words to nothing?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:1 - Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:3 - Can his forces be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:5 - If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:1 - Then Job replied:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:4 - Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:12 - By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:13 - By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:14 - And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:1 - And Job continued his discourse:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:3 - as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:6 - I will maintain my innocence and never let go of it; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:7 - “May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unjust!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:13 - “Here is the fate God allots to the wicked, the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:14 - However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:15 - The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:16 - Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:17 - what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:18 - The house he builds is like a moth's cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:20 - Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:1 - There is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:2 - Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:4 - Far from human dwellings they cut a shaft, in places untouched by human feet; far from other people they dangle and sway.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:9 - People assault the flinty rock with their hands and lay bare the roots of the mountains.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:10 - They tunnel through the rock; their eyes see all its treasures.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:11 - They search[fn] the sources of the rivers and bring hidden things to light.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:12 - But where can wisdom be found? Where does understanding dwell?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:20 - Where then does wisdom come from? Where does understanding dwell?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:22 - Destruction[fn] and Death say, “Only a rumor of it has reached our ears.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:23 - God understands the way to it and he alone knows where it dwells,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:28 - And he said to the human race, “The fear of the Lord—that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:1 - Job continued his discourse:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:6 - when my path was drenched with cream and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:7 - “When I went to the gate of the city and took my seat in the public square,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:8 - the young men saw me and stepped aside and the old men rose to their feet;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:9 - the chief men refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:10 - the voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:11 - Whoever heard me spoke well of me, and those who saw me commended me,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:13 - The one who was dying blessed me; I made the widow's heart sing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:14 - I put on righteousness as my clothing; justice was my robe and my turban.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:15 - I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:17 - I broke the fangs of the wicked and snatched the victims from their teeth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:21 - “People listened to me expectantly, waiting in silence for my counsel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:22 - After I had spoken, they spoke no more; my words fell gently on their ears.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:1 - “But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:4 - In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food[fn] was the root of the broom bush.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:9 - “And now those young men mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:10 - They detest me and keep their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:17 - Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never rest.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:20 - “I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:25 - Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:26 - Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:28 - I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:29 - I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of owls.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:30 - My skin grows black and peels; my body burns with fever.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:31 - My lyre is tuned to mourning, and my pipe to the sound of wailing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:5 - “If I have walked with falsehood or my foot has hurried after deceit—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:6 - let God weigh me in honest scales and he will know that I am blameless—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:7 - if my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has been led by my eyes, or if my hands have been defiled,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:8 - then may others eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:10 - then may my wife grind another man's grain, and may other men sleep with her.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:13 - “If I have denied justice to any of my servants, whether male or female, when they had a grievance against me,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:14 - what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when called to account?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:15 - Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:16 - “If I have denied the desires of the poor or let the eyes of the widow grow weary,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:17 - if I have kept my bread to myself, not sharing it with the fatherless—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:19 - if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing, or the needy without garments,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:20 - and their hearts did not bless me for warming them with the fleece from my sheep,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:22 - then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let it be broken off at the joint.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:24 - “If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:25 - if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:26 - if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:27 - so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand offered them a kiss of homage,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:29 - “If I have rejoiced at my enemy's misfortune or gloated over the trouble that came to him—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:30 - I have not allowed my mouth to sin by invoking a curse against their life—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:31 - if those of my household have never said, ‘Who has not been filled with Job's meat?'—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:32 - but no stranger had to spend the night in the street, for my door was always open to the traveler—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:33 - if I have concealed my sin as people do,[fn] by hiding my guilt in my heart
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:34 - because I so feared the crowd and so dreaded the contempt of the clans that I kept silent and would not go outside—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:35 - (“Oh, that I had someone to hear me! I sign now my defense—let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser put his indictment in writing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:38 - “if my land cries out against me and all its furrows are wet with tears,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:39 - if I have devoured its yield without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:40 - then let briers come up instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:1 - So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:2 - But Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:3 - He was also angry with the three friends, because they had found no way to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:4 - Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job because they were older than he.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:6 - So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said: “I am young in years, and you are old; that is why I was fearful, not daring to tell you what I know.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:7 - I thought, ‘Age should speak; advanced years should teach wisdom.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:8 - But it is the spirit[fn] in a person, the breath of the Almighty, that gives them understanding.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:14 - But Job has not marshaled his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:17 - I too will have my say; I too will tell what I know.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:19 - inside I am like bottled-up wine, like new wineskins ready to burst.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:22 - for if I were skilled in flattery, my Maker would soon take me away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:1 - “But now, Job, listen to my words; pay attention to everything I say.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:3 - My words come from an upright heart; my lips sincerely speak what I know.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:4 - The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:10 - Yet God has found fault with me; he considers me his enemy.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:11 - He fastens my feet in shackles; he keeps close watch on all my paths.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:14 - For God does speak—now one way, now another— though no one perceives it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:17 - to turn them from wrongdoing and keep them from pride,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:18 - to preserve them from the pit, their lives from perishing by the sword.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:19 - “Or someone may be chastened on a bed of pain with constant distress in their bones,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:20 - so that their body finds food repulsive and their soul loathes the choicest meal.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:22 - They draw near to the pit, and their life to the messengers of death.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:23 - Yet if there is an angel at their side, a messenger, one out of a thousand, sent to tell them how to be upright,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:24 - and he is gracious to that person and says to God, ‘Spare them from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom for them—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:25 - let their flesh be renewed like a child's; let them be restored as in the days of their youth'—
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:26 - then that person can pray to God and find favor with him, they will see God's face and shout for joy; he will restore them to full well-being.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:1 - Then Elihu said:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:6 - Although I am right, I am considered a liar; although I am guiltless, his arrow inflicts an incurable wound.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:12 - It is unthinkable that God would do wrong, that the Almighty would pervert justice.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:15 - all humanity would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:16 - “If you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I say.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:20 - They die in an instant, in the middle of the night; the people are shaken and they pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:21 - “His eyes are on the ways of mortals; he sees their every step.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:26 - He punishes them for their wickedness where everyone can see them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:27 - because they turned from following him and had no regard for any of his ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:34 - “Men of understanding declare, wise men who hear me say to me,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:35 - ‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:36 - Oh, that Job might be tested to the utmost for answering like a wicked man!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:37 - To his sin he adds rebellion; scornfully he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:1 - Then Elihu said:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:5 - Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:6 - If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:7 - If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:11 - who teaches us more than he teaches[fn] the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than[fn] the birds in the sky?'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:14 - How much less, then, will he listen when you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him and you must wait for him,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:1 - Elihu continued:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:5 - “God is mighty, but despises no one; he is mighty, and firm in his purpose.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:12 - But if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword[fn] and die without knowledge.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:14 - They die in their youth, among male prostitutes of the shrines.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:15 - But those who suffer he delivers in their suffering; he speaks to them in their affliction.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:17 - But now you are laden with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have taken hold of you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:18 - Be careful that no one entices you by riches; do not let a large bribe turn you aside.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:27 - “He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams[fn];
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:28 - the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:8 - The animals take cover; they remain in their dens.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:9 - The tempest comes out from its chamber, the cold from the driving winds.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:10 - The breath of God produces ice, and the broad waters become frozen.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:16 - Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who has perfect knowledge?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:17 - You who swelter in your clothes when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:24 - Therefore, people revere him, for does he not have regard for all the wise in heart?[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:1 - Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm. He said:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:2 - “Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:8 - “Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:9 - when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:10 - when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:11 - when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt'?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:12 - “Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:15 - The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:16 - “Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:17 - Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:18 - Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:19 - “What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:20 - Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:21 - Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:22 - “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:24 - What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:25 - Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:29 - From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:30 - when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:31 - “Can you bind the chains[fn] of the Pleiades? Can you loosen Orion's belt?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:33 - Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God's[fn] dominion over the earth?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:34 - “Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:35 - Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are'?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:36 - Who gives the ibis wisdom[fn] or gives the rooster understanding?[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:37 - Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:38 - when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:39 - “Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the lions
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:40 - when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:41 - Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:1 - “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:2 - Do you count the months till they bear? Do you know the time they give birth?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:3 - They crouch down and bring forth their young; their labor pains are ended.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:5 - “Who let the wild donkey go free? Who untied its ropes?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:6 - I gave it the wasteland as its home, the salt flats as its habitat.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:7 - It laughs at the commotion in the town; it does not hear a driver's shout.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:10 - Can you hold it to the furrow with a harness? Will it till the valleys behind you?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:11 - Will you rely on it for its great strength? Will you leave your heavy work to it?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:12 - Can you trust it to haul in your grain and bring it to your threshing floor?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:19 - “Do you give the horse its strength or clothe its neck with a flowing mane?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:20 - Do you make it leap like a locust, striking terror with its proud snorting?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:21 - It paws fiercely, rejoicing in its strength, and charges into the fray.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:25 - At the blast of the trumpet it snorts, ‘Aha!' It catches the scent of battle from afar, the shout of commanders and the battle cry.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:26 - “Does the hawk take flight by your wisdom and spread its wings toward the south?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:27 - Does the eagle soar at your command and build its nest on high?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:30 - Its young ones feast on blood, and where the slain are, there it is.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:3 - Then Job answered the LORD:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:4 - “I am unworthy—how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:5 - I spoke once, but I have no answer— twice, but I will say no more.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:6 - Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:10 - Then adorn yourself with glory and splendor, and clothe yourself in honor and majesty.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:11 - Unleash the fury of your wrath, look at all who are proud and bring them low,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:12 - look at all who are proud and humble them, crush the wicked where they stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:13 - Bury them all in the dust together; shroud their faces in the grave.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:16 - What strength it has in its loins, what power in the muscles of its belly!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:17 - Its tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of its thighs are close-knit.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:18 - Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like rods of iron.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:20 - The hills bring it their produce, and all the wild animals play nearby.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:22 - The lotuses conceal it in their shadow; the poplars by the stream surround it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:1 - “Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook or tie down its tongue with a rope?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:2 - Can you put a cord through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:4 - Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:5 - Can you make a pet of it like a bird or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:6 - Will traders barter for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:7 - Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:8 - If you lay a hand on it, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:13 - Who can strip off its outer coat? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor[fn]?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:15 - Its back has[fn] rows of shields tightly sealed together;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:16 - each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:18 - Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the rays of dawn.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:21 - Its breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from its mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:22 - Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:23 - The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:24 - Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:25 - When it rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before its thrashing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:27 - Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:29 - A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:30 - Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:31 - It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:32 - It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had white hair.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:34 - It looks down on all that are haughty; it is king over all that are proud.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:1 - Then Job replied to the LORD:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:3 - You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?' Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:5 - My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:6 - Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:7 - After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:8 - So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:9 - So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the LORD told them; and the LORD accepted Job's prayer.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:10 - After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:11 - All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the LORD had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver[fn] and a gold ring.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:12 - The LORD blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:13 - And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:14 - The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:15 - Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:16 - After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:17 - And so Job died, an old man and full of years.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:6 - “I have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:7 - But I, by your great love, can come into your house; in reverence I bow down toward your holy temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:5 - Among the dead no one proclaims your name. Who praises you from the grave?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:7 - all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 11:3 - When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 11:5 - The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked, those who love violence, he hates with a passion.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 13:5 - But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 15:4 - who despises a vile person but honors those who fear the LORD; who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and does not change their mind;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:7 - I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:9 - Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:15 - As for me, I will be vindicated and will see your face; when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:1 - [fn]For the director of music. A psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 20:7 - Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 20:8 - They are brought to their knees and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:3 - Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the one Israel praises.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:17 - All my bones are on display; people stare and gloat over me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:11 - I lead a blameless life; deliver me and be merciful to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:10 - Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:3 - Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who do evil, who speak cordially with their neighbors but harbor malice in their hearts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:6 - When I felt secure, I said, “I will never be shaken.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:7 - LORD, when you favored me, you made my royal mountain[fn] stand firm; but when you hid your face, I was dismayed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:6 - I hate those who cling to worthless idols; as for me, I trust in the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:14 - But I trust in you, LORD; I say, “You are my God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:22 - In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from your sight!” Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:10 - Many are the woes of the wicked, but the LORD's unfailing love surrounds the one who trusts in him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:8 - Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the people of the world revere him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:10 - The LORD foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:11 - But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:17 - A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; despite all its great strength it cannot save.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:10 - The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 34:16 - but the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to blot out their name from the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:9 - Then my soul will rejoice in the LORD and delight in his salvation.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:13 - Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. When my prayers returned to me unanswered,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:4 - Even on their beds they plot evil; they commit themselves to a sinful course and do not reject what is wrong.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:7 - How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:9 - For those who are evil will be destroyed, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:11 - But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy peace and prosperity.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:13 - but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:17 - for the power of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:20 - But the wicked will perish: Though the LORD's enemies are like the flowers of the field, they will be consumed, they will go up in smoke.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:21 - The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous give generously;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:22 - those the LORD blesses will inherit the land, but those he curses will be destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:28 - For the LORD loves the just and will not forsake his faithful ones. Wrongdoers will be completely destroyed[fn]; the offspring of the wicked will perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:29 - The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:33 - but the LORD will not leave them in the power of the wicked or let them be condemned when brought to trial.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:38 - But all sinners will be destroyed; there will be no future[fn] for the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:39 - The salvation of the righteous comes from the LORD; he is their stronghold in time of trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:13 - I am like the deaf, who cannot hear, like the mute, who cannot speak;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:19 - Many have become my enemies without cause[fn]; those who hate me without reason are numerous.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:6 - Sacrifice and offering you did not desire— but my ears you have opened[fn]— burnt offerings and sin offerings[fn] you did not require.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:17 - But as for me, I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my help and my deliverer; you are my God, do not delay.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:12 - Because of my integrity you uphold me and set me in your presence forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:9 - But now you have rejected and humbled us; you no longer go out with our armies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:8 - I bring no charges against you concerning your sacrifices or concerning your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:16 - But to the wicked person, God says: “What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:17 - You hate my instruction and cast my words behind you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:8 - But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God's unfailing love for ever and ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:16 - As for me, I call to God, and the LORD saves me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:23 - But you, God, will bring down the wicked into the pit of decay; the bloodthirsty and deceitful will not live out half their days. But as for me, I trust in you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:3 - When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:15 - They wander about for food and howl if not satisfied.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:16 - But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:12 - With God we will gain the victory, and he will trample down our enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:9 - Those who want to kill me will be destroyed; they will go down to the depths of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:11 - But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by God will glory in him, while the mouths of liars will be silenced.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:9 - You gave abundant showers, O God; you refreshed your weary inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:13 - But I pray to you, LORD, in the time of your favor; in your great love, O God, answer me with your sure salvation.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 70:5 - But as for me, I am poor and needy; come quickly to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; LORD, do not delay.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:14 - As for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:24 - My tongue will tell of your righteous acts all day long, for those who wanted to harm me have been put to shame and confusion.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:2 - But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:28 - But as for me, it is good to be near God. I have made the Sovereign LORD my refuge; I will tell of all your deeds.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:12 - But God is my King from long ago; he brings salvation on the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:9 - As for me, I will declare this forever; I will sing praise to the God of Jacob,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:37 - their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:13 - Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will praise you forever; from generation to generation we will proclaim your praise.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 82:1 - A psalm of Asaph. God presides in the great assembly; he renders judgment among the “gods”:
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 82:7 - But you will die like mere mortals; you will fall like every other ruler.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:15 - From my youth I have suffered and been close to death; I have borne your terrors and am in despair.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:9 - You rule over the surging sea; when its waves mount up, you still them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:33 - but I will not take my love from him, nor will I ever betray my faithfulness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:38 - But you have rejected, you have spurned, you have been very angry with your anointed one.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:10 - Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:7 - A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:8 - But you, LORD, are forever exalted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 96:5 - For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:26 - They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:27 - But you remain the same, and your years will never end.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:17 - But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD's love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children's children—
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:34 - May my meditation be pleasing to him, as I rejoice in the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:43 - Many times he delivered them, but they were bent on rebellion and they wasted away in their sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:4 - In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:28 - While they curse, may you bless; may those who attack me be put to shame, but may your servant rejoice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:3 - Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:16 - The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to mankind.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:10 - I trusted in the LORD when I said, “I am greatly afflicted”;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:23 - Though rulers sit together and slander me, your servant will meditate on your decrees.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:51 - The arrogant mock me unmercifully, but I do not turn from your law.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:69 - Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep your precepts with all my heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:70 - Their hearts are callous and unfeeling, but I delight in your law.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:78 - May the arrogant be put to shame for wronging me without cause; but I will meditate on your precepts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:87 - They almost wiped me from the earth, but I have not forsaken your precepts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:150 - Those who devise wicked schemes are near, but they are far from your law.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:163 - I hate and detest falsehood but I love your law.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 125:5 - But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be on Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 126:6 - Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:18 - I will clothe his enemies with shame, but his head will be adorned with a radiant crown.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:17 - How precious to me are your thoughts,[fn] God! How vast is the sum of them!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:5 - Let a righteous man strike me—that is a kindness; let him rebuke me—that is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it, for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:6 - The LORD sustains the humble but casts the wicked to the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:4 - for giving prudence to those who are simple,[fn] knowledge and discretion to the young—
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:5 - let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance—
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:7 - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools[fn] despise wisdom and instruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:11 - If they say, “Come along with us; let's lie in wait for innocent blood, let's ambush some harmless soul;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:12 - let's swallow them alive, like the grave, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:13 - we will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our houses with plunder;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:14 - cast lots with us; we will all share the loot”—
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:15 - my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:18 - These men lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush only themselves!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:20 - Out in the open wisdom calls aloud, she raises her voice in the public square;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:21 - on top of the wall[fn] she cries out, at the city gate she makes her speech:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:22 - “How long will you who are simple love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:23 - Repent at my rebuke! Then I will pour out my thoughts to you, I will make known to you my teachings.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:25 - since you disregard all my advice and do not accept my rebuke,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:27 - when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:28 - “Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:29 - since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:30 - Since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:33 - but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:2 - turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding—
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:3 - indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:10 - For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:11 - Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:21 - For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:22 - but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:1 - My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:3 - Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:5 - Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:6 - in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:7 - Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:10 - then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:12 - because the LORD disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:15 - She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:16 - Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:19 - By wisdom the LORD laid the earth's foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:20 - by his knowledge the watery depths were divided, and the clouds let drop the dew.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:21 - My son, do not let wisdom and understanding out of your sight, preserve sound judgment and discretion;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:22 - they will be life for you, an ornament to grace your neck.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:23 - Then you will go on your way in safety, and your foot will not stumble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:24 - When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:32 - For the LORD detests the perverse but takes the upright into his confidence.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:33 - The LORD's curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:34 - He mocks proud mockers but shows favor to the humble and oppressed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 3:35 - The wise inherit honor, but fools get only shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:9 - She will give you a garland to grace your head and present you with a glorious crown.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:12 - When you walk, your steps will not be hampered; when you run, you will not stumble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:15 - Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn from it and go on your way.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:17 - They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:18 - The path of the righteous is like the morning sun, shining ever brighter till the full light of day.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:19 - But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:20 - My son, pay attention to what I say; turn your ear to my words.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:25 - Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:27 - Do not turn to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:1 - My son, pay attention to my wisdom, turn your ear to my words of insight,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:2 - that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:5 - Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:6 - She gives no thought to the way of life; her paths wander aimlessly, but she does not know it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:10 - lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich the house of another.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:16 - Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:19 - A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:21 - For your ways are in full view of the LORD, and he examines all your paths.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:22 - The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them; the cords of their sins hold them fast.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:23 - For lack of discipline they will die, led astray by their own great folly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:3 - So do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor's hands: Go—to the point of exhaustion—[fn] and give your neighbor no rest!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:9 - How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:10 - A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:11 - and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:13 - who winks maliciously with his eye, signals with his feet and motions with his fingers,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:14 - who plots evil with deceit in his heart— he always stirs up conflict.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:16 - There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:21 - Bind them always on your heart; fasten them around your neck.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:26 - For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man's wife preys on your very life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:27 - Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:28 - Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:31 - Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:32 - But a man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:33 - Blows and disgrace are his lot, and his shame will never be wiped away.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:1 - My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:2 - Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:3 - Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:4 - Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and to insight, “You are my relative.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:10 - Then out came a woman to meet him, dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:11 - (She is unruly and defiant, her feet never stay at home;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:12 - now in the street, now in the squares, at every corner she lurks.)
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:13 - She took hold of him and kissed him and with a brazen face she said:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:16 - I have covered my bed with colored linens from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:17 - I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:19 - My husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:21 - With persuasive words she led him astray; she seduced him with her smooth talk.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:22 - All at once he followed her like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer[fn] stepping into a noose[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:23 - till an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare, little knowing it will cost him his life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:2 - At the highest point along the way, where the paths meet, she takes her stand;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:3 - beside the gate leading into the city, at the entrance, she cries aloud:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:5 - You who are simple, gain prudence; you who are foolish, set your hearts on it.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:7 - My mouth speaks what is true, for my lips detest wickedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:10 - Choose my instruction instead of silver, knowledge rather than choice gold,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:11 - for wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire can compare with her.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:13 - To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:14 - Counsel and sound judgment are mine; I have insight, I have power.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:17 - I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:19 - My fruit is better than fine gold; what I yield surpasses choice silver.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:25 - before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was given birth,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:30 - Then I was constantly[fn] at his side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:36 - But those who fail to find me harm themselves; all who hate me love death.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:7 - Whoever corrects a mocker invites insults; whoever rebukes the wicked incurs abuse.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:12 - If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:16 - “Let all who are simple come to my house!” To those who have no sense she says,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:18 - But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:1 - The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:2 - Ill-gotten treasures have no lasting value, but righteousness delivers from death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:3 - The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:4 - Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:5 - He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:6 - Blessings crown the head of the righteous, but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:7 - The name of the righteous is used in blessings,[fn] but the name of the wicked will rot.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:8 - The wise in heart accept commands, but a chattering fool comes to ruin.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:9 - Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:10 - Whoever winks maliciously causes grief, and a chattering fool comes to ruin.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:11 - The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:12 - Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:14 - The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool invites ruin.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:15 - The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:16 - The wages of the righteous is life, but the earnings of the wicked are sin and death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:17 - Whoever heeds discipline shows the way to life, but whoever ignores correction leads others astray.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:18 - Whoever conceals hatred with lying lips and spreads slander is a fool.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:19 - Sin is not ended by multiplying words, but the prudent hold their tongues.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:20 - The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked is of little value.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:21 - The lips of the righteous nourish many, but fools die for lack of sense.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:23 - A fool finds pleasure in wicked schemes, but a person of understanding delights in wisdom.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:24 - What the wicked dread will overtake them; what the righteous desire will be granted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:25 - When the storm has swept by, the wicked are gone, but the righteous stand firm forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:27 - The fear of the LORD adds length to life, but the years of the wicked are cut short.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:28 - The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:29 - The way of the LORD is a refuge for the blameless, but it is the ruin of those who do evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:30 - The righteous will never be uprooted, but the wicked will not remain in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:31 - From the mouth of the righteous comes the fruit of wisdom, but a perverse tongue will be silenced.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:32 - The lips of the righteous know what finds favor, but the mouth of the wicked only what is perverse.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:1 - The LORD detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favor with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:2 - When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:3 - The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:5 - The righteousness of the blameless makes their paths straight, but the wicked are brought down by their own wickedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:6 - The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:7 - Hopes placed in mortals die with them; all the promise of[fn] their power comes to nothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:8 - The righteous person is rescued from trouble, and it falls on the wicked instead.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:9 - With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors, but through knowledge the righteous escape.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:11 - Through the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked it is destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:12 - Whoever derides their neighbor has no sense, but the one who has understanding holds their tongue.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:13 - A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy person keeps a secret.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:14 - For lack of guidance a nation falls, but victory is won through many advisers.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:15 - Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but whoever refuses to shake hands in pledge is safe.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:16 - A kindhearted woman gains honor, but ruthless men gain only wealth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:17 - Those who are kind benefit themselves, but the cruel bring ruin on themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:18 - A wicked person earns deceptive wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:19 - Truly the righteous attain life, but whoever pursues evil finds death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:20 - The LORD detests those whose hearts are perverse, but he delights in those whose ways are blameless.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:21 - Be sure of this: The wicked will not go unpunished, but those who are righteous will go free.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:23 - The desire of the righteous ends only in good, but the hope of the wicked only in wrath.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:25 - A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:26 - People curse the one who hoards grain, but they pray God's blessing on the one who is willing to sell.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:27 - Whoever seeks good finds favor, but evil comes to one who searches for it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:28 - Those who trust in their riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:29 - Whoever brings ruin on their family will inherit only wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:30 - The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and the one who is wise saves lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:1 - Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:2 - Good people obtain favor from the LORD, but he condemns those who devise wicked schemes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:3 - No one can be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:4 - A wife of noble character is her husband's crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:5 - The plans of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:6 - The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:7 - The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous stands firm.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:8 - A person is praised according to their prudence, and one with a warped mind is despised.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:10 - The righteous care for the needs of their animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:11 - Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies have no sense.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:12 - The wicked desire the stronghold of evildoers, but the root of the righteous endures.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:13 - Evildoers are trapped by their sinful talk, and so the innocent escape trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:14 - From the fruit of their lips people are filled with good things, and the work of their hands brings them reward.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:15 - The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:16 - Fools show their annoyance at once, but the prudent overlook an insult.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:17 - An honest witness tells the truth, but a false witness tells lies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:18 - The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:19 - Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:20 - Deceit is in the hearts of those who plot evil, but those who promote peace have joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:21 - No harm overtakes the righteous, but the wicked have their fill of trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:22 - The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in people who are trustworthy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:23 - The prudent keep their knowledge to themselves, but a fool's heart blurts out folly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:24 - Diligent hands will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:25 - Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:26 - The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:27 - The lazy do not roast[fn] any game, but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:28 - In the way of righteousness there is life; along that path is immortality.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:1 - A wise son heeds his father's instruction, but a mocker does not respond to rebukes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:2 - From the fruit of their lips people enjoy good things, but the unfaithful have an appetite for violence.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:3 - Those who guard their lips preserve their lives, but those who speak rashly will come to ruin.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:4 - A sluggard's appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:5 - The righteous hate what is false, but the wicked make themselves a stench and bring shame on themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:6 - Righteousness guards the person of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:8 - A person's riches may ransom their life, but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:9 - The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:10 - Where there is strife, there is pride, but wisdom is found in those who take advice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:11 - Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:13 - Whoever scorns instruction will pay for it, but whoever respects a command is rewarded.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:14 - The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning a person from the snares of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:15 - Good judgment wins favor, but the way of the unfaithful leads to their destruction.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:16 - All who are prudent act with[fn] knowledge, but fools expose their folly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:17 - A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy brings healing.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:18 - Whoever disregards discipline comes to poverty and shame, but whoever heeds correction is honored.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:19 - A longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:20 - Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:21 - Trouble pursues the sinner, but the righteous are rewarded with good things.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:22 - A good person leaves an inheritance for their children's children, but a sinner's wealth is stored up for the righteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:23 - An unplowed field produces food for the poor, but injustice sweeps it away.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:24 - Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:25 - The righteous eat to their hearts' content, but the stomach of the wicked goes hungry.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:1 - The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:2 - Whoever fears the LORD walks uprightly, but those who despise him are devious in their ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:3 - A fool's mouth lashes out with pride, but the lips of the wise protect them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:4 - Where there are no oxen, the manger is empty, but from the strength of an ox come abundant harvests.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:5 - An honest witness does not deceive, but a false witness pours out lies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:6 - The mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:7 - Stay away from a fool, for you will not find knowledge on their lips.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:8 - The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways, but the folly of fools is deception.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:9 - Fools mock at making amends for sin, but goodwill is found among the upright.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:10 - Each heart knows its own bitterness, and no one else can share its joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:11 - The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:12 - There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:13 - Even in laughter the heart may ache, and rejoicing may end in grief.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:14 - The faithless will be fully repaid for their ways, and the good rewarded for theirs.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:15 - The simple believe anything, but the prudent give thought to their steps.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:16 - The wise fear the LORD and shun evil, but a fool is hotheaded and yet feels secure.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:17 - A quick-tempered person does foolish things, and the one who devises evil schemes is hated.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:18 - The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:20 - The poor are shunned even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:21 - It is a sin to despise one's neighbor, but blessed is the one who is kind to the needy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:22 - Do not those who plot evil go astray? But those who plan what is good find[fn] love and faithfulness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:23 - All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:24 - The wealth of the wise is their crown, but the folly of fools yields folly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:25 - A truthful witness saves lives, but a false witness is deceitful.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:26 - Whoever fears the LORD has a secure fortress, and for their children it will be a refuge.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:27 - The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a person from the snares of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:28 - A large population is a king's glory, but without subjects a prince is ruined.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:29 - Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:30 - A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:31 - Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:32 - When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down, but even in death the righteous seek refuge in God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:33 - Wisdom reposes in the heart of the discerning and even among fools she lets herself be known.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:34 - Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:35 - A king delights in a wise servant, but a shameful servant arouses his fury.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:1 - A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:2 - The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge, but the mouth of the fool gushes folly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:4 - The soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:5 - A fool spurns a parent's discipline, but whoever heeds correction shows prudence.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:6 - The house of the righteous contains great treasure, but the income of the wicked brings ruin.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:7 - The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but the hearts of fools are not upright.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:8 - The LORD detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:9 - The LORD detests the way of the wicked, but he loves those who pursue righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:10 - Stern discipline awaits anyone who leaves the path; the one who hates correction will die.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:12 - Mockers resent correction, so they avoid the wise.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:13 - A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:14 - The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:15 - All the days of the oppressed are wretched, but the cheerful heart has a continual feast.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:18 - A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but the one who is patient calms a quarrel.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:19 - The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:20 - A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:21 - Folly brings joy to one who has no sense, but whoever has understanding keeps a straight course.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:22 - Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:25 - The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but he sets the widow's boundary stones in place.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:26 - The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but gracious words are pure in his sight.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:27 - The greedy bring ruin to their households, but the one who hates bribes will live.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:28 - The heart of the righteous weighs its answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:29 - The LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:30 - Light in a messenger's eyes brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the bones.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:32 - Those who disregard discipline despise themselves, but the one who heeds correction gains understanding.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:2 - All a person's ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:4 - The LORD works out everything to its proper end— even the wicked for a day of disaster.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:5 - The LORD detests all the proud of heart. Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:7 - When the LORD takes pleasure in anyone's way, he causes their enemies to make peace with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:8 - Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:10 - The lips of a king speak as an oracle, and his mouth does not betray justice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:11 - Honest scales and balances belong to the LORD; all the weights in the bag are of his making.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:13 - Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks what is right.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:14 - A king's wrath is a messenger of death, but the wise will appease it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:15 - When a king's face brightens, it means life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:16 - How much better to get wisdom than gold, to get insight rather than silver!
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:17 - The highway of the upright avoids evil; those who guard their ways preserve their lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:18 - Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:20 - Whoever gives heed to instruction prospers,[fn] and blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:21 - The wise in heart are called discerning, and gracious words promote instruction.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:22 - Prudence is a fountain of life to the prudent, but folly brings punishment to fools.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:23 - The hearts of the wise make their mouths prudent, and their lips promote instruction.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:24 - Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:27 - A scoundrel plots evil, and on their lips it is like a scorching fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:30 - Whoever winks with their eye is plotting perversity; whoever purses their lips is bent on evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:31 - Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained in the way of righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:32 - Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:33 - The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:2 - A prudent servant will rule over a disgraceful son and will share the inheritance as one of the family.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:4 - A wicked person listens to deceitful lips; a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:5 - Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker; whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:6 - Children's children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:9 - Whoever would foster love covers over an offense, but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:10 - A rebuke impresses a discerning person more than a hundred lashes a fool.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:11 - Evildoers foster rebellion against God; the messenger of death will be sent against them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:12 - Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool bent on folly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:14 - Starting a quarrel is like breaching a dam; so drop the matter before a dispute breaks out.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:15 - Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent— the LORD detests them both.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:16 - Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom, when they are not able to understand it?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:17 - A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:20 - One whose heart is corrupt does not prosper; one whose tongue is perverse falls into trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:21 - To have a fool for a child brings grief; there is no joy for the parent of a godless fool.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:22 - A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:23 - The wicked accept bribes in secret to pervert the course of justice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:24 - A discerning person keeps wisdom in view, but a fool's eyes wander to the ends of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:27 - The one who has knowledge uses words with restraint, and whoever has understanding is even-tempered.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:1 - An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends and against all sound judgment starts quarrels.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:3 - When wickedness comes, so does contempt, and with shame comes reproach.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:4 - The words of the mouth are deep waters, but the fountain of wisdom is a rushing stream.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:6 - The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:7 - The mouths of fools are their undoing, and their lips are a snare to their very lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:8 - The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:10 - The name of the LORD is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:11 - The wealth of the rich is their fortified city; they imagine it a wall too high to scale.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:14 - The human spirit can endure in sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:15 - The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, for the ears of the wise seek it out.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:18 - Casting the lot settles disputes and keeps strong opponents apart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:19 - A brother wronged is more unyielding than a fortified city; disputes are like the barred gates of a citadel.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:20 - From the fruit of their mouth a person's stomach is filled; with the harvest of their lips they are satisfied.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:21 - The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:22 - He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:3 - A person's own folly leads to their ruin, yet their heart rages against the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:4 - Wealth attracts many friends, but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:5 - A false witness will not go unpunished, and whoever pours out lies will not go free.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:6 - Many curry favor with a ruler, and everyone is the friend of one who gives gifts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:7 - The poor are shunned by all their relatives— how much more do their friends avoid them! Though the poor pursue them with pleading, they are nowhere to be found.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:8 - The one who gets wisdom loves life; the one who cherishes understanding will soon prosper.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:11 - A person's wisdom yields patience; it is to one's glory to overlook an offense.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:12 - A king's rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:14 - Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:15 - Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless go hungry.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:16 - Whoever keeps commandments keeps their life, but whoever shows contempt for their ways will die.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:17 - Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward them for what they have done.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:18 - Discipline your children, for in that there is hope; do not be a willing party to their death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:19 - A hot-tempered person must pay the penalty; rescue them, and you will have to do it again.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:21 - Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:22 - What a person desires is unfailing love[fn]; better to be poor than a liar.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:23 - The fear of the LORD leads to life; then one rests content, untouched by trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:25 - Flog a mocker, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke the discerning, and they will gain knowledge.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:28 - A corrupt witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:1 - Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:2 - A king's wrath strikes terror like the roar of a lion; those who anger him forfeit their lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:3 - It is to one's honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:5 - The purposes of a person's heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:6 - Many claim to have unfailing love, but a faithful person who can find?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:20 - If someone curses their father or mother, their lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:24 - A person's steps are directed by the LORD. How then can anyone understand their own way?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:29 - The glory of young men is their strength, gray hair the splendor of the old.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:30 - Blows and wounds scrub away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:2 - A person may think their own ways are right, but the LORD weighs the heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:4 - Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the unplowed field of the wicked—produce sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:11 - When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom; by paying attention to the wise they get knowledge.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:14 - A gift given in secret soothes anger, and a bribe concealed in the cloak pacifies great wrath.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:15 - When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:18 - The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the unfaithful for the upright.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:20 - The wise store up choice food and olive oil, but fools gulp theirs down.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:24 - The proud and arrogant person—“Mocker” is his name— behaves with insolent fury.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:26 - All day long he craves for more, but the righteous give without sparing.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:28 - A false witness will perish, but a careful listener will testify successfully.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:29 - The wicked put up a bold front, but the upright give thought to their ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:31 - The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but victory rests with the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:1 - A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:2 - Rich and poor have this in common: The LORD is the Maker of them all.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:3 - The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:5 - In the paths of the wicked are snares and pitfalls, but those who would preserve their life stay far from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:8 - Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity, and the rod they wield in fury will be broken.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:11 - One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace will have the king for a friend.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:12 - The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:13 - The sluggard says, “There's a lion outside! I'll be killed in the public square!”
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:14 - The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit; a man who is under the LORD's wrath falls into it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:15 - Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:16 - One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:17 - Pay attention and turn your ear to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:20 - Have I not written thirty sayings for you, sayings of counsel and knowledge,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:24 - Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, do not associate with one easily angered,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:3 - Do not crave his delicacies, for that food is deceptive.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:4 - Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:10 - Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:12 - Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:14 - Punish them with the rod and save them from death.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:18 - There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:24 - The father of a righteous child has great joy; a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:26 - My son, give me your heart and let your eyes delight in my ways,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:32 - In the end it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:35 - “They hit me,” you will say, “but I'm not hurt! They beat me, but I don't feel it! When will I wake up so I can find another drink?”
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:6 - Surely you need guidance to wage war, and victory is won through many advisers.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:9 - The schemes of folly are sin, and people detest a mocker.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:12 - If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:16 - for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:17 - Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:20 - for the evildoer has no future hope, and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:22 - for those two will send sudden destruction on them, and who knows what calamities they can bring?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:23 - These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judging is not good:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:25 - But it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and rich blessing will come on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:26 - An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:29 - Do not say, “I'll do to them as they have done to me; I'll pay them back for what they did.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:31 - thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:33 - A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:34 - and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:2 - It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:3 - As the heavens are high and the earth is deep, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:10 - or the one who hears it may shame you and the charge against you will stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:15 - Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:22 - In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:23 - Like a north wind that brings unexpected rain is a sly tongue—which provokes a horrified look.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:27 - It is not good to eat too much honey, nor is it honorable to search out matters that are too deep.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:9 - Like a thornbush in a drunkard's hand is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:18 - Like a maniac shooting flaming arrows of death
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:19 - is one who deceives their neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:20 - Without wood a fire goes out; without a gossip a quarrel dies down.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:21 - As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:22 - The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:24 - Enemies disguise themselves with their lips, but in their hearts they harbor deceit.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:26 - Their malice may be concealed by deception, but their wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:27 - Whoever digs a pit will fall into it; if someone rolls a stone, it will roll back on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:28 - A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:3 - Stone is heavy and sand a burden, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:7 - One who is full loathes honey from the comb, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:9 - Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of a friend springs from their heartfelt advice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:10 - Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family, and do not go to your relative's house when disaster strikes you— better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:12 - The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:16 - restraining her is like restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:18 - The one who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit, and whoever protects their master will be honored.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:21 - The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but people are tested by their praise.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:1 - The wicked flee though no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:2 - When a country is rebellious, it has many rulers, but a ruler with discernment and knowledge maintains order.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:4 - Those who forsake instruction praise the wicked, but those who heed it resist them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:5 - Evildoers do not understand what is right, but those who seek the LORD understand it fully.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:7 - A discerning son heeds instruction, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:10 - Whoever leads the upright along an evil path will fall into their own trap, but the blameless will receive a good inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:11 - The rich are wise in their own eyes; one who is poor and discerning sees how deluded they are.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:12 - When the righteous triumph, there is great elation; but when the wicked rise to power, people go into hiding.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:13 - Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:14 - Blessed is the one who always trembles before God, but whoever hardens their heart falls into trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:16 - A tyrannical ruler practices extortion, but one who hates ill-gotten gain will enjoy a long reign.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:18 - The one whose walk is blameless is kept safe, but the one whose ways are perverse will fall into the pit.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:19 - Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies will have their fill of poverty.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:20 - A faithful person will be richly blessed, but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:25 - The greedy stir up conflict, but those who trust in the LORD will prosper.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:26 - Those who trust in themselves are fools, but those who walk in wisdom are kept safe.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:27 - Those who give to the poor will lack nothing, but those who close their eyes to them receive many curses.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:28 - When the wicked rise to power, people go into hiding; but when the wicked perish, the righteous thrive.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:2 - When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:3 - A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:4 - By justice a king gives a country stability, but those who are greedy for[fn] bribes tear it down.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:6 - Evildoers are snared by their own sin, but the righteous shout for joy and are glad.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:7 - The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:8 - Mockers stir up a city, but the wise turn away anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:9 - If a wise person goes to court with a fool, the fool rages and scoffs, and there is no peace.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:10 - The bloodthirsty hate a person of integrity and seek to kill the upright.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:11 - Fools give full vent to their rage, but the wise bring calm in the end.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:15 - A rod and a reprimand impart wisdom, but a child left undisciplined disgraces its mother.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:16 - When the wicked thrive, so does sin, but the righteous will see their downfall.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:18 - Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom's instruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:21 - A servant pampered from youth will turn out to be insolent.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:22 - An angry person stirs up conflict, and a hot-tempered person commits many sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:23 - Pride brings a person low, but the lowly in spirit gain honor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:24 - The accomplices of thieves are their own enemies; they are put under oath and dare not testify.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:25 - Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is kept safe.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:26 - Many seek an audience with a ruler, but it is from the LORD that one gets justice.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:27 - The righteous detest the dishonest; the wicked detest the upright.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:5 - “Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:8 - Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:11 - “There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:12 - those who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not cleansed of their filth;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:13 - those whose eyes are ever so haughty, whose glances are so disdainful;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:21 - “Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:33 - For as churning cream produces butter, and as twisting the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:4 - It is not for kings, Lemuel— it is not for kings to drink wine, not for rulers to crave beer,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:9 - Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:14 - She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:16 - She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:19 - In her hand she holds the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:20 - She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:22 - She makes coverings for her bed; she is clothed in fine linen and purple.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:23 - Her husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:24 - She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies the merchants with sashes.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:27 - She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:28 - Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:29 - “Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:30 - Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:18 - “Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:20 - but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.”

For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:21 - See how the faithful city has become a prostitute! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her— but now murderers!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:25 - I will turn my hand against you;[fn] I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:11 - The eyes of the arrogant will be humbled and human pride brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:9 - The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:14 - The LORD enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of his people: “It is you who have ruined my vineyard; the plunder from the poor is in your houses.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:2 - In that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:2 - He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:4 - What more could have been done for my vineyard than I have done for it? When I looked for good grapes, why did it yield only bad?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:5 - Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:7 - The vineyard of the LORD Almighty is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the vines he delighted in. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:12 - They have harps and lyres at their banquets, pipes and timbrels and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of the LORD, no respect for the work of his hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:12 - “Do not call conspiracy everything this people calls a conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:14 - He will be a holy place; for both Israel and Judah he will be a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:7 - But this is not what he intends, this is not what he has in mind; his purpose is to destroy, to put an end to many nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:25 - Very soon my anger against you will end and my wrath will be directed to their destruction.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:34 - He will cut down the forest thickets with an ax; Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:14 - They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia to the west; together they will plunder the people to the east. They will subdue Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:10 - They will all respond, they will say to you, “You also have become weak, as we are; you have become like us.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:11 - All your pomp has been brought down to the grave, along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:13 - You said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:15 - But you are brought down to the realm of the dead, to the depths of the pit.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:19 - But you are cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch; you are covered with the slain, with those pierced by the sword, those who descend to the stones of the pit. Like a corpse trampled underfoot,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:30 - The poorest of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety. But your root I will destroy by famine; it will slay your survivors.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:5 - My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath Shelishiyah. They go up the hill to Luhith, weeping as they go; on the road to Horonaim they lament their destruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:9 - The waters of Dimon[fn] are full of blood, but I will bring still more upon Dimon[fn]— a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon those who remain in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:7 - In that day people will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:11 - though on the day you set them out, you make them grow, and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud, yet the harvest will be as nothing in the day of disease and incurable pain.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:5 - The waters of the river will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and dry.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:16 - In that day the Egyptians will become weaklings. They will shudder with fear at the uplifted hand that the LORD Almighty raises against them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:6 - Elam takes up the quiver, with her charioteers and horses; Kir uncovers the shield.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:7 - Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the city gates.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:13 - But see, there is joy and revelry, slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine! “Let us eat and drink,” you say, “for tomorrow we die!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:4 - Be ashamed, Sidon, and you fortress of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have neither been in labor nor given birth; I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:5 - When word comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report from Tyre.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:11 - The LORD has stretched out his hand over the sea and made its kingdoms tremble. He has given an order concerning Phoenicia that her fortresses be destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:5 - The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:14 - They raise their voices, they shout for joy; from the west they acclaim the LORD's majesty.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:18 - Whoever flees at the sound of terror will fall into a pit; whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a snare. The floodgates of the heavens are opened, the foundations of the earth shake.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:11 - LORD, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame; let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:14 - They are now dead, they live no more; their spirits do not rise. You punished them and brought them to ruin; you wiped out all memory of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:19 - But your dead will live, LORD; their bodies will rise— let those who dwell in the dust wake up and shout for joy— your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:3 - I, the LORD, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:12 - In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:17 - I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line; hail will sweep away your refuge, the lie, and water will overflow your hiding place.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:20 - The bed is too short to stretch out on, the blanket too narrow to wrap around you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:21 - The LORD will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon— to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:27 - Caraway is not threshed with a sledge, nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin; caraway is beaten out with a rod, and cumin with a stick.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:8 - as when a hungry person dreams of eating, but awakens hungry still; as when a thirsty person dreams of drinking, but awakens faint and thirsty still. So will it be with the hordes of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:13 - The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:21 - those who with a word make someone out to be guilty, who ensnare the defender in court and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:24 - Those who are wayward in spirit will gain understanding; those who complain will accept instruction.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:2 - who go down to Egypt without consulting me; who look for help to Pharaoh's protection, to Egypt's shade for refuge.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:3 - But the Egyptians are mere mortals and not God; their horses are flesh and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, those who help will stumble, those who are helped will fall; all will perish together.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:8 - “Assyria will fall by no human sword; a sword, not of mortals, will devour them. They will flee before the sword and their young men will be put to forced labor.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:9 - Their stronghold will fall because of terror; at the sight of the battle standard their commanders will panic,” declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:8 - But the noble make noble plans, and by noble deeds they stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:19 - Though hail flattens the forest and the city is leveled completely,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:1 - Woe to you, destroyer, you who have not been destroyed! Woe to you, betrayer, you who have not been betrayed! When you stop destroying, you will be destroyed; when you stop betraying, you will be betrayed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:2 - LORD, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:4 - Your plunder, O nations, is harvested as by young locusts; like a swarm of locusts people pounce on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:3 - Their slain will be thrown out, their dead bodies will stink; the mountains will be soaked with their blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:8 - And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness; it will be for those who walk on that Way. The unclean will not journey on it; wicked fools will not go about on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:7 - But if you say to me, “We are depending on the LORD our God”—isn't he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before this altar”?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:3 - They told him, “This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment of birth and there is no strength to deliver them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:26 - “Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it; now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:28 - “But I know where you are and when you come and go and how you rage against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:29 - Because you rage against me and because your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you return by the way you came.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:30 - “This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah: “This year you will eat what grows by itself, and the second year what springs from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:38 - One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:1 - In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:6 - The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:8 - The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:16 - Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires, nor its animals enough for burnt offerings.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:23 - He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:31 - but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:16 - You will winnow them, the wind will pick them up, and a gale will blow them away. But you will rejoice in the LORD and glory in the Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:25 - “I have stirred up one from the north, and he comes— one from the rising sun who calls on my name. He treads on rulers as if they were mortar, as if he were a potter treading the clay.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:17 - But those who trust in idols, who say to images, ‘You are our gods,' will be turned back in utter shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:26 - Review the past for me, let us argue the matter together; state the case for your innocence.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:1 - “But now listen, Jacob, my servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:15 - It is used as fuel for burning; some of it he takes and warms himself, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. But he also fashions a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:17 - From the rest he makes a god, his idol; he bows down to it and worships. He prays to it and says, “Save me! You are my god!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:4 - For the sake of Jacob my servant, of Israel my chosen, I summon you by name and bestow on you a title of honor, though you do not acknowledge me.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:2 - They stoop and bow down together; unable to rescue the burden, they themselves go off into captivity.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:7 - They lift it to their shoulders and carry it; they set it up in its place, and there it stands. From that spot it cannot move. Even though someone cries out to it, it cannot answer; it cannot save them from their troubles.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:6 - I was angry with my people and desecrated my inheritance; I gave them into your hand, and you showed them no mercy. Even on the aged you laid a very heavy yoke.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:8 - “Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:9 - Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and all your potent spells.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:15 - That is all they are to you— these you have dealt with and labored with since childhood. All of them go on in their error; there is not one that can save you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:12 - See, they will come from afar— some from the north, some from the west, some from the region of Aswan.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:14 - But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:15 - “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:21 - Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who bore me these? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. Who brought these up? I was left all alone, but these—where have they come from?' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:22 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “See, I will beckon to the nations, I will lift up my banner to the peoples; they will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their hips.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:23 - Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in me will not be disappointed.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:25 - But this is what the LORD says: “Yes, captives will be taken from warriors, and plunder retrieved from the fierce; I will contend with those who contend with you, and your children I will save.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:5 - The Sovereign LORD has opened my ears; I have not been rebellious, I have not turned away.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:6 - I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:6 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:8 - For the moth will eat them up like a garment; the worm will devour them like wool. But my righteousness will last forever, my salvation through all generations.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:5 - But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:16 - “See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to wreak havoc;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:17 - no weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and this is their vindication from me,”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:13 - Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the LORD's renown, for an everlasting sign, that will endure forever.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:3 - “But you—come here, you children of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:13 - When you cry out for help, let your collection of idols save you! The wind will carry all of them off, a mere breath will blow them away. But whoever takes refuge in me will inherit the land and possess my holy mountain.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:20 - But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:3 - For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsely, and your tongue mutters wicked things.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:7 - Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. They pursue evil schemes; acts of violence mark their ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:2 - See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the LORD rises upon you and his glory appears over you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:17 - Instead of bronze I will bring you gold, and silver in place of iron. Instead of wood I will bring you bronze, and iron in place of stones. I will make peace your governor and well-being your ruler.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:6 - And you will be called priests of the LORD, you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:1 - For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem's sake I will not remain quiet, till her vindication shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:12 - They will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of the LORD; and you will be called Sought After, the City No Longer Deserted.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:10 - Yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he turned and became their enemy and he himself fought against them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8 - Yet you, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:11 - “But as for you who forsake the LORD and forget my holy mountain, who spread a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:13 - Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; my servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; my servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:14 - My servants will sing out of the joy of their hearts, but you will cry out from anguish of heart and wail in brokenness of spirit.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:15 - You will leave your name for my chosen ones to use in their curses; the Sovereign LORD will put you to death, but to his servants he will give another name.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:20 - “Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; the one who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere child; the one who fails to reach[fn] a hundred will be considered accursed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:23 - They will not labor in vain, nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD, they and their descendants with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:25 - The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, and dust will be the serpent's food. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain,”

says the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:1 - This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:3 - But whoever sacrifices a bull is like one who kills a person, and whoever offers a lamb is like one who breaks a dog's neck; whoever makes a grain offering is like one who presents pig's blood, and whoever burns memorial incense is like one who worships an idol. They have chosen their own ways, and they delight in their abominations;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:9 - Do I bring to the moment of birth and not give delivery?” says the LORD. “Do I close up the womb when I bring to delivery?” says your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:11 - Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21 - I had planted you like a choice vine of sound and reliable stock. How then did you turn against me into a corrupt, wild vine?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:25 - Do not run until your feet are bare and your throat is dry. But you said, ‘It's no use! I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:32 - Does a young woman forget her jewelry, a bride her wedding ornaments? Yet my people have forgotten me, days without number.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:13 - Only acknowledge your guilt— you have rebelled against the LORD your God, you have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed me,' ”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:24 - From our youth shameful gods have consumed the fruits of our ancestors' labor— their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:12 - a wind too strong for that comes from me. Now I pronounce my judgments against them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:22 - “My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:27 - This is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be ruined, though I will not destroy it completely.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:10 - “Go through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not destroy them completely. Strip off her branches, for these people do not belong to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:23 - But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts; they have turned aside and gone away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:8 - But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:7 - Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:19 - I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree and its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:21 - Therefore this is what the LORD says about the people of Anathoth who are threatening to kill you, saying, “Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD or you will die by our hands”—
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:17 - But if any nation does not listen, I will completely uproot and destroy it,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:17 - If you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly, overflowing with tears, because the LORD's flock will be taken captive.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:16 - I have not run away from being your shepherd; you know I have not desired the day of despair. What passes my lips is open before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:5 - But if you do not obey these commands, declares the LORD, I swear by myself that this palace will become a ruin.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:27 - You will never come back to the land you long to return to.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:31 - The tumult will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD will bring charges against the nations; he will bring judgment on all mankind and put the wicked to the sword,' ”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:16 - The descendants of Jehonadab son of Rekab have carried out the command their forefather gave them, but these people have not obeyed me.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:5 - However, before Jeremiah turned to go,[fn] Nebuzaradan added, “Go back to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the towns of Judah, and live with him among the people, or go anywhere else you please.” Then the commander gave him provisions and a present and let him go.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:27 - “Do not be afraid, Jacob my servant; do not be dismayed, Israel. I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their exile. Jacob will again have peace and security, and no one will make him afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:28 - Do not be afraid, Jacob my servant, for I am with you,” declares the LORD. “Though I completely destroy all the nations among which I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you but only in due measure; I will not let you go entirely unpunished.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:30 - I know her insolence but it is futile,”

declares the LORD,

“and her boasts accomplish nothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:19 - “I called to my allies but they betrayed me. My priests and my elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:7 - But the people of Israel are not willing to listen to you because they are not willing to listen to me, for all the Israelites are hardened and obstinate.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:21 - But if you do warn the righteous person not to sin and they do not sin, they will surely live because they took warning, and you will have saved yourself.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:12 - One who is far away will die of the plague, and one who is near will fall by the sword, and anyone who survives and is spared will die of famine. So will I pour out my wrath on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:15 - Outside is the sword; inside are plague and famine. Those in the country will die by the sword; those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:6 - Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, the mothers and children, but do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the old men who were in front of the temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:13 - I heard the wheels being called “the whirling wheels.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:3 - They say, ‘Haven't our houses been recently rebuilt? This city is a pot, and we are the meat in it.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:7 - “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: The bodies you have thrown there are the meat and this city is the pot, but I will drive you out of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:16 - as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, even if these three men were in it, they could not save their own sons or daughters. They alone would be saved, but the land would be desolate.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:21 - “For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments—sword and famine and wild beasts and plague—to kill its men and their animals!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:7 - I made you grow like a plant of the field. You grew and developed and entered puberty. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, yet you were stark naked.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:27 - So I stretched out my hand against you and reduced your territory; I gave you over to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were shocked by your lewd conduct.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:5 - “Suppose there is a righteous man who does what is just and right.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:14 - “But suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father commits, and though he sees them, he does not do such things:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:18 - But his father will die for his own sin, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother and did what was wrong among his people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:20 - The one who sins is the one who will die. The child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:24 - “But if a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin and does the same detestable things the wicked person does, will they live? None of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness they are guilty of and because of the sins they have committed, they will die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:17 - I too will strike my hands together, and my wrath will subside. I the LORD have spoken.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:12 - In you are people who accept bribes to shed blood; you take interest and make a profit from the poor. You extort unjust gain from your neighbors. And you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:13 - “ ‘I will surely strike my hands together at the unjust gain you have made and at the blood you have shed in your midst.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:2 - “Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “ ‘In the pride of your heart you say, “I am a god; I sit on the throne of a god in the heart of the seas.” But you are a mere mortal and not a god, though you think you are as wise as a god.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:9 - Will you then say, “I am a god,” in the presence of those who kill you? You will be but a mortal, not a god, in the hands of those who slay you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:25 - I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall limp. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he brandishes it against Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:8 - When I say to the wicked, ‘You wicked person, you will surely die,' and you do not speak out to dissuade them from their ways, that wicked person will die for[fn] their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:9 - But if you do warn the wicked person to turn from their ways and they do not do so, they will die for their sin, though you yourself will be saved.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:8 - As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered and has become food for all the wild animals, and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:44 - Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, were two rooms, one[fn] at the side of the north gate and facing south, and another at the side of the south[fn] gate and facing north.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:1 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The gate of the inner court facing east is to be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon it is to be opened.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:12 - “ ‘When the prince provides a freewill offering to the LORD—whether a burnt offering or fellowship offerings—the gate facing east is to be opened for him. He shall offer his burnt offering or his fellowship offerings as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out, the gate will be shut.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:17 - If, however, he makes a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, the servant may keep it until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs to his sons only; it is theirs.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:13 - “Alongside the territory of the priests, the Levites will have an allotment 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide. Its total length will be 25,000 cubits and its width 10,000 cubits.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:15 - “The remaining area, 5,000 cubits[fn] wide and 25,000 cubits long, will be for the common use of the city, for houses and for pastureland. The city will be in the center of it
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:19 - The workers from the city who farm it will come from all the tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:21 - “What remains on both sides of the area formed by the sacred portion and the property of the city will belong to the prince. It will extend eastward from the 25,000 cubits of the sacred portion to the eastern border, and westward from the 25,000 cubits to the western border. Both these areas running the length of the tribal portions will belong to the prince, and the sacred portion with the temple sanctuary will be in the center of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:6 - But if you tell me the dream and explain it, you will receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. So tell me the dream and interpret it for me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:15 - He asked the king's officer, “Why did the king issue such a harsh decree?” Arioch then explained the matter to Daniel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:30 - As for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because I have greater wisdom than anyone else alive, but so that Your Majesty may know the interpretation and that you may understand what went through your mind.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:15 - Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down and worship the image I made, very good. But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what god will be able to rescue you from my hand?”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:17 - Then Daniel answered the king, “You may keep your gifts for yourself and give your rewards to someone else. Nevertheless, I will read the writing for the king and tell him what it means.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:22 - My God sent his angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in his sight. Nor have I ever done any wrong before you, Your Majesty.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:7 - Yet I will show love to Judah; and I will save them—not by bow, sword or battle, or by horses and horsemen, but I, the LORD their God, will save them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:8 - She has not acknowledged that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil, who lavished on her the silver and gold— which they used for Baal.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:13 - I will punish her for the days she burned incense to the Baals; she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but me she forgot,”

declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:4 - “But let no one bring a charge, let no one accuse another, for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:2 - The rebels are knee-deep in slaughter. I will discipline all of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:4 - “Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. A spirit of prostitution is in their heart; they do not acknowledge the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:4 - “What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:9 - Foreigners sap his strength, but he does not realize it. His hair is sprinkled with gray, but he does not notice.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:13 - Woe to them, because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, because they have rebelled against me! I long to redeem them but they speak about me falsely.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 8:7 - “They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:3 - Then they will say, “We have no king because we did not revere the LORD. But even if we had a king, what could he do for us?”
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:11 - Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her fair neck. I will drive Ephraim, Judah must plow, and Jacob must break up the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:1 - Ephraim feeds on the wind; he pursues the east wind all day and multiplies lies and violence. He makes a treaty with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:5 - the LORD God Almighty, the LORD is his name!
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:9 - “I have been the LORD your God ever since you came out of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, as in the days of your appointed festivals.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:4 - “But I have been the LORD your God ever since you came out of Egypt. You shall acknowledge no God but me, no Savior except me.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:9 - Who is wise? Let them realize these things. Who is discerning? Let them understand. The ways of the LORD are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:16 - The LORD will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem; the earth and the heavens will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:20 - Judah will be inhabited forever and Jerusalem through all generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:9 - “Yet I destroyed the Amorites before them, though they were tall as the cedars and strong as the oaks. I destroyed their fruit above and their roots below.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:7 - “I also withheld rain from you when the harvest was still three months away. I sent rain on one town, but withheld it from another. One field had rain; another had none and dried up.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:11 - For this is what Amos is saying: “ ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their native land.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:13 - Don't prophesy anymore at Bethel, because this is the king's sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:17 - “Therefore this is what the LORD says: “ ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be measured and divided up, and you yourself will die in a pagan[fn] country. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their native land.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:17 - But on Mount Zion will be deliverance; it will be holy, and Jacob will possess his inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:18 - Jacob will be a fire and Joseph a flame; Esau will be stubble, and they will set him on fire and destroy him. There will be no survivors from Esau.”

The LORD has spoken.

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:5 - All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:9 - But I, with shouts of grateful praise, will sacrifice to you. What I have vowed I will make good. I will say, ‘Salvation comes from the LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:3 - Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:11 - And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:13 - The One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate and go out. Their King will pass through before them, the LORD at their head.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:5 - All the nations may walk in the name of their gods, but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:12 - But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD; they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:7 - But as for me, I watch in hope for the LORD, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:4 - “See, the enemy is puffed up; his desires are not upright— but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:5 - indeed, wine betrays him; he is arrogant and never at rest. Because he is as greedy as the grave and like death is never satisfied, he gathers to himself all the nations and takes captive all the peoples.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:20 - The LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:18 - yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.
Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:5 - The LORD within her is righteous; he does no wrong. Morning by morning he dispenses his justice, and every new day he does not fail, yet the unrighteous know no shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:4 - “Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?”
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:9 - “You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the LORD Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:15 - and I am very angry with the nations that feel secure. I was only a little angry, but they went too far with the punishment.'
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:14 - The crown will be given to Heldai,[fn] Tobijah, Jedaiah and Hen[fn] son of Zephaniah as a memorial in the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:4 - On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness,” declares the LORD. “I will keep a watchful eye over Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:8 - On that day the LORD will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD going before them.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:8 - In the whole land,” declares the LORD, “two-thirds will be struck down and perish; yet one-third will be left in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:2 - I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:10 - The whole land, from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem, will become like the Arabah. But Jerusalem will be raised up high from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses, and will remain in its place.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:18 - If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The LORD[fn] will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:3 - but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 1:12 - “But you profane it by saying, ‘The Lord's table is defiled,' and, ‘Its food is contemptible.'
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:8 - But you have turned from the way and by your teaching have caused many to stumble; you have violated the covenant with Levi,” says the LORD Almighty.
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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:8 - The other half of Manasseh,[fn] the Reubenites and the Gadites had received the inheritance that Moses had given them east of the Jordan, as he, the servant of the LORD, had assigned it to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:23 - The boundary of the Reubenites was the bank of the Jordan. These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the Reubenites, according to their clans.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:39 - And today, though I am the anointed king, I am weak, and these sons of Zeruiah are too strong for me. May the LORD repay the evildoer according to his evil deeds!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:15 - But my love will never be taken away from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:19 - And as if this were not enough in your sight, Sovereign LORD, you have also spoken about the future of the house of your servant—and this decree, Sovereign LORD, is for a mere human![fn]
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